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 World Darts Championships and a one time semi finalist at the News of the World darts championships in 1983. Kevin also won the 1989 Welsh Open

Kevin is fondly remembered for his amazing quarter-final match vs the great Jocky Wilson, jocky was world champion two years before and this was only kevin's second appearance, however the match went 3 sets all, 5 legs all, Kevin won the deciding leg, he also hit a 170 finish in that final set to achieve the highest of the week.

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). He retired from competitive darts in 1995 aged just 34, the age when most players are just reaching their peak.

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).