Tag: Sid Waddell Trophy
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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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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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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…
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Race for Sid wide open as they head for the third last
“He’s had his little run, now it’s time for the real men to take over”. Peter Wright on Michael Van Gerwen before MVG won his first World Championship