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Live Match Discussion 2022/23

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Would Luton be the smallest club to play in the Premier League if they come up?
 
Would Luton be the smallest club to play in the Premier League if they come up?
Given their time in the top league in the 80's including winning the League Cup, I'd put them above Blackpool, Barnsley and Brentford when they came up
 
Would Luton be the smallest club to play in the Premier League if they come up?
They were decent in the 80s and I think made an FA Cup final in the 60s.

Still Bournemouth I think as they were always perennial nobodies. Wimbledon and Swindon other than that.
 
And Bradford City

Luton were quite decent in the old Division One in the 80s on their plastic pitch, pre-Premier League with a few decent players including Bridgnorth's own David Preece RIP
 
Depends how you define small really and how far you want to go back in history.
 
Yep oddly I always think of Luton as a top flight team, and err Wimbledon that cup win cemented them. Strange how the time your born can effect your views of teams.

Some other poor buggers must think the same of Wigan...
 
Would Luton's ground meet the Prem regulations?

I note they have swapped sides with the camera, which is a pity, it was always the weirdest side stand in the football league.
 
They would need some upgrades, media facilities, floodlights, others. There are then plans for a new 23k stadium that is expected to be green lit soon.
 
Mick Harford, Mike Newell, Les Sealey, Ricky Hill, Steve Foster, Brian Stein, Mal Donaghy, Ashley Grimes are others I remember
 
Mick Harford, Mike Newell, Les Sealey, Ricky Hill, Steve Foster, Brian Stein, Mal Donaghy, Ashley Grimes are others I remember
I am old enough to remember the Futcher twins, think they identical as well.
 
I am old enough to remember the Futcher twins, think they identical as well.
Was about to throw in the Futcher twins.

No forgetting, Brian Horton, Tim Breaker, David Moss, a young Paul Walsh, Randy Antic, Lil Fucillo, amongst others. Went to school in Beds for a while and there were quite a few Luton fans there and at that age you remember lots of unnecessary detail. Can just about remember David Pleat taking over from Harry Haslam and turning them into a bloody good side. Top striker at that time - an ancient Bob Hatton (who started out at Wolves). Another (useless) fact - they got to another Wembley final, getting hammered 4-1 by Reading (I think) in the never-to-be-forgotten Simod Cup.

They’ve a least got some history and silverware in the cupboard, not much, but it is there.
 
My parents moved about 10 miles from Luton in 1981, when I was 9. Ricky Hill came and presented awards at my brother's team end of season awards in 1990. A few locals were Luton fans, in amongst the morass of Arsenal and Spurs, along with the big Northwest club glory hunters. Strangely no Chelsea or Man City fans I can remember from 41 years ago, and only a couple of brave Watford infiltrators into what was very definitely Luton Town territory.
 
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