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HEADINGLEY And Now Cricket

The violence displayed by British football fans threatens to spill over to the highly decorous crowds who watch the normally placid game of cricket. The management of Lord’s, the hallowed cricket ground in the center of London, has felt obliged to take security measures as a result of the events at a recent test match at Headingley. At the end of the game teenage fans stormed onto the pitch, as the playing premises are known, snatched up souvenirs, and proceeded to do battle with each other for their possession. Lord’s has taken extraordinary measures: Warnings will be broadcast at half-hour intervals that infringements of the pitch will be answered with the expulsion of spectators from the field, and the crowds will be otherwise kept in order by fifty grass stewards backed up by police.

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HEADINGLEY And Now Cricket

The violence displayed by British football fans threatens to spill over to the highly decorous crowds who watch the normally placid game of cricket. The management of Lord’s, the hallowed cricket ground in the center of London, has felt obliged to take security measures as a result of the events at a recent test match at Headingley. At the end of the game teenage fans stormed onto the pitch, as the playing premises are known, snatched up souvenirs, and proceeded to do battle with each other for their possession. Lord’s has taken extraordinary measures: Warnings will be broadcast at half-hour intervals that infringements of the pitch will be answered with the expulsion of spectators from the field, and the crowds will be otherwise kept in order by fifty grass stewards backed up by police.