A furious Luke Littler shushed a section of the crowd immediately after beating Nathan Aspinall in the Premier League.
With three nights to go in the Premier League, Littler leads at the top of the table as he took on Aspinall in the quarter-final on Thursday night, and he kept his hopes of a fourth night win alive by the skin of his teeth.
After emerging as the 6-5 winner in a tense battle in Aberdeen, the 17-year-old immediately turned to one section of the crowd and shushed them, as well as appearing to berate that same section.
What caused ‘The Nuke’ to blow his top at the Scottish crowd remains to be seen but the result means that he has qualified for the playoffs.
But the youngster had some trouble finishing his doubles, giving Aspinall the chance to chase him down after going 5-3 up.
He missed double tops to win the match, with ‘The Asp’ snatching the ninth leg with double three before breaking Littler’s throw to level up the match.
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Littler then hit three consecutive 140s before missing the bullseye with Aspinall needing 160 to land a momentous comeback victory.
However, after hitting treble 20 twice, he missed double tops as well before Littler cleaned up 25 to see him progress to the semi-finals.
It was at this moment when the teenager made his way over to a section of the crowd to shush them, looking clearly incensed.
He also shouted something at them but it was not clear what was said – from him or the crowd.
Littler will return to the oche later this night to face Michael Smith, who beat home crowd favourite and Scotsman Peter Wright earlier in the evening.
The youngster has already catapulted himself to 25th in the PDC Order of Merit and recently won his second European Tour title just hours after playing in the Premier League.
Littler had played in Liverpool the day before, where the Manchester United fan was faced with choruses of boos.
However, the Warrington-born star lapped up the jeers and went on to win the night, even playing up to his pantomime villain persona with a cheeky gesture.
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