Peter Wright's tearful chat with Michael van Gerwen – 'You don't want to do it anymore'

Peter Wright admits a tearful chat with Michael van Gerwen had him doubting whether he could continue playing darts.

Snakebite has suffered a dramatic dip in form since he won his second world title in 2021. The Scotsman has dropped all the way down to 12th in the world rankings, while his performances plummeted so significantly that he only won two matches out of 18 during a hard-to-watch Premier League campaign last year.

Success at the German Darts Championship - where he overcame Luke Littler - was the only high he had to speak about heading into this year’s Paddy Power World Championship.

Naturally, Wright has not been picked for the Premier League this year. It is his first time missing the annual roadshow for over a decade.

“I’ve sat in the Premier League the past two years, getting battered by these guys and wondering why I'm here, why they picked me and stuff like that,” Wright said. “When I don't seem to perform for the crowd there, it's really strange and it's annoying.

“I was in tears last year and Michael van Gerwen said, ‘you don't want to do it anymore, do you?’ I said I don't know. Maybe I don't, maybe I do, but I'm not going to give up. That's the main thing.”

The motivation for still being on the tour? The Lukes.

Little did Luke Humphries know when he walked out to face Wright in the fourth round at Alexandra Palace this year, he was perhaps the reason he came up against a storm of perfect arrows.

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Wright was near-faultless in the 4-1 win. Humphries was perhaps slightly off his A-game, but with a raucous Alexandra Palace behind him, little was going to stop Wright from producing the upset of the tournament.

“It's always been in my