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“I Can’t Speak!”: The Craziest Game in Darts History, Explained

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If you live in the United Kingdom, you probably know the voice of Wayne Mardle. But after last week, millions of people around the world suddenly got a taste of him calling the World Darts Championship final – a genuinely historic duel between Michael van Gerwen of the Netherlands and Michael Smith of England. And Wayne’s commentary helped make it the most globally viral thing that’s pretty much ever happened to this admittedly strange game. So, today, for everyone who watched that clip with awe (and maybe a little confusion too) we bring you Wayne Mardle himself, as he tells the glorious story of the darts game that was heard around the world. We've collected our favorite episodes of 2022 into one playlist, to help ensure you didn't miss any of our best stories from the past year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So the legendary Wayne Martle, I have one question for you here at the very top.

0:05.8

How's your voice doing?

0:07.8

It's all right, it's okay.

0:10.6

It was a bit, it was a bit croaky after the, the, the leg should we call it.

0:17.8

The combination finishing in this game is going to be key.

0:22.0

You can tell by the way they're scoring.

0:24.0

They might want to be a nice.

0:26.0

They don't know the nine.

0:35.6

If you live in the United Kingdom, you probably know the voice of Wayne Martle.

0:41.1

But after last week, after millions of people suddenly got a taste of him, I figured it

0:46.0

was a long past time for us to get to know him here.

0:50.3

Because this is Wayne calling the World Darts Championship final.

1:02.4

A genuinely historic duel it would turn out between Michael van Gerwin of the Netherlands

1:07.3

and Michael Smith of England.

1:09.9

And Wayne's commentary helped make it the most globally viral thing that has pretty much

1:15.1

ever happened to this admittedly strange game.

1:18.9

I've lived dance, I've spoken about dance for literally 40 years of my 49 years.

1:42.0

I've never, ever seen anything like it.

1:45.5

It's so rare.

1:48.5

This is the final of the World Championship.

1:51.2

If it was another game, it would still be amazing.

1:55.2

But it's the final of the biggest game in any year.

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