Stephen Edward Brennan (born 2 November 1951) is an English professional

darts Darts or dart-throwing is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small sharp-pointed missiles known as darts at a round target known as a dartboard. Points can be scored by hitting specific marked areas of the bo ...

player who competed in the 1980s. He was a civil engineer from

Leiston Leiston ( ) is an English town in the East Suffolk non-metropolitan district of Suffolk, near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about from the North Sea coast, north-east of Ipswich and north-east of London. The town had a population of 5,508 at th ...

and began playing county darts for Suffolk in 1979–1980. He was eligible to play for Northern Ireland because his father Patrick "Pat" Brennan was born in Derry.

Darts career

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

Eric Bristow Eric John Bristow, (25 April 1957 – 5 April 2018), nicknamed "The Crafty Cockney", was an English professional darts player. He was ranked World No. 1 by the World Darts Federation a record five times, in 1980, 1981 and 1983–1985. He was ...

in the first round. He also knocked out

Dave Whitcombe David Whitcombe (born 27 June 1954) is an English former professional darts player who won several major tournaments and reached two World Championship Finals between 1980 and 1992. Biography Whitcombe was twice a winner of the Winmau World M ...

in the second round before losing 0–4 to Stefan Lord in the quarter-finals. He appeared at the next four World Championships, but only won 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. After another surprise victory over Bristow in the 1986 MFI World Matchplay tournament,Brennan Puts Out Bristow
, ''

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'', 11 October 1986, p. 19, retrieved 31 October 2010 ''The Crafty Cockney'' famously declared that "he kept losing to wallies." Steve has 3 brothers, (Nigel, Kevin and Trevor) and 1 sister, (Teresa).

World Championship results

BDO

* 1982: Quarter Finals: (lost to Stefan Lord 0–4) (sets) * 1983: Last 32: (lost to Jocky Wilson 0–2) * 1984: Last 16: (lost to

1–4) * 1985: Last 16: (lost to Alan Glazier 2–3) * 1986: Last 32: (lost to Paul Lim 1–3)

References

External links

Profile and stats on Darts Database
1951 births Living people Darts players from Northern Ireland British Darts Organisation players People from Leiston Sportspeople from Derry (city) {{NorthernIreland-darts-bio-stub