The teenage superstar has shot to stardom with an incredible run to the World Darts Championship final, but who are his favourite football club?
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Darts prodigy Luke Littler is England’s new sporting sensation, so naturally everybody is desperate to know which football team he supports, because what are we if not a nation of would-be taxi drivers at heart?
We can tell you from direct experience that growing up in Warrington, chances are you support rugby league team Warrington Wolves plus one of either Liverpool or Manchester United.
Littler is no exception on either front, with Warrington players seen cheering him on at Alexandra Palace over the course of Littler’s exceptional run. When it comes to the round ball, though, Littler’s loyalties lie at Old Trafford – he even received tickets for a stadium tour as one of his Christmas presents this year.
He still found time to pay a visit to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to see Spurs play Bournemouth on New Year’s Eve, though, watching on from a private box as a guest of England star James Maddison. Just to spare Arsenal fans from getting upset, Littler has also visited Aaron Ramsdale and Declan Rice at the Gunners’ training ground.
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The Scottish media are always desperate to ascertain where people’s preferences lie north of the border, with the Scottish Sun noting that Littler follows Rangers and a couple of their players on Instagram.
News that Littler is a Manchester United fan will only get Leeds United fans even more firmly behind his opponent Luke Humphries for the final on Wednesday evening.
Humphries even went so far as to confirm a few months ago that his dad named him Luke in tribute to the Mighty Whites, with the letters of his first name standing for “Leeds United Kings of Europe”.
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That is of course a reference to Leeds fans’ ongoing assertion that they were cheated out of the 1975 European Cup Final, where they had two penalty shouts turned down on their way to losing 2-0 to Bayern Munich.
Steven Chicken has been working as a football writer since 2009, taking in stints with Football365 and the Huddersfield Examiner. Steven still covers Huddersfield Town home and away for his own publication, WeAreTerriers.com. Steven is a two-time nominee for Regional Journalist of the Year at the prestigious British Sports Journalism Awards, making the shortlist in 2020 and 2023.
