Mitchell Lawrie is becoming a very prominent young talent in darts following his impressive results in the early stages of his darting career. Tipped to be among the best darters in the world, the 15-year-old is already becoming a familiar face to many — and he has now revealed one of the strangest places he has been recognised.
The Scot is coming into darts at a very prosperous time, with the sport's popularity having increased to new heights since the emergence of Luke Littler. Lawrie will be wanting to follow in 'The Nuke's' footsteps and has already achieved a lot in the sport. Last year at Lakeside, he became the first teenager to reach the WDF World Championship final, dropping just two sets in the process before Jimmy van Schie managed to take him down. He would later become the youngest player to reach the number one spot in the WDF world rankings.
With all of that comes fame, and Lawrie is starting to get recognised more. He shared the weirdest place he had ever got recognised: in the toilet at Ibrox while watching his beloved Rangers. "I was at the Rangers game at Ibrox the other day and I was in the toilet and the boy just stopped at me and stared at me and went, 'there's Mitchell Lawrie'," he told Oche180. "His Dad was like, 'I don't know who that is'."
Lawrie admitted he did not initially know what to do. "I kind of froze to be honest I just didn't know what to say. I was with my friend and stuff and my friend was like, 'go and take a photo with the wee boy'."
Lawrie has been touted to win the biggest accolades the sport has to offer, and with that comes more recognition amid a growing profile — something he realises he will need to get used to. "When you're walking down the street and people want photos, it's going to happen and it's going to be a thing now," he commented, acknowledging the sport's rapid rise in recent times. "Darts is that big that if you're walking down the street you're going to get noticed so you just need to get used to it."
