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Close your eyes, and you can picture the image.
Gerwyn Price is trailing 3-1 in his 2023 World Darts Championship quarter-final clash with Gabriel Clemens. The crowd are onto him. ‘The Iceman’ is melting.
In need of a comeback, he returns to the stage, albeit with one glaring addition: a giant pair of black and red ear defenders that look better suited to an airfield than Alexandra Palace.
The spectacle, which reverberated around all corners of social media, represented the nadir of Price’s relationship with the sport’s often merciless fans, cementing his status as the pre-eminent pantomime villain of his era.
Even before that, Price could have been forgiven for not relishing his annual appointment with the Ally Pally audience, where warm welcomes were very rarely extended to the Welshman
The fact that his World Championship triumph came in 2021, when there were barely any spectators due to coronavirus restrictions, is not a coincidence.
Fans, though, are a fickle bunch, and just two short years on from his ear defender outing, the landscape appears far different. So much so that Price finds himself with an unusual feeling ahead of this year’s World Championship: genuine excitement.
‘Honestly, the crowd this year or the last two years has been fantastic,’ Price tells Metro. ‘Wherever I’ve gone, I seem to get more support now than ever. They’ve totally flipped and started to support me.
‘It just feels like every time I get on stage now, I seem to get the support, whether it’s in England, Europe, anywhere in the world. Personally, it’s the first time I’ve actually really looked forward to going to Alexandra Palace.’
Away from the oche, Price couldn’t be further from ‘The Iceman’ moniker he assumes under the bright lights. When we speak a week out from the tournament, the 40-year-old is reserved and softly spoken, but still carrying a quiet confidence after what has been a productive year on tour.
‘I think I’ve probably been one of the more consistent players this season,’ he says. ‘I’ve done really well on the floor events and the European Tour.
‘I’ve done okay in the big TV majors, but not enough in those as what I would want personally. I’ve reached a couple of semis and stuff, but just felt short. Overall, I’ve had a really decent season.’
Price’s two semi-final visits in majors this year have both come last month at the Grand Slam of Darts and the Players Championship Finals. On those occasions, it was the two Lukes – Humphries and Littler – that got the better of him.
Regardless, such runs mean Price arrives at Ally Pally as one of the field’s most in-form players, albeit still searching for his first TV major title since the 2021 Grand Slam.
‘I’ve just needed to be a little bit more consistent at the right time,’ he admits. ‘I’ve got myself in good situations, but then I have to take my opportunities. But on another day, I’ll go my way.
‘So it’s just being in the moment and taking the opportunities. And this season I have in certain games, but not in the biggest ones.’
If I meet Littler and I’m on my A-game, I will come through
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Price begins his journey at this year’s Worlds against Czechia’s Adam Gawlas, while the expanded 128-man field means he must win two games to ensure he is back at Ally Pally after Christmas. ‘That’s when the real tournament starts,’ he jokes.
And should ‘The Iceman’ navigate his way into the latter stages of the tournament, there is the potential of a mouthwatering quarter-final clash with defending champion, Luke Littler.
Having reeled off six consecutive wins against Littler, Price has now not tasted victory in their last eight contests, a run that stretches back to April of this year. Such a record would surely weigh heavily on even the most self-assured of shoulders, but Price’s confidence appears undented.
‘Luke has practically won all the big majors this year, but he’d probably swap one or two of those trophies to get past me and have a good run in this one,’ he says of the defending champion and new world number one.
‘I think there’s a couple of times I’ve played this Luke this year where I should have won and have let him off the hook. In the Grand Prix, I had doubles to win the match and let him come back into it.
‘In the Players Championship Finals, he played absolutely out of his skin, probably the best he could play against me, and I still had opportunities and let it slip in certain patches.
‘I haven’t been firing on all cylinders, but if we meet and I’m on my A-game, I will come through that match.’
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Pro-Palestine activists awaiting trial have been holding a hunger strike in prison – with two now on day 39 without food.
Qesser Zurah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, Teuta Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed have all been on hunger strike for more than a month.
All are denied bail after their alleged involvement in Palestine Action raids on an arms factory owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest manufacturer for weapons, and RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
Lewie Chiaramello has also been refusing to eat, now for over 17 days, and Muhammed Umer Khalid for more than a week.
So far Kamran was hospitalised on November 25 after going into his fourth week of a hunger strike, and his sister, Shahmina Alam, is fearing the very worst.
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And Teuta was hospitalised two days later, on November 27, as her health deteriorated rapidly, according to campaign group Prisoners For Palestine (PFP).
