Bulletproof

Quotes

‘A genuine bloke. So fun, so caring, and one of the nicest darts players you’ll ever meet. The whole darting world loves him.’

‘People love Stephen because you can imagine joining him for some karaoke down your local boozer. He’s one of your own. But he’s also a great darts player. Stephen Bunting is the perfect mixture.’

'This is a player who journeys deep into the well every single time he steps on stage. No exceptions. A killer theme tune as a shield, and his darts as daggers, but still the same battle fought with the demons on his shoulder, a mountain of nerves to climb. Before anything else, he is a father, a husband, a friend, who always wants to give, more than he wants to take.'

'When Bunting steps up towards the oche at Ally Pally and does his Christ the Redeemer pose, followed by the double ear-cups to costumed Marios and Luigis bellowing their lungs out in the front row, he gets a level of fevered adoration above anything that greets Ronaldo at Al-Nassr. We know where we’d rather be.'

'A cult hero with a cult following to boot and a taste for the limelight, and being unabashedly himself. … Bunting feels a loyalty to darts and to his family, and a duty to be authentic.'

' Observer