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Way before the stunning emergence of Luke Littler, Michael van Gerwen and Luke Humphries – plus the razzmatazz, sell-out crowds and wall-to-wall TV coverage of today – we had the first golden era of darts.

And what a truly wonderful, halcyon period it was, too.

And with the World Championship now just around the corner, this special edition takes a look back at the legends of the game.

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The image of darts was very different back in the 1970s, ‘80s and early ‘90s – it was booze, beer bellies and bullseye. With their double chins, large builds and fags or pints in hand, some of the players certainly didn’t look the part of professional sportsmen. They played hard – on and off the oche.

But what characters – and experts with the arrows – they were. Article

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