Peter Wright jokes he's going to steal Luke Littler's phone in a bid to get the first win
PETER WRIGHT has vowed to steal Luke Littler's phone to avoid being crushed by the Warrington prodigy.
The two-time world darts champion will face the teenage sensation on the fourth night of the Premier League in Newcastle on Thursday.
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Wright, 53, is bottom of the eight-man rankings with zero points from three events.
And he joked that he has to upset The Nuke somehow and disrupt his usual relaxed training room preparation of playing FIFA on his mobile.
Snakebite laughed, “I'm going to take his phone from him in the back room so he can't play games!
“Hopefully this old boy can still do it against Luke. When I was his age and I went to an exhibition to play against one of the pros. I had the 'I'm going to beat the shit out of you' attitude.
“That's the kind of attitude Luke has now, and it's great.
“It will be fun to play against him, I have seen what he has done with all the other top professionals.
“He hasn't played me yet, but if I play like I did last week in Glasgow, he will beat me easily!
“But I have now practiced with these darts for another week. That made me ready for Newcastle.”
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Littler, 17, has endured the toughest week of his professional career with a Premier League opener defeat to Gerwyn Price in Glasgow last week and then a first-round defeat to James Wade in the Players Championship on Tuesday.
And Littler has now suffered even more misery after losing to Dutchman Jitse van der Wal in the PDC Tour Card qualifier.
Van der Wal had a 120 checkout to end the match, which he won 6-3.
But Wright insists he doesn't care about the new kid on the block, adding: 'It's all about me, I'm not worried about anyone else at all.
“I feel mentally strong. It's coming, but hopefully not in December. I would prefer it before the Matchplay and UK Open, that would be nice.
“We've had to deal with a lot of things as a family. But there are people who are in worse situations than what I have and have had to deal with. Some people have to experience that every day.
“I just try to take each day as it comes. Every time you turn on the news, a celebrity has died. You don't know how long you have left on this planet.
“I just believe he'll come for you when he's ready, no matter how you stay fit.
“It's like a darts game. Maybe it would have mattered years ago when I wasn't winning any titles and kept losing in the finals.
“I've won titles and majors. So deep down I know that I could have quite easily retired straight after the World Championships, put my feet up and watched darts evolve even further. But I'm not done yet.”
SunSport has revealed how Littler has signed the “biggest deal in darts” after entering into a multi-year partnership with long-time sponsors Target Darts.
Target Darts first saw Littler when he was 12 years old and has supported him throughout his journey on the PDC Development Tour and the WDF circuit.
Today they announced the first senior contract of his career, just a month after he turned 17, and it is believed to be a multi-million pound deal.
That figure is based on potential earnings and bonuses over the next five to 10 years, as well as a percentage of product and equipment sales to arrow fans.