Club secretary Josh Greaves feels Farsley are giving a false impression but he believes that a lack of finance is the main fault.

Farsley are a new club but they are essentially a reborn Farsley Celtic, following that club’s closure due to administration.

The Celts were forced to resign from the Blue Square Bet North and the new club offered a place in the Kool Sport Northern Counties East League Premier Division, needing three promotions to reach the BSBN.

Greaves said: “I wish we didn’t have to use the training kit with the Blue Square logo on it but we don’t have an option.

“All of the coats, tracksuits and training gear have the logo on and I think opponents say ‘who are these lot of big-time Charlies’ and ‘who do they think they are’ when we play our league games.

“I’m sure it winds the opposition up, and probably makes them want to beat us even more, but we aren’t harping back to the past. The simple truth is that we can’t afford to replace it all.

“The people running the financial side of things are doing a great job and we have three main kit sponsors. But unless someone comes in with an offer of £3,000 to replace the Blue Square training tops and coats and things, then we are going to have to continue wearing them.”

Greaves added: “John Palmer decided to split the club into three departments and let each run itself but going through John. It seems to be a system that is working well.

“John and myself run the admin side, Pars (manager Neil Parsley) and his two assistants run the football side and we have a commercial arm.

“I know a new set of gear specifically for the new club was priced up, because I have seen the figures, and I can’t see anyone coming forward with that amount of sponsorship.”