They have not had it.

Instead, the second Test between England and South Africa has been marred by familiar problems in the notorious West Stand, difficulties getting in and out of car parks, prolonged queues and sundry irritations.

Headingley Carnegie, far from being the fine and swanky stadium Regan seems to think it is, remains the worst in England to watch Test cricket.

It is high time Regan and Yorkshire got a hold of the West Stand situation in particular.

Year after year it is a disgrace – not as bad as it once was, admittedly, but still a place where no-one in their right mind would pay to watch Test cricket in peace.

In the interests of research, I gave it a go on Saturday afternoon and gave up after about 20 minutes.

The atmosphere reminded me of chucking out time in Leeds city centre, while the thought of taking a young child into that stand would be entirely out of the question.

Such behaviour is not confined to Headingley, of course. Similar difficulties crop up at Edgbaston and it is very much a reflection of society in general, but we have now reached the stage where the attitude towards the West Stand seems to be:, "Oh well, that's just the way it is, so we'd better put up with it". Rubbish.

Considering Regan blithely dismissed crowd disturbances at Yorkshire's Twenty20 home games in 2007 as nothing different to what you might encounter on a Saturday night out, we can presumably expect to see more sitting on hands in years to come.

But if Regan will not get a grip (and it remains to be seen whether he can ever recover from the shambles of the Azeem Rafiq affair, which has cost the club's players the chance of a place in the £2.5m Champions League), then Yorkshire should appoint someone who can.

The solution to the problem is actually straightforward – if people misbehave, they should be immediately ejected. Full stop.

That is what it says in the ground regulations and, until Yorkshire work harder to enforce the regulations and change the culture, the culture will never change.

And if ejections result in a few hundred empty seats, so be it. That is a price worth paying to eliminate the troublesome minority who come along solely to get plastered.

At around 5.00pm on Saturday, I found myself talking to a Yorkshire official who told me only one person had been ejected that day from the West Stand until that point. I found that incredible, considering the dreadful behaviour I had witnessed first hand.

I actually saw the ejection referred to at close quarters. A young, drunken man tried to run on to the field before being halted by stewards, and it took four police officers to bring him under control while halfwits in the crowd laughed and cheered at this tragic spectacle.

But if only one person is being ejected during several hours of mayhem, small wonder these problems continue ad nauseum.

One steward told me there had been 62 ejections on the opening day but, judging by the pitiful standards of behaviour on view, even that figure was nowhere near high enough.

Instead, foul and abusive language remains prevalent; indeed, I am continually flabbergasted as to what one must do to get ejected from a ground for swearing, but if Headingley's standards are so low, small wonder behaviour is so abysmal.

Towards the end of Saturday's play, looking at the West Stand from the comfort of the press box, I trained my binoculars on that part of the stand near the rugby field in which most of the trouble seems to be confined.

Incredibly, only a handful of spectators were actually watching the cricket; the rest, most of them in a shambolic state of alcoholic excess, were involved in activities more akin to a boozy night out.

Some spectators, of course, behave themselves properly. Some come along in fancy dress and add to the colour and carnival of the Test match occasion. That's fine.

But some have no interest whatsoever in watching the cricket, only in drinking themselves into a state of oblivion, and Yorkshire need to work harder to drive out the trouble-makers.

It is not just the general inconvenience caused by bad behaviour that mars the occasion, it is the damage caused to the cricket itself.

Play during the second Test has been halted by a handful of idiots who have run onto the pitch and by beach balls and bits of paper being thrown on the field.

Sadly, it appears some things never change.

Yorkshire and Headingley Carnegie deserve the Test match they get – one habitually affected by loutish behaviour.