Sid Waddell has checked out

[EdgeleyRob]

I shouldn't think there are many darts fans on here but the voice of the sport Sid Waddell has died.
He was a national treasure.
This was the guy who called Jocky Wilson and Cliff Lazarenko athletes.
Some of his one liners were hilarious.
"If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the normans,they'd have gone home".
Class.
RIP.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/12/sid-waddell?newsfeed=true

[mercia]

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

http://lardydarts.com/p/sid-waddell-quotes

[EdgeleyRob]

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

http://lardydarts.com/p/sid-waddell-quotes

Brilliant.

He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave

[amateur51]

End of an era!

[edashtav]

R.I.P. Sid

He'd have probably Sid it in Latin!

[Stunsworth]

He wore his Cambridge education (degree in modern history) very lightly. I'll miss him. Some more quotes...

"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer … [Eric] Bristow's only 27."

"Bob came on like the Laughing Cavalier … now he looks like Lee Van Cleef on a bad night."

"Look at the man go: it's like trying to stop a water buffalo with a pea-shooter."

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


"He's perspiring like a pudding in a pot."

"His eyes are bulging like the belly of a hungry chaffinch."

"His face is sagging with tension."

"The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in with a portion of chips, you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them."

"There was less noise when Pompeii was swamped in lava! Absolute pandemonium here! Barmaids are frozen like Greek statues watching! No beer's been served! Everybody's eyes [are] absolutely hooked on that board."

"You could hear a blob of vinegar drop on a chip in this hall."

“That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!”

“He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

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

“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.”

“When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer..... Bristow's only 27.”

“Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.”

“Steve Beaton, he's not Adonis, he's THE donis”

[EdgeleyRob]

He will be missed, a one off.

Oceans of empty beer glasses

[mercia]

http://www.sidwaddell.com/

look under Sids classics

Hitting that bull - as good a feeling as Jason and the lads finding the fleece.
John Lowe is going out faster than the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.
Four legs on the trot – this is Strictly Come Darting

[teamsaint]

Those quotes....just magic.
RIP .