Luke Littler grew to become the primary £1million winner of the World Darts Championship when he beat Gian van Veen final month.
Luke Littler throughout Manchester United’s win over Wolves (Picture: Getty)
Luke Littler splashed the money to deal with a bunch of buddies to an evening on the rugby league. The darts star and a bunch of his friends had been in attendance to look at Warrington Wolves as they began their season with a 24-14 win over St Helens on the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
A robust first half noticed Toby King, Cai Taylor-Wray and Albert Hopoate all run in for the Wire earlier than Jack Welsby and Tristan Sailor replied after the break for the guests. Josh Thewlis’ attempt sealed a gap spherical win for Sam Burgess’ group, regardless of Kyle Feldt’s late comfort. Littler, a identified Wire supporter, accepted the membership’s invitation to parade his World Darts Championship trophy to the group in the course of the half-time break. The presentation got here lower than every week after he did the identical throughout Manchester United’s 2-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur.
Whereas not fairly as extravagant a homecoming as in 2025, when Warrington’s dwelling floor was renamed “The Luke Littler Stadium” in honour of the champion’s homecoming “The Nuke” nonetheless gave the impression to be having fun with himself as he watched his aspect choose up their first two factors of the season.
Chatting with Sky Sports activities after he paraded his trophy, he stated: “Good first-half show. Me and about 15 of us lads, we’ve come right here tonight. I’ve paid for the tickets, assist the lads out, however what a efficiency to this point.”
Littler grew to become the primary £1million winner of the world darts championship when he thrashed Gian van Veen in the beginning of final month. The 18-year-old joined Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson in successful successive crowns and additional cemented himself as the brand new king of Alexandra Palace.
“Everybody is aware of, I’ve stated it for the previous two years, I’ve received each European excursions in Belgium, get a Premier League right here. The PDC have sorted it.”
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