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Eric Bristow - The Autobiography - The Crafty Cockney (Hardcover)
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Eric Bristow MBE is considered to be the greatest darts player of
all time and one who pioneered the game's move from the pub on to
the nation's TV screens. He was an unmistakable figure on the oche
during his 1980s heyday, with his trademark blonde highlights and
red Crafty Cockney t-shirt, and became renowned not just for the
number of world titles he won but for his arrogance on stage and
off it. His autobiography is a candid account of his rise to the
top and reveals his humble beginnings in London's East End, where
gangs like the Richardsons ruled the streets through a mix of fear
and torture. Eric would often walk home at night with a claw hammer
stuffed down his pants for protection.Cat burglar, shoplifter,
thug: Bristow was all of these during his early street-fighting
years, but it was darts that proved to be his salvation,
introducing him to a new world of beer, babes and undreamed of
success. He won his first world title in 1980 and dominated the
scene for the next decade, winning four more. In his rapid rise to
the top he gives fascinating insights into the characters that
pioneered darts in those early days and helped establish it as a
major TV spectacle. Players like Jocky Wilson, a hard-drinking Scot
who now lives his life penniless and as a recluse; John Lowe, the
stoney-faced Englishman who was Bristow's main rival; Cliff
Lazarenko, who Bristow one tried to match drink for drink and ended
up with alcohol poisoning; and Keith Deller, the young upstart who
caused the biggest upset in darts when, unseeded, he beat Bristow
in the 1983 Embassy World Final.When Bristow's career finally began
to slide at the end of the decade he trained his protege Phil 'The
Power' Taylor, turning him into the most successful player darts
has ever known. Bristow holds nothing back as he reveals his battle
with dartitis, a psychological condition which left him unable to
let go of the dart and almost destroyed his career; his
relationship with girlfriend and former women's world darts
champion Maureen Flowers; and, his occasional all-to-public falls
from grace. Bristow's life story is a thrill-a-minute ride through
the raucous world of darts and how it has helped to shape and drive
his life over the past forty years.
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