Darts sensation Luke Littler watched Arsenal’s defeat to West Ham from the hospitality part after assembly Declan Rice and Aaron Ramsdale.
The 16-year-old, who has taken the world of British sport by storm after breezing into the last-16 of the PDC World Darts Championship with out breaking a sweat, ran into the Gunners duo within the foyer of his London lodge forward of West Ham’s go to to the Emirates on Thursday.
They requested him for a photograph, which Manchester United-loving Littler fortunately agreed to, however Littler did he know that would not be the Premier League spectacle he’d be handled to that day.
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Some time later, Arsenal received in contact to supply him and his household hospitality tickets for the West Ham recreation and ‘The Nuke’ posted a few snaps from his seat in the course of the match. “Few days off chillin,” he wrote on X. “Thanks to @OfficialPDC and @Arsenal for the hospitality tickets and lots of pictures with the fans.”
As a Man United fan, Littler would have loved watching West Ham dent Arsenal’s title hopes with a shock 2-0 win. Tomas Soucek gave the guests the lead on 13 minutes earlier than Konstantinos Mavropanos added one other simply after break.
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Former Hammers skipper Rice then conceded a penalty late within the recreation, although David Raya spared his blushes by parrying Said Benrahma’s effort away. The end result noticed Mikel Arteta’s facet drop two factors behind league-leaders Liverpool, whereas West Ham moved as much as sixth and are actually simply 4 factors off a Champions League spot.
Littler, in the meantime, stormed previous Matt Campbell at Ally Pally on Wednesday to turn out to be the youngest particular person ever to succeed in spherical 4 of the world championship. There, he might face the legendary Raymond van Barneveld, and a win over Barney might arrange an intriguing conflict in opposition to Gerwyn Price’s conqueror Brendan Dolan.
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Rice and Ramsdale aren’t the one footballer Littler has been snapped with. A couple of days in the past he posed for a photograph with Man United flop Donny van de Beek, who, as an enormous fan of the darts, was granted backstage entry at Ally Pally.