Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:09 pm on 27 November 2018.
Now, the study, of course, as the Minister has said, has pointed to the fact that there is no sport heritage policy, guidance or strategy here in Wales, as there should be, and the recommendation to create an expert panel to develop a national vision and an implementation framework are things clearly to be welcomed. Now, it is important, despite this, that the National Museum Wales jigsaw is completed. We know about the presence in Cardiff in the national museum and in St Fagans, Big Pit in the Valleys, the waterfront museum in Swansea, wool in the west and slate in the north-west. There is a vacuum in the north-east, and I have argued in other contexts that we need more national institutions to have a presence in the north east to reinforce the Welsh identity of an area that naturally looks more in the direction of Liverpool and Manchester than it does in the direction of Cardiff. This is an opportunity not only to achieve that, but to tell the story of football in Wales from a Welsh perspective, and that should be located as part of the national museum.