On this day in 2021, the world of darts lost one of its most popular champions, Andy 'The Viking' Fordham, the 2004 Lakeside World Champion.
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Darts News
Nathan Aspinall has revealed he will miss further ProTour events due to personal issues, as preparations for the World Matchplay in Blackpool intensify.
Players & Legends
Three world titles across three decades, the first televised nine-darter, and a career that outlasted every rival of the golden era.
Tournament History
What the perfect leg demands, why John Lowe's was worth £102,000, and why Paul Lim's 1990 nine-darter remains the only one Lakeside ever saw.
Players & Legends
Three straight Lakeside world titles, then a Premier League win on PDC debut — Glen Durrant answered the only question anyone kept asking him.
Players & Legends
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.
Players & Legends
Before Lakeside, before Bristow, there was Leighton Rees: the storeman from Ynysybwl who won the first world championship in 1978.
The BBC didn't just broadcast darts in the 1980s — it made the sport what it was. Then it walked away. Here's what that cost darts, and who picked up the pieces.
The Lakeside Country Club held 1,170 people for darts. It sounded like a football ground. Here's why the smallest venue in world sport produced the loudest crowds.
Darts didn't become a major British sport by accident. It grew out of the pubs and working men's clubs of northern England and the Midlands, hit peak television in the early 1980s, and then fractured into two competing visions of what the game should be. This is how that happened.