Andrew Kingston

Luton Town vs Bradford City

Luton Town vs Blackpool

The highs and lows of football...on this day in 2024 we beat Brighton at home 4-0 in the Premier League, also on this day but in 2010 we lost 2-3 at home to Ebbsfleet United. I was at both matches and the emotions from these two games couldn't have been further apart.

Luton Town vs Lincoln City

Luton Town vs Leyton Orient

YouTube video by Hatter2KLTFC Luton Town 4-0 Liverpool (Guinness Soccer Six Final - December 1990)

On this day in 1990 Luton Town won the Guinness Soccer 6 after beating Liverpool 4-0 in the final

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Luton Town vs Bolton Wanderers

Luton Town vs Mansfield Town

Luton Town vs Doncaster Rovers

Great start to the season beating Pitbulls 7-2 at home. Quite a few standout performances, especially from Korenchuk and Gabaj. Also thought Hedley had a great game, keeping Bristol at bay until late in the game.

Luton Town vs Plymouth Argyle

Happy Matthew Spring day

The title would go to the wire with the winner of the Rothwell vs Luton Reserves match taking the championship. Unfortunately the Reserves fell short and lost 8-0!

The paper of the time, Luton Reporter, did separate them into first team matches and Reserve team matches at the end of the season, which many years ago caused me a lot of confusion as I thought there must have been 2 separate United Leagues that season!

*We did actually have two games on the 8th September 1900 as well but the first team away match to Chatham in the Southern League was expunged after they withdrew from the league later in the season.

This did lead to two Luton games being played on the same day, later in the season*, as seen on the Hatters Heritage website. Luton played Southampton in the Southern League as the Reserves played Rothwell in the United League.

The United League was a first team competition but in the 1900-01 season two clubs, Finedon and Rothwell, were much weaker than the other clubs in the league. To level things up all the other teams would play their reserves against them. So the Luton reserves played in a Luton 1st team competition.

On this day in 1900 Luton Town beat Finedon 2-0 at home in the United League. We have a few matches over the years that blur the lines between a first team fixture and a reserve match and this is one of them.

Yep, it was

Just noticed they have the wrong day for the Bristol Rovers match, this is getting more annoying the more I look at it 😂

That must be a world record win 😂 It's actually annoying me though that they have got the Great Yarmouth result wrong!

The defeat brings to an end our 25 match unbeaten home record in League 1. The last home defeat at this level was 0-1 to Huddersfield in May 2008.

Luton 0-1 Cardiff. In a game where both teams should have scored 4 it was remarkable that only 1 was converted. Unfortunately it came to the visitors, any competent defending would have stopped it, but it wasn't a game for competent defending or for that matter clinical finishing.

Luton Town vs Cardiff City

To win the league after the start we had was incredible, after the first 8 matches our record was: P8 W2 D0 L6 F14 A23 Pts 4 and we were in last place. At the end of the season our record read: P38 W24 D6 L8 F100 A61 Pts 54 and we won the title by 3 points. Quite a turnaround!

Despite being sidetracked I have now got all the Luton results from the Metropolitan League in 1959-60 and am missing 3 results from the whole league. Thankfully our results from that season tally up with the league table, I was expecting to have a missing goal here or there which normally happens!

Luton Town vs Wigan Athletic

On this day in 1976 Luton Town won 2-0 at Portsmouth in the Kent Cup.