Darts - Is Sid Waddell gone at the game?

[Uncle Leo]

Raymond van Barneveld is putting in a masterclass here. A nine-darter followed by a 161. And all I can think about is Sid Waddell and his rotten commentary.

Don;t get me wrong, I used to think Sid was great and a quick Google for his greatest one-liners will yield some commentating gold.

However, he has now become some sort of terrible parody of himself. What's more, his over analysing of the game is just embarrassing. The amount of time he predicts that an 'understacker will just gur right thur' only for it to go nowhere near is just ridiculous. And then there's is the ridiculous bum-licking of Taylor. Yes Taylor is great, but give it a rest for a minute would you?

Stick to ESPN Classic please Sid.

 

[Kenny]

And then there's is the ridiculous bum-licking of Taylor. Yes Taylor is great, but give it a rest for a minute would you?.

Who was the ghost writer of Phil Taylors biography? I'll give you a guess.....

 

[undercovershrimper]

michael parkinson???

 

[Uncle Leo]

Who was the ghost writer of Phil Taylors biography? I'll give you a guess.....

Ooh I'm good at quizzes!

Peter Carey?

Martin Amis?

VS Naipaul?

JM Coetzee?

No, give up.

 

[Kenny]

Sid Waddell! - hence the verbal bumming of "The Power" every time he's in action.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Sid's a sad imitation of the genius who came up with 'darts like barracudas through the surf'. The best tungsten pundit was John Part when he was on the Beeb but I imagine the PDC put an end to that. Tony Green and Bobby George are so awful that they're quite good - the tangential nature of some of their stuff is breathtaking.

 

[ldnfatso]

Who was the ghost writer of Phil Taylors biography? I'll give you a guess.....

Salman Rushdie??

 

[londonblue]

Can you believe he has a degree in Modern History from Cambridge? Why would someone like that want to become a darts commentator?

 

[number11]

Sid Waddell! - hence the verbal bumming of "The Power" every time he's in action.

To be fair, he does deserve utmost praise, to win 14 times is amazing, not only for physically being able to do it, but also to have the drive and hunger to keep practising and striving to better himself.

Would love for it to be an Olympic sport....it can't be any less demanding than Archery and must be watched by higher numbers!