I shouldn’t love it, but I just do. I suppose somethings have to be SO awful before they become addictive, anyone who watches Deal or No Deal will understand. What is it I am talking about? World Darts of course
The idea that people should pay good money to watch silk shirted salad dodgers throw pieces of metal from 7 ½ feet (ish) is something you would find difficult to explain to the non believer. Yet the ‘Sport’ is big business.
Darts have realised that the way to keep the punters interested is to stoke up the razzmatazz and give them a show, its like boxing but with a pint of John Smiths instead of the Marquis of Queensberry. Every decent boxer picks up a nickname to add to his legend, now darts players have got in on the act.
Boxing has had
Nickolay ’The Beast From the East’ Valuev
Henry ‘Homicide Hank’ Armstrong and
Michael ‘Second To’ Nunn (think about that one)
Obviously Darts now thinks it needs a piece of that so step forward
Peter ‘One Dart’ Manley
Andy ‘The Viking’ Fordham and
Paul ‘The Singapore Slinger’ Lim
Well, if it is good enough for boxing and darts it has to be good enough for Cricket. In the past there has been
Mark ‘Afghanistan’ Waugh
Merv ‘Fruit Fly’ Hughes
Aaron Bird A.K.A. ‘Flu’
Ian ‘Guy the Gorilla’ Botham and
Marcus ‘Banger’ Trescothick
So come on then people, lets have some Kibworth alternatives. I can see it now, bowling from the Fleckney Road end ,Will ‘Ginsters’ Jennings and the ball being fielded from the next village by Dan ‘Designer Stubble’ Broughton. The batting could be opened by Ken ‘Youth Policy’ Pounds and Paul ‘Loud Shirt’ Abbott. The wicketkeeping done courtesy of Ed ‘Babyface’ Bale and all led by Dan 'Triple Skipper' Pedley.
Let me know your own ideas and if they won’t lead to the employment of solicitors I will put them on the website.
I shouldn’t love it, but I just do. I suppose somethings have to be SO awful before they become addictive, anyone who watches Deal or No Deal will understand. What is it I am talking about? World Darts of course