‘I don’t think he can be helped’ – Darts star fears for Peter Wright’s career after nightmare year hit new low

DARTS legend Peter Wright “cannot be helped” and could soon retire, according to a fellow player.

Wright is a two-time world champion and has been a Premier League regular ever-present since for the last 11 years.

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Vincent van der Voort says Wright ‘cannot be helped’Getty

But the 54-year-old has had a difficult year and hit a new low at the European Championship last week.

He crashed out in the first round against Jermaine Wattimena, losing 6-0 and averaging just 74.81.

It was the third-lowest average of his career and fans called it Snakebite’s “worst ever performance”.

Fellow veteran Vincent van der Voort spoke to podcast Darts Draait Door about his year, saying: “I really wonder what’s going on in his head.

“For a year-and-a-half to two years, he’s been really struggling.

“Occasionally he wins a tournament because he’s a terribly good player.

“I don’t get it with that man anymore, I don’t think he can be helped.

“If you keep doing it like this, it’s just finished.

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“I don’t believe there is no one who has told him to keep doing it like this and if those people are there, he needs to say goodbye to them as soon as possible.

“At some point you just have to stop talking about it. But then in a year we will have lost him.”

Wright has channelled his past brilliance on a few occasions this year, winning a European Tour title in September after beating Luke Littler and Michael van Gerwen en route to glory.

Van der Voort has twice made the World Championship quarter-final during his lengthy career and the outspoken star recently slammed Barry Hearn as a “terrible person”.