The Ashes: Headingley aims to provide miserable experience
Yorkshire chief exec Stewart Regan is one of my favourite inept English Cricket Administrators. Or, at least, he always sounds inept when quoted in the press. In amongst Giles Clarke’s plea for England fans to stop booing Ricky Ponting (thus guaranteeing an escalation), Regan chipped in with his contribution:
The reputation of Headingley has been built up over many years. The West Stand has a reputation as a party area and we’ve got to break that. We’ve put together a series of measures to ensure that those people who want to watch the cricket are not disrupted by those who are simply there to have a good time.
I had never considered that people might go to the cricket to avoid having a good time. What these measures are is not entirely clear, although I suspect it may involve adding Night Nurse to the overpriced warm beer.
They will realise their mistake when 5,000 people snore Ricky Ponting to the wicket.
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