I really screwed up
Daily Star|December 08, 2023
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
I really screwed up

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.

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