County boards must realise they are now in the events and entertainment business

After he made his way through the turnstiles, Tony Browne took up a spot on the terraced bank alongside an 80-year-old man from Fourmilewater. The small stand on the opposite side of the field was already full, and so the octogenarian had to be content with standing room only, enduring the intermittent rain.
āI was fine watching the game from my vantage point,ā Browne wrote in his column for this paper yesterday, ābut surely we could be laying on something better for a man of that age?ā