That is how it seemed with the long awaited new strip revealed only when the players walked onto the pitch at 10 to three.

Things have been going pretty well on the pitch for the new Shaymen in recent weeks and they currently top the Unibond One North table.

The kit and badge, revealed in the club's official programme, had been one of the hot topics of conversation among the fans and you would have thought the club might have made a bit of a song and dance about their launch.

The new blue shirts provided few surprises, but the new badge design was intriguing.

Along with the club's name, 'The Shaymen' also appears round the edge.

And the old club's traditional blue and white theme has been maintained.

So far so good.

What was intriguing was the appearance of five gold stars - the kind of stars you will have seen on Brazil's shirts signifying the number of World Cups they have won.

Town's, according to the official programme, emphasise the club's 'desire to present to a required standard' and 'represent five ongoing business objectives'.

Of course, by the time the club gets into the Football League it could signify five championship wins - the Conference in 1998, Unibond One North in 2009, Unibond Premier, Blue Square North and Blue Square Premier.

Here's hoping.

I CAN keep quiet no longer.

What a shambles England's Rugby League World Cup campaign was.

The squad had left the northern hemisphere being touted in many quarters as having the best chance of beating the Aussies for years.

But they edged past Papua New Guinea, were thrashed out of sight by Australia and lost twice when it mattered to New Zealand.

It was simply not good enough.

Perhaps it would be fairer at the next tournament to put the English in one of the smaller so-called minnows groups and promote a team like Fiji or Samoa that is going to put everything in.

DIEGO Maradona could hardly have picked a better place to make his debut as manager of Argentina than Scotland.

Loathed in England for what he - or God, depending on who you listen to - did to the nation's footballers in Mexico in 1986, he will be afforded hero status.

I am pretty certain that the Maradona era will be short-lived and end in tears - he has already threatened to quit and he has yet to take charge of a game.

Stable is not a word you would ever use to describe a man who was at one time the world's best player but whose career has been blighted by drug addiction, major health issues and firearms offences.

But even if it does not last too long, it could be interesting.