darts to bring the house down at the Winter Gardens.It was such a stunning moment in sporting, let alone darting history, that The Power received a £100,000 bonus.
Such a pay-out would be financially unthinkable nowadays, with nine-darters a much more regular occurrence. Gerwyn Price hit two in one night in the Premier League earlier this year.Barry Hearn had recently taken over as PDC chairman when Taylor made history that day in Blackpool.
As he reflected on his impact on the sport over the last 20 years, he told the Gary Newbon Sports Show with Jewson: “It’s made up of ordinary people with extraordinary ability earning money they could only ever dream of.
It’s not Premier League football, because that’s a world apart from anything else.“They’re [the players] are all characters and that's one thing we’re short of in sport.
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