Price Looking Forward to Homecoming Crowd

Gerwyn Price admits it will be bizarre not being booed for a change as he gets ready to play in front of his home fans. The Iceman goes into the Unibet Premier League in Cardiff locked in a tense battle for a top four place with three other players. Price takes on Michael Smith yet is level on 12 points with James Wade, Daryl Gurney and Mensur Suljovic. He said: “I'm looking forward to it more than any other week, it will be a great feeling to play in front of a Welsh crowd," said Price. “I'm so used to being booed I won't know how to take it! I may still get a few boos but I think the majority of the fans will be on my side. “Obviously it will be a very different environment for me but hopefully I will thrive on the support as well as I cope with the negativity against me most weeks. “I'm going into Cardiff in a good run of form, I'm feeling confident as ever and I'm determined to put another two points on the board. “I really want to get into the top four. I need to win every game from here on in, I've got Michael (van Gerwen) out of the way and managed to get a point from that game. "I'm just looking to beat everybody else in front of me and hopefully I can kick-on now and make a charge towards The O2 for the first time." Price has also admitted he was “shocked and peed off” that Gary Anderson hadn’t been fined following their Grand Slam spat last year. The Welshman has confirmed he has appealed his record fine dating back to the 2018 Grand Slam of Darts and says he is prepared to go to the high court in a quest to get the sanctions overturned. Price was hit with £21,500 in fines and a three-month ban, suspended for six months, in January after being found guilty of three separate breaches of DRA rules during last November's Grand Slam. The Welshman went on to claim Grand Slam glory and his first major title with victory over Gary Anderson in a hugely controversial final in Wolverhampton. The pair clashed on the oche during an ill-tempered affair, with Price seen to celebrate ferociously in Anderson's face, while the Scot responded at one stage by pushing his opponent. Several players past and present have leapt to Price's defence in recent months, including the likes of Phil Taylor, Wayne Mardle and Chris Mason, and the 34-year-old insists he will pursue the case to the highest level. Price said: “I was shocked and a bit peed off at what had happened, not only that I had a fine, but that Gary had absolutely nothing.” “Not just one player, not just Phil (Taylor), every player said it was unfair so something has gone wrong there and it's being dealt with by the right people now. “Hopefully things will change, but if not then I'm going to re-appeal again and it'll go to the high court. “My appeal has gone in, it went in two weeks ago, so whatever the DRA come back with, even if I have a one thousand pound fine, I'm still going to be fighting that.” Anderson was also found to be in breach of DRA rules when he pushed Price, and was given a formal warning, but Price believes he was unfairly made an example of by the sport's governing body. He added: “I don't think I deserve to have any fine at all, we were both on the oche, my game's always the same and it's never going to change. “I don't want a one thousand pound fine, I don't even want a one hundred pound fine. “I've been myself, I've been the same player ever since and before the fine. I haven't had any more fines so I don't understand why I had the first one.” By Phil Lanning (@lannomedia)