{"id":9239,"date":"2026-01-04T14:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:14:52","slug":"premier-league-darts-2026-who-are-the-contenders-to-join-luke-littler-and-gian-van-veen-in-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9239","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Darts 2026: Who are the contenders to join Luke Littler and Gian van Veen in line-up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ranking:<\/b> Sixth, <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Last Premier League<\/b>: Eighth in 2022, <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Best Premier League finish: <\/b>2011 and 2015 winner<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Flying Scotsman&#8217;s run to the semi-finals of the World Championships has put his name on everyone&#8217;s lips again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Premier League seems unlikely though. At 55, Anderson has made it pretty clear that he doesn&#8217;t fancy the travelling involved, with 16 different cities and seven countries in 16 weeks, so any invitation is likely to be rejected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kevin Painter, who played in the 2012 Premier League alongside Anderson, told BBC Radio 5 Live: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think he will [play in the Premier League]. That is for the lads in their 20s and 30s &#8211; it is tough doing it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can lose focus on other tournaments because you&#8217;re just focused 100% on the Premier League. It drains you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/darts\/articles\/cjdj585gm9xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranking: Sixth, Last Premier L&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}