All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts.

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.

I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.

I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and winning two or three contests a weekend, I ditched the agency job and concentrated on darts.

Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.