LIPPY RIVALS LOVE TO HATE ME SAYS FALLON

FALLON SHERROCK says she feels an outcast because the “hate” from rival players has turned women’s darts into a hostile environment.

‘The Queen of the Palace’ (inset) missed out on a place at next month’s Cazoo PDC World Championship after being pipped to the annual fancy dress party by 18-year-old Beau Greaves.

Sherrock, 28, has been the standardbearer for women’s darts since her historic run to the third round at Ally Pally three years ago.

But the women’s World Matchplay champion says she is now the target of “hate” among fellow female competitors.

Sherrock claims rivals openly want her and four-time world champion Lisa Ashton, 52, to lose.

She said: “I am not welcome with the women much anymore, I learned that at the last event in Wigan. It doesn’t matter what I do, I am still going to get hate.

“I could be the best person in the world but I am at a point now where I am like, ‘If you are going to hate me, hate me’.

“I feel what me and Lisa have done for the sport, I don’t think they realise how much we have helped. They don’t care and they are all against us. They cheer against us and it’s just not very nice.” Sherrock reached a tipping point at last month’s Women’s Series in Wigan where she lost against rising star Greaves in the final – amid partisan support for the Doncaster teenager. “I did let the atmosphere get to me,” she added. “Beau is a really good player, she is a great asset to the sport.

“I am all up for that, though, because it means that it is not all on me.”