1975: ALAN EVANS - The Rhondda Darts LEGEND | Nationwide | Classic Sport | BBC Archive

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"In Ferndale, and in the villages and towns of the Rhondda, Alan is little short of a God."
Bob Wellings reports from Ferndale in the Rhondda valley, Wales - the home of the British Open Darts Champion and local hero, Alan Evans.
Originally broadcast 23 April, 1975.
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@garryleeks4848 Год назад

Days when dart players liked a smoke and a drink, I can smell the fumes from here 😬

@whiteonggoy7009 Год назад

My very thoughts

@garryleeks4848 Год назад

@@whiteonggoy7009 and not a beer belly in sight 🙄

@cromandum217 Год назад

dude is blackout in that first interview

@necropink9200 Год назад

He was only 25 when this was filmed? He looks old enough to be his own father.

@Djoarhet001 Год назад

£30 in 1975 would equate to £300 today. That's not too shabby for a 25 year old attending a local match

@OlafProt Год назад

“Films were killed off by stay at home television…” goodness I’d forgotten all that nonsense. So many cinemas would still be here if they could’ve just survived until the early 80s and the Spielberg era, and been less snobbish about American movies in the 70s Whoever wins tonight gets £200. Allowing for inflation that still only £2000 now. That’s how money has destroyed the sport

@davidheafield1436 Год назад

Leighton Rees was from Ynysybwl the same village I grew up in , even though I was still well underage he would take on anybody whilst he was practicing , so I played him many times and I so very nearly beat him once when he couldn’t get a double to start and mine went straight-in first dart , but he still whooped my arse….never came close to beating him anytime after

@garethroblyn Год назад

My middle name is named after him. I was born the year he won the world championship

@PaleBlueDotCitizen Год назад

6:37 Two games to one up, the best out of three wins. Ummm, two up IS the best out of three. Is everyone dumb? Hello?

@brianhutchison1788 4 месяца назад

Always the problem when someone who doesn't really understand the game tries to explain what's going on.! Great video capturing darts at the time but could have made the details of the game clearer; who was Leighton Rees playing? Did Alan Evans play the decider against the other Londoner?

@bigbadwolf200335 Год назад

Brilliant, great days never to be seen again.

@martinredr Год назад

Very beautiful insight into what is a classic now. Love it.

@cactusdan94 Год назад

25!? He looks like he could have a 25 year old son😂

@depniff Год назад

Can't help thinking of the Smith and Jones darts sketch whenever I see old darts films. He looked older than 25 but what a talent.

@TimmyTickle Год назад

ONE HUNDRED MILLIGRAMS

@jakefr5150 Год назад

It was the 70s - everyone looked 10+ years older than they were.

@andybirchenall1113 Год назад

Monday night was always darts night.9pm start plenty of beer supped and always hoping you were not last on as you were usually bladdered. Happy Days

@psychosquirrel555 Год назад

Some epic hair here. What us ice hockey ppl would call great salad.

@WillDraco Год назад

7:03 Alan gives a little wink to the camera, like he knew he was going to win all along.

@xboxgamer7453 Год назад

The narrator sounds like he does monty python skits in his spare time.

@maddaveyesay1611 Год назад

22 quid a set.that was anexpensive set back then

@frankiebenson3212 Год назад

Them old places including the pubs had brown tar dripping off the roof beams due to all the smoking. I know so as I worked in them. The smell up top was worse than anything.

@Luke96-sy9jv 11 месяцев назад

Lovely bit of history here 😊

@RD-js3uo Год назад

You'd think if he was earning decent money he could afford a decent haircut.

@AshtonArcher Год назад

Interestingly for 1975 it seems like everyone is drinking Lager - pretty sure I saw a Carling Black Label pump on the bar.

@LeighRichards27 Год назад

His epic clash with bristow at the world championship in 79 remains among the most compelling televised sporting occasions ive seen. Incredible atmosphere with neither player hiding their visceral dislike for each other (tho they wud later become good pals). PS. loved the shot of alan going up to the stage supping a pint....really was another age then!

