www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/darts/17503460 one of sports great characters no more

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/darts/17503460 one of sports great characters no more

They were wishing him happy birthday on the PL on Thursday

Sad news to hear .

Cue THAT infamous Top Of The Pops 'appearance'

I take it we'll be seeing several brewers declaring bankruptcy in the wake of his demise.

.....Surely the greatest TOTP moment ever??......To this day, does anybody know whether that was a deliberate mistake, or a beeb employee taking the p!$s??....

I was shocked he was only 62, he looked about that age when he was in his heyday without his false teeth in....Loved the games with Bristow, in the day. There was a proper dislike and needle between the pair, although the Crafty Cockney was generous in his tribute towards Jocky yesterday. He nearly used to launch himself off the oche with that third dart. Used to pull that one badly at times no matter how much voddy and coke he'd got down his crop. Always a fag in his non-darting hand at the oche. His Mrs was an Argie if I remember rightly as well. I think they got a hard time during the Las Malvinas conflict. Dog-e through the letterbox and such. Became a virtual recluse, in his council flat in his last years. A sad end to a proper character. Their likes disappearing from the sanitized world of sport we now live in.

Don't know but it was hilarious

A great character who is no more.

Those games were brilliant. As you say, some genuine needle between them. Used to put them on at lunchtime on FA Cup Final Day if memory serves.

Todays well-paid stars owe a hugh debt to the likes of those two and John Lowe for TV companies accepting Darts as something they wished to broadcast.

It would have been deliberate, I'm sure. Kevin Rowlands is not one who would let something like that lie unless he was in on it.