Players Don Coutts 22 May 201930 Oct 2019 Darts Historian Patrick Chaplin scours the country for some of the top names of the past. “Where are they now and what are they doing?” DON COUTTS Don Coutts relaxing…
Ladies Darts… Francis HOENSELAAR 22 May 201918 Jul 2019 Francis Hoenselarr at the Lakeside World Darts Championship 2009 - Photo by Hans Willink. Introductory Note: Charis Mutschler of the top German website www.darts1.de interviewed the 2009 Lakeside Women’s World Professional Darts…
Ladies Darts… Gayl King 22 May 201921 Aug 2019 GAYL KING: PLAYING THE MEN AT THEIR OWN GAME Early in the year 2000, Tommy Cox of the Professional Darts Corporation announced in Darts World that the PDC was to include a…
Players Katie Durose: Superstars Of The Oche 22 May 201930 Oct 2019 In 2008 University of Sheffield student Katie Durose, 21, approached me for information and advice in relation to two papers she was preparing as part of her BA (Hons) degree…
Players Joe Hitchcock – The Marathon Marvel 22 May 201930 Oct 2019 ‘Cartoon by ‘Harlequin’ of Joe Hitchcock, captain of the St. Dunstan Four. Reproduced courtesy of the editor of The Dart Joe Hitchcock was born in North London in early 1915, shortly after…
Players An Honorary Doctorate For ‘The Power’ 22 May 201921 Aug 2019 PHIL TAYLOR The phenomenal achievements of darts legend Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor have been formally recognised by the Staffordshire University with the award of an honorary doctorate. In 2007, thirteen…
Players Leighton Rees 22 May 201921 Aug 2019 Leighton Rees Included In The Dictionary Of National Biography Leighton Rees, the first World Professional Darts Champion and probably the best-known and best-loved Welsh darter of all time, has become…
Darts History… NINE-DARTERS 22 May 201911 Dec 2021 Who Threw The Very First Nine-Darter? I receive a good number of darts history questions via my website, but one I received in February 2003 from a dart fan in…
Players Peter Chapman 22 May 201930 Apr 2024 PETER CHAPMAN, NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPION 1973/74 Darts World magazine was only a few issues old when it proclaimed Peter Chapman, a private gardener from Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, winner of…
Players Steve ‘The Original’ Brown 22 May 201918 Jul 2019 ‘Steve with ‘Dr. Darts’ at the 2008 World Masters’ and the photo credit (Photo: Moppix) Introductory Note: Charis Mutschler of the top German website www.darts1.de interviewed Steve Brown just before the World…