I really screwed up

HE was the 1,000-1 rank outsider at Alexandra Palace who earned £5.25 an hour making nuts, bolts and screws in a sheet metal factory.

-  MIKE WALTERS

But just four years after he reached the 2008 PDC Darts World Championship final at 21, Kirk Shepherd was skint.

By his own admission, Shepherd's life "went a bit doolally" in a tailspin of drinking and gambling.

Then, when he was struck down by 'dartitis' - the oche's version of the yips in golf - he became so stressed that he has not picked up a dart in almost three years.