Billericay boss Craig Edwards was left unsure whether to curse or thank the fact the club’s floodlights suddenly sprung into life and prevented the calling off of their goalless draw with Wealdstone.
The failure of the lights to work had forced the abandonment of the match at the start of the second half.
But just ten minutes later, power suddenly returned and the referee was persuaded to scrap the abandonment and re-start the second half.
The league leaders were unable to take advantage, however, and had to be content with a point.
Edwards said: “At first the referee said we couldn’t restart.
“But we wanted the game on, Wealdstone didn’t want to have a rescheduled match on a cold Tuesday night and the fans wanted football, so the referee changed his mind.
“But, in the end, I’m frustrated because we only drew the match.
“It was one of those days when things just didn’t fall for us.
“That said, we they hit the bar in the second half so could have won it themselves really. So although we wanted to win the game, at least we weren’t beaten and it’s another point.
“I think the delay before the game re-started affected us a bit. We definitely started slowly. But I can’t complain, it’s the same for both sides.
“We are still top of the league and, with a third of the season gone, we’ve got the best points per game ratio in the league, so I’ve got to be happy.”
Billericay were the better of the two sides in the opening half.
The dangerous Sam Berry fired a free kick just wide of the Wealdstone post and they had a good penalty shout waved away when Paul Semakula’s goal-bound shot appeared to have been diverted wide by the hand of Stones defender Wes Parker.
Wealdstone had a golden chance of their own shortly before the interval when dangerous frontman Richard Jolly headed against the bar from Lee Chappell’s cross.
And the visitors continued that momentum after the longer than usual half-time break caused by the floolights failure.
Once again they rattled the Town woodwork, this time through David Hicks whose shot rattled Dale Brightly’s bar.
The on-rushing Jolly just missed the rebound.
Town eventually found their feet in the second half and began to exert some pressure of their own.
Chris Wild’s header from Berry’s corner was blocked on the goal-line by his own team-mate, Craig Edwards, before Jay May saw his fizzing cross-cum-shot fly just inches past the Wealdstone upright as the visitors clung on for a draw.
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