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Trouble With Gay Darts Team

The committee and myself as league secretary have had some problems to sort out over the last 5 years that I have been running the league, but, fortunately nothing like the problem that occurred with two teams in a mixed league in Brighton. The host team the Stag, were an all gay team and the visitors, the Bevendean Hotel gave them more than a little friendly banter on one match in particular. You can imagine the comments such as, don’t bend down to pick up your darts in here and don’t shake hands with them because you don’t know what you will catch. Other comments were reported in the Daily Mail Newspaper which featured quite a write up on the problems. 

The Stag team reported the incident to the league who in this politically correct society of ours took exception and banned the 6 players from the Bevendean team for life and even suspended the Hotel from entering another team for 3 years. As one member of the offending team said much worse happens all the time in pubs with beer glasses being thrown and fights occurring but nothing usually happens to them. 

I am just glad we don’t have any all gay teams in this league because I don’t think I would have made such an example of a team making homophobic remarks. 

I know in men’s darts at least there is often a lot of bantering between the teams and you take it as part of the evening. I know that after a particularly bad throw on more than one occasion my manhood has been called into question with such remarks as “You big fairy can’t you do any  better than that?” but then again when it’s your own side responsible I suppose it is a little difficult to get them banned!

Don’t get me wrong I do believe we should be more tolerant of minority groups but I do think they should temper their complaints with common sense. I don’t have any objections to gays playing in our league but I do think that they should expect to get jibes made against them as does everyone else.