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Steve Brennan (born 2 February 1951) is a former darts
Darts

Darts refers to a variety of related sports, in which dart are thrown at a circular target hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term 'darts' usually now refers to a standardized game involving a specific board design and set of rules....
 player who competed in the 1980s. He was a civil engineer from Leiston
Leiston

Leiston is a town in Suffolk, in the United Kingdom. It is situated near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about 2? miles from the North Sea coast, and is 90 miles north-east from London....
 and began playing county darts for Suffolk
Suffolk

Suffolk is a Non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south....
 in 1979-80. He was eligible to play for Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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 because his father Pat was born in Derry
Derry

Derry or Londonderry , often called the Maiden City, is a City status in the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland....
.

He made his World Darts Championship debut in 1982 and caused one of the great upsets in darts history by beating defending champion Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

Eric Bristow Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom darts player, whose skill at the game in the 1980s helped turn it into a worldwide spectator sport....
 in the first round.






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Steve Brennan (born 2 February 1951) is a former darts
Darts

Darts refers to a variety of related sports, in which dart are thrown at a circular target hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term 'darts' usually now refers to a standardized game involving a specific board design and set of rules....
 player who competed in the 1980s. He was a civil engineer from Leiston
Leiston

Leiston is a town in Suffolk, in the United Kingdom. It is situated near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about 2? miles from the North Sea coast, and is 90 miles north-east from London....
 and began playing county darts for Suffolk
Suffolk

Suffolk is a Non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south....
 in 1979-80. He was eligible to play for Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

conventional_long_name = Northern Ireland|native_name= Tuaisceart ?ireannNorlin Airlann|motto =|image_map = Europe location N-IRL2.png...
 because his father Pat was born in Derry
Derry

Derry or Londonderry , often called the Maiden City, is a City status in the United Kingdom in Northern Ireland....
.

He made his World Darts Championship debut in 1982 and caused one of the great upsets in darts history by beating defending champion Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow

Eric Bristow Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom darts player, whose skill at the game in the 1980s helped turn it into a worldwide spectator sport....
 in the first round. He also knocked out Dave Whitcombe
Dave Whitcombe

Dave Whitcombe is an England professional darts player who won several major tournaments and reached two World Championship Finals. He had a long professional career between 1980 and 1992....
 in the second round before losing 0-4 to Stefan Lord
Stefan Lord

Stefan Lord is a retired Sweden professional darts player, who competed in British Darts Organisation events, and is one of the country's most successful players....
 in the quarter-finals.

He appeared at the next four World Championships, but only managed to win two more matches – both first round victories in 1984 and 1985. His last appearance came in 1986 when he lost in the first round to Paul Lim
Paul Lim

Paul Lim Leong Hwa known simply as Paul Lim is a professional darts player who will be best remembered for being the first player to hit a perfect Nine dart finish during the Embassy World Professional Darts Championship in 1990 which remained the only televised 9-dart game to have been achieved in either version of the world champions...
.

After another surprise victory over Bristow in the 1986 MFI World Matchplay tournament, The Crafty Cockney famously declared that "he kept losing to wallies."

Steve has 3 brothers, (Nigel, Kevin and Trevor) and 1 sister, (Teresa).

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