In-depth profiles, career retrospectives, and match analysis covering every major figure from the Lakeside era, from the Crafty Cockney to the Golden Girl.
Three first-round exits at Lakeside, then a PDC tour card, a win over Michael van Gerwen in a final and a place in the world's top 16.
A Welsh national title, a Gold Cup final and one Lakeside appearance in 2009, when Robert Hughes beat a seed and led the number one seed.
A Llanelli nursery nurse reached the women's world final at her first two Lakeside appearances, set a checkout record in 2012 and won the 2025 Dutch Open as Rhian O'Sullivan.
World number one in the 1990s, three BDO world finals lost by a single set, and the 2025 WDF world title: the long career of Deta Hedman.
A road worker from Vroomshoop came through the play-offs, survived a match dart against Ted Hankey and beat Tony O'Shea 7–5 to win the 2012 world title.
Three world titles across three decades, the first televised nine-darter, and a career that outlasted every rival of the golden era.
Three straight Lakeside world titles, then a Premier League win on PDC debut: Glen Durrant answered the only question anyone kept asking him.
Four lost semi-finals, then the greatest comeback Lakeside had seen: Andy Fordham's 2004 world title and the hard years either side of it.
Before Lakeside, before Bristow, there was Leighton Rees: the storeman from Ynysybwl who won the first world championship in 1978.
Crown, cloak, candelabra, two lost world finals and a broken back: how Bobby George became Lakeside's biggest star without ever winning it.