Phil Taylor .... Greatest English Sportsman of all time ??

[Ward1971]

If people critisise the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for often (not this year) giving the big prize to a sportsman with no personality,

Phil The Power Taylor is the complete opposite, great bloke, big personality, but simply not a sportsman.

Whether you think he is a sportsman or not is irrelevant , Darts is a sport and that makes him a sportsman, nothing we can do about that .

 

[Ward1971]

There's one easy way to distinguish between a sport and a game: If you can do something while smoking it's not a sport. Therefore darts, snooker and ten pin bowling are not sports, they're games.

So golf is not a sport ?

 

[bluenitsuj]

Darts is a professional GAME, played by fat bastards.

Rugby?

 

[bluenitsuj]

Why should wiggins get a knighthood and Taylor not get one?

 

[tweenster]

Why should wiggins get a knighthood and Taylor not get one?

Do you really have to ask?

 

[genuine albion]

So golf is not a sport ?

A grey area. Perhaps sports make you breathless and games don't? (breathless through significant physical exertion whilst in reasonable physical shape, not from years of alcoholism and cigarette smoking as in the case of most darts players)

 

[Ward1971]

A grey area. Perhaps sports make you breathless and games don't? (breathless through significant physical exertion whilst in reasonable physical shape, not from years of alcoholism and cigarette smoking as in the case of most darts players)

So goal keepers are not sportsman ?

 

[Withdeano]

Not sure I'd even go as far as awarding darts pub game status. That should strictly be for "spoof" or "matchbox spinning". On reflection it's probably a pastime, a bit like gaming on the X-box or wanking, but less enjoyable.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Why should wiggins get a knighthood and Taylor not get one?

As revealed on the Sir Bradley Wiggins thread ... he was given an MBE and then it was taken off him, after his incident in a caravan.

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Honours and Awards

Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood

St James's Palace, London SW1

21 May 2002

The QUEEN has directed that the appointment of Mr Philip Douglas TAYLOR to be a Member of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 30 December 2000, shall be cancelled and annulled and that his name shall be erased from the Register of the said Order.

 

[pork pie]

Rugby?

I suggest you take a better look. I defy you to find a fat professional rugby player, big front row forwards yes, but all beasted to blazes to keep them fit.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Phil Taylor has to be the Greatest English Sportsman of all time , 15 World Titles ......??

Close! But sadly, only comes second to the bloke with 16 Bar Billiards World Titles...

 

[kevtherev]

Darts requires hand eye co-ordination, a lot of skill, steady hand and a lot of nerve under pressure, at the highest level and even at pub level. It's as much as a sport as archery or snooker or shooting.

 

[Ward1971]

Darts requires hand eye co-ordination, a lot of skill, steady hand and a lot of nerve under pressure, at the highest level and even at pub level. It's as much as a sport as archery or snooker or shooting.

This

 

[pork pie]

Darts requires hand eye co-ordination, a lot of skill, steady hand and a lot of nerve under pressure, at the highest level and even at pub level. It's as much as a sport as archery or snooker or shooting.

Agreed, none of them are actually sports. Just games or activities.

 

[sod1]

if darts isn't a pub game it would never have appeared on this programme

Indoor League - UKGameshows

 

[Titus]

Don't most pubs play Football ......

Don't be silly. They don't have legs.