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20th November 2017
10:39am GMT

"He tried a few of his tricks, what he always does," Van Gerwen told Sky Sports. "In the break I wasn’t allowed to cheer from my own throw. I don’t know why when I finished a 74. "What can I say? Honestly, you want to know honestly? I just walked off, had a little nip of my drink. "He came to me ‘you shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that’. "I just said ‘you’re a knob’ again, that’s exactly what I said."
The Dutch master continued.Was already a @MvG180 fan. Even more so now he's called Phil Taylor a knob. #darts #LoveTheDarts pic.twitter.com/woYaHouy4B
— Mike Oakes (@mjdo27) November 19, 2017
"Then he was annoyed at what I said, I don’t know why but something always happens in-between our games, after or before. "But I also thinks it’s our rivalries in our games because we don’t want to lose to each other, we try to present our best all the time. "Maybe I shouldn’t say it but I still think it was a good game for everyone to watch and that’s what is most important."Taylor is not the most popular player in the world and 'The Power' also had some choice words for quarter-final opponent Daryl Gurney on Saturday night. https://twitter.com/DarrMurphy/status/932036946586755073 Taylor insisted he enjoyed beating Gurney all the more because he hadn't poured him a glass of water before bizarrely dropping Conor McGregor's name in the post-victory interview.
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