Omg I really miss those days. Two absolute legends. Rip Eric and long live Bobby. ❤

I remember watching this final live and then going down the local after, for the £3 a man entry knock out. I won £35 my teammates won £20 and £10 respectively. I played for Surrey county. I was only 20. Youngest player for years until Ritchie showed up and boy could he play. Oh and we had a little known player nicknamed the Limestone Cowboy aka Bob Anderson.

Bobby George does a great night at one of his shows ,great fun

Brilliant i remember it well

What was great about darts back then is that the world championships were just club darts ++. A couple of guys who took to throwing arrows before going to the chip shop and then heading home. If a player now made a joke in his opponent’s face and then kissed him then it would lead the news. Bobby George is probably thinking, “yeah, whatever, just go and get the round in, I’m parched.”

@tetsuoshima7385

3 ай бұрын

Well said 😊

What's the other guy talking about, the standard is honestly pretty good here

Great players

Great players for their times but it's like the late 70s when in snooker a century was amazing. Think there were about 5 in the 1978 championship.

@Glasschin2.0

4 ай бұрын

Davis and then Henry changed how players played snooker. The tables now are so much better. Not sure what really changed about darts to make the difference in the standard today. There’s a lot more work involved in fundamentals of snooker.

@zanussidish5685

4 ай бұрын

@@Glasschin2.0 Well beer at snooker and darts was not unusual, obviously referring to the players. Over a session (literally!) that's going to have a bigger detrimental effect for any minor nerves benefit.

@Glasschin2.0

4 ай бұрын

@@zanussidish5685 yeah that’s true never really thought about that , although I play both better after two or three pints lol 😂

@zanussidish5685

4 ай бұрын

@@Glasschin2.0 Lol,.same here.

@rodpanhard

2 ай бұрын

@@Glasschin2.0 Thinner diamond cut wire effectively made the double and treble sections bigger,

‘They shouldn’t shout like that when a man’s throwing’ 😆

Cannot belive bobby is 35 years old here my fucking god he looks 50

@shapes2000

3 ай бұрын

34, he looks like a movie star. 😎

To be honest both eric and bobby had and have ,crazy throws of there darts unique though 😂

@Dadaadad268

4 ай бұрын

I get rsi just looking at Bristow's throw!

@mickharrison9004

4 ай бұрын

@@Dadaadad268 yeah like you say watching old films of Eric ,was a bit painfull how he arched his hand ,never seen any other dart player come close to it 😂

How did Eric ever learn to throw a dart like that?

With Modern Equipment and boards Prime Era Bristow would have been hard to stop

@patsanters2741

5 ай бұрын

He was good in his days won most although John Lowe and Jocky Wilson stopped him inbetween times . Jocky Wilson came on the scene late in life from around 1978/9 . I met Jocky three times and asked him how he got along with Eric Bristow to which Jocky replied he liked Eric and just on oche both tried win alike a Scotland v England thing ..And away from the oche had good banter, and got along well he said with Eric . Rip to both them greats in the game of Darts they are so much missed .

@terranceparsons5185

4 ай бұрын

Can't see the equipment has changed much, there were tungsten darts back then and the board has stayed the same.

@Glasschin2.0

4 ай бұрын

@@terranceparsons5185I just read that the change in the wire makes the trebles and doubles bigger

@dtutssel

4 ай бұрын

Wire is now shaped to guide the darts into the treble more often.

@beuthen8562

3 ай бұрын

​@@terranceparsons5185The barrels were much thicker back in the day I guess. Todays players have a LOT of more space in the trebles

Didn't know Fred West was a darts player in his early days

@Jwg13

4 ай бұрын

😂👌

@jcharles8743

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@jcharles8743

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Shame George never won the BDO.

Both would give todays players a good game, no doubt about that.

