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Ben James

Famous Welsh rugby club sold for £1 amid plea for town to step up

Neath RFC have been bought for £1 amid plans to make the famous Welsh rugby side a sustainable community-run club.

Only four years ago, the club were in dire straits after the collapse of then owner Mike Cuddy's construction business. That left them fighting off two winding-up orders and saw them relegated into the Championship amid an exodus of players.

However, after Cardiff-based finance company Jardine Norton took over the club and put Matt Church in the role of CEO, fortunes started to change - with the club getting back on track and winning promotion back to the Premiership at the first attempt following some Covid-affected years.

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