"I sold my PlayStation, I sold games, I went round the house and thought; What's worth money that I can sell?" - Edgar recalls remarkable story of raising money to pay for life on the PDC Tour

Matthew Edgar was active on the PDC circuit between 2011 and 2022. But that did not always go smoothly by any means.

Playing on the PDC Pro Tour requires a financial effort for many darters, something that could be exaggerated due to next year's exclusively midweek Players Championship schedule. "Some people are saying, 'Well I work in the week, I can't get it off.' The PDC in its current format do not offer you a career, they offer you an opportunity. With that you have to manage it yourself," Edgar tells Sky Sports.

"When I first started on the PDC I was working as a teacher, I was working in the evenings at a football club in the academy to earn extra money because we had a young family and bills," Edgar recalls from his own experiences. "To raise money to play in three tournaments, because that's all I could afford, I sold my PlayStation, I sold games, I went round the house and thought; What's worth money that I can sell?"

"Of the back of those three tournaments I had an eleven-year career," Edgar continued. "You have to make sacrifices, you have to find a way to make it work. If you want to be a professional dart player, that's the system. You're not going to make them change it by complaining."