Ah, poor Sid.  NOT a very good dart player himself, but so passionate of the game (or maybe just passionate with Phil Taylor?).  Too bad he's no longer around.  He was a member of a forum where I'm a senior admin and I've had a few chin wags with prior world champions about him (they would sometimes stay at my house when they were in the Pacific Northwest area of the U.S.).
 
In American Baseball we had an announcer that could produce similar lines as your footie announcer.  Jerry Coleman.  Another who passed away recently...  Then there's Yogi Berra.  Some of his lines are legendary.

jamesg1213
I just read one..apparently someone ''sparked a storm'' on Twitter yesterday. Eh?

My favourite real one is still "And Keegan was there like a surgeons knife....BANG!!!"

Not necessarily a mixed metaphor, but a missed metaphor that always bugs me when I hear L.S. "Free Bird":
 
"This bird you cannot change".
 
Cries out to be:
 
"This bird you cannot cage".
 
It even fits poetically.

You can't teach an old dog to put his hand in the bush.

rbecker
Not necessarily a mixed metaphor, but a missed metaphor that always bugs me when I hear L.S. "Free Bird":
 
"This bird you cannot change".
 
Cries out to be:
 
"This bird you cannot cage".
 
It even fits poetically.

I believe it was Neal Young that gave them the bird...