Eric Bristow

Just heard

Treble twenty is no age

Young but didn't looka a fit bloke tbh. Great character but a bit marmite for many. RIP

Twenty double tops, real icon of sport in the 80's

RIP

Had no more worlds to conquer.

Not a good time to be a sixty something sportsman

Played a big part in making Darts popular on the TV.
RIP

In a darts vain let's hope the treble dosen't  come along

how crafty was he.240

RIP Eric

Geez, as song goes... "now that the spring is in the air"

RIP

Fookin Ell RIP eric

cant believe it, celeb deaths normall dont affect me but like the great Paul Hunter this one has hit me like a ton of bricks

RIP Eric

That's a big shock,a right character.

He was actually at the venue tonight?

yeh

Terrible news RIP

RIP to a True Great

Farckin bell, I was just doing my end of year ISA/financial thinking and wondering about pensions and old age.
With all these people dropping age 60/61 I'm wondering if I'd just be better blowing it all on fast cars, fast women, and 20 year old malt..

Jim Bowen with Eric Bristow:
https://youtu.be/pok3FXQn9pE?t=2438

sad news. Must admit I never liked him in the early days (being a Jocky Wilson fan) but he grew on me after that and in recent years got my total respect as a man who wasn't afraid t speak his mind. RIP crafty cockney

Bloody hell, that's awful news.

Not only a great player/champion, but a major figure in the development of Phil T's even greater career of domination.

Met Eric at Newmarket races around 10 years ago, in one of those big tents where him and Keith D were doing some sort of exhibition. He couldn't have been nicer. I offered to buy him a pint of Guinness. He said 'Come here a second" and walked me back to his table, which was groaning under the weight of umpteen other drinks which I guess others had already bought him. He wryly said "I've got a bit of with on with those'.  The Great Man even chalked a leg of darts I played.

An inescapable figure from the dawn of that first great era of Professional Darts. Eric, Alan E, Leighton R and Jocky W, all gone too young.  What a set of rematches in Darts Heaven.

J.C.You are on the mark there mate,live everyday like its your last

What sad news, my favourite player in a great era for darts.

RIP Eric.

Yea in that era they were such big stars, like footballers. Bristow was Ronaldo and Jocky Wilson was Messi ;)

So who was Cliff Lazarenko?    Tommy Lawrence?

bit over the top jc there lol

TBH I think the first Ronaldo statue looked more like Bristow than Ronaldo so I'm not far off!

This must be one of the most memorable comedy sketches of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgap_CzceBM

Eric smoked and drank and generally enjoyed himself, reached the top of his profession and lived a comfortable life. Died far too young, of course, but going suddenly is not a bad way to check out all things considered.

RIP.

The pioneer of dartitus...

Amongst established elite players yes not amongst pub/club fodder though

Apr 5, 2018 -- 10:27PM, Just Checking wrote:

Farckin bell, I was just doing my end of year ISA/financial thinking and wondering about pensions and old age.With all these people dropping age 60/61 I'm wondering if I'd just be better blowing it all on fast cars, fast women, and 20 year old malt..

Girl I went to school with died this week, aged 38.  Primary and secondary cancers.

Live for today.  Nobody knows what tomorrow has in store. 

RIP Eric.  A true, true great, without whom the sport would probably be nothing now.

For anyone who never saw this, may I recommend this 1979 film made about Bristow called 'Arrows". I saw it in the cinema back in the day as the support film. Can't remember what the main feature was.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA1WDB29hrw

probably the most famous darts player there will ever be. his on stage arrogance was astounding. recall a final against Lowe when John missed a double with the CC waiting to pounce - Bristow saluted the crowd in victory then proceeded to land his favourite double 16.

Don't know the man, other than his darts career, but I wondered if he was like Higgins, White etc. who learned their trade playing for money. Certainly struck me as that type of guy.

Ye he did. His memoir tells us that.

I liked the story Keith Deller told about the time Eric asked him before their game whether he breathed when he threw.  Poor Keith was so distracted during the game he could barely hit the board

Why was he sacked by Sky ?

He was fired because some people pretended they were offended by some of his comments on the Bennell scandal in the world of football.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3982660/Ex-darts-champ-Eric-Bristow-dropped-TV-pundit-abuse-scandal-tweets.html

Many of us spend so much time worrying about the future and regretting the past that we forget to live.

I'd have fired Bristow myself.  Hate the PC and I'm offended rhetoric that litters the UK now but Bristow crossed the line.

That said a thoroughly engaging and entertaining bloke who put darts on the map.  Very sad to see his passing.

RIP Eric

He was born in my 'manor' Hackney, so I have sort of followed his career even though I am not a great fan of darts.

One thing has struck me lately reading obituaries of famous people who were working class but made good, and were  about chit chatters age, is that many of them went to grammar school. It was a great opportunity to succeed in whatever field it seemed.

Cabbie tried to save his life

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/i-best-could-wasnt-enoug...

Channel 417 now Classic Darts

Possibly his last ever photo

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/darts-fan-stunned-after-taking-14499120

Certainly looked okay.

There was a recent documentary about him on ITV4 earlier, quite interesting, made before he died, lots of interviews with him.

Apparently if you were abused by barry burnell when a youngster and never sought him out you weren't ''real men like darts players''what an utter ****,quite rich considering this man ''plagued'' by not being able to release a dart...

Lets see if this one gets removed again 1.01...

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Been drinking giggly

There was a recent documentary about him on ITV4 earlier, quite interesting, made before he died, lots of interviews with him

I always found one of the most useful criteria's for interviewing people is that they be alive

Don't drink just posting a fact..

Former darts world champion Eric Bristow has suggested football abuse victims are not "proper men" - and has been criticised on social media.
More than 20 ex-footballers have come forward with allegations of historical child sex abuse in the sport, and five police forces are investigating claims.
But Bristow, 59, questioned why they did not "sort out" their abusers "when they got older and fitter".
One of the ex-players, Steve Walters, was "disgusted" by Bristow's remarks.
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Writing on Twitter, Bristow, who was made an MBE in 1989, said darts players were "tough guys" and footballers "wimps".
He added the victims should not be able to look themselves in the mirror for not "getting their own back" on their abusers in adulthood.
Several former footballers have waived their right to anonymity in order to go public and raise awareness of alleged historical abuse in football, a step which has won praise from politicians, sport administrators and abuse charities.
Walters has alleged he was abused as a youth player by convicted paedophile and former Crewe coach Barry Bennell.
In other tweets later deleted, Bristow said he "would have went back and sorted that poof out" - before later clarifying he "meant paedophile not poof"

Knees up mother brown..

Tbh most men who have been Molested by a Homosexual When young ,would have thoughts of Revenge ,I am surprised Benell was not sort out by at least one of them .

I think shame would have kept them down case it would me anyway.
Bristow must've been on the pop whilst sitting tweeting on that subject.

Yes no need for it .

R I P   ERIC.... PROPER GEEZER

Just Checking 05 Apr 18 22:27 Joined: 25 Jun 06 | Topic/replies: 23,079 | Blogger: Just Checking's blog
Farckin bell, I was just doing my end of year ISA/financial thinking and wondering about pensions and old age.
With all these people dropping age 60/61 I'm wondering if I'd just be better blowing it all on fast cars, fast women, and 20 year old malt..

Wasn't 20-year-old malt in fact the reason that Wilkins and Bristow barely made it past sixty?

Stick to fast cars and fast women is the lesson I took. Not that the latter leave you much scope for funding a pension in my experience.