What non-league football lacks in quality, it more than makes up for with funny stories.All sorts of weird and wondering things happen further down English football’s league pyramid - dogs on the pitch, substitute goalkeepers eating pies, the occasional player attacking a fan and vice-versa - the experience is often worth the admission fee.It’s a million miles away from the Premier League but fans are totally fine with that. They view non-league as proper football.However, fans of Cheltenham Saracens and Kidlington Development in the Hellenic League Division One West were unable to view anything after the game they were watching was plunged into darkness.The floodlights at the DN Fire Stadium were suddenly switched off, shortly after Kidlington's Julius Muraga was sent off by the referee.

The referee was left with no choice but to halt the game, as fans inside the stadium assumed a powercut had caused the outage.

But it soon transpired that Muraga, who’d been sent for an early bath, was the man responsible for turning off the floodlights.

After being questioned about the incident, Muraga claimed he’d switched them off by accident.

“I just thought I was turning on the showers,” he was quoted as saying by The Sun.

If you say so, Julius.

Why on earth is there a button for the floodlights in the dressing room?

The match was delayed for five minutes and happened after Saracens had scored two late goals to secure a 3-1 victory.

The result meant the home side sealed second place in the league.

But amid the controversy, those who know Muraga personally are convinced it was an honest mistake.

“It was a genuine mistake,” Nick Duval, chairman of the Kidlington club’s trustees, commented.

“Julius hasn’t got a malicious bone in his body. He is a smashing lad.

“It’s just bizarre that they put the switch for the floodlights in the opposition changing rooms.”

A spokesman for the club joked they were not taking the issue “lightly”.

He added: “As far as we can see the player simply ‘switched off’.”

Badum tish!