I used to beat Luke Littler’s grandad at darts all the time – now I’m facing the 17-year-old at World Championship
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GREY-HAIRED Ian White tackles likely lad Luke Littler in a prime-time Saturday-night slot – 30 years after a pub rivalry against the talented teen’s GRANDFATHER!. Darts is one of the very few professional sports where a 17-year-old can compete against a 54-year-old on an equal footing.
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Littler– who was born in Warrington but once lived in the Cheshire town of Runcorn – will start as favourite tomorrow night to progress into the fourth round of the PDC World Darts Championship. Yet colourful character White is so much older than The Nuke – there is a 37-year age-gap – that he remembers his own Generation Game against the Littler family in their local boozers.
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White laughed: “When I first started in darts, I played against his grandad, Phil Littler. “That was in Runcorn. I used to beat him all the time! We played for local teams. I played against him loads of times. We had banter. “I wouldn’t have seen Luke in those days in the pub – he wasn’t even born then. That was in the 90s.
“I saw Phil not that long ago. It was a bad time, though. It was at a funeral. “When I spoke to his grandad, he went: ‘Watch out, Luke’s playing well.’. “But Luke has got to turn 18 yet. He has got to have a beer. He has got to be with the girls.
CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS. “I just want to say that he’s from Runcorn – the same as me – so he’s No.2 and I’m No 1!”. It is just as well that White was not watching Littler’s second-round game against Ryan Meikle last Saturday – he had the heavyweight boxing on the TV instead.
