To those people who want to read about erudite comment on books or to read about Story Telling exploits today I am sorry. The blog today is all about Luton’s historic win yesterday. I don’t know about anyone else but to me this last week has restored romance and faith in football. Bradford City’s fantastic win to get them to the League Cup final started it-a much more interesting final than having to watch Man Utd, Chelsea etc yet again! Then we get onto a fantastic weekend in the cup. Well done Oldham, Leeds and Brentford-I can’t mention that team that stole a club and won at QPR.

Dave and I set off bright and early for the long slog to Norfolk. Accompanied by Danny Baker and Fighting Talk on the radio. When we arrived in Norwich there were plenty of Hatters wandering around the city. We met old friends in the pub that was heaving, one of them John Jackson had persuaded me to watch my first Luton game when I was a lad of 13! Since that first match I have seen my team yo-yo through the leagues, win at Wembley twice, many, many lows but some wonderful high points that stand out and resonate through the years.

We joined the 4,000 boisterous Town fans in the ground were in full voice drowning out 20,000+ Norwich fans. The match went like a dream, matching our Premier League opponents for skill and organisation. Mark Tyler our keeper pulled off one superb save and apart from them hitting the post they didn’t really threaten us. We created a couple of chances and then Nirvana!  “JJ” our young sub burst through on the left to cross for Rendell to prod home the winner and all of us so-called rational men went ballistic! So for the first time in 20 years a non-league team beat a top flight club and it was my team LUTON TOWN! Although the non-league tag hurts! David said afterwards it was his best day watching the Town! He didn’t come to the League Cup win at Wembley because he wasn’t old enough he hasn’t had much to cheer in recent years!