Flight Club: the future is blue for central London darts

London’s newest darts venue opened its doors on the edge of the City this week promising to preserve the tradition of darts, whilst ‘completely blowing the doors off it’. So far, Flight Club seems to have delivered. On Wednesday night each of the twelve...

Green shoots

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...

London’s dart pubs continue to decline

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...

Bunting’s switch trims BDOs green shoots

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 BDO faces a crucial twelve months, once again

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...

PDC world final – a new darting star is born

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....
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