VANDALISM at a youth sports facility weeks before youngsters are due to return to play has been described as making Knighton look more like Beirut. Simon Dodd, chairman of Knighton Community Sports Association, said coronavirus had already ruined the season for football, rugby and hockey-mad children in the town, and now says it has been ruined by idiots. Simon was referring to damage caused to the pavilion at an area of the town reserved for youth sporting activities known as the ‘Bryny’, a patch of land next to Knighton Town Football Club’s Bryn-y-Castell ground. Simon reported that vandals had ripped off a down pipe attached to the cricket pavilion on Thursday, April 8, while a day later the front windows of the pavilion had been damaged. He likened the damage to making the playing area look more like Beirut.