Darts legend Phil Taylor has warned world No 1 Luke Littler to "get used to it" after continuous boos and whistles at recent tournaments. Littler's bid for a clean sweep of all major PDC titles in 2026 ended at the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam where he complained about being repeatedly whistled at by Dutch supporters. The back-to-back world champion even threatened to boycott future tournaments in the Netherlands after being booed and whistled by the vociferous crowd.
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Taylor, a 16-time world champion, retired from the competitive circuit in 2018, five years after winning his final world crown and he backed Littler to turn the boo-boys in his favour. Speaking to Sky Sports News, Taylor said: "Littler has got to get used to the boos. Go in there and turn the crowd.
Sometimes if you play well and you start hitting your 140s and 180s, your big finishes, the crowd will turn and don't react to it, but he does react. "He's young and he's a little bit cocky at times but that's good, that's confidence. He's just got to accept crowds are going to be on his back for a little bit, but they will get bored with it.
"Keep doing what you're doing, keep playing well, and just concentrate. Let them boo and then do your little antics when you've won." He continued: "Littler doesn't have responsibilities. He can just go up there and enjoy himself and win tournaments.
Go up there, enjoy it, take no notice of the crowd, which isn't easy, obviously, but work out a way of turning the crowd around." Taylor also discussed how Littler would have improved his game "100 per cent" and advised the Warrington phenom to continue playing the board. "I would have loved him to have been about," said 66-year-old Taylor. "Any player that used to come through I used to love anyway because I looked at ways of raising my game.
You have to be a bit like Rocky Balboa by getting the chicken out and chasing it down the garden. It's great to see him up there and he's a lovely lad who is not money orientated. "Players that were better than me, I thrived on it.
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