There is no doubt this is one of the iconic British sporting achievements, from perhaps its most fascinating current sportsperson. To say no-one has done something like this before in darts risks underselling it: the previous youngest winner of the Sid Waddell Trophy was 24.
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Read MoreLittler swaggered onto an Ally Pally stage pregnant with possibility, swaying his hips and puffing his chest like he’d just entered a Western saloon with time to kill and vengeance to wreak. Michael van Gerwen was booed before his walk-on music even began, instantly cast as the heel, the villain, a barrier blocking joy and wonder.
He doesn’t need to do this anymore. He already has everything; at least three of every major title, nearly £12m in career winnings, five years at No 1 and the respect of the world. But like every true great, he just wants more. This was pure pride and ambition and greed, a desire of nothing less pure than to be better than best.
Littler’s was a violent victory, a public flogging, a pronouncement that everyone else in the sport is now chasing him, that the level has been raised. The start was understandably nervy, wayward darts wandering into the five sector and the one.
And then somehow he was 4-0 up, with Van Gerwen hitting just 18 per cent of his doubles, left vacantly staring into the distance. If you’re new to this: that’s catastrophic. 36 per cent would not have been good enough.
Darts at its best is a contact sport, a battle of wills where you can mentally break your opponent with darts alone. Van Gerwen must have wished he could have made any contact with Littler at all.
Where does a 17-year-old world champion go next? Where is there to climb from the top of the mountain? You can climb it again, which you assume he will, but it invariably won’t be the same, the high not quite as high, especially if this easy dominance continues.
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