TAYLOR PICKS HIS FAVOURITE WINS

THERE are 16 world titles to choose from, and he has still won more of them on the PDC circuit than everyone else put together.

Here, Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor flicks through his back catalogue and chooses his four favourite world championship finals: “You always remember your first one – and beating Eric, God rest his soul, was obviously special. That one means even more to me now he’s no longer with us.” “That one literally went down to the wire because Mike missed darts to win it. We were running so late on BBC2 they had to postpone Crufts for half an hour until we had finished.”

“Peter and I used to detest each other, but we get on like a house on fire now.”

“I had to come back from two sets down twice – from 2-0 and 4-2 behind – but I reeled him in. Not bad for an old stager who was more than twice his opponent’s age.”

OLD TIMES Barney & Taylor enjoyed many epic battles on the oche(beat his mentor Eric Bristow 6-1 at the Lakeside as 125-1 outsider): (beat Mike Gregory 6-5 in a sudden-death tiebreak):(beat Peter Manley 7-0 at the Circus Tavern, his fourth whitewash in the final):(beat Michael van Gerwen 7-4 at Ally Pally, the last of his 16 titles):