When is sid waddell back

The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. Please update your billing details here to continue enjoying your subscription. Your subscription will end shortly. Please update your billing details here to continue enjoying your access to the most informative and considered journalism in the UK. Accessibility Links Skip to content. The programme helped lead to darts being more regularly featured on British television, and launched the TV darts commentating careers of not only Sid but also Dave Lanning, with whom he would go on to share the commentary box for many years.

He believed the key to being a commentator was "to know when to shut up". He said his proudest moment was being voted sports commentator of the year in by his fellow sports commentators.

Other awards included being elected along with Lanning to the Professional Darts Corporation's hall of fame in He wrote and compiled a dozen books, including Bedroll Bella , the story of a "year old Geordie lass using foul language to pushy, randy lads", which was banned by WH Smith and John Menzies, as well as several books on darts. These included Bellies and Bullseyes: The Outrageous True Story of Darts , his autobiographical account of the modern era of the sport. Sid always regarded the darts player Phil Taylor as "the greatest living sportsman" and ghosted his autobiography, The Power , as well as Jocky , that of his friend Jocky Wilson.

Sid Waddell obituary. His long-term colleague Dave Clark tearfully told Sky Sports News: "He was a brilliant man, a genius of the microphone — I'm going to miss my old mate, that's for sure. He had a child-like exuberance, he'd be bouncing round like a young puppy in the commentary box, and mix that with the intellect of Einstein.

Clark added: "I know he's been really battling this cancer for a long, long time and what I hear from the family is it's a blessing that he's gone, but a tragedy. This article is more than 9 years old. Darts broadcaster had been battling bowel cancer He had 11 books published and wrote Jossy's Giants for TV.

Sid Waddell, the legendary darts commentator.