Even a heart attack and cardiac surgery couldn't stop Barry Hearn from running a sporting empire from his hospital bed. Last month the entrepreneur who ushered six-times snooker world champion Steve Davis, Chris Eubank's strut and Phil 'The Power' Taylor's infallible aim into our living rooms was taken ill.
Yet within 48 hours of exemplary care at Broomfield and Basildon hospitals – let's hear it for the NHS again - it was business as usual for the Essex accountant whose numbers have always added up.
Draw the curtain, nurse: Matron may not approve of Matchroom's indefatigable chairman signing off a darts tournament set in 128 players' living rooms, kitchens, attic bedrooms or man-caves on the wards.
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