Staying Power: A Year In My Life

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Phil ' The Power' Taylor is the uncontested king of darts his sixteen world championship titles between 1990 & 2013 far outclassing anything else the game has seen He started out as a protege of Eric Bristow the Crafty Cockney having wandered into his Burslem pub with a set of darts his wife had given him for his birthday At that time Taylor was earning GBP52 a week working in a ceramics factory & hardly played But jaws dropped & pint mugs tipped over as this newcomer suddenly unleashed a gift for flight that had soon eclipsed even the Crafty Cockney himself & amassed Phil a haul of over 200 professional tournament victories Staying Power is a year in the life of a legend twice nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year a man who made darts look a doddle to British pub-goers everywhere & set his seal on the game as the bloke to beat A year of triumph & disaster in which Taylor crashed out of the world championship in the second round to young outsider Michael Smith & fell asleep at home on Christmas day exhausted from the strain of constant winning A year when he played arguably the greatest ever game of darts in the Grand Slam semi-final against recent world champion Adrian Lewis the two slugging it out to the wire A year in which Taylor rocked Australia feted like royalty A year of spats & hecklers clashes on stage & off of head-to-heads with the Dutch superstar Michael van Gerwen But most of all this is a year in which Phil Taylor one of sport's greatest champions has looked hard at his life in his determination to stay in power