In-depth profiles, career retrospectives, and match analysis covering every major figure from the Lakeside era, from the Crafty Cockney to the Golden Girl.
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.
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.