Luke Littler 7-1 Gian van Veen: PDC World Championship darts final – as it happened

Luke Littler produced an astounding display to regain his world title, winning 21 of the last 24 legs I was just afraid of losing. Afraid of what people might think of me. What if I lose this game? What are my parents going to think of me? And that’s when it started. Dartitis, with me, was just being afraid to fail. And that was because I wasn’t confident in myself, not in darts, not in my personal life. This piece, on Gian van Veen’s struggle with dartitis among other things, is well worth a re