Sad news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19231497#TWEET192566

aww 🙁 Some of his quotes are pure class. http://www.xlab.co.uk/extras/quotes/?source=waddell

“The players are under so much duress, it’s like duressic park out there!”

“His eyes are bulging like the belly of a hungry chaffinch”

sad news, r.i.p sid, he was the one and only voice of darts 🙁

One word:

“tragic darts”

😉

RIP . . . 🙁

Tantalising tungsten

‘Barney’s normally as ruddy as the skin on an Edam. But now he’s pale – pale like leerdammer.’

RIP Sid.

I remember reading a great interview with him when he was talking about the televised darts from the Leeds Irish centre and recalling one day when some old bloke in front of him at the bar – just before sunday afternoon closing went up and ordered “97 pints of Guinness please”

My favourite from the link is this:

When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer….. Bristow’s only 27