Headingley’s fan snub

at a time when the england Cricket Board are looking for a new family audience for their flawed Hundred tournament, one of its eight venues, Headingley, are already doing their best to alienate supporters.

One double t20 season-ticket holder was told when he phoned the club in advance that he needn’t take evidence of the two extra junior tickets he had bought for his son’s friends for the t20 roses match last week. But on arrival at Headingley a steward told them they needed paper tickets and had to go to the main ticket office.

When the family arrived there, they were told they were being denied entry because of an ‘abusive’ attitude towards the steward. not wanting to let down his son on his 13th birthday, the father then bought two more tickets off a tout. Yet he had been tracked on CCtV using the black market facility and was refused admittance again when he returned to the gate.

a Yorkshire cricket spokesman promised an inquiry into the family’s scandalous treatment.

FOOTBALL fans are again being treated with contempt by rail companies with Euston, a major railway hub for football traffic, scheduled to close for the next three weekends, including on Bank Holiday Monday on August 27 when Spurs play at Manchester United.

MIDDLESEX are upping their search for a new ground with capacity for 4,000 spectators where they can stage first-class matches. It is needed because Lord’s will be hosting fixtures in the Hundred tournament that will further limit availability for Middlesex at cricket’s headquarters.