<p>Professional Sport</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:38 pm on 16 May 2017.

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Photo of Gareth Bennett Gareth Bennett UKIP 1:38, 16 May 2017

Swansea City and Newport County FC are both important focuses in their communities. And community morale will rise in those places as a result of those teams’ success. The problem we have sometimes with professional football clubs is that they tend now to be foreign owned. Two of the three football league clubs—[Interruption.] Well, no, it’s not going to be an EU thing. Sometimes, they do become distant from their fan base, whereas, at the same time, they are also important assets in the community. So, I wondered is there any way in which the Welsh Government can help to preserve them in their role as assets in the community.