{"id":380296,"date":"2025-12-30T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380296\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:26:10","slug":"luke-littler-lashes-out-at-london-crowd-during-pdc-world-championship-tells-them-theyre-paying-for-his-prize-money-defeats-rob-cross-4-2-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380296\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Littler lashes out at London crowd during PDC World Championship, tells them they\u2019re paying for his prize money, defeats Rob Cross 4-2, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darts cult hero Luke Littler has stunningly fired back at his own home crowd during the PDC World Championship after advancing through to the quarter finals of the event.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old reached the last eight for the third consecutive year with his 4-2 defeat of fellow countryman Rob Cross on Monday night, and after doing so, had some choice words for the London crowd when probed on its hostile treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the world\u2019s best darts tournaments LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkdarts-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-drt-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766715493_96_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not bothered. Really, I\u2019m not bothered,\u201d he told Sky Sports before laughing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I just say one thing? You guys pay for tickets \u2026 you\u2019re paying for my prize money. So thank you, thank you for my money. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for booing me! Thank you &#8230; It was hostile, nobody wanted me to win the game, but I proved them wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Littler threw fired 17 180s in the win. The winner of this year\u2019s tournament will pocket \u00a31 million (AU$2,012,325).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darts cult hero Luke Littler has stunningly fired back at his own home crowd during the PDC World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[204734,64,63,204736,24575,3231,21396,204735,18942,2643,85],"class_list":["post-380296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-1-luke-littler","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-darts-cult-hero","tag-home-crowd","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-prize-money","tag-prodigy-lashes-crowd","tag-quarter-finals","tag-sky-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}