Eric Bristow - The Autobiography

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Eric Bristow MBE is considered to be the greatest darts player of all time. He was an unmistakable figure on the oche during his 1980s heyday & became renowned not just for the number of world titles he won but for his arrogance on stage & off it. In this candid account Bristow reveals how darts proved a salvation from his early life as a cat burglar shoplifter & thug introducing him to a new world of beer babes & undreamed of success. & in his rapid rise to the top he gives fascinating insights into the characters that pioneered darts in those early days & how when his own career began to slide at the end of the decade he trained his protege Phil ' The Power' Taylor turning him into the most successful player darts has ever known. Bristow holds nothing back as he reveals his battle with dartitis a psychological condition which left him unable to let go of the dart & almost destroyed his career; his relationship with girlfriend & former women's world darts champion Maureen Flowers; & his occasional all-too-public falls from grace. Bristow's life story is a thrill-a-minute ride through the raucous world of darts & how it has helped to shape & drive his life over the past forty years.