@gary1961 Год назад

He done really well not to spill a drop. Great darts player, great pint carrier.

@ycymrobach9012 Год назад

Great player, lucky enough to have a drink with him years ago. Top man.

@middleagedpunk8923 8 месяцев назад

What a superb video and a far cry from all the ridiculous Americanised glitz and glamour of today's game. Alan Evans and Leighton Rees have two of the most beautiful throwing actions alongside early Eric Bristow.

@spastic54 5 месяцев назад

Americanised? Lol. If you would, please explain how the game is Americanised in contrast to what it used to be? Especially when considering that darts could quite nearly be considered a uniquely European game/sport.

@fearfactorymark Год назад

Sit down if you love the darts

@johntucker6073 6 месяцев назад

Nostalgic for something that happened long before I was born, to be in that crowd with a cardigan on and a tray of pints

@VCosta-ql4ue Год назад

25 years old 😮 Looks 45 😂

@DAN420. Год назад

😆

@ianfortean7808 Год назад

and died at 49

@VCosta-ql4ue Год назад

@@ianfortean7808 Wow, He Looked 75 in 1997 😅 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eMdnu4aTvsg.html

@4seeableTV Год назад

Ferndale wasn't exactly crawling with Brad Pitt types.

@garryleeks4848 Год назад

Thought they were a great looking bunch 🙄

@BadgerBotherer1 Год назад

My mother used to teach at Ferndale Comprehensive. She said the students were the least-intelligent she had encountered in her teaching career.

@TheGlassman63 Год назад

No, instead it was crawling with real hard working normal men, not demigod figures.

@atomictraveller Год назад

5, left for arizona at 10. 1970s wales is forever crystalised in my mind. but with cactus.

@Playsinvain Год назад

He puts his shirt on like my brother. Never could understand why you wouldn’t throw your arms through as the shirt is over your head. But…a great video! Thanks.

@ReneeinVirginia 3 месяца назад

Pretty amazing.

@112chapters3 Год назад

0:38….. how close the Mini Countryman to the other car😂 hahah the scene at the end of him having to chug the beer. Got the cameras on you come on

@Therealderry433 Год назад

25 going on 45

@SOFAJEDI Год назад

Only one word for that “magic darts”

@PDZ1122 Год назад

The only "sport" performed while chugging pints.

@westy8065 Год назад

Have a look at the snooker videos from the same period!!

@johntucker6073 3 месяца назад

By the way if you’re watching this and wondering what became of that beautiful hall, it was in Maerdy and allowed to go to rack and ruin before being demolished in 2003. There is now just a patch of grass where it used to be.

@johnmc3862 Год назад

Liquid darts!!!

@tonyd4911 Год назад

Rip Alan

@MrJoecool9999 Год назад

50p a head to get in lol - takes me back - I worked in a social club in Scotland - 25p a pint - 16 pints and a Chinese takeaway for £5......!

@alistairmcmillan8914 Год назад

remember them days 25p a p1nt and 26p for 10 club

@ayyywerelisteninghere1022 Год назад

Beautiful 9 pint finish there

@MrClarksop 7 месяцев назад

alan moved to stockport and supported man city in the seventies, he got more stick for that than for being welsh.

@bestpeter78 Год назад

Black bulls eye 😜

@magnump.i.5894 Год назад

Nearly a car crash at 0. 40!

@stevenhumphries110 Год назад

3001 ? Surely not ??

@markgibbins4143 Год назад

@jesselopes5196 Год назад

If RU-vid gamer channels had live audiences

@gazbeast666 Год назад

I was like number 180 🙂

@barnzYT Год назад

I can smell that room

@carlsam1516 3 месяца назад

Fantastic player

@Neil-Aspinall Год назад

More Monty Python classic gold!

@dazzp2 7 месяцев назад

Great player, but he could be a nasty *Barstool"

@patsanters2741 Год назад

Top player but Scotland's Jocky Wilson was better , won World title twice v the best England can throw at him Lowe and Bristow winning World titles in England .