Tag: Darts
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History Maker and Hop recapture the class of old
In a post pertaining to the ongoing PDC World Championships earlier this week, the point was made that darts was one of the few sports where almost anyone can have a go. It’s also one of the rare examples of a discipline where competitors can keep going as long as they like. Right, so you…
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Forget The Power – Look out for The Tower
Did something or somebody, sporting or otherwise, ever randomly pop into your head from seemingly absolutely nowhere? Now read on… For what has felt like an age, I’ve wondered what ever became of Willie Boreland. A lanky, languid Scottish darts player who exploded into the bigtime when winning his first ever outing at Alexandra Palace…
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A Lim and a prayer proves there’s always hope!
Is there one sport in the world at which absolutely anybody, able-bodied or otherwise, can have a go? If pressed to nominate an answer, yours truly would probably plump for darts. The cruel irony being that, from a personal perspective, the singed wires in the engine department up top mean that one’s attempts at pegging…
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Smudger has his copybook blotted out as R and V find a way
It’s probably fairly safe to assume that, for players and/or their entourage and next of kin, waiting to ‘tog out’ for your seasonal debut in the World Darts Championship must be the same as what it’s like prior to a club or county championship match. For them, it may be butterflies in the stomach whereas…
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Merk takes off in dust cloud on night one
At some point during commentary on the opening night of the PDC World Darts Championship at the Alexandra Palace in London, former British Darts Organisation (BDO) star Mark Webster referred to Kim Huybrechts of Belgium as a “Journeyman pro”. The description rankles with me, always has. Now read on… Regardless of the sport or competitor…
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He’s not unbeatable but it will take something extraordinary
How the world rankings in darts are arrived at and collated is indeed a curious system. The best guess yours truly can hazard at an explanation is to reckon that rankings are determined via a players’ total prize money accumulated over a two year cycle. That is the only plausible conclusion as to why Luke…
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Sideline Cuts – 44
McCloskey In From The Cold The major talking point from the Irish rugby team announced to take on the All Blacks in Chicago on Saturday night has been the inclusion of Stuart McCloskey to partner Garry Ringrose in the centre. It will be the 33-year-old’s first start in green since 2023. Other notable occurrences include…
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World Darts Grand Prix Draw
You know the seasons are changing and the long wintry nights are afoot when the wheel of the sporting year rotates to such a point that the World Grand Prix in Darts is upon us. Once staged at the City West Hotel before it was shamefully let go as a working concern and instead put…
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Thrills along the way but a pulsatingly predictable outcome
It will be openly admitted that watching darts at this time of year feels a little odd. Solely because the arrows action is generally considered a vital part of the armoury for negotiating the long arduous winter months. Viewed through a different lens, though, the dawning of the World Matchplay Championship on the horizon signals…
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You may have a point, but there’s a right way to make it
I’m sure Mike De Decker is having a good laugh to himself somewhere. One isn’t condoning his doing so and doesn’t for a moment think he should be, but you wouldn’t wonder if he was. Whether he should have been in the line up for the Premier League or not is a moot point at…