Kevin Kenny

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Kevin Kenny is a former professional darts player who played for England and Merseyside, and was also a two time semi-finalist at the BDO Embassy World Championships and a one time semi finalist at the News of the World darts championships in 1983.

His main feat on the darts tour was when he thrashed Alan Warriner in the final of the 1989 Welsh Open. Warriner was a recognised international at the time, whereas Kevin was just breaking into the England team.

Kevin also could have played for Scotland as his mother was born there, and with the home internationals only days away, his mind was on Scotland until he got the call from the English squad.

After the big split in darts when the PDC was formed, Kevin stayed with the BDO and went to Las Vegas to represent England in the darts world cup in 1993. At the time he was a full international anyway, but it was doubtful whether he would have taken his place in the four-man team (home internationals had a team of 12, whereas the world cup was squads of 4).

Other notable achievements was twice being on the winning team in the Champions Cup, a darts event which yearly finds the best pub darts team in the land. The fact that he and teams from Liverpool won it twice was quite special due to the size of darts in the city at the time, compared to places with more darting pedigree like Lancashire, Yorkshire and London. And secondly winning the county men's individual averages twice, a feat which at the time had only been equalled by the great Eric Bristow (who became great friends with Kevin and also represented Merseyside with him as well).