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The best autobiographies are not always by people that you admire.

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Celebs often seek to protect their reputation and keep the reader at arm’s length. Often the best biogs are actually written by those celebrities who have courted controversy throughout their careers and are not always the most liked.

Eric Bristow certainly falls into this camp; undoubtedly one of the most famous and acclaimed dart players of all time, but he does not always come across well. He was known as ‘The London Lip’ for a reason and recent antics have seen him get into hot water when posting his views on the football grooming scandal.

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‘The Crafty Cockney’ predates this latest faux pas, but still has plenty in it that skates thin ice. But, is that not why the book is fun?

Bristow grew up in a poor area of London, when it was still poor. Many of his childhood friends are in jail or dead, but through his skill with the arrows, he found a wa