The grandfather versus the teen

BARNEY IN WAY OF KID LUKE

- Mike Walters

IT’S ON – the biggest Saturday night generation game since the fondu set and cuddly toy on Bruce Forsyth’s conveyor belt of tat.

Raymond van Barneveld, 56, a five-time world champion and former postman, will meet 16-year-old Luke Littler, the kebab-scoffing boy wonder, in the fourth round of the PDC World Championship.

Not since Rupert Murdoch married Jerry Hall has there been such an age gap.

If Luke the Nuke slays the Barney Army’s field general at Alexandra Palace tonight, it will be a sporting feat for the ages. Van Barneveld clinched his date with Destiny’s child after a 4-1 win against Jim Williams yesterday and said: “At 16 I was playing with Lego.”