Rob Cross opens up on struggles after second-round darts win against Ian White

"I’m guilty of not expressing myself to people I trust," said 2018 darts world champion Rob Cross

Rob Cross will face Damon Heta in the last-32 of the World Darts Championship after a 3-1 victory over Ian White. Pic: Bradley Collyer/PA Wire.

Rob Cross doesn’t want to say what he saw at the children’s hospital in Cologne a couple of weeks ago. Some of the stories were “horrific”, he confides, but in any case they’re not his stories to tell. All he knows is that he went along with a few other players, after appearing in an exhibition the previous night, and it changed him.

“You see what people are going through,” he says. “And it puts life in perspective for people whose lives are sort of OK. Whose kids are OK. Sometimes we have to find a bit of good. It made me realise how lucky I am in life. There’s always someone out there going through something worse than what you’re going through. That’s why you need to talk.”