...it is silent as well. Coming straight off a crowd of 3,000 people at Alexandra Palace, it was different.”

And when Winmau Darts caught up with former Masters champion Joe Cullen, he was tasked with selecting his ideal five-a-side football team from his fellow tungsten professionals ...

Debates about which is tougher - a leg in 9 darts or a maximum break on the green baize - have raged for years....

For the second time this season, all but a sprinkling of the 128 Tour Card holders will congregate en masse in the north-west English town for the ninth and tenth tournaments on the calendar, with many also spending a third consecutive afternoon at Robin Park ...

However, as far as a successful defence is concerned, Luke’s darting DEFCON alert system may well have edged up another notch ...

Adrian Gray, Jamie Kelling, Jamai Van den Herik, Dean Finn and Dmitrii Rogov all secured their places in Saturday’s finale ...

At 68, when most might be contemplating quieter pursuits or perfecting the art of shouting at the telly, Bray has instead wandered headfirst into fantasy filmmaking ...

The Nuke’s frosty reception stemmed largely from his antics against Gian van Veen the previous Thursday ... It would be naïve to suggest that the crowd’s reaction to the World Champion’s arrival did not affect his performance.

Vincent van der Voort offered a dissection that bordered on forensic, highlighting the sheer absurdity of how one isolated incident managed to hijack the entire discourse ...

Champagne Charlie will be aspiring to uncork many more celebratory moments in the years ahead, steadily ascending into the upper echelons of the professional circuit ...