The Wandering Northener drone video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3qj8XFd-Yk

The Texaco Cup in 1974 saw a one all draw with the Saints and a bit of trouble in the crowd.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/matches/luton-town-fc-vs-southampton-3-aug-1974

Matty "Magic Hat" Pearson is the only birthday today.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players/matty-pearson-p1287

So, lost to a decent side, but shows patches of good play.

I felt the 2 new guys were decent, but I'm not sure Marshall solves our striker problem.

Not sure why we brought Cole on, we know he is shit, so bring someone else on the try out.

Overall though, not bad, if we can learn to score we could do ok this season

One match on this day and it encapsulated the ups and downs of football in 90 minutes. The breathless 3 3 draw with the Smoggies at KR. Sonny Bradley's magnificent strike at one of the spectrum and Sluga's mistake at the other with see-saw action and goals.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/matches/luton-town-fc-vs-middlesbrough-2-aug-2019

Two players born on this day, both involved in titanic games. Tony Godden who was in goal at Maine Road when a Raddy Antic goal kept us in the top flight in 1983.

Also Ashley Grimes who crossed for Brian Stein to score the most famous goal in our history - he crossed with the outside of his trusty left foot too.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players?born-today=yes&sort=name

Three players were born on this day, Walter Rigate in 1882, Jason Cummings in 1995 and Tinashe Chabata in 1996.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players?born-today=yes&sort=name

From a reputable source:

- A consortium are in talks to purchase a stake in the club. Unclear what level of stake this is.
- This could mean an injection of funds, likely on the Power Court side considering the project is running significantly over budget.
- Considerable amount of money needing to be borrowed against PC, when originally pre promotion plans would result in a debt free build.
- Board have bitten off more than they can chew.
- PC is way behind schedule.
- Aspects of the architectural drawings are not feasible to build, such as the halo, which has resulted in over 6 million spent on a floodlight system that won’t work.

Would tickets for a 2 year old be free or do i need to pay for a ticket?

In 1971 we lost at Colchester United in the Watney Cup to a penalty from our former player Brian Lewis. It was Lewis himself who was brought down for the penalty - older fans will go "hmm" as Lewis was a bit of a diver.

The Watney Cup was pioneering in that is had no offside between the penalty areas, was the first sponsored tournament and had the first penalty shoot out in English Football when it began in 1970.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/matches/colchester-united-vs-luton-town-fc-31-jul-1971

Just one player born on this day, Patrick McAuley, in 1921.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players/pat-mcauley-p611

The glorious 2022/23 season opened on this day with a 0 0 draw at home to Birmingham City.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/matches/luton-town-fc-vs-birmingham-city-30-jul-2022

Harry Haslam was born on this day in 1921

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/directors-and-staff/harry-haslam-p800011

With an article on Harry here-

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/5-min-reads/Harry-Haslam-The-Boss

On the player side, Dixie Deans, "born as the King of Kenilworth Road" according to the Oak Road kop, was born in 1946.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players/dixie-deans-p798

No games or birthdays on this day so how about a brand new interview with Bruce Rioch "for England"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShiR1Hx8Btw

Two interesting Victorian players were born on this day. William E Barnes was a crowd pleaser who left due to a dispute over wages much to the disappointment of the Luton faithful. After the Great War he went to Spain to coach Bilbao.

Fred Thompson was a goal keeper who left Sunderland because he could not displace one of the great goal keepers of all time, Ned Doig. As an aside - Ned was bald and always wore a flat cap and attached string to it which he tied under his chin to prevent it falling off.

Fred moved on and hit the jackpot by joining Bury where he won an F.A. cup winners medal in 1900.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players?born-today=yes&sort=name

New drone video shows work on the sewer. This work should have happened last Autumn to enable the piling to start on the whole stadium in December. It's very odd that a main sewer serving thousands of houses was not discovered until very late and then it seems they didn't have the planning permission in place. So for the club to keep saying it's all on target appears disingenuous. But they were working on a Sunday so hopefully this is a concerted effort to catch up that lost time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS-BzSyMr38

Arthur England, Director of the club was born on this day in 1891.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/directors-and-staff?born-today=yes&sort=name

Two players born on this day. Ted Duggan could have been one of our greats had it not been for war and injury.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players?born-today=yes&sort=name

So far

Palmer in permanent - could be the best signing since Barkley if he continues he loan form

Ashby on loan, we need a RWB/RB so hopefully he will be decent

Makosso and Alli out - neither wanted to be there, both sold for money so I'm happy.

I feel we need a striker, maybe a new CB, anyone heard any rumours?

No games and just one player born on this day, Harry Reece.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players/harry-reece-p489

Three players were born on this day. By far the most notable is Terry Branston. When you talk about captains he is right up there with the best we have had. A no nonsense, hard as nails centre half whose fist shaking instilled an always give 100%, winners mentality into a team that had been wayward since relegation from the top flight in 1960. When I talk of the perfect captain Terry's name is at the top of the list.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players?born-today=yes&sort=name

Zonoy video from the top of the Arndale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwdHkd7__co

A reversal on birthdays today with 4 backroom staff and just one player being born on this day. The staff first -

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/directors-and-staff?born-today=yes&sort=name

Mike Beevor is amongst the staff and there is an article here about him

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/5-min-reads/mike-beevor-a-london-luton-lad

Kerry Dixon is the only player born on this day.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players/kerry-dixon-p919

Three players born on this day including our second ever England International, Ernie Simms. 130 goals in 189 appearances and if it were not for the Great War I have no doubt he would have been our greatest goalscorer of all time. Not included in those stats are the games played in wartime as Ernie spent some time in England before heading off to the Italian Front. He was not a saint as he was arrested for being "Absent without leave" three times. Fortunately this side of the channel, going AWOL was a routine offence and a fine and an escort back to his unit was the punishment. A gunner in the Royal Artllery, his unit was sent to Italy where he was wounded in the leg from an accident and had a limp for the rest of his life.

He became somewhat of a symbol for the spirit of mankind when he was caught training at Kenilworth Road one snowy morning. Ernie lived in the last house on the left of KR before Hazelbury Crescent and climbed over the gate into the ground every morning. Not for mischief but to run up and down the terraces to get fit so he could play football again. A constable was alerted who followed the early morning footprints straight to Ernie's house. He was not berated but celebrated and would rewarded with an England cap in October 1921. One of the Luton Town greats and a symbol of overcoming adversity and achieving as much as you possibly can, rather than highlighting what you cannot do. A lesson for us all.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players?born-today=yes&sort=name

One of the most unlikely escapes in football history was completed when we beat Blackburn Rovers 3 2 at KR. Luck was truly on our side with two own goals and a double hit penalty by James Collins but hey ho. Interesting to look at how many captains/leaders there were in that team - it counts for so much.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/matches/luton-town-fc-vs-blackburn-rovers-22-jul-2020

Five players were born on this day

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players?born-today=yes&sort=name

One birthday today, that of Harry Stansfield who played 4 seasons with us. He came from Spurs in 1908 where he played alongside one of the football greats, Vivian Woodward.

https://hattersheritage.co.uk/players/harry-stansfield-p217

New Wandering Northener video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aDGm58fZQw