From the archive: Can the greatest darts player of all time step away from the game that made him?

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2015: Some say Phil Taylor is Britain’s greatest living sportsman. At 54, he has nothing left to prove, but will not quit. Does he need the game more than it needs him?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:10.5	Whether it's a home to grow up in,
0:12.5	or a place to grow old,
0:14.7	a home is the stage where our lives unfold.
0:18.6	From your forever home, or your very first place,
0:23.1	to up or downsizing to get the perfect space,
0:27.0	life doesn't wait, and neither should we.
0:29.9	If it's the right home, then it's just meant to be.
0:34.8	If you're thinking about your next move,
0:36.8	getting touched with your local Savals agent to book a valuation.
0:44.0	The Guardian Archive Long Read.
0:52.2	Hello, my name's Ed Caesar, and in 2015,
0:56.8	I wrote a piece for the Guardian Long Read about the Darts player,
1:00.9	Phil Taylor, and about the world of Darts.
1:03.7	I actually knew nothing about Darts,
1:06.0	rarely watched it, and I was having a conversation with the editor of the Long Read at the time,
1:11.1	Jonathan Shaman, who did like Darts, and was kind of fascinated by what he saw,
1:16.4	I think, as a kind of curiously British phenomenon.
1:19.2	And wondered whether I'd write about it, and I said,
1:21.9	well, we should, you know, we're going to do it.
1:23.4	Let's do it about the best player in the history of the game, the AP McCoy,
1:26.8	the Roger Federer, you know, the Simone Biles of Darts.
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