Peter Wright packed in darts and spent nearly five years on the dole but completed a remarkable sporting comeback with his world title triumph against Michael van Gerwen
Almost everything is different. For one thing the BBC graphic bills him as English, not Scottish. The throwing motion is not taut and measured but quick and impetuous. The hair is not spiked into a lurid Mohican but sensibly gelled and tousled, making him look less an elite sportsman and more the backing singer in an Irish pop group.
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