{"id":351849,"date":"2026-01-04T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:23:07","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:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/351849\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Darts 2026: Who are the contenders to join Luke Littler and Gian van Veen in line-up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ranking: Sixth, Last Premier League: Eighth in 2022, Best Premier League finish: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ranking: Sixth, Last Premier League: Eighth in 2022, Best Premier League finish: 2011 and 2015 winner The Flying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-351849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}