JEFF'S JOCK-UP

TV legend Stelling on how he launched SCORE PDC breakaway with a gaffe

- Mike Walters

JEFF STELLING launched the Professional Darts Corporation on Sky Sports with a Jocky horror show 30 years ago today.

And the arrows have become part of our soundtrack to Christmas ever since the award-winning presenter's slip-up on Boxing Day 1993.

While you were drifting in and out of consciousness the sofa after snacking on tins of Quality Street, with the thudon thud-thud tungsten of hitting the board in the background, Stelling, above, ringmaster introduced was the of who the extravaganza, then staged at the Circus Tavern in Essex, to our living rooms.