Will start off with the recent matches in the World Championships.
SATURDAY
First match up was Alan Norris against Ryan Joyce. Norris was absolutely on fire in the first set, and faded set after set in a 7 set classic. What I was not aware of at the time was Norris was playing so well with the news his wife had terminal cancer. How the guy could play and concentrate was something else, and my symapthies and wishes go out to the guy and his families, what horrible news.
Chizzy was superb against the cunt Huybrechts who ran his mouth after his last win and promised he was back. I even mentioned it in last weeks Knob of the Week how we would see how true that was. Huybrects did not win a set in the hammering. Huybrechts comment of "I am back" is up there with Vermin Price's "I will reach the final" comment. Both now must feel like fucking morons now, and if not, they should.
Last up was yet another coal scavenging taffy, against that fucker Gurney.Lewis led 3-1 before the sheep shagging taffy shat his load and collapsed, and Ski slope face upped his game when he saw the choking.It looked like we were going to see the third welsh cunt sent packing in less than 24 hours, but Lewis stuck in and despite Gurney missing a match dart, Lewis finished off the Northern Ireland fucker. A result that pleased me no end. No sign of Gurney fist pumping as he left the stage with the tears in his eyes forming.Go kiss your necklace.
Barney, Krusty, Shitlock and Gurney all the players I wanted to go out early did exactly that.
Add in the old cloggers like Darren Webster, Steve Beaton and Ian White this has made it the greatest world champs so far.
The evening session started of with that scruffy cheating cunt Searle beating a dreadful Willie O Connor who simply never was in the game.
I missed the last two games, but watched the Anderson Wattimena game later and despite knowing the score I thought it was a class game and most likely would have had enjoyed it more had I not known the score, Ando was lucky Wattimena missed a match dart, and blew a 2 leg lead in the last set.The double 8 that Ando hit in the very bottom corner of the bed, when he was in trouble,in the 4th leg of the 7th set was absolutely huge for Ando. It was another Ally Pally Classic.
The downside about the Wattimena loss is he does not over take Barney as the second highest ranked dutch player. I wanted Barney out of the World Cup as well, as Barney was using that to get into grand slams.I believe there is still time.
I could not be arsed to watch MVG against the over rated Hopp, fuck that.
SUNDAY
First up was the #36 & #37 in the World Dobey against Vincent van der Voort and was a quality game with little in it. Best I saw VvdV play in a while, and was played at a great pace. As well as VvdV played Dobey was the deserving winner, and should give Ando a great game. Dolan against King was a lot better than I expected and Dolan played some good stuff with a rake of ton plus finishes. It would not be a King game without the grimaces though.
But the game of the day was Wade against Keegan Brown, where Wade was atrocious on doubles early on despite scoring better and was trailing 2-0 in sets, and at 3-1 it looked bleak for Wade but his finishing picked up and made a superb comeback. He totally dominated the scoring, had the higher average and his double in the last few sets was the difference.The dart he had at tops to save the match and level it up in sets was a killer.
Keegan in one leg needed 80 to win the leg and hit a single twenty, then hit the treble twenty and would have bust the score but the dart fell out, he threw his third dart and hit the treble twenty again and bust his score. The crowd gave Wade a lot of grief, but he did not react and in the end silenced them. I did not mind the crowd getting on his back after the last match against Asada, and the crowd did similar to Vermin Price.As for Keegan Brown, he might look like the bastard child of Colin Lloyd, but he played like the spawn of Scott Mitchell with his slowing down tactics and taking forever to take his darts out of the board, and even the comms mentioned how Wade was annoyed but did not let it get to him. Wade finishing when it mattered is summed up in this tweet by Ochepedia
The evening session and last session of darts before the Christmas break started with Adrian Lewis versus Darius Labanauskas. Fatpot has more hair on his 3 chins than Darius has on his head and what a pathetic performance again from the Lithuanian. Again he averaged 89, which was enough last round to beat the hypoglycemic postman, and lets face it Barney has lost to some jobbers over the years...like that droopy looking poppy wearing James richardson who beat Barney at Ally Pally. Darius's 89 was obliterated by a decent performance by Fatpot. MVG was waiting next for Fatpot.
Second match was Nathan Aspinall against Kyle Anderson who will soon overtake John Henderson as the person with the biggest head in darts. Everytime the camera goes on Kyle he has his fingers rammed down his mouth, won't be long and his whole arm will going in.
I am not sure which players darts were causing it but the sisal on the board was coming apart, and not the first time in this comp the bed around the treble 20 looked like shit. Aspinall threw some solid darts and hit some great scores at the right times and won a very entertaining game 4-1. A result not to be sniffed at.
