Tag: @LoveTheDarts
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Eagle and the Hood stay in title race as legends turn back time
In a piece in this space immediately prior to what you will ingest hereafter, mention was made of the fact that, at that point, for certain players, their victories were of the breakthrough variety. Well, as much as that truly was the case, the next stages have provided inclinations that those advancing from same can…
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A breakthrough day for newcomers
No matter what sport you are either involved in or have even a passing interest in, if you were/are lucky enough to experience success, the journey to same has to start somewhere. From a perspective of matters close to home, it could either be said that the Centenary Cup in 1984 or Leinster SFC Final…
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The Eagle hangs out with The Shed as The Ferret burrows through
Whether in sport or any other facet of life, everybody has their own individual way of doing things. Salt and vinegar or not on chips, either reading newspapers in ‘hard copy’ form or on some sort of device. Darts is no different to anything else in life within those parametres. At one end of the…
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Speed, horsepower and Razzmatazz
After a trying day and a bit on a personal level when everything that possibly could go wrong did so, time for another in the series of articles looking back on what has transpired at the PDC World Championship in the Alexandra Palace, London, since last time the keyboard last took a tapping on the…
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Mike is a poor champion – don’t be like Mike
Do you remember some years ago there was a style of advert being used, to pitch a variety of different product or service or cause, which was basically pencil drawn stick figures with short, sharp messaging. Now read on… An example would be something like ‘Bill disinfected the shopping trolley when leaving it back for…
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De Decker loses the plot following PL snub
Belgium’s Mike De Decker has launched a sensational and scathing attack on the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) following his omission from the field for the forthcoming Premier League, claiming Nathan Aspinall was “Only picked because of his walk-on song”… In a jaw dropping interview with Belgian news website Het Neiwusblad, De Decker fumed “My first…
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Palace eye catchers left out
It was very much a case of as you were when the field for the forthcoming Premier League in darts was confirmed on Monday evening. Master of all he surveys, Luke Littler will attempt to defend one of the 11 PDC Tour titles he won last season, while those trying to relieve him of at…
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Awestruck and curious
One of the greatest mysteries in Irish sport in the last couple of decades has surely been how, having won the All Ireland SHC in 2013, it took Clare more than a decade to add to their haul in that department. Because, not only had their win over Cork been one of the best overall…
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Splinters everywhere on the fence…
Two weeks before Meath played Down in the All Ireland SFC Final of 1991, as a family, we celebrated Mam and dad’s 25th wedding anniversary. Back then, The Village Inn in Clonee – Lord rest its gentle soul – had live music every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. It had sort of become a…
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Usual suspects but can it be as obvious as it looks?
There was a time in the mid 1990s when Clare, Leitrim and to a certain extent Mayo, delivered shock results which threatened to upset the world order in Gaelic football, but eventually those possibilities faded away as Dublin took care of the first two in 1992 and 1994 while both Cork and Meath took care…