Premier League darts in Belfast LIVE as Luke Littler launches title defence with Humphries, Van Gerwen and Price in action

The talking is over as the spectacular 17-week Premier League Darts roadshow gets rolling in Belfast with some brilliant games and a host of major talking points.

Luke Littler will top the bill everywhere he goes. Not only is he the defending champion, but he is also World Champion after his famous success at Ally Pally and his clash with Michael van Gerwen will be epic given the public telling-off he just received from the Dutchman for his late arrival to the press day.

The Nuke also faces competition competition from the likes of World No.1 Luke Humphries and Rob Cross, a recent World Series winner in Den Bosch. Much controversy over the four PDC picks to join the top four in the rankings for the schedule and Stephen Bunting, Chris Dobey, Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall have a first chance to clamp the critics at the SSE Arena.

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Luke Humphries showed everyone why he is top of the rankings with his success at The Masters. It was a seventh major title success in just 15 months with a World Cup alongside Michael Smith thrown in their for good measure. Cool Hand is a model professional and has the mindset and skills to stay at the summit through the course of the campaign. In the eyes of most observers, he is the one who can consistently upstage Littler and go one better than his runner-up finish on debut last year.

Bunting has built an army of support and could barely be going into the event in better form having risen to World No.5 on the back of his run to the Ally Pally semi-finals. It could have been No.4 had he not lost to Danny Noppert last weekend in MK, but he won the opening World Series event in Bahrian and reached