Premier League stars James Maddison, Harvey Barnes and Hamza Choudhury will have their bosses at Leicester sweating after they were among a 3,000-strong crowd at the World Championship darts on Saturday night.
Darts star Michael van Gerwen, who was ruled out of the tournament after contracting the virus, described the event at Alexandra Palace as a ‘Covid bomb’ but it continues to go ahead.
Bosses bullishly defended the popular PDC event this week amid calls for it to be abandoned due to rising cases among players and with Premier League matches continually falling to Covid, Maddison, Choudhury and Barnes’ trip will likely concern those back at Leicester.
Eighteen Premier League games have been postponed in the last three weeks with Leicester’s game against Norwich on Saturday off due to the number of cases in the Canaries’ squad.
Norwich – who are missing at least 10 players – requested a postponement from the Premier League after explaining how their squad had been ravaged by injuries and positive Covid-19 cases.
The World Championship darts concludes on Monday, with the winner of that day’s final picking up £500,000, the largest cheque in the sport.
Alexandra Palace has welcomed thousands of people through its doors despite case numbers of the Omicron Covid variant soaring across the country.
James Maddison (left) and Harvey Barnes (right) were seen at the darts on Saturday night
Leicester team-mate Hamza Choudhury (middle) also made the trip to London for the darts
World Championship darts had carried on at Alexandra Palace despite coronavirus concerns
Calls to abandon the darts mid-tournament gained traction when world No 1 Gerwyn Price urged postponement as the event has been ‘devalued’ by the withdrawal of top players.
He did retract his comments on Wednesday but players have been left unhappy with the virus spreading fast among them.
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