Jan 22, 2014
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...
Jan 1, 2014
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....
Nov 15, 2013
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...
Sep 2, 2013
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...
Aug 2, 2013
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...
May 20, 2013
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...
