Cameron Menzies spoke after progressing to the second round of the Players Championship Finals (Image: Darts Now)
star Cameron Menzies has spoken out about his controversial on-stage antics following a thumping victory at the Players Championship Finals in Minehead.
The best darts stars in the world have descended on the town in Somerset for the final big event before next month’s .
The likes of , and are involved in the tournament, which has a .
One of the standout performers in the early stages was Scottish ace Menzies, who demolished Jim Williams 6-2 in the tournament’s opening round.
But speaking after the contest, Menzies lamented his own on-stage behaviour, saying: “When I go up on that stage, I’d love folk to feel what I feel because it’s not nice. I’d rather go to work.
“I feel like that’s something I need to try and solve before I make the next step and I know that. I’ve been in contact with a sports psychologist and I’m trying to make myself a better person and a darts player.
“The last couple of weeks has been horrible with social media and stuff. But I’m trying to make myself better.”
Menzies had labelled himself ‘embarrassing’ after falling to the floor in celebration after beating James Wade at last week’s Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton.
Cameron Menzies fell to the floor celebrating his win vs James Wade last week (Image: Sky Sports)
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The 35-year-old revealed after the last-16 win that his outburst was down to the emotion that had built up ahead of the mammoth tie.
Commenting on his nervousness during big matches, Menzies continued in Minehead: “I’m at home and I’m sitting there stressed about it. That’s not nice.
“The worst scenario is I’m getting beat. Unfortunately in darts it’s not like you can draw, you either get beat or you win.
“But my anxiety is because of my fear of losing, I want this so much. I want to be something, I want to win stuff. Maybe too much.”
Despite this, Menzies was once again caught up in an on-stage confrontation, with his Players Championship Finals opponent Williams pulling him up on his ‘darts rattling’.
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On the encounter, he stated: “It was a good start, Jim wasn’t Jim. He pulled me up for rattling my darts. I can’t deny I was doing it. But I would never do it tactically.
“I do apologise to Jim if it put him off. I’m not tactical but I’m fidgety.
“Jim told me to hold my darts. I do this all the time. The reason is years ago I had a set of darts, I broke one.
“So one dart was remade for me and was slightly different from the rest. So I always made that my first dart.
“I’ve kind of kept doing that. My intention is not to cheat, I’ll play fair.”
Menzies returns to action in south-west England on Saturday when he faces Ryan Joyce in the tournament’s second round.