Daryl Gurney
“I’ll never be the best player in the world but I can beat the best”

“I’ll never be the best player in the world but I can beat the best”

Daryl Gurney is feeling good. In 2016 (the 2017 tournament), he backed up the hype that was building around him when he burst the whole way through to the World Championship quarter-final. Only Michael van Gerwen was able to stop him in his tracks but when the Derry man got motoring, you got a visible […]

5 years ago

Shoe on the other foot as Cross booed but Gurney can’t do it for Belfast crowd

Shoe on the other foot as Cross booed but Gurney can’t do it for Belfast crowd

Poke the bear and he will respond. The Belfast crowd booed Rob Cross from the moment ‘Hot Hot Hot’ blared over the SSE Arena Tannoys but the 28-year-old Pembury native was undeterred, inspired actually as he went onto roast Daryl Gurney and silence the home crowd with a piping display of darts. Amidst all the […]

7 years ago

When the four islanders of Ireland are throwing next

When the four islanders of Ireland are throwing next

Only one man has managed a maximum, 170 checkout in the World Darts Championships so far this year. That man is a Fermanagh man, his name is Brendan Dolan and he’s still bopping along to the swings and arrows of Ally Pally this Christmas. Those swings come around often and those arrows cut through the […]

7 years ago