Jurjen will milk every big moment

ONLY in darts could you find a dairy farmer with a herd of - wait for it - 180 cows.

- BY MIKE WALTERS

And Jurjen van der Velde has to get up so early to milk them, he goes back to bed for a couple of hours before he practises hitting the bullseye.

In the bleak midwinter, outside the weather is freezing but in the cowsheds the cattle are Friesian.

And van der Velde can't wait for his double-Dutch clash with No.6 seed Danny Noppert at the PDC World Championship at Ally Pally on Tuesday - it's been a red-letter date in his 'dairy' since the draw.