A warm, funny, sad memoir about the darts commentator Sid Waddell by his son, Dan.
Dan Waddell is a journalist, novelist and author. He covered two seasons of county cricket for the Daily Telegraph and his books include Who Do You Think You Are? and Field of Shadows- The Remarkable True Story of the English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany, 1937. He captains Acton 2nd XI in the Middlesex County League where he tries and fails to pass on sage advice to young players.
Hootingly funny, deftly structured, a joy to read and highly
recommended
*The Spectator*
A touching, funny, warm and readable tribute to a funny, warm and
unreadable man!
*Stephen Fry*
Warm, moving and humorous.... a paean to a way of life that has
slowly slipped from view and people and places that linger now only
as memories
*Yorkshire Post*
A touching tribute to a man who transcended his sport
*Sunday Times, Sports Books of the Year*
Raise a glass to Sid Waddell's wit and warmth! ... An engaging
biography of a much-loved tv voice ... packed throughout with
little gems about Sid
*Telegraph*
Touching
*The Times*
Affectionate, funny
*Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year*
A touching and laugh-out-loud tribute to the father he adored
*Express*
Extremely funny... Brilliant.
*Birmingham Post*
I adored this treble-top memoir of coal miner’s son, Cambridge
graduate and inimitable darts commentator Sid Waddell by his
sportswriter son. By turns fruity, funny and deeply touching, it
teems with larger-than-life characters – and I don’t just mean the
darts players. At its heart it’s a celebration of a vanished era,
from the pits of County Durham and the early Wild West days of
Yorkshire Television, to the boozy, smoky pre-arena spectacle that
was darts. But most of all it’s a story about a father and a son,
and the often tested but never broken bond between them.
*Bookseller*
An ESSENTIAL book for any fan of darts or, more specifically, the
voice of darts, Sid Waddell... reading Dan's book felt like an old
friend was being brought to life again in my hands.
*pdc-darts.co.uk*
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