Luke Littler was booed off by the Ally Pally crowd when he thanked them for paying for his prize money after he beat Rob Cross on Monday evening
Luke Littler was booed by the crowd
Luke Littler was booed off after his World Darts Championship fourth round clash with Rob Cross after a “weird old interview”.
Littler, 18, had to been the better of the two players for the majority of the clash, but was seemingly rattled by Voltage in the final legs – after the former champ played his way back into the game.
The Ally Pally crowd was firmly behind Cross, who was making sure Littler was getting some back, and Littler wasn’t too happy in his interview. He told Sky Sports: “Can I just say one thing.
Luke Littler wasn’t happy with the crowd
“You guys pay for tickets and you pay for my prize money so thank you for my money, thank you for booing me! I just had to hold, Rob broke me, I broke him back.
“I just saw the stats then- I wasn’t thinking of anything- I just wanted to win. It was hostile, no one wanted me to win. They were wrong.
“It is not in reach just yet, you have got to get to the final.”
And when cameras cut back to the studio, and Emma Paton joked about a Littler “heel turn”, Wayne Mardle said: “It was a weird old interview.
“It was like he was looking for something, it was like he was being antagonised. It is how easy he makes it look. He just kept doing it and fair play to Rob Cross.
“It would have been easier for him to just buckle but he just got better and better. Rob had no form and to leave playing that well against what he was up against, it was an incredible game.
“Luke has just got these levels under pressure. There is nothing that he can’t do on a board and there is no situation that you are in as his opponent that is safe. You are never safe.
“Littler is getting to the point where you have never got him.”
