Deller looks back on World Championship title: "Even people now still talk about 'why didn't Eric go for the bullseye?'"

Keith Deller immediately became world darts champion on his debut in 1983. The now 63-year-old Englishman looked back on that legendary world title victory on Talking Pints, a program hosted by English politician Nigel Farage.

"I just couldn't wait to play. Isaw the TV cameras and I wasn't scared," Deller opens. "My first big hurdle was John Lowe. Obviously, everyone just expected me to lose but that wasn't my mentality. You can't think like that."

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In the final, Deller defeated the legendary Eric Bristow, and he has a brilliantly anecdote about that. "There were two warm-up rooms in Jollees (the venue where the World Cup was then taking place), one with two boards, the other with only one board. Eric always wanted that room with one board."

"We made sure to get there early so I'd have the choice of boards. Of course I chose the one board that Eric wanted. That was my attempt at gamesmanship. Eric didn't like it. He did not like going in that other room."

Deller won the 6-5 and still gets stopped in the street by people asking to talk about it to this day, it truly changed his life. "Even people now still talk about 'why didn't Eric go for the bullseye?'" Deller reveals. "I had no money. I was borrowing money off officials all week. After I won I left them a bottle of champagne and then I bought a house with a swimming pool a few months down the road!"

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