@mickharrison9004

4 ай бұрын

Your having a laugh ,if in any doubt look at the far superior,scoring from the two Luke's the other day ,and big finishes these wouldn't get near them 😂

@andymatthews7617

4 ай бұрын

@@mickharrison9004 bristow especially is on a par with anybody who played the game, just go look at his record.😱😱

@terranceparsons5185

4 ай бұрын

Bristow maybe, in his prime. He was the king in the 80's. He was playing Jocky Wilson in Glasgow once. There was obviously a storm of boos and catcalls but he hit 180 in his first turn and simply turned and bowed to the audience. Brilliant.

@andymatthews7617

4 ай бұрын

@@terranceparsons5185 A great showman, as well as a great dart player.

@Chris_34

4 ай бұрын

​@@mickharrison9004 Yeah, let's just ignore the advances in dart technology over the last 40 years and the fact they now play on toy boards with massive trebles🙄. Bristow would've destroyed the 2 who played in the final last week. He would've lived rent free in their heads with his mind games. Serious question, Mick. Have you ever been right about anything?

Good old bobby

God he looked different, no make up, no big hats, and heavier, how times change 😊

Look at da flicka da wrist

@Ash-gg2ql

4 ай бұрын

M M Morrisons

That treple 20 looks tiny.

@Chris_34

4 ай бұрын

That's because it is. I'd love to see them play a tournament today using the old darts and board. It'd be interesting to see how the averages would compare.

@kiekiek

4 ай бұрын

That would be very interesting indeed. It must be ten percent lower average minimal I think. Bristow was not less the darts player than most of today's top 8 in the world. @@Chris_34

@Chris_34

4 ай бұрын

@@kiekiek It would be interesting, wouldn't it? Bristow in his prime would've been more than a match for any of today's players because of his mind games and mental toughness. There's that time when Eric was playing Jocky up in Scotland and one of the crowd threw a full can of beer at Eric's head which only just missed. He carried on without batting an eye and went on to win the match. Can you imagine some of today's players in the same situation? Gerwyn Price couldn't even handle the crowd heckling him let alone throwing full cans of beer at his head. Dude fell to pieces and went and put ear defenders on ffs! 🎧😂.

88 average with wires that big... Make that 100 at the very least on today's Winmau blade 6 boards. People are blind or stupid laughing about the standard of play here.

Love the scores bk then the . To now omg . Its gone uo in ave

£24000 in today's money, and Humphries won £500,000 last month, mental

County League standard.

Is the Geordie commentator from back then in 1980? He sounds way, way too 'modern' for that time period. It's as though someone has had a crack of over dubbing a commentary track on some old footage.

@glennthompson1971

4 ай бұрын

Yes. Because i remember that voice back in 1980.

@TruckerJenkins82

4 ай бұрын

@@glennthompson1971 Ahead of his time in a way....He sounds like the way Jane Middlemiss used to present things in the late 90s and throughout the 00's, the blueprint for yoof culture voiceover work, especially on the BBC.

@vernongoodey5096

3 ай бұрын

Yes he was the voice of darts. His famous line that every kid repeated at school and later in the pub was in a heavy Geordie accent was HES HIT THE WIRE

@vernongoodey5096

3 ай бұрын

Just remembered hid name Sid Weddell

Wow, great time, when players weren't fat and full of tattoos...

My brother in law was spite of a image of Bristow liked Bristow not my brother in law . Funny all from London us

Good pub players

Poor quality

@clintonbennion

6 ай бұрын

Can’t complain for a 1980s match recording, then put to KZread.

@simonfootie6255

6 ай бұрын

@@clintonbennion no i meant the darts were😁

@conorwalsh2429

6 ай бұрын

​@simonfootie6255 People can over play this a little. Lacking context Bristow finished this game with an 88+ average. Over 8 sets. For example, in the most recent Grand slam of darts sub 88 averages were hit on 25 occasions in the group stage.

@MrLeast5000

5 ай бұрын

​@@conorwalsh2429back in the days the wires were bigger and the triples smaller. The darts where made of brass and flights low quality. 88 then is 100 now

@conorwalsh2429

5 ай бұрын

@masters6692 in the 80s, all the top players were using tungsten darts. I agree with you though.