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Legendary rapper Snoop Dogg paid a visit to the Swansea City training ground, a day before watching the team play for the first time.
The American hip hop star is an investor in the Championship club and will be part of a record Swansea turnout for the Tuesday night visit of Preston North End.
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“We want to take Swansea to the Premier League, and to do that we are going to need money – that’s the reality of the game these days.
“I want to introduce sponsorship deals and publicity that will make them a global name.”
The West Coast rapper has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide but is yet to attend a Swansea game, though his son Cordell Broadus was in
Stone says his decision about who to support was made for him when he moved to Birmingham as a young boy and his uncle bought him a Villa shirt.
“No-one told me who to support, but that’s how it started,” he told BBC Sport.
“I lived in Walthamstow to start with, and I wasn’t into football then, but when I moved it was around the same time my uncle gave
I wanted Arsenal to try to push Liverpool in the title race but boss Mikel Arteta clearly knew something I didn’t, resting his players against Everton last weekend and then demolishing Real Madrid the way they did.
Arteta will make changes again here, before Wednesday’s second leg at the Bernabeu, and the fact it won’t be the Gunners’ strongest side makes this quite hard to predict.
Brentford are very capable