Darting Stories
Bob Anderson
Former World Champion, Bob
Anderson, has said that his
awful luck with injuries in
sport when he was a youngster
was the main reason why he
took up darts properly.
‘The
Limestone
Cowboy’
explained that his first love was
football, but after a bad injury
he went on to darts and never
looked back. He said: “That’s how
it started, darts was always there
but it was a backburner, football
was my first love and I played to
a relatively decent standard of
amateur football.
“I smashed my left knee and it was
cruciate and lateral ligaments. I
carried on playing without surgery,
I did have the cartilages out, and I
carried on playing for another five
or six years with more bandages
that Tutankhamen and I would
trot out onto the pitch looking
like a mummy.
“It got so bad that I had to walk
away from football and it broke
my heart, I never thought I would
see the day that I wouldn’t play
football, it was in my blood, my
family blood and I didn’t want to
pack it in at all, but I had to.
“It left a huge void in my life and
darts filled it and like they say
one door closes and another one
opens.
“I had a natural aptitude if you
like, I hit my first 180 when I was
seven in a co \]][ۈ