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Matthew Porter: How we learned to 'love the darts'

These days, darts is now a sport of millionaires. It is well-marketed and winning top industry awards for the quality of its events. There are academies and challenger tours as the organisation builds for the future and competitions across the globe as it attempts to reach new markets.

Matt Porter has been CEO of the Professional Darts Corporation for more than a decade. He discussed the approach that has taken darts out of the pub, promoted it an entirely new way and pushed it onto the world stage.

Barry Hearn has been promoting sports for well over 40 years.

As the head of Matchroom Sport, he has revolutionised snooker twice and made his PDC Darts World Championship the second most viewed event on Sky Sports. He managed a stable of boxers in the 1980s and his son Eddie is now guiding the career of world heavyweight king Anthony Joshua among many others.

Now 70, Barry still describes himself as “an accountant from a council estate with a chip on his shoulder”. He still rallies against “the blazers” and still wants to change the sporting world on a daily basis.