Last up was Rob Cross who battered Cristo Reyes 4-0. Reyes is the Spanish for King, and he played and grimaced like Merv King, and was almost 3-0 down in sets before he started playing. Cross looked unplayable at times.
THURSDAY
Darts returned yesterday after the Christmas break, and first up was Devon Peterson and Steve West....I missed it and had zero intention of ever wanting to catch up on it. Lets be honest the likes of Peterson, West, Alcinas, Dolan, Benito etc are only having a run due to the shit performances of Krusty and Price..who I am glad are gone, the inevitable TV collapse of Ian White etc.
Does make the draw lob sided when you have Wade, Lewis, MVG, Ando all in the same half. The averages for the Peterson game looked a decent enough standard.
After that I got to witness the well liked Dimitri who showed zero bottle. Dimitri seems to be a favorite among people on social media and forums, but I lost any liking I had for him when he played like a cunt who accepted defeat at 3-1 down. Its not like Luke Humphries was throwing world class darts either. I mentioned last week how players like Dimitri who are usually the underdog in matches come apart when they are favorites in matches, its like they are not used to it. As for Humphries I expected Cross to batter him....how wrong would I be.
Last up in the afternoon was Hendo and Michael Smith who between them had more chins than a Chinese phonebook. It was a entertaining game,In the 3rd set Smith led 2-0 in legs and Hendo came back and won the set to lead 2-0 which included a 161 checkout. Smith was the better player overall but Hendo had some good moments.When smith went 3-2 up in sets the writing was on the wall. I enjoy watching Smith as I do Hendo so was a decent afternoon watch.
The evening session started with Benito who has been in a total slump for what seems like over a year taking on Alcinas. It was a dreadful game.and I sort of expected it from Benito but Alcinas was a complete let down. Benito did hit some huge checkouts out of the blue, so hard to knock a player who won the game playing shit, the fault lay with Alcinas.
Dobey against Ando was a superb game and yet another Ally Pally Classic. Again Ando was taken to a final set tie breaker. Like his game against Wattimena Ando hit a double 6 at a crucial point, which was like the double 8 he got against Wattimena. Each time it saved the game and was the turning point. Dobey finished with over a ton average, had 15 maximums, 27 scores of 140 or more.
Well done Dobey, yet another quality young player on the PDC conveyor belt that keeps on churning them out.
I said I would have been shocked if Adrian Lewis won more than a single set against Hunchback MVG, and so it proved.
To see Keith Deller in the crowd celebrating was sickening, as he is the cunt who turned the former double World Champion into a glorified exbo player playing cruise ships instead of doing euro tours and other events in the past.
Lewis did look better than he did in a while but is still miles away from the player he was. MVG looked unbeatable for most of that match.
FRIDAY
Up first was Devon Peterson and Nathan Aspinall, and was a decent watch with Aspinall winning 4-3 in sets. Aspinal with a final average over 95 in a match that went 30 legs was decent stuff.. Oddly despite Nathan winning 4-3, he won less legs than Peterson as Devon won 16 of the 30 legs. Dolan against Benito was as boring as it promised to be, and had little interest in it. Jeffrey de Zwaan who went out in the early round with a 106 average must have felt sick looking at that section of the draw.
James Wade needed to just beat Ryan Joyce to climb above Shitlock in the rankings and earn a shot of MVG. He was atrocious in the first set, and then started to wake up but acted like a complacent cunt as if it was only a matter of time before he won. Missed multiple darts to win the match 4-2 in sets and lost the set and in the final set still had 3 darts in the tiebreaker to make it 2-2 in the final set and blew it. Had Wade got through that he would have been destroyed by MVG, as Joyce will be. Joyce was also utter shit, it was just a case of Wade being worse on doubles, and did not hit a single ten in the entire match from what I saw.
The evening session started off with Bellyboy dumping out the scruffy looking cheating bastard Searle. When Bellyboy is on form he is a joy to watch, sadly he can go off the boil just as quick, but made light work of Searle. .Chizzy made lightwork of Jamie Lewis who is another vastly over rated cunt. I never miss over rated cunts going out, especially when they are Welsh. but he did beat Gurney so will cut him some slack...lol
I expected Cross to make it 3 one sided matches tonight, with a comprehensive win over Luke Humphries. After Cross won the very tight second set I expected Humphries to roll over , but instead he got better and Cross buckled, and won only about 5 legs in the match after that. It was a dramatic end to an otherwise boring night of darts that lacked any drama due to them being one sided.
I still think no one is stopping MVG, he will destroy the useless Joyce, as he would have done to Wade.
