James Wade has left darts fans in hysterics after appearing to let out a huge fart during a crucial match.

Wade was competing in the latest Players Championship event in Leicester when he took on Callan Rydz in the quarter-finals.

Wade made his way to the table after his victory in LeicesterX: @JoesDarts

Following the 11th leg, the 41-year-old was filmed walking over to a table with his back to camera.

Wade then slightly bent his knees before appearing to force out a whopping fart.

The Aldershot-born thrower is ranked 18 in the world on the PDC Order of Merit and has banked £384,000 in prize money over the last two years.

But based on social media, it’s not his darts which Wade is now most famous for.

Taking to social media, one darts fan wrote: “Greatest sport on planet earth.”

A second wrote: “Take a bow, sir,” while a third fan described Wade as “the funniest bloke on tour”.

Another commented: “Those bloody creaky floorboards are at it again.”

A fifth said: “How long was he holding that,” with a sixth saying: “Elite level fart from James Wade. Perfect acoustics.”

Meanwhile one final fan simply wrote: “What a legend.”

While Wade managed to hold his fart in for 11 legs, the English player still managed to book his spot in the semi-finals of the tournament after claiming a 6-5 win.

It was there that he squatted his legs and appeared to let out a big fartX: @JoesDarts

Unfortunately it was in the final four when the wind was taken from Wade’s sails as he was beaten 7-4 by Gary Anderson.

Of course Anderson knows what it’s like to be accused of farting at a major darts event with Wesley Harms claiming that he had let rip at the Grand Slam in November 2018.

Denying that he had supplied it, Anderson said: “If the boy thinks I’ve farted he’s 1,010 per cent wrong. I swear on my children’s lives that it was not my fault.

“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’.”