- WORLD DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL 7.30pm, Sky
Today, on the day of the World Darts Championship Final, he will repeat the same menu: a ham and cheese omelette for breakfast, pizza for lunch and then a kebab, washed down with a can of Fanta.
It may not be the typical diet of an elite sportsman but, whatever the approach, the 16-year-old can seemingly do no wrong.
He saved his best darts at Ally Pally so far last night for the 2018 champion Rob Cross, who won the title on debut, as Littler is aiming to do in such age-defying fashion, with a 106.05 average. Only three men before that had ever averaged higher in a semi-final on the sport's biggest stage.
Any sense he might be overcome by the occasion were quickly dispelled, as he dominated the match after losing the opening set for the first time at these Worlds. And, try as he might, Cross, who averaged a respectable 102.77 as he took the fight to the teen, could not bridge the gap.
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