As the Test and County Cricket Board awaited a report from Yorkshire about the problems which led to 11 arrests and 120 people being ejected from the ground (200 were thrown out on Friday), Hassell said: ``I'm not happy that the terrace is now a place where families cannot go to watch cricket - but our security arrangements worked well.''
After crowd troubles a year ago, the county re- moved 3,000 seats from the terrace - reducing its capacity to around 4,000 to allow stewards to react more promptly. Their number was increased to 200 and bags were searched to prevent alcohol being brought in.
Drink still flowed freely, however - with bars open on the ground until police enforced their closure - and many spectators managed to smuggle in supplies.
One steward said that during the morning, he con- fronted a spectator clutching two bottles of vodka. ``He threatened to wrap one round my head and I had to call in the police to get him taken away.''
Hassell promised that further measures would be taken to curb the trouble. ``We may have to take action to get the drunks out as soon as they start making a noise.''
Sir Lawrence Byford, Yorkshire's president and a former West Riding chief constable, who is a member of the TCCB executive, is to give the Board details of what happened on Saturday afternoon during the second Cornhill Test.
Sir Lawrence went on to the terrace at the height of the fighting and observed that ``much more of this and Head- ingley may lose its Test status''.
He, too, blamed drink but from what I saw there was also a racial element with groups of Pakistanis and young white men taunting each other, provocatively waving flags and banners - which appear not to be banned at this ground - and, at times, openly fighting with each other.
What I saw was more reminiscent of football mob violence at its worst than an occasion for appreciating crick- et. Little wonder that families with young children - who had paid #17 a seat - were escaping the throng long before the end.
A Board spokesman commented: ``We can't be pleased with what went on. Yorkshire have done a lot to cut down on the hooliganism but it's clear more still needs to be done.''