Sid has cancer

[Lurgan]

Sid diagnosed with bowel cancer and will not be on screens until he recovers

[Sprocket501]

Just seen on SSN. Best wishes to him.

[gonk]

sad news

[lyallers_YNWA]

Bad news. Its just been revealed on SSN that Sid has been diagnosed with Bowel Cancer!

Hope he gets well done and makes a full recovery.

[lyallers_YNWA]

Best wishes to sid. Sad news

Can a mod please close my thread i just created! No need for 2

[Justin Credible]

+1

[Terry Kenny]

i hope he recovers and lives long and prospers. but id be lying if i said i wont miss him talking shit on the darts

[Dicie]

Awful stuff. Horrible disease, effecting thousands of lives.

get well soon

[M H]

As much as I've ripped the piss out of him this is bad news. Best wishes to him and his family

[Knots & crosses]

Get well soon.

[lyallers_YNWA]

PDC Statement:

THE Professional Darts Corporation have been asked to issue the following statement on behalf of Sid Waddell.

Dick Allix, manager of broadcaster Sid Waddell wishes to make the following statement:
"Following recent tests, Sid has unfortunately been diagnosed with bowel cancer.

"He is now undergoing treatment and will, regretfully, be unable to undertake any professional engagements for the time being.

"As treatment progresses, I will issue further statements. I would ask that everyone respects his privacy at this time.

"Any and all communications should be conducted please through me on 01430 423991 or 07850 548217, or by email through this link."
ENDS

Waddell, 71, has been part of Sky Sports' coverage of PDC events since 1994, and was inducted into the PDC Hall of Fame in 2008 alongside fellow commentator Dave Lanning.

Waddell - often called 'The Voice of Darts' - has been involved in darts since televising the sport in the popular 'Indoor League' series in the 1970s, and he began commentating on darts in 1978.

He has also written a number of books, including 'Bellies and Bullseyes' and his memoirs 'The Road Back Home', and wrote the children's television series 'Jossies Giants' in the mid-1980s.

PDC Chairman Barry Hearn said: "Sid is a hugely popular character throughout the sport of darts and I'm sure I speak on behalf of the PDC, our players and fans in wishing him a speedy and successful recovery.

"Our thoughts will be with him and his family as he begins his treatment."

[hang the dj]

Cancer is a fucking cunt. I'm sure most if not all of us have been effected in our lives with this bastard of a disease personally or through a loved one

Speedy recovery Sid

[Treble20]

Sid is one of the biggest characters in the game. Horrible disease. Best wishes to him and his family.

[DrZoidberg]

shite news.

as snake says, i now look forward to the day when he screeches "oondastakah" while working himself into a frenzy about fat phil.

[micko]

Terrible news, best wishes Sid, get well soon lad.

[Randall]

best wishes to sid.

[Grazer]

Best wishes Sid

[lyallers_YNWA]

Some of these quotes show how much of a legend Sid is! Get well soon


"This lad has more checkouts than Tescos."
"He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave."
"That's like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank"
"Steve Beaton - The Adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax."
"The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in ,with a portion of chips..... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them"
"Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water buffalo with a pea-shooter"
"He may practice 12 hours a day, but he's not shy of the burger van!"
"He's as cool as a prized marrow!"
"Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength."
"Keith Deller is like Long John Silver - he's badly in need of another leg."
"Cliff Lazarenko's jumping up and down like a gorilla saying "give me back my banana!"
"Bristow reasons . . . Bristow quickens ... Aaah, Bristow."
"It's just like taking a sausage from a boy in a wheelchair."
"As they say at the DHSS, we're getting the full benefit here."
"The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!"
"That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!"
"Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy."
"Jockey Wilson . . . What an athlete!”
"He's about as predictable as a wasp on speed"
"If you're round your auntie's tonight, tell her to stop making the cookie's and come thru to the living room and watch these two amazing athletes beat the proverbial house out of each other"
"It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi Arabia."
"It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline"
"Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out"
"His eyes are bulging like the belly of a hungry chaffinch"
"That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus."
"Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint."
"He is as slick as minestrone soup"
"There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions."
"John Lowe is striding out like Alexander the Great conquering the Persians"
"There's only one word for that - magic darts!"
"Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy!"
"I don't know what he's had for breakfast but Taylor knocked the Snap, Crackle and Pop outta Bristow"
"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer....Bristow's only 27."
"Eat your heart out Harold Pinter, we've got drama with a capital D in Essex."
"If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the Normans, they'd have gone home."
"He's playing out of his pie crust."
"They won't just have to play outta their skin to beat Phil Taylor. They'll have to play outta their essence!"
"Look at him as he takes his stance, like he has been sculptured, whereas Bobby George, with his bad back, looks like the Hunchback of Notre Dame".
"He's playing like Robin Hood in the Nottingham super league"
"Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit!"
"The atmosphere is a cross between the Munich Beer Festival and the Coliseum when the Christians were on the menu."
"Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train!"
"He's like D'Artagnan at the scissor factory."
"Steve Beaton, he's not Adonis, he's The Donis"
“His face is sagging with tension.”
“The fans now, with their eyes pierced on the dart board.”
“He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.”
"He's going like the Loch Ness Monster with a following wind!"
"Eyes like a pterodactyl....with contact lenses"
"He's got three legs under his belt and he's running away with the match!"
"Its like giving Billy Bunter the the key to your pantry door"
"I can only sum that up in one word - world-class darts"
"Even the crumpet knows that's not good enough "
"They're showing Shakespeare's Othello over on BBC1 but if you want real drama tonight, get down here to Jollies, Stoke-on-Trent"
"Tell Mrs Dellar not to bother putting the chips on, because Keith won't be home for his tea tonight"
"His physiognomy is that of a weeping Madonna."
"You couldn't get more excitement here if Elvis Presley walked in eating a chip sandwich!"
"He's playing out of his pie crust."
"Here's Baxter doing a cock-a-leaky soup job on Ovens!"
"The pendulum swinging back and forth like a metronome"
"They won't just have to play outta their skin to beat Phil Taylor. They'll have to play outta their essence!"
"There's no one quicker than these two tungsten tossers"
"He's planting those arrows with the accuracy of a couple of inter-continental ballistic missiles."
"Bob Anderson ... looking like Lee van Cleef on a bad night!"
"Painter's not bothering with an undercoat… he's gone straight to gloss!"
"That's quality with a capital K."
"If you had to throw a knife at your wife in a circus, you'd want to throw it like that."
"Even Hypotenuse would have trouble working out these angles."
"William Tell could take out an apple your head, Taylor could take out a processed pea."
"Circus Tavern packed — even a garter snake smothered in Vaseline couldn't slide in here."

[Starvin]

This is a terrible thing to have happened and I hate hearing this about anyone. Lets hope he recognised the symptoms early and they can sort this out.

[Justin Credible]

so quiet you can hear the dandruff fall of a fly