Football

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 8 March 2004.

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Photo of Richard Caborn Richard Caborn Minister of State (Sport and Tourism), Department for Culture, Media & Sport 2:30, 8 March 2004

I could not agree more with those sentiments. Unfortunately, a minority—it is a minority—of footballers misbehave, but every football club in the premier league and the first division is part of the playing for success initiative, which brings young people into centres to learn about information technology and uses the power of football to attract young people to learning and being good citizens. We must commend what football has been doing; it is unfortunate that it gets only bad publicity, as it has in the recent past.