OVER-INDULGENCE comes after Christmas for fans of the oche when a feast of darts hits the television screens for a fortnight.

Sky Sports kick off the action on Boxing Day as the Professional Darts Corporation toe the line on the outskirts of east London at Purfleet's Circus Tavern.

Their competition - which stars wonder dart-thrower Phil 'The Power' Taylor - will still be going when the BBC go on air with the traditional British Darts Organisation event at Frimley Green's Lakeside Country Club - formerly known as 'The Embassy' - on New Year's Day.

Both venues look similar to television viewers but a trip to the Lakeside will show you what the cameras do not - a huge gulf in quality between the two world championship HQs.

The Lakeside is in a huge complex next to several top hotels overlooking a massive, picturesque lake with plenty of other facilities on the doorstep. The Circus Tavern is on the edge of a bleak industrial area on the outskirts of London and is well due an overhaul.

Hampshire players have had a big say in both competitions over the last ten years but this time the county is reduced to just two at Purfleet.

Cosham bricklayer Andy Jenkins has kept himself in the PDC's top ten for a while now and has the luxury of sitting out the first two rounds.

Aldershot's James Wade will make his bow on the opening day after winning a qualifying slot.

Jenkins moved over to the PDC four years ago and had a tough time settling in. He is far from proud of his record in the world championships where he has never won a game - losing out to Denis Ovens, Chris Mason and Bob Anderson. But Jenkins has had a good 2004 and reached the final stages of the UK Open, World Matchplay and Las Vegas Classic.

"I seem to keep getting players who want to win world championship matches more than me and I have got to do something about that," said Jenkins.

If he bucks his trend at Purfleet, Jenkins is on line to meet Taylor in the quarter-finals and that holds no fear for the former England player.

"There are six or seven players who know that he can now be beaten. Before, we were beaten before we went on but we are getting better and he is standing still," said Jenkins.

"He is not winning so regularly and when he does, the winning margins are not so big. We have found a chink in his armour and he doesn't like it.

"He has had it his own way for far too long. I should meet up with him in the quarter-finals and if I do not get there I will not be happy."

Jenkins, who has played in the BDO camp since his teenage years and competed in seven Embassys, will not know who his opponent is until the second round is over, but he is happy to face either Peter Evison, Mark Landers or Alan Reynolds.

They say the qualifying games for the few remaining places in the world championship are as tough as the competition proper and, if that is the case, Wade could be in for a good run.

The 21-year-old came through some tough qualifying rounds and deserves his place on stage against experienced Mark Holden on day one of the PDC's Ladbroke-backed world contest.

Wade's potential has been likened to that of legend Eric Bristow and he CAN turn it on against the best.

The car mechanic won the Swiss Open in 2002 and beat the likes of Wayne Mardle, Ted Hankey and John Walton on the way before disposing of Colin Monk in the final.

The youngster has also came up against formidable Raymond van Barneveld four times in open competition and won three of them.

"I didn't have a good start to the year, partly because I was changing over from the BDO," said Wade, who will be backed by darts manufacturers Unicorn for the next three years.

"But things have picked up and I've have been going well recently. If I can just play my own game I should be all right. People have doubted me which means you have to go out and prove them wrong," added Wade, who will be supported by friends, family and girlfriend Sally Smith.