Luke Littler reveals exactly how darts stars should deal with boozed-up whistling fans after Premier League drama

Straight-talking Luke Littler says sickened darts stars simply have to ignore the disrespectful darts whistlers.

The World Champion was caught in the centre of the Glasgow storm as his Premier League Darts Final against Luke Humphries was hijacked by unruly idiots. Littler and the World No.1 were both badly affected as whistling from the crowd damaged them at key moments of the showpiece clash.

Earlier in the evening, Welshman Gerwyn Price was angry at the acts and fired back at offenders with an on-stage wolf-whistle of his own after slamming home a crucial shot. Referees have taken a tougher stance in recent times with incidents in both World Series events in Bahrain and Holland being called out on the microphones. However, Littler felt official Kirk Bevins’ attempts to quell the disorder during his Humphries encounter did him no favours.

As pundits and true fans slam the moronic practice, The Nuke wants himself and his rivals to be respected during play. But, when that's not the case, Littler reckons the best approach is to try and block it out as he said: “Yeah, like you said, they [players] have to ignore it. Obviously, as much as I want the crowd to be respectful of us, if they do it to Luke and he misses darts at double, then as a player myself, I’ve got to come back and I’ve got to hit my doubles.

“But yeah, I think it’s best off if they don’t whistle at us. We just want to play our darts. We all know. We’ve been here a long time. All the fans, they are drinking, they’re all, it’s whatever they want to do. It’s been a long night for them and it’s been a long night for us. But we’ve just got to play our darts.”

Players can’t wear headphones, such as Price infamously did at the Ally Pally at the 2023 Worlds, due to