ST HELENS really does have an amazing track record for producing darts stars.

Sixteen-year-old Luke Littler’s journey through the World Darts Championships has been incredible – and captured the imagination of the nation.

He is undoubtedly a prodigious talent, but so much praise has to go to the St Helens Darts Academy based at Sidac, Sutton Leach, for giving these young girls and boys the platform to develop on the world stage.

Take a bow, Karl Holden, you deserve it.

Surely some recognition is coming his way in the future?

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