Luke Littler nails a 180 at the first attempt to beat Harry Maguire’s NINE-dart score of 171… as the teenage darts sensation meets his Man United heroes
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Luke Littler pulled off a 180 to fend off competition from Harry Maguire and Christian Eriksen and send his Manchester United heroes into a frenzy after a darts showdown at their training ground.
Darts sensation Littler, 16, made no bones about the football stars, who threw 171 and 136 over nine darts in a heated battle in Carrington.
He burst onto the scene when he reached the final of the World Darts Championship earlier this month and has made no secret of his fervent support for the Red Devils.
‘The Nuke’ was guest of honor at Old Trafford for United’s match against Tottenham on January 14 and even met Sir Alex Ferguson.
But it wasn’t so much ‘Fergie Time’ as ‘Littler Time’ at Carrington as he had his United heroes singing after an impeccable 180, in scenes reminiscent of his thunderous displays at Ally Pally.
Luke Littler, Harry Maguire and Christian Eriksen faced off in a darts showdown at Man United’s Carrington training center
The 16-year-old rolled a 180 to easily beat the nine-darter scores of Maguire and Eriksen
He also had the chance to meet Marcus Rashford, Erik ten Hag and club captain Bruno Fernandes.
“How lucky Bruno is to have met Luke Littler,” one fan joked in the comments section of Manchester United’s Instagram post.
Maguire came first in the darts competition and even achieved a treble-20 in an early show of potential.
However, he was undone with a pair of 1s and worked his way through a succession of 20s to a respectable 171.
Eriksen was next, but he lagged behind pacer Maguire and could only manage 136 darts over nine.
Finally Littler stepped up, a beacon of calm under the gaze of stars like Rasmus Hojlund.
Club captain Bruno Fernandes smiled at Littler as they shook hands with Carrington
Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho greeted Littler next to a training pitch
Littler shook hands with manager Erik ten Hag and wore a Manchester United cap
It turns out that if you can do it one evening at Ally Pally, it’s not that difficult on a cloudy Thursday afternoon in Manchester as Littler works his way into a 180.
Listen to the frenzied dancing and singing of a collection of United players and staff and the matching pumps of Littler, who had shown his heroes how it was done.
Littler won £200,000 for reaching the final of the Darts World Championship, where he lost 7-4 to Luke Humphries.
Following his epic journey to the final, he was included in the eight-man line-up for the Premier League Darts tournament, along with some of the biggest names in the sport.
More to follow.