Concerns are now mounting over the condition of the activists, who have been in prison for well over a year before they are tried, breaking the UK’s six-month pre-trial detention limit.
Their prosecution, which has drawn international scrutiny, has become a test case for how the government – under Sir Keir Starmer – is dealing with pro-Palestine demonstrations.
Last week, Kamran’s sister, Shahmina, attempted to convince deputy prime minister, David Lammy, to hear the activists’ demands, pointing to their deteriorating health.
She said: ‘My name is Shahmina and I am one of the sisters of the hunger strikers. We have been waiting for you to respond and the ministry of justice to respond.’
Footage showed Lammy responding, ‘I do not know anything about this’ as he tried to run away and avoid the crowd of protesters who had gathered.
Multiple MPs – from John McDonnell to Jeremy Corbyn – have criticised the lack of engagement from the government.
McDonnell raised a point of order in the House of Commons yesterday saying that the justice secretary had failed to respond to previous letters on the matter.
‘This is a matter of urgency and I would’ve expected at least the courtesy of some response even if he’s not willing to meet us,’ he said.
Meanwhile, speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle also responded that it is ‘totally unacceptable.’
Zarah Sultana, Coventry South MP, also said the government has offered ‘no response, no accountability and no action’ 39 days after the first activists began their hunger strike.
In a post on X, she said: ‘Lewie Chiaramello, a diabetic hunger-striker, is being moved between prisons again.
‘Last time, his insulin and needles were taken from him – a life-threatening act of negligence. His loved ones are terrified it will happen again.’
Among the list of the activists’ demands to end their hunger strike is bail as well as the right to a fair trial.
The group is also calling for the de-proscription of Palestine Action, which was banned under terrorism legislation in July.
Qesser, who has been on strike for more than 38 days, was arrested at the age of 19 and was previously the youngest activist jailed for allegedly taking action for Palestine.
This was until her younger brother Salaam, aged 18, was also arrested by counter-terrorism police in July in connection with the action in the Elbit Systems plant in Filton, Bristol.
The Prisoners for Palestine campaign group claims that prison staff at the HMP Bronzefield have forced Qesser to remove her kuffiyah hijab, and have confiscated all of her hijabs with the pattern from her cell.
A statement from her on their website says: ‘They won’t imprison us all, they know if they fill the prisons with activists, we will overpower them from within.
‘So flood the damn streets in your millions. Shut down these factories in your thousands! They can never arrest the resistance in our smiles.’
Responding to reports of the worsening condition of members of the Filton 24, Kerry Moscogiuri, director of campaigns and communications at Amnesty International UK, warned that the country’s anti-terrorism laws are ‘excessively broad and open to misuse’ as it is demonstrated in this case.
‘She said: ‘Amnesty International is seriously concerned at reports of the worsening condition of members of the Filton 24 who are on hunger strike.
‘Amnesty has consistently opposed the use of anti-terrorism powers in these cases. They have been used to justify excessively lengthy pre-trial detention and draconian prison conditions.
‘The UK’s anti-terrorism laws are excessively broad and open to misuse, as has been demonstrated in the Filton 24 case where prosecutors have sought to escalate ordinary criminal prosecutions of direct-action protesters into terrorism cases.
‘The use of terrorism laws to circumvent due process and impose harsher punishments on direct action protesters is a threat to expression and assembly rights for everyone.’
Moscogiuri urged prosecutors to drop the claim of a ‘terrorism connection’ in these cases and end any excessively lengthy pre-trial detention.
Qesser Zuhrah – trial date April 2026
Qesser was arrested in a dawn raid on November 19, 2024, by counter-terrorism officers in the third wave of Filton arrests, in connection with the August 2024 raid on the Elbit plant.
Amu Gib – trial date January 2027
Amu was arrested for allegedly breaking into RAF Brize Norton, Britain’s largest airforce base, and decommissioning two military planes alongside three others.
Heba Muraisi – trial date June 2026
Heba was arrested on November 19, 2024, in a dawn raid in the third wave of Filton arrests.
Jon Cink – trial date January 2027
Jon was arrested for allegedly breaking into RAF Brize Norton,the UK’s largest airforce base, and decommissioning two military planes alongside three others.
Teuta Hoxha – trial date April 2026
Teuta was also arrested in the dawn raids against Palestine activists on November 19, 2024, in the third wave of Filton arrests on allegations of being connected to the Filton action.
Kamran Ahmed – trial date June 2026
Kamran was arrested in a violent dawn raid by counter-terrorism police on 19th November 2024 during which his elderly parents were also denied food and medication for hours.
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