Dan Waddell @danwaddell Twitter profile

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Dan Waddell

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3 years

I can’t help but notice that this tribute to veteran Sun reporter John Kay omits an important event in his life - the time he murdered his wife

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Big Cliff with the greatest act of sportsmanship ever

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Darts tonight - sport of the shagger 🚬 🎯

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Hannah Miller and Joe Pike are local TV reporters. Both have done more to put Johnson under scrutiny than Preston, Kuenssberg and the rest put together

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4 years

Well, that’s Dry January over for another year

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4 years

Oh m8 (h/t @jamesdoleman )

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3 years

Trying to think of a public figure which The Sun might write an obit for, in which they don’t mention he murdered their spouse but do mention he was a good tennis player, and coming up short tbh

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3 years

Hard to think of an England captain who has squandered the amount of goodwill Vaughan has

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7 years

Cricket comes at you fast eh?

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3 years

I can’t find my version of Stick it Up Your Punter but here’s a bit more about it. Surely it warranted a line or two in his obit, if only about how gracious the Sun was to rehire him after the murder and helped rehabilitate him?

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2 years

It’s 10 years ago this week since my old man died. So if you’ll forgive the self-indulgence, I’m going to share a few thoughts and musings about/by Sid over the next few days, mostly from stuff we wrote >

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7 years

Now we know why the Mail et al have been so keen to suck up to May at all costs.

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@SamCoatesSky

7 years

Tory manifesto: No Leveson 2

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5 years

The coronavirus spread just emphasises the golden rule: don’t have anything to do with people who go skiing

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6 years

The Sun throwing a hissy fit about Leveson 2, three days after being exposed for paying a blagger to illegally obtain medical records of bombing victims, cancer sufferers and dead children 🤔

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3 years

You might read about this in more detail, but I’ve just heard Counsel for The Sun and NotW in phone hacking litigation argue that matters should be heard in private because the media (BBC and The Guardian) can’t be relied on to report it accurately and fairly

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8 years

Just nipped out to the shop. I could hear the Leeds fans singing at Craven Cottage and I live two and a half miles away. Impressive.

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3 years

@andrew_lilico There’s a strong “These uppity black men don’t know their place” energy emanating from these tweets

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4 years

Those odds: Second Wave 2/5 Laughing While Dying 3/1 My Corona 5/1 Trust Me I’m a Twat 8/1 Michael Gove’s Porn Dungeon 10/1 Sir Danzig 25/1, Mobile Eye Test 50/1 Going: soft as shit

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4 years

Thanks to the nation’s resolve, horseracing is back from Monday Wonderful news for our wonderful sport

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The irony of this so vast that it has ripped a hole in the space/time continuum

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3 years

As people have pointed out, it was incorrect to use the word “murdered” in the original tweet. Kay pleaded guilty to manslaughter - “killed” would be more accurate

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8 years

Would be proper #bantz if Kenny was disqualified for overtaking a fella on a shit moped while Cav nearly killed a fucker and got a medal.

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4 years

Proud Boys sound like a late 90s Britpop band from Bracknell who had song with a chanty chorus that got to no. 27 in the charts

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4 years

Billy Joel writing We Didn’t Start the Fire without Google is perhaps the greatest achievement of the 20th Century #totp

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8 years

Just a reminder that Paul Dacre received £88,000 in EU subsidies for his country houses in 2014. Is that a 'link to Europe?'

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8 years

WHAT. “Many have links to Europe”???! This is deeply sinister.

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7 years

I’ll let Sid have the last line. ‘Maybe there’s a darts Valhalla? We’ll all meet in the sky, sipping, watching the great ghosts play. Might happen.’ Hope it does happen. RIP Eric.

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8 years

Right, so here's an insight into how 'journalism' works, Mensch/Heat Street style...

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5 years

My prediction for these riots: 500 protesters come to London. Two get lost on the Circle Line; 497 go to Spoons near Trafalgar Square, stay there and get pissed; one punches a copper and gets arrested. Brendan O’Neill is a no show.

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They’ve done it the old fashioned way. By being informed and prepared and not falling for his bluster and bullshit.

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@tomhfh I know someone who called their kid India and they’d literally never been there m8

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2 years

Sid’s greatest leg of commentary

Weekly Dartscast

@WeeklyDartscast

2 years

4⃣0⃣ years ago today... "Bristow did a percentage shot." "Deller did the business." An iconic moment in the history of this sport as @KDeller138 checks out a 138 in the final against Eric Bristow to win the BDO World Championship as a qualifier on his debut in 1983.

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8 years

🤔

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4 years

The thing about Harry, Meghan etc which I can’t get past is this: Piers Morgan was instrumental in the harassment which led to his mother’s death. He’s now instrumental in the harassment of his wife. How can anyone decent think that isn’t utterly grotesque?

