Biography

Married to Yvonne with 4 children and 1 grandchild.

Nicknamed "The Power" for his phenomenal scoring accuracy and ability to hit high checkouts, he remains the only player who consistently achieves a mean three-dart average in excess of 100 during televised tournament play.

On 1 August 2002, he hit a perfect nine-dart leg of 501 darts (seven consecutive treble 20s, followed by treble 19 and double 12), during a live televised encounter at the PDC World Matchplay Championships in Blackpool, Lancashire. This earned him a £100,000 pay bonanza and a place in the annuls of darts' history as only the third player ever to achieve this feat on television (the others being John Lowe [1984] and Paul Lim [1991])and the first man to hit the nine-darter during a live satellite broadcast.

In January 2003, he was sensationally defeated by Canadian John Part in the final of the PDC world professional darts championship at England's Circus Tavern, Purfleet, ending his eight-year run of successive world title wins.

He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to sports in the 2000 Queen's New Years Honors List.