Murder on the Darts Board

The kind of sports reading (and music for that matter) that I love. The book about the “everyman” with, truth to be told, not much talent but just has to have a go.

Justin Irwin has written a marvellous story of a CEO giving it all away to play darts for a year with the goal to make the world champs. The book delves into lots of details of what sounded like a fun year, but nonetheless a year that had Justin learning a lot about himself. He gets misquoted by the press. He then has the professionals getting annoyed at what seems his dismissal of their ability.

But he practises hard, plays a lot and learns to drink. Darts, it is that type of sport. It is also competitive and humiliating at all its levels. But as Justin rightly explains, it is in the end a very egalitarian sport. What other sport can offer the duffer the opportunity to play in tournaments with the world-class?

Recommended to those who like to dream.