Ando is already getting his excuses lined up, starting with this "bad back", you think he would come up with something more original than the same excuse Merv King and that elongated string of misery Vincent van der Voort have been using since day one.
That said I think Ando will beat Chizzy, as its only a matter of when he loses not if he loses.
Best we can hope for now if a Bellyboy against MVG final which looks like the bookies favorite.
I think this World Championships is a lot like the 2008 where John Part beat Kirk Shepherd in that there was so many upsets and top seeds going out, it also meant we lost a lot of top player match ups.
Speaking of John Part, I know he is getting fatter by the week, but I enjoyed him on comms. I am not sure if he really improved, or he just appears great when you consider we had to listen to Useless Mardle, Mark Dozy Webster, Squinty eye Clark, the atrocious Gulliver, and the rest of the cunts like Pearson etc.
Part and Croft were the 2 best on comms or punditry, even Rod Harrinton was an improvement over the others.
As for Knob of the Week, a few people suggested James Wade. One person suggested he win it for his bullying of Asada and his interview afterwards, except that was last week and was already mentioned.
Another person who mentioned Wade said because he refused to properly shake Ryan Joyce's hand and left the stage quickly. and annoyed.
Maybe it is me, but I prefer when a player who loses is annoyed. I am sick of losers who hang around and smile and act like they dont give a fuck about losing. Show me a good loser and I will show you a person happy to lose. Any player should be pissed off at losing, and maybe this attitude of Wade is why he has over achieved and won 9 TV titles, while players like Dave Chisnall and Michael Smith who are better power scorers, hit higher averages etc and are classed as "better players" than Wade have won fuckall of note in their entire careers. Nothing...yet Wade has a haul of titles.Wade also had the comeback of the week as well coming from 3-1 down in sets to Keegan Brown.
Yet another person suggest Wade because he lost to a player than was recently on the Challenge tour. I cannot argue with that, a worthy reason, however using that reasoning, then surely the World #2 and reigning World champion Rob Cross losing to a player who was also recently on the challenge tour, is more deserving.The #2 losing is more of a shock than the #9 losing.So well done Rob on losing one title tonight and gaining another.
Knob of the Week winner : Rob Cross
As for news in the BDO this....I have none. After all who really would give a flying fuck about the BDO this week. Not just because it was Christmas, but when the true World Championships is on at Ally Pally , no one gives a fuck about the Selecta's little piss up week in a run down hotel in Surrey. I tried to find out something tonight but there was no news. The milkmen must be still on christmas holidays. All I do know is prior to Christmas eve ticket sales were still abysmal, and even read a few posts on social media how some people are not going out of spite due to the fact certain "friends of the bdo" are getting free tickets, but other loyal fans were expected to pay full price., so those people are now boycotting the event.
The Premier League announcement will no doubt be made before the next Knob of the Week, so I am hoping the line up consists of
MVG, Anderson, Cross, Wright as the former top 4
Mensur who was the #5 prior to the worlds.
Wade, Price and Gurney who all won TV titles in the latter part of the year...2 in Wades case.
That makes a total of 8 players.
I would give Bellyboy and Chisnall the other 2 spots. Fuck Barney. If the undeserving dutch headshaking hypoglycemic sweaty ex postman cunt gets in it will be totally unfair on who ever is left out. Barney is currently now 28th...yes 28th in the Order of Merit
Its almost 12 years..yes 12 years since he last won a major ranking TV competition. He only qualifies for the Grand Slam via the World Cup and lets hope Wattimena snuffs that out for him as well. Sick of the cunt getting preferential treatment year in year out.
A couple of mentions.Seems like Paul Nicholson, the guy who has the audacity to lecture people and give darting advice to others has lost his tourcard.
Another one who has to haul his pathetic arse to q- school is the telescope Inspector Jamie Cave-in. Yes, the cyclops cunt that got his feeling hurt ages back when I stated facts on how many legs he lost while grinning like a cunt , then challenged me to a match thinking that beating me in a game would somehow negate he was a jobber.
The one eyed simple cunt then had the audacity to boast about his income and tried the retarded "I have more money than you routine" on a forum, which only showed others what a sad case he was.. Now look at him, mushrooms on the dole in the UK probably made more than him in 2018. Thats what happens when you act like a cunt. and it comes back at you, and I am there to remind you.
Then Jamie Cave-in is not the first player to try that shit of "I have more money than you" routine on a forum, Wayne Mardle did it years ago and got ripped to pieces and quickly logged out and never returned.
And last but not least, A belated Merry Christmas, and an early Happy New Year to all my readers, even those who claim to never read this blog, even though the views increase week on week.
I will be back next Friday just in time for a preview of Lakeshite...the event that makes the Edinburgh Comedy festival look small time.
