“I can not consider it,” Littler informed Sky Sports activities. “We each performed so properly.

“I’ve stated in interviews that I wanted to get off to a fast begin tonight and that is what I did.

“Everybody goals of lifting this trophy. You have to get via a troublesome discipline. I can not consider it.”

After bursting onto the scene finally 12 months’s World Championship, ‘The Nuke’ went on to win 10 titles and hit 4 nine-darters in 2024 and took that type to Alexandra Palace.

Littler averaged greater than 100 in 5 of his six matches and led the event with 76 maximums to win the Ballon D’Artwork trophy for prime 180 hitter – though he did fail to match Michael Smith’s file of 83 set in 2022.

Not that Littler will care after a event the place he was working at a special degree to the remaining.

The relentless scoring is one factor, that magical double 10 he hardly misses is one other, however Littler additionally has that excellent timing – hitting 180s and nailing huge checkouts at essential moments that simply mentally grind his opponents into submission.

A sure Phil Taylor gained his first BDO world title 35 years in the past this 12 months, and there is greater than a touch of ‘The Energy’ about Littler’s recreation.

At Littler’s age, Taylor’s file of 16 world titles might be in severe hazard.