The tour’s penultimate night arrives at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena on May twenty nine, and hometown darling Luke Littler is the undisputed headline act. Warrington sits just twenty miles up the motorway, ensuring thousands of friends and family among the sold‑out ten thousand crowd ready to raise the roof for the teenage sensation.
Littler’s record on Merseyside is flawless: he lifted the 2024 World Series event here and averaged a mind‑bending one hundred and eight in an exhibition last December. Yet home expectations can weigh heavy, and pundits remember Michael Smith’s stumble under similar pressures in 2021.
His opener is against Michael van Gerwen, offering immediate fireworks. Littler leads their season series five‑four and rattled off a six‑one demolition in Leeds that still loops on social media. Van Gerwen, however, recorded Liverpool’s highest checkout in history—a one seventy—back in 2017 and loves the board’s high‑visibility wiring.
Gerwyn Price meets Luke Humphries in another blockbuster, while Nathan Aspinall faces Jonny Clayton in a clash possibly decisive for the final play‑off berth. Clayton has historically thrived under partisan noise, but Aspinall’s Manchester triumph suggests he can spoil any homecoming party.
Should Littler capture the nightly title on Merseyside, he would set a Premier League record for most points in a season before the O2 finals. Liverpool crowds treasure sporting history, and they may witness another chapter etched by their local phenom before the lights dim on the league phase.
