Are you ready?

I always enjoy the New Year because it means the crap darts is on the BBC. (And it is time for Worlds Strongest Man, which i dissapointingly missed this year) Admittedly I would rather watch the far superior darts on SKY, but I will take what I can get. I love darts. It is a great sport. What other sport (apart from the pantomine that is boxing now) can a 50 year old man be world champion? What other sport will the commentators patronisingly refer to women playing the sport as darling? (Hot [for a darts player] Russian Anastasia "From Russia With Love" Dobromyslova was playing last night. She is not quite hot enough to remove the qualifying "for a darts player" but not far off. Her website is somewhat entertaining. It looks like she is living the dream, having moved to the UK and making an ugly Brit happy in exchange for a visa. Anyway, she was treated to "Come on darling, you can hit the double." by the commentator.) In what other sport can so many fat, unhealthy men be considered the world's best? In what other sport is so much gaudy jewelery on display? It is good to watch on tv but better live. I have been to the good darts World Championships a couple of times and enjoyed it thoroughly. It is generally a very drunken affair with less and less attention being paid to the darts as the session progresses but with more and more roaring when 180s are hit. i met Eric Bristow and Sid Waddell one time. What a day that was! It used to be held at the circus tavern- a horrible pub in Essex. It is the sort of place that on a Friday night has male strippers upstairs for the women, female strippers downstairs for the men and then at 12.00 they allow the two floors of horny Essex people to mingle. urrrgghhh.

Anyway, i plan to watch as much darts as possible over the final 3 days to tide me over until next year.