Do you remember some years ago there was a style of advert being used, to pitch a variety of different product or service or cause, which was basically pencil drawn stick figures with short, sharp messaging. Now read on…
An example would be something like ‘Bill disinfected the shopping trolley when leaving it back for the next customer… Be like Bill’. Thank goodness nobody needs Mike De Decker for such things.
There are ways to carry yourself as a champion, especially one who has only attained their first top level accreditation. As that spoilt brat Erling Haaland hideously, sarcastically blurted at the Arsenal players after Manchester City had stolen a point against The Gunners – “Stay humble, yeah? “. A clear case of do as I say, not as I do.
But obviously nobody gave moaning Mike the Memo either. Though maybe it’s just a Belgian thing. After all, Kim Huybrechts and Dimitri Van Den Bergh (occasionally) are hardly paragons of serenity either.
Barely a week after the World Grand Prix Champion launched an astonishing tirade against his “Snubbing” by the Brains Trust behind the Premier League https://boylantalkssport.com/2025/01/09/de-decker-loses-the-plot-following-pl-snub/ the brash blonde has gone off on one again, launching withering, denigrating and frankly insulting attack on the Dutch Darts Masters.
Having scandalously asserted in his previous rant that Nathan Aspinall was solely included in the League because his walk-on song (Mr Brightside) generates a good atmosphere, De Decker completely blew a fuse in explaining has absence from the forthcoming event in the Netherlands.
He blasted: “I only the got the email last week saying they wanted me to be there,” De Decker told the Darts Draait Door podcast. “But I’m in Dubai on holiday around those days so I can’t. “If only they could have let me know earlier. And for the starting money I get, I’m not going to reschedule my vacation. Then it would cost me more than it gives me. So I won’t be there.”
However, it’s likely to be his vehement obnoxious attack on the venue which will curry even less favour, not only with his contemporaries, but – perhaps even more so – with those charged with governance of the sport. De Decker went on: “The World Series is not a tournament I was looking forward to anyway, and certainly not the one in the Netherlands,” he added. “If you get invited then you want to go to Bahrain or Australia. At least those are nice countries. Of all the places where those tournaments are, you don’t want to be invited to Den Bosch.”
Hold my beer and get the popcorn for the next time he’s playing one of the Dutch lads!
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