It was when the 68-page booklet bulging with rules and regulations dropped that the Covid challenge really hit home at Boston United.
It wasn't just the twice-weekly swabbing of throats and nostrils for players and staff, but the constant sterilisation of balls and goalposts, the stadium red zones and the vice-chairman adding Covid Officer to his job title. And so much more besides.
For the wealthy and lavishly-resourced clubs of the Premier League, the 'new normal' of playing football in the age of coronavirus is fairly easily overcome.
But in English football's sixth tier, where financial situations are perilous at the best of times, it really did present one hell of a logistical challenge.