Northern Ireland's Josh Rock says he didn't expect his first Premier League appearance to be as soon as it has been ahead of playing his first night in Belfast on Thursday.

Josh Rock blames his error-strewn display in his 6-2 defeat by Michael van Gerwen in night two of Premier League darts in Antwerp on the soap he used in the bathroom before going on stage.

And so Belfast beckons. The crowd partisan, the stakes visceral. If there is ever a theatre in which to engineer ignition, it is surely this one. Yet sentiment alone will not ...

Josh Rock blames his error-strewn display in his 6-2 defeat by Michael van Gerwen in night two of Premier League darts in Antwerp on the soap he used in the bathroom before going on stage.

Josh Rock blames his error-strewn display in his 6-2 defeat by Michael Van Gerwen in night two of Premier League darts in Antwerp on the soap he used in the bathroom before going on stage.

Rock said soap in the backstage toilets affected him.