RIP David Duffield

SwissToni

Legend.

"It's a bit black at the back of Bills Today"


RIP

cajonlardo

R.I.P

Loved and hated his commentary in equal measures and I've missed him since he retired.

Didn't he say " Its Curtains for Karpets"?

funnights74

RIP his commentaries were always entertaining.

Malari

Aw. I'll have a sherbet in his honour.

MPFGLB

Some great expressions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL3jQmkj3uI

Must have been the role model for Alan Patridge

RobFowl

RIP and to remember him here is a quote especially for Jep

“It’s curtains for Karpets” (Vladimir Karpets)

check_six

I remember an early commentating exchange with Sean Kelly. Duffield launched into a long rambling question as the peloton in the Tour de France clawed its way up some long mountain pass. He went on for a bit and then said "So, Sean, as a man who has completed a dozen Tours de France you have a real insight into what these riders are going through out there. Tell us what its like for them climbing the high mountains day after day?"
Bearing in mind they had another couple of hours of airtime to fill in the broadcast, Kelly paused thoughtfully and then said:
"Tough."

Luckily, Duffield was well able to ramble on about his dinner the night before or the local wine speciality to fill the time. Fair play.

Borderfox

Rip David, I did enjoy and will miss his ramblings :-(

cajonlardo

He used to tell a story about when he was doing his national service.

An Italian prisoner of war was the barber and when Duffield went for a hair cut he discovered that the Italian was Fausto Coppi.
Great story and very probable as records show that Coppi was captured in Africa and sent work on an RAF base.

Koobcam

The voice of cycling on Eurosport back in the 1990s, RIP

Koobcam

Nice best-of David Duffield tribute on Cyclingweekly. My favourite: "If you’ve got a grandmother in a wheelchair, now’s the time to take her for a walk so she needn’t see this". Class.

cajonlardo

Just remembered another of David's stories that made me smile.

Remember Queen's " Bicycle Race" song?

There was a centre photo in the Album of many naked girls on bikes.
He said he worked for Halford's at the time and they supplied the bikes. He was sent down to the photo shoot to "set up the bikes". A pleasant enough way to spend a day I'd imagine.