“Do you ever get these feelings that something’s going to happen?” Rob Cross asks with surprise in his voice. “You don’t know where they come from but you can feel that something’s going to happen. I had that feeling when I won the worlds. I had that feeling when I won the Challenge Tour. They’re like premonitions.”
Cross shakes his head and smiles at the mysterious force of the past two years. His life has been transformed from being an electrician who won £7 after victory in a pub tournament, to becoming the world champion of darts 18 months later. Cross won £400,000 on 1 January 2018 when, in the PDC world championship final, he crushed his hero, Phil Taylor, at the end of his first year as a professional. Since then, Cross put on five stone in weight and was disconcerted when the lives of his wife and three children were threatened by a crank who was offended by his stunning rise.
Written by Donald McRae
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/10/rob-cross-pdc-world-darts-championship under the title “Rob Cross: ‘After the world darts final it was like I’d hit rock-bottom’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
