Luke Littler caused a stir with his furious response to being booed at Alexandra Palace, and divided the talkSPORT studios in the process.‘The Nuke’ booked his spot in the quarter-finals of the PDC World Darts Championship by beating Rob Cross 4-2 on Monday night, but it was his reaction afterwards that made the headlines.GettyLittler bit back at the Alexandra Palace crowd on Monday night[/caption]Littler wasn’t happy with sections of the crowd, who sided with underdog Cross, while he was booed at times.Immediately after hitting double 20 to secure the victory, the 18-year-old turned to the crowd with his arms wide open, and shouted ‘What now? What now?’.He then took things a step further in his on-stage interview afterwards, as he reminded jeering fans that they are paying for his prize money.Asked about his hostile reception, Littler told Sky Sports: “I’m not bothered, really I’m not bothered.View Tweet: https://t.co/QHszE1z4ua“Can I just say one thing – you guys pay for tickets and you pay for my prize money.“So thank you, thank you for my money, thank you for booing me! Come on!”With Littler’s comments drawing further boos from the crowd, his angry response has divided opinion, not least in the talkSPORT studios, where the debate has continued since then.Jamie O’HaraOne man who was on Littler’s side is Sports Bar host Jamie O’Hara, who blasted fans for tearing down the teenage sensation.Reacting to his Monday night outburst, O’Hara claimed Littler is responsible for bringing in a new wave of followers to darts, and the crowd had no right to boo him.He said: “I don’t think they should boo him. Why are we booing the greatest thing to happen to darts in the last decade? Littler kept up his PDC world title defence, but wasn’t entirely happy afterwardsGetty‘The Nuke’ had one or two things to say to fans post-match and he was subsequently booed off stageGetty“Look, I get what he said is wrong. I understand what he said. He probably shouldn’t have said that.“And it’s after the game, high emotions. He’s played a tough match against Rob Cross. He’s a good player and he’s beaten him. “And he’s getting booed. And I’m like: ‘’Hold on a minute. The kid’s 18′. “He’s going to make mistakes. He isn’t perfect. He’s a young lad. He’s a normal lad. He’s had a nibble, and he’s had a big nibble, but if he plays again in the quarter finals coming up.“If you boo him, you’re an idiot. He’s the greatest thing [to happen to darts]. “We’re all watching darts from Luke Littler. No one really else, apart from Luke Humphries, the only thing we’re enjoying watching is Luke Littler and how good he is. Why are you booing him?”Jamie O’Hara has leapt to Littler’s defencetalkSPORTO’Hara then took aim at the British public: “This is the problem with British culture. We build people up to knock them down. That’s what we do.“We do it with everyone. Anyone who’s any good in England or in Britain, we build them up, we make them the best thing, [we say]: ’Oh he’s the face of darts’. “And all of a sudden we start booing him. We start knocking him. The kid’s 18. He’s 18 years old. Like, do you know what he’s doing? “This kid’s unbelievable, and we’re sitting there and we’re booing.”Jermaine PennantWhile O’Hara was sympathetic to Littler, the same couldn’t be said of his co-host Jermaine Pennant, who insisted the youngster needed to have thicker skin in the face of criticism.Sitting next to O’Hara on the Sports Bar, the former Liverpool man argued: “It’s banter [the crowd’s behaviour]. That’s part of it.PAPennant insisted Littler must handle Alexandra Palace’s raucous crowd better[/caption]“You look at darts, you see all sorts of shenanigans going on. A local boy in Ross playing, from London, and they’re cheering on one of their own.“If you can’t handle a few men booing you, you hear all sorts of gibberish at darts. “If you can’t handle a few gents, [having] a few pints booing you, get out of the kitchen then. That’s poor!”Pennant later added: “You’re telling me every single individual in that crowd was booing him? “He would have had his own set of fans. And you’d have had some Rob Cross’ fans.”Jeff StellingThe debate on Littler’s actions continued on Tuesday’s talkSPORT Breakfast, where presenter Stelling admitted that while he was understood the teenager’s response, he felt he could have handled things better.AFPLittler became dart’s youngest-ever world champion in January[/caption]He said: “It bothers him. The problem is he’s 18 and he needs some advice because he got the response wrong – completely wrong. “Something like that happens and he’s asked by the [interviewer about it]. “He should just be saying: ‘Great crowd, loved it. They’re just having a bit of fun. We’ve had a great night. Don’t mind it at all’.“Just deflect back at them. Not take them on, because there’s a lot of them. There’s only one of him.”Like O’Hara, Stelling was also sympathetic to his reception by the British public, adding: “That’s the thing that we have isn’t it? We build our stars up to knock them down. “And he is so good and he sometimes, I don’t think it’s intentional, he does exude a sort of arrogance because he knows he’s so good, and that’s fine.