Phil Taylor powers to glory in Edinburgh after bust-up with James Wade

TAYLOR beat Adrian Lewis in last night's showpiece final after an incredible fall out with Wade in the semis.

PHIL TAYLOR won the first ever Coral Masters in Edinburgh last night – but his triumph was overshadowed by an astonishing bust-up with darts rival James Wade.

The 16-time world champion produced a superb performance to blitz Adrian Lewis in the Final at the Royal Highland Centre.

But there was a bust-up in The Power’s semi-final before he went on to thrash fellow Englishman Wade 10-1.

Temperatures were raised early in the contest when Taylor appeared the throw one of Wade’s flights off stage.

Clearly, he felt the item was damaged and unwanted but Wade was furious, demanded it back and then complained to match officials.

Wade’s mood darkened and he later threatened to quit or forfeit the match before being ordered by Tournament Director Tommy Cox to continue.

He had totally lost the plot and appeared to throw in the towel to the annoyance of Taylor who completed the formalities to win. However, the end of the match did not signal the end of the trouble.

The argument continued as the players headed backstage and security immediately cleared the Players Bar adjacent to their practice area as tempers frayed.

Taylor tried to explain the build-up to the bust-up later and said: “He (Wade) spent a couple of minutes trying to get a flight in. Then he put it beside my dart case and a lad asked me for it.

“He got another flight out and put it into his dart and then said, “I want that’.

“I said, ‘Why? It’s no good’.

“If you chuck a flight away, pick another one out of your dart case and put it into your dart, then obviously you don’t want the other one. We all do that week in, week out but he wanted it anyway and I just don’t know ... I might say something I’d regret.

“During the game he was asking the referee if he could forfeit the game.

“Tommy Cox told him to get back on stage and do his job which is to entertain people.

“Tell you the truth, he beat Simon Whitlock on Saturday night and there was a bit of controversy there. He was jumping around the stage like a kangaroo when he won.

“Before our game he was sitting looking very confident. I thought, ‘I’m going to have a helluva game here’. I was nervous.

“But I don’t know what happened during the game. Like I said he was asking to forfeit and walk off stage.

“I felt gutted. I won 10-1 but didn’t feel like a winner.”

Yet, somehow, within a couple of hours, Taylor had buried the memory of that clash to average over 106 and lift the trophy.

Lewis earned his final place in one of greatest ever TV matches, beating Raymond van Barneveld 10-9 in a spectacular tussle of big finishes.

The two-time world champion produced an ending in keeping with the contest, raking out a 116 to go through.

But, struggling with flu, Lewis simply couldn’t cope with The Power.

At one stage Taylor looked as though he’d win with a whitewash but a missed dart at the bull at 9-0 allowed his opponent to chalk up a solitary leg.

Taylor quickly finished it to collect the £50,000 winner’s cheque and said: “Adrian isn’t in the best of health so I knew I had to get him under pressure.

“The game against Barney took a lot of him and he only had about five minutes to get ready. I knew all that.

“You always have to play well against Adrian, especially when he’s not well. You have to try everything to get him under pressure when he feels that way and I did. I like to be first name on new trophies.”

Taylor then gave special mention to the Scottish fans who came out in force to support the new event. He said: “It has been fantastic. The locals dished out some stick to test our bottle but it’s part of the fun.”

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