Staying power : a year in my life

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Label

Staying power : a year in my life

Title remainder

a year in my life

Statement of responsibility

Phil 'The Power' Taylor with Mike Walters

Creator

• Taylor, Phil, 1960 August 13-

Contributor

• Walters, Mike

Author

• Taylor, Phil, 1960 August 13-
• Walters, Mike

Subject

• Biography: sport
• Darts (Game)
• Hobbies and Games
• Hobbies, quizzes & games
• Autobiography: general
• Lifestyle, hobbies & leisure
• Taylor, Phil, 1960 August 13-
• Indoor games
• Autobiography: sport
• Biography: general

Language

eng

Summary

A year in the life of one of the most successful darts players of all time, Phil Taylor.

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 794.3092
• 794.3'092
• 794.3092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

GV1564.2

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

Phil 'The Power' Taylor is the uncontested king of darts, his sixteen world championship titles between 1990 and 2013 far outclassing anything else the game has seen. He started out as a protg 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 D52 a week working in a ceramics factory and hardly played. But jaws dropped and pint mugs tipped over as this newcomer suddenly unleashed a gift for flight that had soon eclipsed even the Crafty Cockney himself, and 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 and set his seal on the game as the bloke to beat. A year of triumph and disaster, in which Taylor crashed out of the world championship in the second round to young outsider Michael Smith and 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, fted like royalty. A year of spats and hecklers, clashes on stage and 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