We saw it when a player from the Netherlands, a country with no history of war with England whatsoever, reached the semi-final.
I shudder to think what would happen if a German or Argentine player ever reached a semi-final there.
Contrast that with how Michael Unterbuchner was so appreciated by the knowledgeable Lakeside faithful.
You get a much better class of working class Englishman and woman at Lakeside.
Think there’s a look of Kevin McStay off him.
The late Jocky Wilson’s wife Malvina was from the Argentine.
No wonder he left the pdc a mere 18 months after he joined it.
Wonderful interview with Mark McGeeney.
He is a man of class and honour.
He is a man of substance.
The Lakeside of Frimley Green
by W.B.D.O. Yeats
I will arise and go now, and go to Frimley Green,
And in a small cabin stay there, of wood and plaster made:
Nine days will I have there, away from the pdc;
And live alone in the BeeDO-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the crowd sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a maroon glow,
And evening full of Ted Hankey’s bats’ wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with Wolf sounds on the shore;
While I stand near the oche, and watch the players walk onstage
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
Awful stuff. Pathetic standard and the crowd booing durrant on key doubles. Shameful.
You humiliated yourself here.
You predicted the final would finish 7-0.
Now, please fuck off.
Real Darts,Real People
Humiliating standard allright. Embarrassing stuff. Mcgeeney a poor pub player,destroyed in grand slam.
Why do all posters on this forum whose user name includes a year ending in “17” turn out to be such kool-aid-drinking weirdos?
How fitting the BDO title was won on double one! 
Indeed. A double for Glen Durrant in the number one darts organisation.
The BDO really are an amateur organisation from top to bottom. The cheque they gave McGeeney for finishing runner up has expired 
The intense pressure of the Lakeside stage can make even the best oversized novelty cheque writers miscount.
What was the winners prize money and the runner ups?
£100,000 and £35,000.
It speaks volumes for the BDO’s total confidence in the tournament as the pre-eminent competition in world darts that they pay piss poor prize money and still have all the best players in the world compete.
But the world championship is not about the money, nor will it ever be.
It’s about glory and establishing who is the greatest darts player in the world.
Old school values.
And what does the B stand for ?
O’ Shea,fitton,Hughes all confirmed for the pdc. Lot of talk that durrant will be off too. Good moves by all. The future is the pdc.
I would love to see Mark Webster come back to the BDO.
He is too much of a gent for the loutish nature of the PDC.
