What a day. It began at Luton bus station shortly before 9am, and ended in a similar location just before Match of the Day kicked off. What a shame the BBC didn't recall Garth Crooks to the pundit sofa for one night only to reflect on his ridiculous comments made a few weeks ago. 3,000 Luton fans who were up on Merseyside know that this Hatters side are going to hold their own in the Premier League. A dash from the bus just after 3pm meant we missed the first few minutes but by the time we were standing in the Bullens Upper Luton were well on top. A succession of corners delivered expertly by Alfie Doughty gave the Toffees warning. At the third time of asking Carlton rose like a colossus to thunder a header on to the bar via a Pickford flick. As the ball came rocketing down, Ashley Young must have imagined he was back at the Watford training ground and thought it was time for a shimmy. He had reckoned without Tommy Tommy Lockyer who charged forward and the ball crashed into the ne...
68 days until Luton grace the Premier League.
Walking in the hot sun at Wardown tonight I passed a fellow Hatter in a retro shirt. No words were spoken but fists touched as we silently recalled the emotion of Wembley 8 days ago.
Sonny Bradley is interesting both Derby and Hull.
Cody Drameh is apparently being chased by Burnley and earns just shy of 5k a week on his current Leeds contract.
More media coverage including via the BBC that Luton have indeed requested to play their first 3 games away to allow time for the ground to be upgraded to Premier League standard.
Transfers should start to firm up shortly but from our analysis these are the key positions:
- keeper, Horvath perm?
- left back; backup for Doughty
- centre back; to replace Bradley
- 2 right backs; I'd take Drameh and Bree
- centre mid; break the bank to get Marvellous back permanently
- 1 playmaker; arguable this one but would love to see
- 1 tall pacy attacker; ideally a combo of Cornick / Jerome