Darts!
4 Jan 2025
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Seems like in a brazen attempt to promote a sport with affordable rights, the BBC has invented a storyline by pretending that some 34-year-old bloke is a teenager. Points for brazenness, but I’m not buying it.
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"Sport"
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I think it's potentially more of a sport than football these days.
Football is now subject to the same vauguaries of rule interpretation to decide the result as something like synchronised swimming.
Darts is pretty pure, no interpretation or influence of the result by officials.
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What bollocks.
Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly have clearly defined rules unfettered by interpretation or influence of the result by officials. Are they also sports?
Any pastime at which a fat man with a two pack a day habit wearing orthopedic shoes can be world champion is not a sport.
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My point was more around sports with subjective scoring that are generally also considered not sports and how football has moved very much in that direction.
Suspect Paralympians with orthopaedic shoes may disagree with you on that criteria.
On the smoking form I give you Robbo (though current examples would be thin on the ground)
Struggling a bit with a fat compatible elite sport.
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Football's rules and officiating were always subjective. We're simply introducing new ways to scrutinize that subjectivity, to pretty much no one's benefit. But saying that darts is more of a sport than football is clearly hyperbole stretched to the ridiculous.
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Darts is more of a meritocracy than football. I'm not arguing that darts is a sport, but I don't think football is any more. It's an entertainment/performance with production...rather than pure competition.
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Sumo wrestling?
Anyway definitely with Russ on this one.
Competition doesn't automatically equate to an athletic sporting event.
Fair do's if you enjoy watching as a spectacle, of course, but competitive quizzing: not a sport, conkers: not a sport, domioes: not a sport, darts: not a sport.
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Again, bollocks. You can have all the complaints you like about the unfairness of the financial playing field, but when 22 men cross the white line it remains the greatest sport in the world. And before you start complaining about VAR and crooked referees, please try and tell me with a straight face the period when you think referees were last uniformly unbiased, incorruptible, and consistently correct in their decisions.
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Are the Harlem globetrotters engaged in sporting competition?
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No more than wrestlers in the WWE are. Athletic prowess is not sport if it's scripted to a preordained outcome, but if you think that applies to football then you really need to take the tinfoil hat off.
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They get to fly around the world for money matches. The rules are rigged in their favour. There is no effective competition. The focus is on providing entertainment to generate money.
Yeah. Nothing to see here.
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If football is fixed in favour of the big clubs, how come Yanited are shit and Man City keep losing? Money gives teams an advantage, ‘‘twas ever thus - we spent the first million pound fee to win the European cup…
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A more interesting question is given how shit/how much they've cheated, how are they still in the division...and playing global money matches? And how does that equate to sporting competition?
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"Interesting".
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Sunday Times sport section:
Where now for Littler and darts?
How he's avoided Raducanu pitfallsThink I can answer the second one - not much risk of injury in darts and not quite as much demand from advertisers for a chubby kid no-one outside the UK has heard of.
