The Football.....

[MrGrumpy]

Arsenal have just imploded haven’t they! What a disastrous season end really. I understand they are just building but will they get that chance again next season . Shame really . Some nice stuff was being played earlier in the season .

 

[StuAff]

View: https://twitter.com/petercrouch/status/1657706115050745857/

 

[T4tomo]

Another away win for St Albans on penalties at Dartford. One more away playoff to go at Oxford city....

Sadly one stretch to far, St A got thumped 4-0.

 

[Mike_P]

Notts players and manager went on a 12 hour pub crawl with a stack of fans yesterday. Obviously not that much was drunken but the evening did see the manager taking to two wheels of the e scooter type

View: https://twitter.com/KRennicks40/status/1657888838939713536?t=BjJg50TEJY3h5cGg4M8UNA&s=19

 

[Accy cyclist]

Heck, Luton are now 2-0 up against Sunderland in the play off semi, 2nd leg. Luton in the Premiership will just be a wasted place!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/65520002

 

[Mike_P]

Luton along with Notts County were amongst the clubs who agreed to form the Premiership only then to be relegated in the last season of the old First Division.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Luton along with Notts County were amongst the clubs who agreed to form the Premiership only then to be relegated in the last season of the old First Division.

I tend to forget about Luton's top flight days. I remember their 1970's old Division One days with the Futcher twins

and I was there at Maine Road in the Kippax when Luton stayed up and David Pleat famously ran on the pitch, arms raised in the air to celebrate their survival, also sending City down. That match happened 40 years ago to the day, last Sunday gone.

I'll have the match day programme somewhere in one of my boxes in my flat. If I remember rightly, the attendance was over 48,000 which is probably the biggest football crowd I've been in. Unless the Blackburn v Leicester 1992 2nd Division play off final i saw was a bit higher.


Edit...If you listen closely to the above video, on 39 seconds you'll hear 'Big Helen' ringing her hand held bell. She was a 'brassy blonde', with a bee hive hair style, who sat behind the goal.

 

[PaulSB]

Rovers v Leicester was much higher. +/-70000 at Wembley that day.

 

[Alex321]

I tend to forget about Luton's top flight days. I remember their 1970's old Division One days with the Futcher twins

I always remember Luton for being the first team in the top tier to use an artificial pitch, which they had from 1985-1991. Fully artificial pitches were then banned in about 1992.

 

[Chislenko]

I tend to forget about Luton's top flight days. I remember their 1970's old Division One days with the Futcher twins

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and I was there at Maine Road in the Kippax when Luton stayed up and David Pleat famously ran on the pitch, arms raised in the air to celebrate their survival, also sending City down. That match happened 40 years ago to the day, last Sunday gone.

I'll have the match day programme somewhere in one of my boxes in my flat. If I remember rightly, the attendance was over 48,000 which is probably the biggest football crowd I've been in. Unless the Blackburn v Leicester 1992 2nd Division play off final i saw was a bit higher.


Edit...If you listen closely to the above video, on 39 seconds you'll hear 'Big Helen' ringing her hand held bell. She was a 'brassy blonde', with a bee hive hair style, who sat behind the goal.

Danny Murphy is the nephew of the Futchers. They all come from the Upton district of Chester.

Back in my ground hopping days I turned up at Maine Road and took my place in the stand.

As it was my first visit I knew nothing of that woman with the bell, I certainly knew about her by the end of the game as I was sat not far from her.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I tend to forget about Luton's top flight days. I remember their 1970's old Division One days with the Futcher twins

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and I was there at Maine Road in the Kippax when Luton stayed up and David Pleat famously ran on the pitch, arms raised in the air to celebrate their survival, also sending City down. That match happened 40 years ago to the day, last Sunday gone.

I'll have the match day programme somewhere in one of my boxes in my flat. If I remember rightly, the attendance was over 48,000 which is probably the biggest football crowd I've been in. Unless the Blackburn v Leicester 1992 2nd Division play off final i saw was a bit higher.


Edit...If you listen closely to the above video, on 39 seconds you'll hear 'Big Helen' ringing her hand held bell. She was a 'brassy blonde', with a bee hive hair style, who sat behind the goal.

What a game!
Man City going down to what is the equivalent of Division one now and with some very good players.Dennis Tueart,Asa Hartford etc.
My only memories of luton that i can recall is when those so called Millwall supporters smashed up the place.

 

[MrGrumpy]

City looking unstoppable aren’t they ! Who says money can’t buy you happiness

 

[Accy cyclist]

City 'mauling' Madrid, according to the radio!!

I hope my sadly departed mate, who I went to that City v Luton match with, all those years ago is watching from up above!!😍

 

[R_nger]

I always remember Luton for being the first team in the top tier to use an artificial pitch, which they had from 1985-1991. Fully artificial pitches were then banned in about 1992.

Didn’t QPR have the first plastic pitch in the old first division?

 

[MrGrumpy]

They have been all over them. Quite a stroll really . Hope the final is more of a competition but have my doubts .