One of the more humiliating things I’ve done as a football journalist was to score a big fat zero at darts.
It takes some doing. But at the last World Cup, I failed to register a score. The first one went in the board, fell out and then I went to pieces and missed the board with my next two. John Stones only had to hit the board which he duly did.
Thankfully, it went slightly better against Bukayo Saka on Monday afternoon (watch the video of the action at the top of this page). I still lost, obviously. But I got 33. He asked: “what do I do?” Then, seemingly having never played darts before, threw a treble 19 and it was all over.
