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Eric Bristow RIP

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    #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    At least he hit triple 20.

    A nice character and a great ambassador for the game. R.I.P.


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    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Just spotted this now as well. One of the characters you remember watching The Darts on the BBC back in the day.

    RIP Sir.


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    Gatling
    Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Only watched a program last night about him on BBC I think ,
    A loss to the sport
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    #5
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,080 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Another childhood hero bites the dust.


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    Benteke
    Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Benteke


    He was at the premier league darts tonight were he collapsed


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    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    He has checked out for the final time.


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    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,135 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    A sporting legend of my youth.

    Had one of the best sporting lines ever.

    In one championship he had beat a Welshman in Round 1, another in Round 2, another in Round 3 then was playing Leighton Rees.

    In the pre match he said "if they hang around for another hour they can all head home in the one car".


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    Greybottle
    Registered Users Posts: 969 ✭✭✭Greybottle


    Ulises Fancy Tiddlywinks wrote: »
    At least he hit triple 20.
    .

    He would have laughed at that. :)

    Ray Wilkins and Bristow gone in one day, two people who I watched a lot growing up. I'm beginning to feel old.


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Awful news. The first real superstar of the game.

    60 is no age.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I hope he gets better than a fur coat or a share of a greyhound for year in the next life :D

    (only people of a certain generation may get that joke)

    RIP Eric :)


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    NIMAN wrote: »
    A sporting legend of my youth.

    Had one of the best sporting lines ever.

    In one championship he had beat a Welshman in Round 1, another in Round 2, another in Round 3 then was playing Leighton Rees.

    In the pre match he said "if they hang around for another hour they can all head home in the one car".
    He had another great one the time England played Scotland in a darts friendly in the 80s.

    Bristow was playing Jocky Wilson when the hostile Scottish crowd started throwing cans of lager at him up on the stage.


    Interviewer asks him afterwards did he get hit.


    Bristow responded, 'No they're just like Jocky, can't hit sh1t'.


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    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Only 60? Jaysus.


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    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Business Cat wrote: »
    Only 60? Jaysus.

    Well darts isn't exactly a sport with a healthy life style.


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    Jack Kanoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Jack Kanoff


    The reason I started playing darts and shared the oche with him many moons ago...a great guy and I'll miss him


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    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users Posts: 8,122 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Me and the husband used to go to Ally pally every year through work, nice guy, always had time for people and of course, a darting legend. RIP.


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Ipso wrote: »
    Well darts isn't exactly a sport with a healthy life style.
    Especially back in his day.

    He was a very heavy cigarette smoker for most of his life, those fcking fags will get you one or the other in the end.


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    kfallon
    Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    tv---bullseye.php
    Jim Bowen and Eric Bristow gone in a month......and in true Bullseye style the non darts player went first :(


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    decky1
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭decky1


    a hero of my childhood, RIP Eric.


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Fecks sake Ray Wilkins died yesterday at 61 now Bristow at 60, so beware if you are in sport and 59


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    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    I'm gutted. R.I.P. :(
    The whole family used to gather round the TV for the big matches as a kid in the 80's. Always witty when interviewed. An immense character who, to me, was darts.


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    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27. - Sid Waddell


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