You feel for Stephen Bunting, whose performance could have beaten basically anyone else alive. And yet he met a force so oppressive, so inevitable, it can bend the future to its will.
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Read MoreSomehow, this has become expected from Littler. Not once over the past three weeks has he seemed genuinely threatened, even in underperformance. His underperformance is most people’s high performance.
All this could make the novelty, the beauty, wear off. Don’t let it. Bring back the novelty, the utter wonderment, that fairy tale feeling. Drink it in, bathe in it. This is as good as sport, as human entertainment, gets. Take this for what it is – legend happening live, the gradual birth of a god.
An evening at Alexandra Palace is supposed to be a chance to get drunk and dress up, a joyous temple to forget your worries for a while. And yet, for a brief moment, Littler makes it the centre of the sporting world. People now realise they’re being given an audience with something bigger and better than themselves.
The World Darts Championship is Luke Littler’s to lose
Read MoreThere is now only one man capable of stopping what has felt like fate since Littler sidled up to the oche to begin the future in December 2023. Michael van Gerwen is back where he believes he belongs, the centre of the Alexandra Palace action and attention, into a seventh World Championship final since 2013, palming off a wasteful Chris Dobey to get there.
This was not his best, but it was enough to win and enough to suggest he is still capable of lifting the Sid Waddell Trophy.
But whether that will be enough to beat or even really challenge Littler is a different question. He is a more mature, bolder, more brilliant player than lost last year’s showpiece, aided by that experience. He is 17 years old, and this is happening.
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