Like everyone else, when I saw the headlines I had a moment of panic. We were voluntarily demolishing the massive floodlights? Really?

Of course, once I’d read the story, things felt a good deal better!

We have massive floodlights. This is part of our heritage, and a matter of pride. Other football grounds have measly lights, often mounted on the roof of the stand. I pity those poor supporters: their ground does not reach for their stars like ours do. The Racecourse embodies hope, in the way a little metal box, barely visible from the nearest road, built on the edge of an industrial estate, ever could.

They’re also the mighty structures that Mickey Thomas and Joey Jones, as bored apprentices, would race each other up and down when they were at a loose end after training!

Yet I do not mourn their passing. They will be replaced by pylons even bigger, better and, crucially brighter.

The brightness of those lights is the key, of course. The new set will meet UEFA’s standards for international football. If we’re to host Wales in competitive fixtures again, we have to satisfy those requirements. 

Night games will be like watching matches in Ultra High Definition. You’ll be able to see the opposing goalkeeper’s tears glistening on his cheek as yet another Paul Mullin rocket breaks his soul.

The pylons will need replacing anyway. They’ve been up for decades and, while they are magnificent, everything has its use-by date. 

They’ve had to sustain the toughest of environmental challenges too. You may have noticed that it rains quite a lot around here: Wrexham’s official flower is mould. Those mighty sentinels have suffered enough: it’s time for them to enter into a graceful retirement.

Still, if the new floodlights weren’t able to match up to the current ones, there’d be concerns. However, there’s no problems in that regard. These little beauties will be eight metres taller than the current set, even though they will have a cool cantilever, bowing down over the pitch like curious giants, hoping for a closer look at the action.

So, our floodlights will be even more massive! Our bragging rights will not only maintained, but enhanced. Visiting fans will be astonished by the sight of them. Chester supporters driving south down the A483 will weep bitterly and jealously. Boreham Wood fans will rear back in fear at their sheer scale, assuming there’s anybody in the away end for that game.

In the future, digital TV channels which misleadingly feature words like “History” in their names will wonder whether we had extra-terrestrial help in erecting them.

Of course, such developments merely remind us of what a remarkable moment in time Wrexham fans are facing. This is an incredible point in our history, a chance to make substantial changes not only to the club’s status on the pitch, but also in terms of its infrastructure and able to operate in a completely different level in the future in so many ways.

I emphasised last week the importance of signing the petition to support funding for the rebuilding of the Kop. This news illustrates my point perfectly. In so many ways we’re driving forwards, making investments in the future which we couldn’t have possibly dreamed of in the past. 

Indeed, most football clubs can’t make these sort of visionary improvements without taking the risk of knocking their stadium down ad starting again. You need the luxury of a chunk of the lucrative Premier League TV deal to be thinking beyond simply spending to keep yourself ticking over, and fans expect an excess to be ploughed into a shiny new centre forward.

Incredibly, little old Wrexham is in a position to be future-proofing ourselves, so it would be a tragedy to have built a new stand between these new floodlights which isn’t what it could be. To be looking at the stand which finally replaced the Kop after nearly two decades of 3-sided football and feel a little disappointed. 

We can’t afford for that to happen so, while the new owners are digging deep to put so many long-term plans into operation, we can do our bit by bringing pressure to bear on the decision-makers in Westminster who will decide whether we get to enjoy a decent new Kop. Sign that petition, do your bit, and in a couple of years you can enjoy gazing on its wonder, between those lovely even massiver floodlights! You’ll know you did your bit.