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7 years

@thequentinletts Would you have asked whether a white actor was cast solely on the colour of his skin?

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He’ll be livid when he finds out how much the Mirror has paid out in confidential settlements for phone hacking when he was editor.

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8 years

This is why it's not an option to ignore idiots like Milo and Watson. Their lies end up in the mouth's of people with more power.

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5 years

I bet there are some absolute whoppers in the intake of New Tory MPs. Proper provincial shitheads. A rabble of crap solicitors, incompetent councillors and demented rotarians.

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3 years

Not saying my ITV hub stream is lagging behind, but France have just brought Jean-Pierre Papin on

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4 years

Harsh. But only right given Darren Stevens is in a vulnerable age group

Kent Cricket

@KentCricket

4 years

Club statement: Jordan Cox

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3 years

@MrPaulRobinson “Chief, can mention the wife murder, or the fact he wore nice suits” “The suits line has to stay”

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7 years

For those of us on the left, here's a visual prediction of our day tomorrow

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7 years

Sordid deal to abolish Leveson 2 was a huge error by the Tories. Made May look corrupt and in hoc to Dacre and Murdoch. Has to happen now.

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3 years

“They have blood on their hands…” The irony of this is so vast it’s ripped a hole in the space-time continuum

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8 years

If the Gov takes this to European Court to have it reversed, you realise the irony will create a black hole into which the world collapses?

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9 months

Luke lift Sid up where he belongs #darts

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4 years

It’s a bit rich for Sarah Vine to get the arse about people pillorying her bookshelves when she wrote while a column ripping the piss out of someone’s kitchen

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4 years

We live in a world where the Gov will take questions from Robbie Savage but won’t go on Newsnight lol

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11 months

David Cameron?

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5 years

Today, ITV sought out Kelvin Mackenzie’s opinion on the coronavirus and the BBC (Newsnight ffs) asked Nigel Farage for his. And we wonder why we’re fucked.

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10 months

Made me a bit misty-eyed watching that. When We Were (Rothmans Super) Kings

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7 years

Just one example of why Leveson 2 would have been tough for the The Daily Mail, for example: 1. Mail submitted evidence they used a PI firm called ELI to the first inquiry.

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8 years

I'll be honest, I'm past Keirin.

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4 years

@ThatsSoVillage As all ample slip fielders know, the first is actually more difficult as the belly is in the way.

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8 years

A dog and a trampoline you say? Here's the heartwarming new #JohnLewisAdvert

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4 years

If Jimmy Anderson keeps bowling that well, Channel 4 will have to brIng back that red triangle to let us know we’re watching porn

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11 years

'If it's a girl, they're going to call her Sigourney, after the actress. If it's a boy they're going to call him Rodney. After Dave.'

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7 years

My favourite Glen photo is this one with him and Elvis wearing a black fur coat, one black glove, cigar and, um, a torch.

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4 years

Margaret Keenan when the microchip kicks in

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4 years

Went out for dinner and raised a cocktail to Sid, who’d have been 80 today. (Though he didn’t like cocktails, so now I’m home I’m having what he called a “cooking lager”)

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5 years

If this election happens and you support Remain, there’s no option other than to vote for the candidate best placed to beat a Tory: Lib Dem ex-, centrist stooge, crazed lover of Corbz - doesn’t matter. Hold your nose.

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8 years

Well, that's alright then.

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7 years

Leveson 2 would reveal the full level of The Mail and others criminality. Clear it's been dropped in return for unquestioned support

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If you want to know whether no-platforming fascists works, look at Milo. With a platform = loads of cash and a following. No platform = rants at the moon on Facebook because no one cares.

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2 years

A bit more on the Indoor League from my book, including Sid’s memorable description of a shit-hot shove ha’penny player as “The Spassky of the sliding small change”

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Let’s start with the Indoor League, which is where it really started for Sid. Here’s his intro to the Indoor League book, where he claims filming a game of Shove Ha’penny was a bigger TV moment than screening the moon landing

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8 years

Felt a bit emosh watching Taylor lose tonight. It's done. But when they do Mount Rushmore for darters his face will cover a canyon.

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7 years

Re the Mail mad editorial, just wondering who was the last reactionary group to get really upset over a cartoon 🤔

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Seems odd that Yorkshire fired a load of coaching staff who weren’t in the dressing room when the incidents which Azeem cited took place, but have now hired someone who was

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3 years

Excl: Steve Harmison and Ryan Sidebottom have been brought in to coach at Yorkshire by new director of cricket Darren Gough. Ex-England bowlers will help out while Gough recruits a new permanent coaching team following the mass cull of staff last month.

