Luke Littler's all-time Man United XI, picked in front of Paul Scholes

The darts star built his team from players he saw himself, and the comment section is still arguing over who he left out.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 234,391 views a day, 8.6 times a normal first day on this channel (27,379).

Scholes STUNNED by Luke Littler’s all-time Man United XI! 🤯

A darts champion picked the team. Luke Littler, the teenager who became world champion in January 2025, sat down with Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt on The Good, The Bad & The Football and named his all-time Manchester United XI. The title says Scholes was stunned.

Littler is a well-known United supporter, but he was born in 2007, the year Scholes was still winning league titles in midfield. So the side he chose is a United of his own memory. Viewers who have been counting say it has Antonio Valencia at right back, David de Gea in goal and Marcus Rashford ahead of Ryan Giggs. That last choice draws the most replies by far.

Not everyone is grumbling. A large share of the comments takes Littler's side, arguing he picked players he actually watched rather than reciting names from before his time. Others find the exercise a little humbling, realizing how different the club looks to someone under twenty. One viewer makes a long case for Valencia, a winger turned right back in his late twenties. A few note that Scholes seems looser and funnier than usual.

The Short had more than 160,000 views in its first twelve hours, far beyond the podcast's usual first day for Shorts, and its comments came in about four times faster. A sister clip from the same day, asking whether Steven Gerrard gets into United's all-time XI, did well too, though not on this scale. A day earlier, the channel had already asked whether a penalty or a bullseye is harder to hit.

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The numbers

One short clip from the darts world ran far ahead of what this podcast's Shorts usually do on their first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

27,379

this video

234,391

subscribers

186,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

119,922,562

views per day

242,826

typical day: 215,817

the video

views

161,771

likes

941

comments

257

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

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213,000

Premier Sports

203,000

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200,000

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186,000

That Peter Crouch Podcast

171,000

Fubo

163,000

As of October 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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