The posh media and the establishment will never understand ‘working class golf’
Broadcasters, journalists — please stop trying to explain darts.
I know you were privately educated and find darts to be kind of exotic — like chicken shops or pigeon racing — but when you invite a contributor to answer the question “…but is darts a sport?” or laughingly ask what “one-hundred-and-eighty!” means, you’re embarrassing yourself and your profession.
Every now and then we’re offered a vivid snapshot of the class composition of the British media and the instinctive prejudices of reporters, producers, editors and presenters. 16 year-old darts prodigy Luke Littler has given us a fresh illustration of the intractable and tedious ruling-class domination of the media in Britain, of the narrow and backward and tragically involuted interests of the major outlets.
Darts has been a recognised, international sport for decades (although Sport England, the official body, dominated by the men in blazers, only offered darts formal recognition in 2005). The famous players of my youth — Jocky Wilson, Eric Bristow, John Lowe — all went pro in the 1970s and…
