BBC SPORT: Darts - Bobby George comp

Bobby George comp Bobby George The King of Bling We had hundreds of entries in our competition to win copies of Bobby George's autobiography Bobby Dazzler. The book tells the "rags to bling" story of the Eastender who left school barely able to read and write, picked up a set up darts for the first time aged 30 and within three years had won a world title.
BBC SPORT: Darts - Bobby George comp

"Published to coincide with the

2007 BDO World Professional Darts Championships

from 6th-14th January in Frimley Green

BOBBY DAZZLER
my story by Bobby George

After a tough childhood, helping his imposing dad in the garden, looking after his pigeons, Bobby George left school early barely able to read or write. A life in the building trade – digging the Victoria Line on the London underground and laying concrete and granite floors – or minding Essex pub doors in the post-Krays era seemed to beckon.

That is until, after a day’s fishing off southern Ireland in the summer of 1976, a game of pub darts got off the ground. By the end of the night Bobby had taken on and beaten the whole pub. He was a natural. He has never really looked back: three years later he won the News of the World Championship.
BOBBY DAZZLER - Published to coincide with the 2007 BDO World Professional Darts Championships: "