LITTLER “BORING” CLAIMS SLAMMED

LUKE LITTLER’S serial winning at the oche is not BORING, according to ex-pro Matt Edgar.

World No.1 Littler has dominated darts for the past two years, winning back-to-back World Championships and going unbeaten in THIRTY ONE Premier event matches.

But some fans have begun to question whether his success is making the game predictable. 

Edgar compared Littler’s dominance to other sports, arguing every era needs a team or player to chase. 

He told OLBG: “I’m seeing one word regularly associated with Luke Littler most of the time in a playing capacity. 

“It is either ‘champion’ or ‘winner.’ Across social media now, I am starting to see a lot of comments saying ‘boring.’ 

“It’s quite interesting because we are getting those two Lukes who dominated the sport the last two years now not really picking up anything in the Premier League. 

“Which kind of negates the point it is boring, which, by the way, I 100 percent don’t agree with. 

“That Luke Littler winning is boring. I like having the team to beat. I liked having Man City in the Premier League the last few years. 

“I like having the man, the team. Like the women’s series when Beau Greaves gets beat. There is your headline. There is your story.” 

Pundit Charlie Murphy says the real problem is Littler’s rivals failing to rise to the occasion. 

He added: “Luke Littler is not boring. The opposition, apart from Gerwyn Price, when they come up against Luke Littler, they just can’t handle it. 

“They fade away and fizzle out. They just don’t play their best game. We just said about Gary Anderson averaging 11 points less against him.

“It probably is boring that he wins them. But if other people put up a fight against him and play their best darts, they can match it. 

“It is not like he is averaging 125 and people are averaging 110. They are just not able to match his performances. 

“He has a lot of good timing as well, does Luke Littler. At the UK Open, I was like, how has he not got beat there. 

“What does it take to beat Luke Littler? We saw it last night with Luke Humphries, but again, it wasn’t that much of an important game. 

“If it was, I think a switch would have been flipped.” 

‘The Nuke’ currently sits second in the Premier League table after winning Night Five in Cardiff. 

Littler is now EIGHT points behind Jonny Clayton in the weekly roadshow as he suffered a 6-5 semi-final loss to Luke Humphries last week in Nottingham. 

The Warrington whizkid will take on Stephen Bunting this Thursday in Dublin, aiming to close the gap at the top of the tree.

Image by Taylor Lanning.