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From: Nathan
Subject: We Love David Duffield
Enjoyed reading your website feature about Duffers.
The best "Duffieldism" I have ever heard was in the finale of this year's Giro in Milan.
A viewer (indentity unknown) sent an e-mail to David describing his occasional over-excited commentary when the hammer goes down in a race.
He said that David sounds like "he's had four pints of lager and pee'd in a lamp socket !". David read this out live on air and apologised to viewers for occasionally getting carried away with his commentary!
All of this was happening in the final couple of KM's in the final stage of the Giro as Cippolini was winding up for a big sprint, but David had the whole situation under control and didn't panic - pure class! You can't help but love the man.
Nathan
Hull Thursday Road Club
Thats right. A lot of folk aren't too keen on DD. I think they have been bought up on the 15 minutes a day that Paul Sherwen and Phil Ligget used to dish out, which by the way I wondered if they did *after* they knew the result.
From: Robert
Subject: Duffieldisms
Hello to all at Addiscombe Cycling Club,
I was delighted to read in Cycling Weekly that you had dedicated a bit of your web site to my cycling commentator hero, the mighty David Duffield.
Forget about all the others, you may as well turn the sound off when David and Sean are not on. Cycling looks really really boring (Boardman and studio stuff). Old Chris should have stuck to the odd bit of woodwork, like when he was supposed to be leading Credit Agricole and it was really Stuart O'Grady.
Any way, enough of my pet hates.
One of my favourite Duffieldisms was during this years Paris-Nice when he was describing the new team strips and he arrived at Team Coast. He said that they were the team with the gold body and BLACK ARM PITS. Did they do a shift down the coal mines before the start.
Another great laugh we had was during last years Tour de France. The field were meanering through field after field of lavender crops and David started to talk about the meal he had the night before, saying the sauce was made up of garlic and lavender. Can you imagine anything more horrible.
How about the fact that his mother always made him give up his seat to elderly people coming on the bus.
One of the best was surely the time the imposters dived into the field during the Tour mountain-top finish and David jumped out of his seat and yelled ''For Christ sake, will someone get that idiot off the road.'' Brilliant. Can you hear Chris or anyone else giving us that outspoken commentary. No way.
Again, during Paris-Roubaix, going through one of the World War 1 battlefields, David gave us a rendition of a Browning poem about the sad events that took place during the Great War, saying we were going through very sacred territory. Yes there is only one cycling commentator for me, David Duffield
Thanks for the opportunity to have a look at your site.
Keep up the great work.
Robert
P.S. I've just had a frame made by Roberts Cycles, of Croydon, and it's absolutely brilliant. The mechanics and sales staff at Dales in Glasgow, who used to make the famous Flying Scot bikes, were raving about the quality of it.
When those imposters sprung up I thought he was going to jump out of his commentary box and "give em a thump". The poem was good and I seem to recall he read a story from a rider who rode Paris-Roubaix years ago and he kept mentioning all the "piss and shit" of the road. Most unlike DD but apt considering the conditions of the race at the time. Oh yes - Roberts are the best you can buy if you can afford it. Not the typical sort of thing you would expect to find in Croydon. I think a relative of his (maybe his Dad) used to be in Addiscombe when it first started. We have a story about him here from the early days.
From: Karen
Subject: Duffield Speak
Duff speak
"They'll be celebrating in the old town tonight".
Indeed they will. Drinking some of "the fizzy brown stuff" as well no doubt! How did our intrepid spotters miss this when they were compiling this page? Thanks for pointing it out Karen.
From: Robert
Subject: Duffieldisms
''He's got a dose of the old Spanish two-step.''
Trouble in the toilet department.
''He's built like the proverbial .......''
Has a build like an old outside shithouse.
''Like the proverbial ....... off a shovel.''
Going up the road or off the back at quite a rate of knots.
"The little diddy men"
Small riders built like Betini
How about the Quealey, Hoy and McLean's track events at the Olympics, when David started to reach for his books to get some facts and the race finished before he had time to see the result or find them out.
So the little diddy men are probably the same as the cheeky chappies. I forgot David was at the velodrome in the Olympic. I watched most of it on BBC and Hugh Porter wasn't in the same league as DD. For one he didn't make any cock ups so it wasn't as much fun watching. Also remember how DD wouldn't commentate on Boardman's Athlete Record at Manchester. Instead he went and stood outside in the rain because he disagreed with the UCI so vehemently that he wanted nothing to do with it.
