Tag: Darts
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Cruelty of top level sport leaves lessons if you want to absorb them
Towards the end of Sean Boylan’s (first) glory-laden spell as Meath manager, his then charges played a Leinster SFC encounter in Croke Park on a scoring summers Saturday evening. Back when championship football was played when it should be in high summer. In said encounter they took on opponents who, although doughty, the Royal County…
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Littler and Sherrock on potential collision course
Should Fallon Sherrock, as would be expected, overcome Ryan Miekel in the first round of the William Hill sponsored World Darts Championship, the Queen of the Palace will then be faced with the more ominous proposition of potentially being nuked by last year’s runner up Luke Littler. Other potential pairings pulled out in Monday evening’s…
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Sometimes you can only bow to greatness
And so the same theme crops up again. How do you deal with the task of a completely rampant force, and/or, how do you steel yourself for moving on after dealing therewith? For example, the ‘clown in the toilet’ scene in It would constitute more attractive viewing for somebody who would watch a horror film…
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Mike sweeps De Decks to hit the bigtime
The abolition – officially it may be ‘suspension’ but the masses know what’s at play here – of the pre season competitions in GAA slithered through with barely an eyebrow being raised. Yet I would suggest the vast majority of counties would have had no objection to their retention. As much as I can’t stand…
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Cool Hand crucial for Humphries but they both have world in their hands
Something had to give. Two lads of the same name. Both stars of their sport in their own way. Either of them would have been fitting and deserving winners of the Sid Wadell Trophy. One had had the sporting world in spin since the action got underway at the Alexandra Palace on December 15th. The…
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Two Lukes to duke it out!
Generally, if something looks too good to be true, it is as such. If that appraisal seems simplistic to the point of cruelty, look at it another way. In top level professional sport, there’s very seldom room for romantics or fairytales. But there are exceptions to such analysis. Like that of Hewick – the €800…
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The game and the fans are real winners as epic battle enters home straight
When I was 16 years of age, completing the Junior Cert was Mount Everest. And a power cut during the first day of the State Exams which necessitated me to stay in school until 6.30pm catching up added another uninvited layer of trepidation. Other than that, becoming more efficient at driving a powered wheelchair, ditto…
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You can throw the form book in the furnace
When Meath football was at its zenith in the late 1980s and early to mid ’90s, they must have been a nightmare for anybody attempting to preview matches going on what sort of form teams had been in leading up to the fixture in question. Furthermore, oddsmakers must thank their lucky stars in-running betting wasn’t…
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Cool Luke has the hot Hand when it’s needed most
In what was probably the seminal scene in Blazing Saddles, the ‘showdown’ between Hedley Le Mar’s gang and the townspeople, Sheriff Bart places all his faith in the Wako Kid to come up with a means of staving off the invading forces. Even though Gene Wilder’s character hadn’t picked up a gun in God knows…
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Tenacious Aspinall takes his turn
It is probably only natural and common sense that prominence. As has oft been mentioned here at certain times of the year certain sports take on extra previously, when The Championships are on Wimbledon, we all experts, ditto when the Snooker is on in The Crucible or when some obscure sport or other grabs our…