Mick McGowan: ‘The days when guys could be on the stage with pints in front of them, it’s good to have moved on from there’

Mick McGowan qualified for his third PDC World Darts Championships by winning the Tom Kirby Memorial Irish Matchplay Trophy in October. Yesterday, at Alexandra Palace, he beat China’s Qiang Sun 2-0 in the Preliminary Round, before bowing out 3-0 to Welshman Mark Webster.