{"id":611547,"date":"2026-05-30T05:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611547\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:29:16","slug":"luke-littler-breaks-down-at-premier-league-final-and-says-he-almost-quit-darts-for-heartbreaking-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611547\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Littler breaks down at Premier League final and says he almost quit darts for heartbreaking reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the LADs of all LADs, Luke Littler became Premier League champion for the second time last night (28 May).<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old faced great rival Luke Humphries once again as they took to London<\/a>\u2019s O2 Arena for the final.<\/p>\n

The Nuke came from 6-3 down to edge a thriller 11-10 and bag the \u00a3350,000 jackpot while he was subjected to pantomime booing and whistling from the crowd of 16,000 darts fans.<\/p>\n

Add in his record-equalling six nightly wins over the 17-week marathon of matches and Littler<\/a> has pocketed a tidy \u00a3410,000.<\/p>\n

But the World Darts champ<\/a> became tearful as he became champ, admitting he almost quit the sport for a heartbreaking reason, confessing that it\u2019s \u2018been a rollercoaster\u2019.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s had a few controversial incidents<\/a> and plenty of that same booing during the Premier League.<\/p>\n

\"LittlerLittler won the Prem last night. (PA)<\/p>\n

Back in early April, Littler faced heat for his behaviour as he was accused of being \u2018out of order\u2019 for celebrating and fake crying when Gian van Veen missed crucial darts.<\/p>\n

Fans weren\u2019t so impressed with his behaviour and the young darts star has been subject to boos from crowds and backlash on social media.<\/p>\n

Van Veen had said he was \u2018fuming\u2019 about his opponent\u2019s behaviour and said he wasn\u2019t a \u2018good loser\u2019.<\/p>\n

Littler appeared to double down online as he shared laughing emojis about the quotes.<\/p>\n

\"LukeLuke Littler was slammed for fake crying when Gian van Veen missed during their head-to-head last month (PA)<\/p>\n

But in the matches afterwards, he faced more pantomime-like booing from darts fans.<\/p>\n

And after last night\u2019s big final, the Nuke explained he had confided in girlfriend Faith that the crowd\u2019s reaction was getting him down. He confessed to her that he didn\u2019t think he could carry on playing in the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first four weeks I was at the bottom, on the fifth night I won my first night. I had to pick myself up. I think I went to Brighton and had a 79 average,\u201d the teen said on stage.<\/p>\n

\"LittlerLittler became emotional after last night’s win. (PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Brighton, I think I came off stage and then in Manchester, I was sat at home saying to Faith \u2018I don\u2019t want to do it anymore\u2019. Just the crowd every week\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said to her, \u2018I\u2019m down bad\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Littler had to stop speaking as he became overwhelmed with emotion and Humphries said: \u201cIt shows what it means to us as players, on the road for 16, 17 weeks, it\u2019s hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The World No.2 added: \u201cYou see with Luke, it\u2019s emotional playing in finals. It shows how much it means to you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the LADs of all LADs, Luke Littler became Premier League champion for the second time last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,17322,50,217,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-611547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-luke-littler","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}