THE BDO TROPHIES, PDC HISTORY & HALL OF FAME
To your average person in the street, who knows little about darts, chances are their only knowledge of televised darts are the PDC. Your average person probably never heard of the WDF, let alone the other insignificant worthless orgs like ADC UKDA etc. Your average older person would have vague memories of Bristow, Jockey etc, and countless times over the years I would hear people when referring to the BDO so called World championships and ask "is this the one with Phil Taylor or the shitty one". This was a scenario multiple hardcore dart fans have come across.
I saw comments across social media how the PDC should purchase the collective lot of BDO trophies and the auction even allows for all the trophies to be sold as one lot if the bid outweighs the total amount regardless of an individual trophy. I can understand that having all the trophies together.
In the minds of some dreamers a perfect darts scenario would be, the PDC would purchase all the trophies, have them displayed in some building open to the public, with the history of the BDO on show. Also on show would be the history of the PDC, and coverage and or display of any defunct trophies, dating back to the WDC days. We know the PDC can certainly afford to purchase the collective lot of BDO trophies, and its less a price than what Barry Hearn was willing to pay when he offered a million quid or whatever it was for the BDO years ago.
Sounds wonderful doesn't it ? you could take the fantasy further, have another section in this building for the Hall of Fame, those supposedly iconic people of the PDC.....except there is no dream.
The PDC do not give a fuck about history, you can argue they are right not to, and they should carry on looking to the future, after all look how living off the past and zero forward thinking affected the BDO, even before the split, which ultimately led to the split and the slow lingering death of the BDO.
You don't believe me that the PDC dont care about history ? Here is a question for you, how many of those 14 players that risked it all to walk out on the BDO, that were threatened not only physically but even legally, those that had put their livelihoods all on the line, and invested what money they had in to the then WDF, as Olly Croft and the BDO tried to destroy the lives and careers of not only those players but of their families as well, how many of them are still not in the PDC Hall of Fame ?
Yet people like Dave Clark who risked nothing, never threatened legally or physically like some of the players, who never put his career on the line, who did nothing in the game except to speak in to a microphone, a job for which he was well paid for, got a spot in the PDC Hall of Fame yet some of those 14 are still not shown the least bit of respect or acknowledgement for what they did.
I bet if those left out were black or gay or ticked some box the PDC would be all over that like flies on shit, anything to garner brownie points, but those others like Jamie Harvey and Co.....fuck them it seems.
Put aside any notion of trophies on display, physical Hall of Fame etc, those players deserve to be acknowledged for what they did, anything less is absolute ignorance and insulting to those people, who without, there would be no WDF, no PDC,
The PDC of today would rather push some munter in an effort to pretend they are liberal, tell their viewers how said woman is the best in the world. The truth does not matter, its all about the concentrated effort of the PDC to hoodwink people and promote their agenda, all the while alientating many fans who see through this agenda. They will kick out Russian players out of events, as if somehow Putin will get upset because of this and stop his assault on Ukraine. What purpose does it serve to punish the ordinary Russian citizen ? Its all tokenism, would Dave Clarke be in the Hall of Fame were he not a sufferer of Parkinsons, I do not believe so, it was just another opportunity for the PDC to jump on the wagon of tokenism and box ticking and milk that too. Look how women with zero experience of top level darts are being pushed in to roles they have no experience at to speak about things they would never achieve themselves.Getting jobs solely based on their gender, is that not the very definition of inequality.
Maybe I am out of touch, too old fashioned, as I grew up in a world where you showed respect to those people that earned it, acknowledged the efforts of those that helped you get where you are today, and employers hired people on ability, and expertise etc not because of gender or skin colour to tick boxes.Whatever happened to hiring the best person for a job?
