Darts in new 'farting' storm: Two-time World Championship quarter-finalist Darren Webster accuses Dutch 'k**b' rival of 'stinking the stage out'... and it's not the sport's first 'fart-gate'!

Darren Webster took on Dutchman Ron Meulenkamp on Thursday nightWebster has accused his opponent of farting on stage to put him off his gameThis is not the first time a player has been accused of farting on stage 

Darts star Darren Webster accused his opponent of farting during their match at the MODUS Super Series in an incredible rant on social media on Thursday night.

Webster, 55, a former two-time World Championship quarter-finalist, took on Dutchman Ron Meulenkamp in a best-of-seven legs match and moved into a 3-0 lead, but was pegged back by his rival and ended up losing 4-3.

After Meulenkamp pinned double 16 for victory, Webster was visibly furious and refused to shake hands, as he exchanged words with his opponent.

Meulenkamp appeared bemused by the situation and reacted by shrugging, before Webster took to social media to explain exactly what he was so unhappy about.

‘Well when you play a guy who farts and stinks the stage out and denies it then kick you when your [sic] playing the stall every throw because they are s*** good luck for the future but I’m not interested rant over,’ he posted on Facebook.

Darren Webster posted an extraordinary rant where he accused his opponent of farting on stage on Thursday night

Webster walked away from Dutchman Ron Meulenkamp when he went to shake hands at the end of the match

Webster went on to call Meulenkamp a ‘k**b’ on Facebook after the match

When someone responded by hitting out at Meulenkamp’s perceived slow retrieval of his darts from the board throughout the match, Webster added: ‘He was knob end of’.

Webster’s defeat ended a disappointing day for the Englishman as he lost three of his four matches on the opening night of the Super Series.

He sits bottom of Group B, while Meulenkamp is second in the five-man table after winning three of his four games.

Meulenkamp joined the PDC in 2014, but has never made it past the last 64 of the World Championship.

This is not the first time that a player has been accused of farting on stage, as two-time world champion Gary Anderson defended himself against the same allegation after facing Wesley Harms at the Grand Slam of Darts in November 2018.

Harms claimed there was a ‘fragrant smell’ during his match with the Scot as he suffered a 10-2 defeat after delivering a below-par performance.

When it was put to him in his post-match interview that Harms felt he may have farted to put him off, Anderson replied: ‘If the boy thinks I’ve farted he’s 1010 per cent wrong. I swear on my children’s lives that it was not my fault.

Webster, pictured with his wife, is a two-time World Championship quarter-finalist

Meulenkamp, pictured with his partner, has never been past the last 64 of the World Championship

Gary Anderson flatly denied farting on stage during a match against Wesley Harms in 2018

Anderson swore on his children’s lives that he had not farted to put his opponent off

‘Usually if I fart on stage I s**t myself. If I’d farted and it smelled like that I’d put my hands up and go “sorry, I need to get off”.

‘Every time I walked past there was a waft of rotten eggs so that’s why I was thinking it was him.

‘It was bad. It was a stink, then he started to play better and I thought he must have needed to get some wind out.

‘If somebody has done that they need to see a doctor. Seemingly he says it was me but I would admit it.’