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World Darts Championship: Luke Littler interview; ENGLAND: London: Alexandra Palace : INT Luke Littler (Darts player) interview SOT. Q: Congrats to your achievement. There was yesterday a situation. The score was four two and you missed a double seven, I think. Was that one of the turning points? Do you remember that situation? Can you tell us more about that? A: Yeah, I missed, I missed double two to go, to go five, two up. But that was, that would've changed everything. 'cause Then I would've went after the break and I would've been two sets away. I was just six, just winning six legs, but it wasn't to be. And then Luke won the rest of the rest of the sets. And you got the job done. Q: There's not only so much talk about you, but also your, your, your family got into the focus, your partner got into the focus. How do you feel about that? What does it do to you that also your family got involved? A: We've just got to, just got to move on. Just whatever happens, it's in the past now we've got to look to the future. Q: Was that distracting you at any point? A: No. I just leading up to it. Just do the same routine as I have been doing. Q: And there was also a lot of talks about your partner, that brought you back closer together even? A: Yeah. Her we're gonna stick together now. Obviously we have been doing for the past few months, so we're just gonna stick together whether anyone likes it or not. We're not bothered. Q: You said you mentioned your social media numbers you had beforehand 4,000 followers now 700,000. How's that impacting you? A: It's just, it's crazy, crazy to think that so many people are following me, especially the footballers of my club, Luke Shaw, Johnny Evans and Phil Jones even sent me a message. So it was just unbelievable. Q: Are you scared you can't go back to a normal life? A: I'm not really scared. I just know what's, I know. I know what's gonna happen and we just gotta, just gotta get used to it. ...
World Darts Championship: Luke Littler interview; ENGLAND: London: Alexandra Palace : INT Luke Littler (Darts player) interview SOT. Q: Congrats to your achievement. There was yesterday a situation. The score was four two and you missed a double seven, I think. Was that one of the turning points? Do you remember that situation? Can you tell us more about that? A: Yeah, I missed, I missed double two to go, to go five, two up. But that was, that would've changed everything. 'cause Then I would've went after the break and I would've been two sets away. I was just six, just winning six legs, but it wasn't to be. And then Luke won the rest of the rest of the sets. And you got the job done. Q: There's not only so much talk about you, but also your, your, your family got into the focus, your partner got into the focus. How do you feel about that? What does it do to you that also your family got involved? A: We've just got to, just got to move on. Just whatever happens, it's in the past now we've got to look to the future. Q: Was that distracting you at any point? A: No. I just leading up to it. Just do the same routine as I have been doing. Q: And there was also a lot of talks about your partner, that brought you back closer together even? A: Yeah. Her we're gonna stick together now. Obviously we have been doing for the past few months, so we're just gonna stick together whether anyone likes it or not. We're not bothered. Q: You said you mentioned your social media numbers you had beforehand 4,000 followers now 700,000. How's that impacting you? A: It's just, it's crazy, crazy to think that so many people are following me, especially the footballers of my club, Luke Shaw, Johnny Evans and Phil Jones even sent me a message. So it was just unbelievable. Q: Are you scared you can't go back to a normal life? A: I'm not really scared. I just know what's, I know. I know what's gonna happen and we just gotta, just gotta get used to it. ...
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