A Manly Bullseye

A Manly Bullseye.

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Another new series of Bullseye had quite a memorable show on Monday 11^th September featuring Dave Spikey who is making a name for himself as Jim Bowen’s replacement. Tony Green, who has been a feature of darts on TV for many years is still on the show as checker. This particular night had 3 pairs of competitors as usual, one couple were from Torquay near Melbourne Australia. They were both young and although they came from Australia one of their pastimes was snowboarding and another darts. Helen, the young lady said, she loves her darts and "Came on the program to show that darts is not just for fat old men.” As you can imagine this went down well with the audience.

At end of the category board round all 3 pairs had £160 and that was, I think, the first time that all the competitors had tied at that stage in the history of the program. The next round produced a winner in Kevin & Ross who won the “Pounds for points round” with £260.

Next came Bronze Bully with superdarter Peter “One Dart” Manley trying to score 301 with 9 darts for charity. His first dart found a good home in treble 20 and he scored 100. With his next throw another treble fell out but he finished after 9 darts on a respectable score of 202.

Dave Spikey asked Peter where the nickname had come from and Peter said that in 1995 after winning 15 straight legs in a televised tournament Tony Green named had him “One Dart” and it had stuck. Recently though Peter has adopted a new nickname along with an improved image and has made a performance comeback. Dave Spikey commented on the fact that Peter’s good lady is quite a good player of some repute. Peter said that she is but “it’s very difficult for her because obviously she has the ironing and cooking to do.” A comment worthy of any male dart player.

In Bully’s Prize board round Kevin & Ross only won a dartboard but gambled their £260 cash and prize dart board for the star prize. Not many manage the 101 but this pair did and scored 118 with one dart left. They did not win the famous speed boat or car but instead won a Home Gym System. Going back to the earlier comments made by Helen about darts being played by fat old men I wonder if this was the best of choices for a star prize.

If you would like to see Peter Manley’s very smart web-site click on the following link, but if you do not have broadband be warned that it will take several minutes for the site to open.

http://www.petermanley.co.uk/home.htm

There is a page with a little more information on Peter elsewhere on this web-site that can be found by clicking here.