#Pdc to bdo 2018 professional
Glen Durrant during day nine of the BDO World Professional Darts Championship 2018. With this in mind, the world’s top 16 ranked players united to create the World Darts Council (WDC). Players felt that this was the responsibility of the British Dart Organisation (BDO) and didn’t believe that the organisation would fix this. TV coverage of the sport had all but vanished, with the sport’s popularity at an all-time low. John Major was prime minister, Meat Loaf would do anything for love (but not that), and professional darts players were not happy. It was undoubtedly a huge moment in the sport and one that had a lasting impact. Do you ever sit and wonder what might have been? Would Phil Taylor have dominated darts for so many years if his family hadn’t moved down the road from future mentor Eric Bristow’s The Crafty Cockney pub in Burslem? Would England have beaten Argentina if David Beckham didn’t kick out at Simeone at the ’98 World Cup? What if Rooney didn’t get that injury in 2004? Who knows… But have you ever wondered what the darts landscape would look like today if the acrimonious split from the BDO had never happened in 1993?