It’s a mistake that anyone could make – and plenty have over the years.

In fact, a whole football team once turned up at the wrong ground when they visited Blakenhall (Wolverhampton) rather than Blakenall (Walsall) – where they should have been.

But when the Burton Mail’s Gresley Rovers correspondent went to the wrong ground it was more astonishing, because he’d been there several times before.

It’s supposed to be the easiest mistake in non-league football, and to help out next time the Mail has printed a cut-out-and-keep guide to the ground – for the benefit of journalist Andy Parker, whose other guise is the paper’s news editor.

Onlooker, writing in the Mail’s Tales from the Tap Room diary column, said: “What makes the story so funny is the fact our man has visited the “Nall’s” Red Lion ground on several previous occasions without any problems whatsoever.

“Just out of interest, he’s also visited the home of Bolehall Swifts (Tamworth) … though only after a diversion by way of Barwell (Hinckley).”

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