"When I get up in the morning I struggle and when I go downstairs I am looking at people and saying, 'Who's that?' But I have just put it down to old age. I am getting on now. I am no spring chicken.
"People ask me if I read the newspaper and I say, 'No, I can't see it'. I have tried playing with glasses on and what happens is I knock them across my forehead because I end up hitting them as the dart catches underneath.
"When I am throwing right I touch my eye. When I am struggling a bit I find my darts drop down to my cheekbone.
"I am seeing numbers that are not there. The 148 I could have sworn it was 128 and as I walked up I went, 'That is a four'. I just wanted to disappear. Listening to the crowd, I was struggling."
One of Anderson's proteges, Michael Smith, who was handed a place in this year's Premier League for the first time, has tried wearing contact lenses.
But Anderson said: "Michael Smith says it is easy but I could not think of anything worse than putting contacts in.
"We will get it sorted. I have never had an eye test. They might turn around and say that I am fine."
- Daily Mail