John Lowe was & will remain my favourite Darts player, great memories of a fantastic player, a true gentleman of the sport & a modest man aswell. Cheers John.
John was in my view ONE of the greatest players in his era. Polite and also tried to project the correct image which helped make DARTS the great game it is today.
Our whole family used to watch the finals back then and I am surprised the Unicorn man mentioned if people should be surprised he hit the 9 darter first lol. For me when John was on his game he was the best and my late father always said he was the Gentleman of the game which he was but saying that with Jocky Wilson,Big Cliff and the Craft Cockney showing his ass it was easy to be a Gentleman
Great lad is John,it,s always very interesting to hear what went,goes through the players minds when they did/do historic achievements like this very first televised 9 darter. :-)
Incredible achievement and memories :) I love the mistakes in this interview, John even forgets the 7th treble in the sequence, the interviewer does the same later on in the video. John even talks about how the 8th treble 'is in the middle' . . the treble 18 however lands in the bottom of the bed . . funny how time distorts the memory ;) Love the story about the ol' ladies :) I hv read some of Johns books. They contain some good stories comments too. #LoveTheDarts
Sporting achievement is 100% thumbs up from me. Though 1980's and a £100,000 prize!!! Was this, in history, the biggest prize ever!?? Can you imagine what having £100,000 (or there abouts whatever minus that figure following having a good accountant) would mean, upon good investment, in the early 1980's - he could be sorted for life. Can you imagine the real estate, even in central London, that he could buy / invest in? Anyway. A gentleman of sport. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
John was actually the first dart playing millionaire. He won lots of tournaments but was also sponsored by Unicorn very early in his career. For years, John and Eric Bristow used to share all there prize money. I was once told there was a 3rd player also involved, Tony Brown, but am not 100 % sure if this is true
Thats correct. I have lived in Chesterfield all my life and you used to see him quite often back in the day. His older sister Margaret was my mum's matron of honour at her wedding, small world
Not in Canada it isn't 100 then would be about 185 today. I made a hundred grand that year off of the Firestone Corporation takeover in a split second. I still remember the broker he thought I was crazy when I bought Firestone. It went five fold in a single day $17.5 to $78.5 on the takeover news by Mitsubishi Corporation.
