Glen knows the bore as he caps glory with a kip
GLEN DURRANT was delighted to live up to his boring tag by going straight to bed after the biggest night of his career.
The 49- year- old capped a magnificent Premier League debut by grabbing the title with an 11-8 win over Nathan Aspinall.
It was Durrant’s first major PDC trophy, having snared three world titles in the BDO before switching circuits almost two years ago.
But there was no big title party as the Teessider headed straight to his patch ahead of a flight this morning to Germany for an event.
Duzza said: “I got called the elephant, the old man, the boring one. I quite like that. The old Steve Davis one.
“I am quite boring – it’s straight to bed to get ready to go to Heathrow. That doesn’t matter.
“I feel magnificent. I feel like the best player in the world and I didn’t feel like that when I won at the Lakeside. This is big and when I go back to Teesside, this is going to mean a lot to a lot of people.
“It makes it all worthwhile coming over from the BDO where there was a lot of scrutiny of me.”
Durrant showed all of his street fighting skills to ambush Gary Anderson earlier in the evening.
The Scot survived a dart to go 7-3 down before producing a surge in the middle of the semi to move to within a leg of victory at 9-7 up.
Anderson was sat on tops and with Durrant left on 113, yet the champion dredged up a matchsaving finish and took 64 in the next to set up a decider.
The Musselburgh man missed a shot at the bull to win it in that 18th leg and wasted three match darts in the final one in Coventry.
Duzza said: “That game will go down as one of the worst ever seen in the Premier League but I had a feeling I couldn’t play badly twice.”
Peter Wright lost his last-four battle 10-7 to Aspinall, who was fired up by the world champion.
The 29-year-old had heard Snakebite say in interviews it was his trophy to lose while he was irked when spotting his opponent doing little practice beforehand.
Aspinall said: “I’m mortified to lose after beating the world champion. I thought I had another gear but missed so many chances.”