Darts History… JOCKY WILSON – SCOTLAND’S FIRST WORLD CHAMPION 1 Oct 20191 Oct 2019 JOCKY WILSON (22nd March 1950 – 24th March 2012) On the evening of 24th March 2012, just a few days after his 62nd birthday Jocky died at his home in…
Darts History… ‘THE EMBASSY’ – THE TOURNAMENT THAT CHANGED DARTS FOREVER 1 Oct 20191 Oct 2019 There were ‘world’ darts titles that were contested before 1978 but it was ‘the Embassy’ that lighted the road for the rest to follow, and follow they did. Before the…
Darts History… THE JOLLY SAILOR, AN INTERNATIONAL DARTS MATCH AND ‘THE PIT’ 23 Sep 201923 Sep 2019 People familiar with my research, especially when reading pieces I have written for Pub History, the quarterly magazine of the Pub History Society (PHS),will know that when inspiration for pub-specific…
Darts History… YE OLDE FAKE HISTORY OF YE OLDE GAME OF DARTS 20 Sep 2019 Until recently, a great deal of what passed for darts history was nonsense. There were two problems. Firstly, people who wrote knowledgeably about the contemporary game knew nothing of its…
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… HARRY HEENAN – THE PRIDE OF SCOTLAND 16 Sep 2019 Harry Heenan (b. 13th May 1936) was a proud Glaswegian darts player who burst on to the scene in the early 1960s. Harry Heenan Harry was born in Glasgow…
