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Whilst the trend for London's dart pubs remains downard, a few green shoots have sprung early in 2015. The White Lion reopened in Clerkenwell, the new Parcel Yard in King's Cross station put a board in their games room, and sisal was discovered south of the river at...

It's been a bad couple of months for London's dart pubs. At the end of May 2014 the Porter's Lodge in the City finally closed its' doors for good. It was an ugly pub which was in desperate need of new toilets (!), but it had been one of London's very best dart pubs...

The announcement from the PDC today that Stephen Bunting has, somewhat belatedly, accepted a Tour Card for the next two years is a major blow to the BDO, and in particular to the new World Trophy tournament taking place in Blackpool in February.In what was already...

The changes made to the Lakeside World Darts championship last year gave the BDO the opportunity to shine, and someone somewhere seems to have turned the lights on – the 2014 iteration was a qualified success.Despite the BBC entirely ignoring the opportunity to...

At 4-0 down the commentators in the press tent were scrambling around looking for stats about the biggest defeat ever. Peter Wright had won just two of the first 14 legs and was already 4-0 down to Michael van Gerwen in the race to 7 to become the new world champion....

London may have been home to the first ever competitive darts match, but it has fallen a long way behind in the soft-tip, machine version of the game – until today. DARTSLIVE, purveyors of all things plastic and shiny in the darting world, has opened its first...

The news last week that up to 4,000 'bad' pubs will close next year is of particular concern for those of us partial to chucking bits of metal inside licenced premises. For the 1,000 pubs that will spring up in their place will rarely contain a dart board - as...

Darts takes a break in August, and I take a break from darts. So I won't be writing about the recent resignation of Robert Holmes as the PR man for the BDO, or the Taylor cheat storm, but I will be updating Capital Arrows, especially if I find new darts pubs in...

1.Michael van Gerwen is here to stayHaving lost his previous two major finals – to Taylor and van Barneveld – there was a nagging doubt as to whether MvG was ready yet to take on the best on the biggest of occasions. Having staged a comeback to beat the...

Today sees the launch of a new digital edition of my book Murder on the Darts Board. It costs about the same as a pint (at London prices), and unless you are an incredible speed-reader or a very slow drinker, it will last considerably longer. Amazon now sells more...

Shortly before the first dart was thrown at Lakeside earlier this month, the British Darts Organisation (BDO) released two significant pieces of news.Firstly, the 2014 World Championships will feature an additional 8 players, selected from ranking tables from across...

The most open world championship that the PDC has staged ended at London’s Alexandra Palace on New Year’s Day in the most predictable of fashions. Number 1 seed and tournament favourite Phil Taylor secured his 16th title, defeating second favourite and the...

The holiday seasons commences this weekend with the opening night of the Professional Darts Corporation world championships taking place at Alexandra Palace in London. From Friday through to New Year’s Day, seventy-two men representing 20 countries will be...

A fantastic final fight-back by Dutchman Michael van Gerwen in Dublin at the World Grand Prix on Sunday night rescued what had, until the closing match, been the least compelling PDC major tournament for some time. Lacklustre crowds on the opening nights, high profile...

After fifteen consecutive Thursday, more than fifty games, and several hundred legs of darts in front of a total of 90,000 fans, Phil Taylor won his sixth Premier League darts last week with victory over The Wizard of Aus, Simon Whitlock.A record 10,000 fans witnessed...

Spring is a peculiar time in the world of TV darts. Whilst the Premier League continues its' booze-fuelled tour around the UK, all-bar 8 professional darters are battling it out in the sports-halls and holiday parks across the land in an attempt to qualify for TV...

There will have been much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the embalming fluid in Leamington Spa last night, as Adrian Lewis retained the PDC darts world championship on Sky Sports HD and 3D, defeating Andy ‘The Hammer’ Hamilton 7-3 in sets. Funeral...

Today sees the launch of the nineteenth edition of the Professional Darts Corporation world championship - and the unofficial launch of 'darts season'.For the next month, darts will raise its' head above the parapet to be enjoyed by millions of people across the UK....

As several new faces burst on to the world darts stage at the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, at the Grand Slam of Darts, spare a thought for those players unable to resurrect their former darting glory in the West Midlands.Wayne Mardle, four times World Championship...

The most unpredictable darts tournament since the 2008 World Championship reached the most predictable of conclusions in Dublin last night, with Phil Taylor securing his tenth World Grand Prix title. As at Ally Pally in 2008, a rank outsider made his way through to...

Coinciding with the start of the third series of the show, Tricky D and I are pleased to launch Avoiding The Madhouse, The Wrong Bed's manifesto for darts. This is a short 11-point plan covering key areas that we, and many of our listeners,  think are vital for...

A brief news piece published on the British Darts Organisation website yesterday confirmed that ESPN will join the BBC in broadcasting the 2012 darts World Championship. “All at ESPN are delighted,” tweeted former BBC darts host Ray Stubbs, who will now be...