What is your favourite memory of the World Darts Championship at the Lakeside?
It would have to be the nine-darter by Paul Lim in 1990. I was fortunate enough to be referee for that match. It’s the first and only time a nine-dart finish has been thrown at the Lakeside. No-one else can claim to have been the referee. I still wear my same grey suit sometimes. It must have been a memorable occasion… Well, it also gave me nightmares. You have little room to manoeuvre up there, and when he hit the final treble 20, it covered double 12, so I couldn’t see it directly. Hopefully, one day darts will get into the Olympics Have Your Say Should darts be at Olympics? I was hoping he doesn’t hit 57, then double 12, but he went and hit 57. There was no way in the world, with 52,000 riding on one dart, that I was going to move. So he threw it, the crowd went into bedlam, and I called: “Game, shot…” And it was only then that I checked it was in. At 2 o’clock in the morning, I woke up in a cold sweat, thinking: ‘What if it hadn’t gone in?’ What do you say to sceptics who sugge
