Luke Littler and Mardle’s awkward trade as darts legend ‘did not imply that’

Luke Littler and Wayne Mardle had a clumsy trade when reviewing the Paddy Power World Darts Championship remaining.

The 16-year-old’s magical ascent in the course of the event got here to a halt in Wednesday evening’s remaining as he was lastly defeated by the hands of world primary Luke Humphries. Littler had at one level led the match 4-2 and was on the cusp of changing into the youngest winner ever at Alexandra Palace.

He sat alongside the victor for an interview with Sky on Thursday, with Mardle, who had commentated on the match, quizzing the pair. But the 50-year-old dampened the temper by including insult to harm, asking the inspiring teenager concerning the second the place all of it went unsuitable for him.

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Littler defined: “The leg before to go on 2 2. I was just 10 points off. I was like ‘What have I got, 4?'”

“I stopped, slowed everything down and I wired it. It’s all I could have done. Then he wins the next three sets.”

But Mardle brutally interjected the teenager, correcting him by saying: “It was actually the next five but don’t worry about it.”

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Humphries, who was sitting to the appropriate of Littler, referred to as out the commentator by saying: “I thought you said you wouldn’t go so negative,” earlier than Mardle softened his tone and replied: “I didn’t even mean that, that’s terrible.”

Littler, a minimum of on the floor, discovered the trade at his expense humorous. But some viewers took challenge with what they deemed was “disrespectful” in the direction of the teenager.

One fan complained: “Mardle giving advice to darts players is like Tim Henman dishing it out to Djokovic.”

Another fumed: “Wayne Mardle’s being a bit of a k**b here, we all know the turning point for Luke Littler yesterday, today’s probably not the time to bring it up.”

A 3rd added: “Luke has more social sense than any of them pure disrespectful the way they talk to them just because he’s 16.”