Darts hero Richie Burnett claimed he once drained a radiator to get hot water for a Pot Noodle.
Burnett, 56, has bounced back from a dark period in both his life and career and stunned Peter Wright to reach the quarter-finals of the UK Open over the weekend. The former world No. 1 and 1995 BDO world champion was at one point living off benefits after giving up the sport altogether.
And he did what was necessary to get by in the late noughties, once telling the Daily Mirror: "When times were hard and I had no money, I was in Wigan for a tournament and bought myself a Pot Noodle for my tea.
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"But I didn't have kettle to boil water for it. The only thing I could do was drain the radiator from my room and use the hot water from that.
"It was all soily and brown but it worked and the Pot Noodle went down OK. But I'd used a pair of nail scissors to open up the valve and it wouldn't shut again, so hot, brown water was leaking out.
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"All I could was put a tray underneath it to catch it all. I didn't get much sleep because I had to get up every hour to tip the water down the sink."
Burnett admitted he'd spent way beyond his means during the peak of his career in an emotional post-match interview after beating Wright on Saturday (March 4).
“I’m a tough old cookie. I love this game – I really do,” he said. "I was 7-3 up and I started thinking about it, but that’s natural. Peter’s at the top of the game, he’s a Premier League player, so it’s a big win for me.
“I haven’t been in that situation for a while, but experience got me through in the end. I’ve been an idiot over the years, I’ve really underachieved. I’m just making up for lost time. I’ve earned two fortunes and spent three.”
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