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 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.
Redundancy at 36, twenty years as England captain, and three world titles after turning fifty — the story of the man who never left the BDO.
The Kirkcaldy miner who won the world title twice, held off Bristow in the famous 1989 final, then spent his last years in near-total silence.
From a first-round exit in 1991 to four world titles: how Raymond van Barneveld made the Lakeside championship his own before leaving for the PDC.
Ted Hankey beat Ronnie Baxter 6–0 in 46 minutes to win the 2000 world title, then waited nine years to lift it again against Tony O'Shea.
In January 1983 a 23-year-old qualifier beat the world's top three players and sealed the title with a 138 checkout darts has never forgotten.