Darts History… JOHN GWYNNE – COMMENTATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE 13 Oct 2022 BROADCASTING GIANT JOHN GWYNNE PASSES AWAY I was very sad to read of the death of commentator and friend John Gwynne on Saturday 9th July 2022. We had met on…
Darts History… JOHN ROSS – ‘THE GRANDFATHER OF DARTS’ 10 May 202010 May 2020 On Monday 8th May 1989, shortly after his 85th birthday, John Ross passed away. He had been ill for some time. In this article I look back on the life…
Darts History… NEW ORGANISATION TO TAKE ON THE PDC AND BDO 31 Mar 2020 EMBARGOED UNTIL 12.01 A.M. (1.4.20) News released on the first of the month has reached me that, following a number of high-level meetings of half a dozen miscellaneous and misinformed…
Darts History… OLLY CROFT O.B.E. 24 Nov 201924 Nov 2019 THE 'GODFATHER' OF MODERN DARTS DIES AT THE AGE OF NINETY It was with a heavy heart that I learned today of the death of Olly Croft OBE. Back in…
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…
Darts History… DARTS ORGANISATION – THE EARLY YEARS 21 Aug 201921 Oct 2019 Half a century before the British Darts Organisation (BDO) established its formal rules of the sport of darts, men were taking the first tentative steps towards standardisation. Members of the…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 