I’ve been following Luton Town FC since the singer Helen Shapiro was ‘walking back to happiness’ in the 1960s. Luton is the bungee club of English football. Since reaching the 1959 FA Cup final, they’ve been boldly bouncing up and down the leagues. It’s only now that Helen’s words are coming true. ‘Say goodbye to loneliness’ – Luton is back in the top flight. The promised land of the Premier League.
Few seats at the ground are without a pillar blocking some part of the pitch
Typically, when they were last in Division One 30 years ago, they voted for the introduction of the EPL – only to be relegated in the season before it all kicked off. Now they’re a team in special measures. Despite playing at Kenilworth Road for more than a century, the EPL has declared that our ground is too narrow for the elite stars of football to play on.
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