Zaidi came to play darts when he was in the United Kingdom (to be precise in Newcastle Upon Tyne) back in 1988. He played football so much at that time where he represented the Malaysian students for Newcastle as well as joined the league in the University and the Polytechnic leagues under two different football team i.e. The Overseas Society (mosly Arab students) and the B.A. Sports Studies.....Never came accross in his heart that he wanted to pursue darts so much at that time because he felt that it was just a stupid game played by the British...hehehe :)...but he did buy one cheap dartsboard and threw so much darts until the surface of the dartsboard became abbrasive n tertanggal materialnya ke lantai where cleaner have to clear it at the Lovaine Hall of Residence almost everyday...:)
He went on to buy a competition Nodor Inter Sport Bristle Dartsboard n then baru le ada kick main darts.....skills picked up from there n from those darts games / match played in the TV by local heroes like Eric Bristow, Keith Deller, John Lowe, Bobby Anderson, Jocky Wilson, Paul Lim etc....Eric Bristow was his favourite players (The Crafty Cockney)...and through Bristow la, Phil "The Power" Taylor was introduced to the competition darts....Bristow sort of sponsored (of course to be repaid) Taylor of 10,000 pound to be used in the local competition entered..Taylor went on to become a legend in darts just like Bristow but only unable to obtain "Sir" from Queen of England like Bristow did....
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