Luton in the Premier League (hopefully for more than one season)

[Danny]

1 hour ago, Lucas said:

Bournemouth v Luton is a Premier League fixture.

My god.

More interesting than Leeds vs Everton

[Spike]

Just now, Stan said:

What an odd thing to bring up

Nothing rids anything from that cancer of a human. 

Is it really that odd? For a foreigner that guy was most famous thing about Luton for a very long time. In fact when I was reading this topic all I could think of was ‘what do I know Luton from….oh yeah that guy’. I wouldn’t expect you to have any knowledge of smallish towns in Australia outside of events or people associated.

[Spike]

3 minutes ago, Danny said:

More interesting than Leeds vs Everton

But those have been arbitrarily defined as big clubs, so that game is better and more important.

[Dave]

It feels inevitable the first game of the season will be Luton vs Arsenal on Friday.

[Whiskey]

Tommy Robinson 

[Honey Honey]

Since there's no Luton fans here safe to ruin their thread a bit.

The one thing that always sticks in my mind about Luton is an FA Cup game years ago where they kept shouting "Freak" every time Peter Crouch touched the ball. I thought that a level of banter that went too far.

[Happy Blue]

38 minutes ago, Honey Honey said:

Since there's no Luton fans here safe to ruin their thread a bit.

The one thing that always sticks in my mind about Luton is an FA Cup game years ago where they kept shouting "Freak" every time Peter Crouch touched the ball. I thought that a level of banter that went too far.

I remember them for having astroturf, that stuffs not fun to play rugby on ..and 12 garden sheds banged together to make a stadium 

[Michael]

Kenilworth Road Stadium has a capacity of around 10,000 people. Plans have already been put in place to increase the capacity of the stadium, but I think it's a bit of a race against time to have it ready for  the new Premier League season.

[Carnivore Chris]

On 28/05/2023 at 15:32, Spike said:

Is it really that odd? For a foreigner that guy was most famous thing about Luton for a very long time. In fact when I was reading this topic all I could think of was ‘what do I know Luton from….oh yeah that guy’. I wouldn’t expect you to have any knowledge of smallish towns in Australia outside of events or people associated.

Andrew Tate grew up there as well.

 

[Spike]

1 hour ago, Carnivore Chris said:

Andrew Tate grew up there as well.

 

What a great town.

[Stan]

1 hour ago, Carnivore Chris said:

Andrew Tate grew up there as well.

 

Did he? Never heard a word about him compared to the EDL cunt. 

[Reluctant Striker]

For me Luton are the old astroturf side from another era. They were kind of Wimbledon, before Wimbledon were Wimbledon. People either loved how unconventional they were. Or disliked them for it.

As for 'celebrity' connections, I am fairly sure Nick Owen is a fan. Nick Owen & Anne Diamond were a national TV presenting team a few years back. In more recent years he has been BBC Midlands Today (local news) presenter.

And personally I have been near Luton airport a few times, for work reasons. If you are curious, it seemed to be all fields & main roads. Not quite 1 thing or another sort of place.

 

[Stan]

1 minute ago, Reluctant Striker said:

For me Luton are the old astroturf side from another era. They were kind of Wimbledon, before Wimbledon were Wimbledon. People either loved how unconventional they were. Or disliked them for it.

As for 'celebrity' connections, I am fairly sure Nick Owen is a fan. Nick Owen & Anne Diamond were a national TV presenting team a few years back. In more recent years he has been BBC Midlands Today (local news) presenter.

And personally I have been near Luton airport a few times, for work reasons. If you are curious, it seemed to be all fields & main roads. Not quite 1 thing or another sort of place.

 

It's a bit of a shit hole to be fair. 

There's an area as you come in to Luton just off the A6 which is very nice, massive houses near Barnfield College. But beyond that it's a massive dive

 

[JoshBRFC+]

Fair play to the players and the manager and club as a whole.

Who gives a fuck about the cunts from the town or how their stadium isn’t up to the Premier league standard. Gotta love an underdog story. I hope they stay up next season. 

[Dan+]

It's not true about them being the first to go non-league to Premier League. Wigan seemed to have been erased from memory here.

[OrangeKhrush]

The local district league rugby team has a bigger stadium than Kenilworth Park.   I also think we could fit more away fans than they can home fans. 

[Stan]

2 hours ago, Dan said:

It's not true about them being the first to go non-league to Premier League. Wigan seemed to have been erased from memory here.

Top flight to non-league and then back to top-flight. 

[CaaC (John)+]

I remember this, the only thing that reminds me of Luton  

 

[Honey Honey]

[Bluewolf]

We re doing well in here.. If we do manage to get any Luton fans join up over the summer it's going to be a right welcome 

[Dave]

 

 

[Happy Blue]

Luton have been handed an exemption by the Premier League and will be allowed to begin the season without installing undersoil heating.

The top flight rulebook currently states that such facilities must be part of any stadium with several clubs, Bournemouth among them in 2015, having to bring it in after winning promotion from the Championship. Luton's Kenilworth Road was hosting non-league games less than a decade ago.

[Dr. Gonzo]

I still can't believe Luton of all places has a premier league side.

[Honey Honey]

14 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

I still can't believe Luton of all places has a premier league side.

They've got an airport so good candidates for a European spot 

[Happy Blue]

5 hours ago, Honey Honey said:

They've got an airport so good candidates for a European spot 

Can they even play in Europe without under soil heating?