“DON’T TAKE ME HOME”. You know the one.
“Luke Humphries averages just haven’t been on the same level as Luke Littler’s, even if he won the Players Championship final.”
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Read More“But he just has that ability to get over the line.”
“Look at what he did against Pietreczko and Cullen last year, he should go back-to-back.”
Their chariot to Alexandra Palace arrives to temporarily temper the fun. But perhaps there is no better scene to explain Humphries’ position in darts, the perennial straight man in a joker’s world. This is the origin of his reputation as boring, understated to a fault, the picture of humility.
But more than anything he’s serious. He’s serious about his own ability, and not afraid to preach the virtues of his own talent and ambition, to a degree that would be considered arrogance if he were not world No 1.
It’s this earnestness which is misconstrued as tedium, considered heresy in a sport built on a constant campness and understanding of its inherent ridiculousness, every tongue never too far from its respective cheek.
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Read MoreHe did as he was asked, trapped between utter bafflement at the triviality of his task and his ambassadorial duty, a darting envoi always speaking on behalf of somebody or something.
Humphries averaged just 83.50 in the first set against Frenchman Thibault Tricole – and 90.79 across the three – but did not drop a leg all match.
This is why Littler and Humphries hold quite such value to each other, and to the wider sport. Singular dominance gets very boring. Great players make other greats better, demand new extremes, jointly explore once unimagined potentials.
As the pair walked off the stage during the recent premiere of Sky’s “Game of Throws” documentary, he put a comforting arm around Littler after a long day of media duties, another sign of his perceived responsibility to protect both the game and its prized asset.
“It’s not like he’s knocking me off my perch or I’m knocking him off his perch. We’re going together.”
After beating Tricole, Humphries posited: “I think it was good for the sport that I won the Players Championship final”.
Humphries now has at least 10 days off over Christmas before a likely third-round match against Raymond van Barneveld. Attention will turn sharply back to the centre of the current darting universe.
But every friendship group needs its designated driver, and darts needs Humphries, its responsible regulating force, just as much as it needs Luke Littler.
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