Eric Bristow, the world’s oldest ever darts player, was at the Premier League Darts event at Liverpool’s Echo Arena when he checked out aged twenty double top.
Despite staying in the top flight shape you’d expect from a darts athlete the former world champion and Twitter idiot died completely unexpectedly.
Fans at the Echo Arena burst into a rendition of “There’s only one Eric Bristow” after being told he had died.
Rochdale Herald sports correspondent Ivor Biggun told The Herald;
“They started singing there’s only one Eric Bristow. I couldn’t help but think not anymore there isn’t.”
Bristow, who was born in east London and was known as the Crafty Cockney, has been called a “tremendous player and a huge character” who was “honest and straightforward”.
He’s also been called a complete arse for suggesting that footballers who were abused as children aren’t real men.
So swings and roundabouts.
Embassy cigarettes and Bass Breweries issued profit warnings at the news.
