I will breathe a sigh of relief at 12.45pm on Saturday when the whistle blows and our FA Cup second round fixture against Stevenage finally gets under way.  

Like everyone else in Norfolk, I cannot wait for the game to start, but logistically there has been a huge amount to contend with over the past few weeks.

This week our newly-installed scoreboard decided not to play ball. At first, we thought it was a software issue, but that morphed into a hardware issue and an engineer came 200 miles to fix it and we banged the first problem on the head. 

Our press box is not fit for purpose and presents a rather more insoluble issue. It is very quaint and consists of three rows of seats inside our only true box in the stadium! The first row will somehow fit BBC Radio Norfolk and Steve Plunkett, our stadium announcer and player of fine tunes. The second row houses three journalists and the back row will consist of TalkSport who are providing a full match commentary. 

We have housed an additional 23 journalists, from around the nation and indeed around the globe, and have sorted them out a temporary power supply and some of the lucky ones will have music stands acting as de facto writing desks.

Some radio stations, such as BBC Counties, will have to somehow improvise as there simply isn’t any more room in the inn!

There are seven photographers, from our loyal snappers who come every week, rain or shine, to the esteemed Getty Images. 

The BBC themselves are running the TV commentary from Salford, but they still have guys on hand to handle the interviews in-house and two runners to tell the commentators what is going on inside the stadium – had the commentators decided to come they may have had to sit on my lap, such is the lack of space.

Then there is Gravity Media, who need to be based in the tunnel, as they handle all the content for the worldwide audience and need to be able to run messages through their network. 

The BBC themselves have 60 coming for breakfast at 9am and we are providing gluten free, vegan, vegetarian and meatier options; many of them started to arrive on Tuesday to erect extra viewing galleries for the many cameras that will capture the action from all angles. Several lorries now occupy our front car park, which is now packed with broadcasting equipment.

Sport Five have put in LED perimeter screens on three sides of the ground and such is their attention to detail that they even bring their own power generator just in case we have an early black out – the advertising must go on!

We have three or four guys from the FA visiting and we are looking forward to welcoming them to The Walks as well as several data companies who track every time the ball moves across the pitch. Colchester, Bradford, Southend United, Lincoln City and Grimsby are all sending scouts, so we have found a spot for them as well.

We then have two observers, a senior one and a junior, which is one more than we normally get, and their job is to assess the referee (if you are looking for good omens, one of the observers last watched us against Doncaster). We also have a crowd observer, whose role is to make sure that everyone is behaving themselves.

There are 47 stewards in operation, around 16 people running the catering outlets, and 51 fans and visiting directors dining in the VIP areas.

More than 600 fans from Stevenage are expected to make the trip and as of Thursday night 3,688 tickets have been sold, our record in recent times being 4,019 when York City were the visitors; it would be nice to beat that number.

The action has not been confined to the stadium either as the media has descended on mass at the training ground. Many players have been interviewed, the manager’s son Kai Widdrington, has been filmed at home to bring a bit of Strictly glamour to proceedings, the team have appeared and been filmed on various news channels and national as well as local papers have been interviewing several players.

The situation could be described as pure mayhem, but with just one full-time employee, Julie, who somehow handles our administration and is based in Macclesfield, we seem to have done it; but please don’t ask me how as I am not fully sure I could tell you.  They say that necessity is the mother of invention and I fully agree with the sentiment.

It has been a steep learning curve and I am delighted that so many people have pulled together to put the show on the road.

Once the whistle blows, I will finally be able to relax and enjoy the spectacle but if we were to win and be drawn at home, we would have to do it all over again, but it would be a price that I would be delighted to pay.