“Do you dream, do you doubt? No, it’s just another Banbury Spencer innovation. Mr Cringan thinking over the established fact that yellow shows up better than white thought the goal posts might assist accuracy in shooting if painted yellow instead of the customary white. To avoid being off-side he wrote to Mr Stanley Rous, Secretary of the F.A., and was assured that nothing in the rules of the game prevented the posts and cross bar being painted yellow. Seemingly, we could even paint pink elephants on them if we had any pink paint. So, Banbury leads again in introducing another new idea. We are still, (so far as we know) the only club to wear shoulder flashes (Army fashion) bearing the Club’s name, and the only club to play in scarlet shorts.”

The 2,058 spectators who turned up to see the season’s opener against Moor Green might have been shocked to see the yellow posts but they may well have left the ground believing there was merit in Mr Cringan’s idea as Spencer got the season off to the best of starts with a 9-0 victory and Doug McPhee, Tommy North and Dick Pike had no trouble finding the yellow target area as they all notched hat-tricks.

John MacAdam, a football reporter for the Daily Express, wrote an article in that newspaper on Monday 13th February 1950 under the heading “Let’s Get More Colour into the Game”. The author’s piece bemoaned the lack of variety of colours in club’s football kits and referred to Banbury Spencer:

“If you think the point is a trivial one, we do not agree, and here is no other than Jimmy Cringan, brother of Scots international Willie, himself a former Celtic, Sunderland and Birmingham City half-back, and now secretary-manager of Banbury Spencer in the Birmingham Combination, to agree with us.

“Recalling our recent praise of Northampton Town’s natty maroon and white, Jimmy says he is all in favour of brighter coloured shirts and shorts that would add something to the grand old game.

“He has been 13 years at Banbury, “and we have experienced the advantage of bright colours. Our colours are scarlet and gold halved shirts, scarlet shorts and scarlet and gold hooped stockings. The goalkeeper is in an emerald green jersey and shorts.”

“There is another strip in case of a colour clash but it is difficult to imagine how the question might arise, but if it does, the side goes into green and white hoops with green shorts and the goalkeeper into gold jersey and scarlet shorts.

“They’re certainly colour conscious at Banbury, even to the extent of having their scarlet and blue badge emblazoned on shirt pockets and shoulder flashes. Apart from having the regulation amount of green grass, they have yellow goalposts. All of this, says Jimmy Cringan, adds up to good visibility for one and all.”

The club’s programme cover for season, 1948/49, (see photo) consisted of a colour drawing proudly displaying the yellow goalposts.

It is not known how long the experiment of yellow goalposts lasted before the return to traditional white.