Today in Parliament, I paid tribute to Bristol’s LGBT team Bristol City Panthers Football Club and to the campaigning community sports club the Easton Cowboys for everything they do to combat homophobia and racism, and to ensure that everybody can enjoy football and other sport in Bristol.

Community football teams like the Panthers, the Cowboys, and the Bristol Womens Football Casual League do fantastic work to make football accessible to everybody in the city who wants to play.

So I was delighted to pay tribute to these local teams in the House of Commons today, and I’m glad the Sports Minister was interested in visiting Bristol to meet the clubs in person!