No, not the players’ shirts – this particular strip was a narrow length of what should have been grass, but was actually mud.
When the footway along Cow Lane was extended at the top, near the Tring Tornadoes’ ground, the standard pathway width has been specified.
But actually the verge along Cow Lane is used as off-road overspill parking at big match days and the width of tarmac goes right to the curb so that cars can be fully parked off the carriageway.
This slip up resulted in an 18 inch of grass which quickly turned to mud as cars drove over it to park.
A length of missing tarmac was immediately put right, but a shortage of funds meant that we had to wait a year for the missing strip to be sorted out.
It was put in place yesterday.