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6 years

What are the odds that Dominic Raab wore a pair of burgundy jeans and referred to women as ‘totty’ when he was a student?

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4 years

What’s Ted Hankey done now?

Donald J. Trump

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4 years

STOP THE COUNT!

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Dan Waddell

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8 years

Wondering what sort of person would fall for the Keith's mum anecdote...oh

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7 years

A reminder that Tom Watson’s ‘conspiracy theory’ about hacking at the News of the World turned out to be, er, absolutely true.

Journalism.co.uk

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Press Gazette: Matt Hancock jabs at 'conspiracy theorist' Tom Watson as he warns Labour 'threaten the free press' with their 'misguided goals'

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Oliver Reed would have been 80 today. Here he is doing a handstand on a bar after drinking more than 100 pints in a 24 hour boozing session

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8. Fearless hack speaks French, but how did she read half a million words *and* write a story in 50 minutes?

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An interesting addition to the online copy. Could have saved themselves a lot of bither if the original story had mentioned what Kay had done, named Harue, and dialled down the hagiography.

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5 years

Keep seeing Tom Watson described as a ‘Blairite’ by people who clearly weren’t paying much attention to Tom Watson when Blair was PM.

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Given she’s spent her life in an industry which has covertly recorded, bugged, hacked, blagged, hired PIs to follow, surveil and obtain info unlawfully for decades, this is an interesting claim to make

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Recording a lover’s tiff through a wall to discredit someone didn’t used to be a “story”. It was what happened in East Germany under Erich Honecher

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All in all, a nauseating level of corruption.

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4 years

The bails fell off and a five-ball over. Someone’s coming out to bat in black trainers next

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4 years

Bet he started celebrating before she said yes

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The best way to start 2021 @MollieKing 💍💫

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India should lose Test status for preparing a pitch which means a Test only lasts two days during a fucking lockdown when we’re bored shitless.

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I’ll remember Eric as a wonderful, brilliant player, a man who made darts what it was, a vivid, cocky champion in a golden era of greats.

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Did some investigative journalism to work out which friends defending Toby Young also went on his stag do. Makes grim reading for TY

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This is even more dismaying than that time he batted number nine for England, with Tufnell and Giddins at 10 and 11

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7 years

All these mates of Toby Young’s rallying to his defence...where were they on his stag do?

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8 years

We Had Some Laughs, my memoir about me and my dad, Sid Waddell, is published today

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5 years

I’ve seen a lot of newspaper commentators, columnists, TV pundits and media experts rush to Laura K’s defence. But very few of them address the Ben Stokes and Gareth Thomas reporting scandals. Funny, that.

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Sid would have been 82 day (Bull, D16 - proper showbiz finish) so I’m raising a glass to him and will tweet a bit more later. Sid liked best bitter (and Pinot Grigio at home, but he kept that quiet because it didn’t fit the working class hero image…)

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If you want to see the worst people in the world honouring the worst people in the world while the worst people in the world write about it, check out the #specawards hashtag.

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It’s worth a watch and a listen, even after a hundred viewings. “I am tellin’ ya, I’m tellin’ ya, I’ve seen nothing like it in me life!”

Keith Deller v Eric Bristow - 1983 Embassy Darts - Final Leg

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10. Did fearless hack use that as her source rather than speed read and digest a massive document in minutes? You decide.

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Having to move all the stuff you’ve piled up on top of the printer for ages because you need to scan something

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CCTV images clearly show Corbyn walking past The Food Bar without buying #trainbooze . How can anyone take this clown seriously? #traingate

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Make sure you all spend some time to think how Richard Keys is coping today. http://t.co/aDnoMQTkhB

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Presenter: your surname is Lynch. That means to kill people. What do you have to say about that? Mick Lynch: not sure what you mean? Presenter: WHY ARE YOU SO RATTLED MR LYNCH!!!!

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Then of course, there’s Jossy’s Giants. Here’s the first episode, (the first footballer you see is me bounding up the wing, mullet bouncing in the wind. My left foot was for standing on, before you ask)

Jossy's Giants series 1 episode 1

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It was published in 1973. I came across it in 1984. On page 8 there’s a description of the titular heroine giving someone a hand-job. Call me precious but not sure any 11-year-old needs to read his father’s description of someone being wanked off …

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7 years

Maybe we can suspend Brexit indefinitely by voting for a series of hung parliaments?

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Tonight: we reveal YouGov's first seat by seat projection of the campaign - suggests Tories fall 16 seats short of overall majority

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@DPJHodges It’s also staggering that a sitting Government would cancel an inquiry halfway through against the wishes of the public, the victims of the press, the politicians who voted for it, and the judge appointed to head it.

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