How darts went mainstream – from Fallon Sherrock to Luke Littler and Prince Harry The Paddy Power PDC World Darts Championship has long been one of the hottest tickets in town.
But the emergence of teenage prodigy Luke Littler has sent interest in the tournament – and darts as a whole – into a different stratosphere.
Difficult though it may be to believe, Littler was a complete unknown to all but the most avid of darts fans little over 12 months ago.
Now he has a global profile befitting one of the world’s top athletes thanks to his remarkable run to the final at Alexandra Palace, where the then-16-year-old lost out to Luke Humphries.
The likes of Eric Bristow, Bobby George and Jocky Wilson first put darts on the map in the 1970s and 80s.
