Floodlights
Floodlights
Hemel Hempstead
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Vince Taylor visits a ground that did not please the Ryman League
There was much controversy at the tail-end of last season when Ryman League Division Two champions Hemel Hempstead Town were
denied promotion when their Vauxhall Road ground failed to
attract the necessary grading. This is hardly a new situation.
Rarely does a season go by when some unfortunate club or
other falls fail to officialdom in this way. But what was novel
in Hemel’s case was that one of the objections raised by the
ground graders concerned the aesthetic quality of the improvements carried out. One had visions of Oscar Wilde type
fops wandering around the ground casting aspersions about
the lack of carnations in the pitch side flower bed, or bemoaning the fact that the over ornate Greco-Roman columns at the
covered end were unnecessarily vulgar. At the beginning of
the current season GROUNDTASTIC took a trip to Hemel Hempstead to find out for itself whether the
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