RIP Sid Waddell
Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:48 pm
The voice of darts has lost his battle with bowel cancer.
Commentators don't come more original than Sid!
Commentators don't come more original than Sid!
Re: RIP Sid Waddell
Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:49 pm
Yeah, RIP Sid. I was never a big darts fan but it's rare to have a voice that is synonymous with a sport and Waddell was one.
Re: RIP Sid Waddell
Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:50 pm
RIP Sid you will be greatly missed
Re: RIP Sid Waddell
Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:05 pm
Fantastic one liners - loved the guy 
Re: RIP Sid Waddell
Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:18 pm
NIBluebird wrote:Fantastic one liners - loved the guy
We'll get reminded of all his classic one liners in the coming days.....
Re: RIP Sid Waddell
Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:23 pm
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Re: RIP Sid Waddell
Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:28 pm
Re: RIP Sid Waddell
Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:56 pm
THE TUNGSTEN TICKLER!
Re: RIP Sid Waddell
Sun Aug 12, 2012 3:36 pm
"[He's] as happy as a hound-dog who's won a year's supply of Boneo."
"If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the Normans, they'd have gone home."
"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer … [Eric] Bristow's only 27."
"Look at the man go: it's like trying to stop a water buffalo with a pea-shooter."
On losing
"He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave."
"Bob came on like the Laughing Cavalier … now he looks like Lee Van Cleef on a bad night."
"It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi Arabia."
On feeling the pressure
"He's perspiring like a pudding in a pot."
"His eyes are bulging like the belly of a hungry chaffinch."
"His face is sagging with tension."
On silence in the hall
"The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in with a portion of chips, you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them."
"There was less noise when Pompeii was swamped in lava! Absolute pandemonium here! Barmaids are frozen like Greek statues watching! No beer's been served! Everybody's eyes [are] absolutely hooked on that board."
"You could hear a blob of vinegar drop on a chip in this hall."
"If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the Normans, they'd have gone home."
"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer … [Eric] Bristow's only 27."
"Look at the man go: it's like trying to stop a water buffalo with a pea-shooter."
On losing
"He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave."
"Bob came on like the Laughing Cavalier … now he looks like Lee Van Cleef on a bad night."
"It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi Arabia."
On feeling the pressure
"He's perspiring like a pudding in a pot."
"His eyes are bulging like the belly of a hungry chaffinch."
"His face is sagging with tension."
On silence in the hall
"The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in with a portion of chips, you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them."
"There was less noise when Pompeii was swamped in lava! Absolute pandemonium here! Barmaids are frozen like Greek statues watching! No beer's been served! Everybody's eyes [are] absolutely hooked on that board."
"You could hear a blob of vinegar drop on a chip in this hall."