Who is sid waddell

The atmosphere is a cross between the Munich Beer Festival and the Coliseum when the Christians were on the menu. 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. Lardydarts - play darts while mashed on rum.

Home » Darts resources ». Related Articles Premier League Darts. Sid, known as "the voice of darts", who has died of cancer aged 72, played a key role in the promotion and development of the sport's modern era. Well-known phrases, such as "there hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the lions" and "there's only one word for that — magic darts", endeared him to fans and fellow commentators.

Mike Walters, of the Daily Mirror, summed up Sid's appeal: "If puns, pathos or peerless analogy is your currency, nobody does it better. His parents were determined that neither he nor his brother, Derrick, would follow their father down the mines. His parents gave him "the material and moral support to live my sporting dreams and realise my academic potential," Sid recalled. He was educated at Ellington County primary school and later Morpeth grammar school, where he excelled at English and history.

In he was awarded a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge. Sid captained a darts team there, later claiming that his group was once beaten "by a team of trainee vicars". I then got the job as commentator. There were rules. Never state the obvious. Make sure the viewer knows you're talking to him, rather than the bloke next to you, and shut up when you can, but when you get the chance go nuts.

I did alright with that. That is quite the understatement, but Waddell's indomitable eccentricity provided some truly iconic lines, including: "When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer Bristow's only 27!

Rod Studd joined the Sky Sports Darts team in and shared the commentary box with Sid on countless occasions and during the recent Darts Show podcast, he revealed a wonderful story behind the legendary one-liners. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. He said: 'I'm practising my ad-libs kidda. I'm practising my ad-libs'. I thought now that is genius. That is probably the best line I've delivered because that's the philosophy.