News Of The World… GEORGE ‘PODGE’ ROGERS 20 Sep 201920 Sep 2019 George Rogers played for Durham County on 84 occasions, 50 times for the ‘A’ team and 34 times for the ‘B’, achieving around 50% success rate in both teams, a…
Players TONY SONTAG – ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL 19 Sep 201919 Sep 2019 Tony Sontag was a long-time member of London County darts and was selected a number of times to play for England during the 1970s and 1980s. He was described by…
News Of The World… OLIVER JAMES – WALES’ FIRST NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPION 19 Sep 201919 Sep 2019 Despite Wales sending Divisional champions to London for the Grand Finals of the News of the World every year since the competition was restored after the Second World War in…
Books 25 YEARS OF THE PDC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 18 Sep 2019 When former British Darts Organisation (BDO) Director Colin Saunders published his two-volume, 860-page, masterwork the Embassy and Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships 1978-2012 back in February 2012, I had nothing…
News Of The World… RON CHURCH – ‘THE LEANING TOWER OF SHOREDITCH’ 18 Sep 201921 Oct 2019 Ron Church, runner-up in the 1973 News of the World individual darts tournament, was a popular London darter, played for London ‘B’ during the 1976/77 season and won the British…
Organisers and Commentators LES FRANCE – A LEGEND IN DARTS ORGANISATION 18 Sep 201910 May 2020 Les France in the early days The one thing I will always remember about darts people is that, almost without exception, they are nice folk; people who love what they…
Organisers and Commentators FREDDIE WILLIAMS – MASTERCALLER 17 Sep 201917 Sep 2019 Freddie Williams, probably the best referee and MC darts has ever known passed away in 2015 aged 81. Freddie in action at the Embassy World Finals (Image copyright PC/DW Archive)…
Organisers and Commentators FRANK QUINN 17 Sep 2019 I was saddened to learn of the death in 2015 of Frank Quinn one Scotland’s greatest darts organisers and officials. The formal notification on the Scottish Darts Association website written…
Organisers and Commentators SID WADDELL – ‘THE GEORGIE LIP’ 17 Sep 201910 May 2020 On 11th August 2012 the sport of darts lost Sid Waddell (‘The Voice of Darts’) to cancer at the age of 72. SID WADDELL AT THE WHYTE AND MACKAY PREMIER…
Organisers and Commentators DAVE LANNING 17 Sep 201921 Oct 2019 Darts commentator who brought the sport into the mainstream The journalist and commentator Dave Lanning, who has died aged 78, covered sports as diverse as speedway (his first love), stock-car…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 