The World Darts Championship continues to thunder, but it’s not all peace and quiet. Luke Littler (16) apologized on X-ex Twitter for a seemingly innocent photo in which he held up a copy of ‘The Sun’, a British tabloid not exactly popular in his home region.
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These days in the UK they are enthralled by teenager Luke Littler’s impressive performance at the World Darts Championship. ‘The Nuke’ has now also beaten Raymond van Barneveld and is the youngest player ever to reach the World Cup quarter-finals. But on the eve of that clash against his great idol, Littler found himself in an unpleasant situation.
After his win against Campbell in the round of 32, Littler posed for a photo with a copy of The Sun in his right hand and a three-dart kebab in his right hand. He always ate the latter after a win in “Ally Pally” and that wasn’t the problem. Littler received a lot of criticism on social media because he posed with the newspaper.
Teenage sensation Luke Littler wins again © ADR
Hillsborough drama
The Englishman was born in Runcorn, near Liverpool. And in that region “The Sun” is not, to put it mildly, the most popular newspaper. This has to do with the tabloid reporting of the Hillsborough drama. The football disaster, the worst in British history, killed 96 people at Sheffield Wednesday’s stadium in 1989.
In April 2016, a jury ruled that the deaths were the result of errors caused by police failures. The fans were not to blame. The police and several newspapers, including “The Sun”, tried to distort the truth immediately after the disaster. And this is a sensitive issue in Liverpool to this day. For example, journalists from “The Sun” are not welcome at home matches of Liverpool and Everton, the newspaper’s sales in the region are boycotted and many prefer not to even mention its name.
Luke Littler speaks to the media after the win against Van Barneveld. © Photo News
And Littler experienced how great the hatred towards “The Sun” still is. On X-the former Twitter-many people from her home region were dissatisfied with the photo of the teenager posing with the newspaper. Littler has since also apologized for this.
“Today a photo of me showing a newspaper appeared in the media,” says X. “All this media attention is new to me and at that moment I didn’t understand what exactly they were asking me to do.” But I would like to point out that I do not identify in any way with that newspaper nor with the headline above the article in question. I would therefore like to apologize if I have offended anyone. I am now focusing on my next competition and would also like to thank everyone for the great support I have already received.”
Luke Littler @LukeTheNuke180
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