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Fallon aims to book Luke appointment after Ally Pally's clash of crimpers

- MIKE WALTERS

IN THE crimpers derby, Fallon Sherrock will have to cut Ryan Meikle down to size to earn a dream shot at Luke Littler.

Meikle, a Suffolk barber by trade, once gave the 'Queen of the Palace' a pair of clippers in her previous incarnation as a freelance hairdresser.

Tonight they meet in the first round at the Paddy Power PDC World Championship with the incentive of a Saturday night primetime shoot-out against 'Luke the Nuke' awaiting the winner.

And if either of them goes on to topple the boy wonder of darts, it will feel as if Littler's fairy-tale rise has fallen off the edge of a quiff.