As Luke Humphries has delivered almost every major available over the last year in darts, PDC veterans Gary Anderson and James Wade have said the media has completely ignored him and focused instead on teenage sensation Luke Littler. So, does Cool Hand deserve more praise for his successes?
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00:00Luke Humphries' fiancée, Kayleigh Jones, says she agrees with James Wade and Gary Anderson
00:07after their fiery outbursts at the World Grand Prix regarding the world champion.
00:12Humphries has emerged as one of the standout darts players in recent years. He clinched
00:17his first World Darts Championship title earlier this year, and he also bagged victories at
00:21the World Grand Prix and World Matchplay, among various other events.
00:26He also finished as the runner-up in the Premier League, where Luke Littler beat him
00:30in the final. Nonetheless, there's been a growing sense that Cool Hand Luke's talents
00:34and achievements are being overlooked amid the meteoric rise of teenage prodigy Littler.
00:40You're not going to get someone as great as him for a long time, Wade said. I think we
00:46need to celebrate it. The things he's doing are magnificent. I'm not going to rant as
00:51much as Gary did, but the things he's done and the things he's won tell me another world
00:56champion that's won as much as he has afterwards.