Cricket’s good for business – Peter Lynn
By Andy Pearson
On July 20, a South Wales Evening Post opinion column suggested that it might be time for the St Helen’s sports ground in Swansea to bid farewell to county cricket. City solicitor Peter Lynn was having none of it. As Glamorgan CCC began to entertain Leicestershire in an LV= County Championship match at the famous old ground, he had the following letter published by the newspaper.
Let’s make more of a splash
I was concerned at yesterday’s Evening Post opinion on the subject of sport at St Helen’s.
Sure, the paper is right to encourage debate, but it should do so with more nous.
Cricket (and rugby, which you failed to mention) has a great past at St Helen’s and as a city we should fight for an exciting future.
This week, my own firm, Peter Lynn and Partners, will join others in helping to celebrate county cricket in Swansea. A hospitality day there is good for business, great for morale and fantastic fun. The individual paying punters also derive enormous pleasure from St Helen’s cricket.
Yes, the superb Swalec Stadium is Glamorgan’s premier cricket venue and, yes, our own ground has seen better days.
However, hard-working organisation the Balconiers, its passionate chairman John Williams and every sports fan in south west Wales deserve a lot more than an apparent roll-over-and-die attitude from the Evening Post.
Please stand up and fight for something that’s local and great; promote a collective fight to improve and develop Swansea’s top class cricket offering.
Your initial idea for a new St Helen’s attraction is an aquarium.
Okay, Swansea’s not the biggest fish in the pond, but please don’t encourage an attitude that could see us labelled sporting plankton.
Peter Lynn Senior partner, Peter Lynn and Partners, SA1, Swansea
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