Luke Littler on standby as darts superstar awaits a phone call to change career IF terms are met
dailyrecord.co.ukLuke Humphries' nine-match winning streak in the Premier League was ended by a pumped-up Luke Littler in Belfast last night.In another pulsating episode of the Lukes of Hazard, world champ Humphries' bid for an unprecedented fourth nightly win fell short as the 17-year-old edged a quarter-final thriller 6-5.
Luke the Nuke's seven 180 maximums and 102.02 average proved too much for Cool Hand Luke, who had won in Brighton, Nottingham and Dublin.And now Littler is standing by for a call-up to play football - in Soccer Aid at Stamford Bridge come June.
Littler was a robust centre-half as a schoolboy until his father advised him to concentrate on darts but he said: "I'd be up for that, 100 per cent.
I've seen they have gone about 10 people down so, if they are watching - get me in. But I'm definitely not playing in goal if I play Soccer Aid.
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