Sid Waddell R.I.P.

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Sad to hear the news that Sid Waddell has passed away.

 

R.I.P. Sid

 

 

Waddell dies aged 72

 

Sky Sports darts commentator passes away after cancer battle

Waddell had been battling bowel cancer since last September and the news of his death was confirmed on Sunday morning.

 

A statement from his manager Dick Allix read: "With great sadness, we announce that following a long illness, broadcaster and author Sid Waddell died peacefully with all his family around him late last night, Saturday August 11th, 2012."

 

Known as the 'voice of darts', Waddell was a central part of Sky Sports' coverage of PDC darts events since 1994.

 

He commentated for the BBC prior to that, having already helped bring darts to television screens as the producer of ITV's Indoor League show in the 1970s.

 

Waddell was known for his colourful and excitable commentary style, with his best-known lines including "There's only one word for it - 'magic darts"'.

 

While watching Eric Bristow become world champion, he also noted: "When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer...Bristow's only 27."

 

Waddell's other commentary work included pool's Mosconi Cup, while he also made a one-off appearance as the BBC National Lottery's "Voice of the Balls".

 

In addition, the Cambridge University graduate had 11 books published and wrote the sport-based BBC children's programmes Jossy's Giants and Sloggers, receiving a nomination for best scriptwriter from the Writer's Guild of Great Britain for the latter.

 

 

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R.I.P

[Delboy]

Jockey Wilson . . . What an athlete.

 

That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

 

He's playing out of his pie crust.

 

They won't just have to play outta their skin to beat Phil Taylor.They'll

have to play outta their essence!

 

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall

body strength.

 

There's no one quicker than these two tungsten tossers...

 

He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed

 

Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a waterbuffalo with a

pea-shooter

 

The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips...

you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them

 

 

His face is sagging with tension.

 

 

The fans now, with their eyes pierced on the dart board.

 

He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.

 

That's like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank

 

 

As they say at the DHSS, we're getting the full benefit here.

 

He is as slick as minestrone soup

 

 

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians

to the Lions.

 

Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy!

 

I don't know what he's had for breakfast but Taylor knocked the

Snap,Crackle and Pop outta Bristow

 

Even Hypotenuse would have trouble working out these angles

 

Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true

roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.

 

If you're round your auntie's tonight, tell her to stop making the

cookie's and come thru to the living room and watch these two amazing

athletes beat the proverbial house out of each other

 

The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!

 

This lad has more checkouts than Tescos.

 

John Lowe is striding out like Alexander the Great conquering the

Persians

 

Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the

windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.

 

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline

 

Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck

out

 

His eyes are bulging like the belly of a hungry chaffinch

 

That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

 

It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi Arabia.

 

His physiognomy is that of a weeping Madonna.

 

He's as cool as a prized marrow!

 

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

 

He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.

 

The pendulum swinging back and forth like a metronome

 

When I see Steve Davis I see two letters... C. S... Cue Sorcerer

 

By the time of the final on Sunday he should be fit to burst!

 

There's only one word for that - magic darts!

 

When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were

no more worlds to conquer..... Bristow's only 27.

 

Eat your heart out Harold Pinter, we've got drama with a capital D in

Essex.

 

If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the Normans, they'd have gone

home.

 

Look at him as he takes his stance, like he has been sculptured, whereas

Bobby George, with his bad back, looks like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

 

He's playing like Robin Hood in the Nottingham super league

 

Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts

orbit!

 

The atmosphere is a cross between the Munich Beer Festival and the

Coliseum when the Christians were on the menu.

 

 

Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a

choo-choo train!

 

He's like D'Artagnan at the scissor factory.

 

Trying to read Reyes's mind is like trying to read the mind of Jabba the

Hutt

 

These guys look calm but inside they are as nervous as a vampire who knows

there's a sale at the wooden stake shop in the morning.

 

That was like watching Popeye when he found his spinach!

 

He's as twitchy as a frog in a blender

 

He's going like the Loch Ness Monster with a following wind!

 

 

Keith Deller is like Long John Silver - he's badly in need of another

leg.

 

He looks as happy as a scorpion who's just had a pedicure!

 

Eyes like a pterodactyl....with contact lenses

 

Cliff Lazarenko's jumping up and down like a gorilla saying give me back my banana!"

 

On Bobby George - "He's like a Sherman tank on roller skates coming down a mountain!"

 

He's twitching more than a one legged ferret!

 

He's moving with the purpose of a Panzer Division

 

He may practice 12 hours a day, but he's not shy of the burger van!

 

He's like Jack The Ripper on a Friday night.

 

He's got one foot in the frying pan and one on thin ice.

 

Rod now looking like Kevin Costner when told the final cost of

Waterworld.

 

Tarantino re-writing Gunfight at the OK Corral couldn't have done any

better than this.

 

It's like Dracula getting out of his grave and asking for a few chips with

his steak.

 

That Lad could through 180 standing one legged in a hammock.

 

This game of darts is twisting like a rattlesnake with a hernia!

 

It's just like taking a sausage from a boy in a wheelchair.

 

This is the clash that makes King Kong versus Godzilla look like a

chimpanzees tea party!