NUKE'S PHONEY WAR OVER

Peace breaks out as Luke and Barney get the message

- MIKE WALTERS

LUKE LITTLER has made his peace with Raymond van Barneveld after their public spat over unanswered texts.

Five-time world champion Barney had been miffed that ‘Luke the Nuke’ did not respond when he sent the 17-year-old boy wonder congratulatory messages after his triumph at the Belgian Darts Open earlier this month.

And in a huff, RVB playfully admonished Littler in an interview with a Dutch media outlet, scoffing: “Dude’s on his phone all day… f*** off.”

But after winning his first Premier League night in Belfast, the Warrington whizzkid revealed everything has been smoothed over with Van Barneveld – one of his boyhood idols.