So we set up a thread to gloat about them going down but turns out they've now stayed up and we're all petrified of losing to them and/or being beaten up. Great look, team!
Absolute chaos & mayhem on & off the pitch...the players seemed to hate each other as much as the fans.
Not proud of this but in 1980 there was a mob from Watford taking the train to Luton. There was a tip off that PC Plod was waiting at St Albans so the meet up was Harpenden. There must have been about 50-100 . Luckily no one from Luton met us between the station and the ground !. Cos I'm not sure what a bunch of spotty teenies would have done anyway! The following season the same useless teenies got chased out of the main stand enclosure at Kenilworth road !. If my children are reading this I hope they don't realise that this is their dad writing this! . In my defence apart from a game at Gillingham and Southport and the above, 1970s/80s football hooliganism passed me by . Thankfully!.
First went to that **** hole in 1969/70 to see them play Torquay United - my Dad's 'Best Man' was a L*t*n fan and we went there for the day for a family visit - Naturally I supported Torquay. Went the following season to see Watford there and sat in the main stand (again with my Dad's 'Best Man') where my Dad exchanged a few words with some of the local inbreds when he made some comments that were pro-Watford. Of course we did what we usually do and lost 0-1. Thereafter it was mostly a nightmare every visit. Was on the London Country buses that got smashed to bits after one game there. Absolute dump.
Was that Southport in 1978 when a load of Everton hoolies turned up to cause mayhem because we were the big noise in town? (We got a late equaliser for a 2-2, by the way.)
2 late goals I think . Me and my mate left early and had given up only to find out that we had drawn. The details of the alternative action is sketchy I just remember everyone chasing eachother around the stadium and then running away when they charged back !. I drove past there a year or 2 ago when I had to go to Ormskirk which is not far and the ground is just off the main drag . I was also at the rock bottom game when we lost to Northwich Victoria the year before. Also beating Huddersfield 2-0 after Alan Mayes and Tony Geidmintis were sent off is another memory from yester year!. Something else from that era was that if you missed to football scores at 5pm then that was it until the following morning when you read the paper.
Only been ‘lucky’ enough to go to one of these games. 2002 - for those too young you can see what happened that night on YouTube. I found out just how much of a grudge match this was by going that night and now genuinely dislike them. I know you can’t judge a whole fan base on the minority but their minority seems a hell of a lot larger than most.
That was my first game vs Luton. I was only 8 but remember it like it was yesterday. You could hear the fighting on the pitch while queuing up at the Rookery turnstiles.
Playing Luton again would be the silver lining on the relegation cloud for me. Proper derby. Proper intensity. Proper passion And a chance to see us beat them for the first time in 30+ years for me. (Had a ticket for the 4-0 but missed the game due to an overnight flight; a story I've told before but still saddens me).
The only game I went to was when we drew 1-1 in our promotion from Division 2. I think Robbo scored for us? 1997-ish Luton is now a hotbed of ultra-nationalist dumb****ery, so they are probably even worse these days!
Must be awful being an Owls fan. The biggest club in Sheffield taking the Prem by storm in their first season. They are so far ahead of you, you’re not even relevant in their eyes anymore. In all seriousness, I wasn't looking for your team on the last day of the season, but I’m guessing as per normal you finished around 15th? Such a tiny insignificant club. Can’t wait for the Owls “promotion push” next season, only for it to fade away by November/December like usual. Your lot are like the Everton of the championship. “Win” the transfer window, then bang on about how this is your season, only for you to end in bottom half of the table as per normal. I thought supporting Burnley would be the most depressing team to support, but then you reminded of your team. You must be on the phone to the Samaritans everyday. Either that or that’s why you jump on here, to see what a big club looks like. I love that we are your “second” team, it’s cute.
Luton 2002 I was 10. Turned up without a ticket with my Dad and a steward snuck us down the front of the Rookery. What a ******* introduction to the hatred that was! Buzzing at school the next day mind! Andre is in for a lovely day out if he's still with us!
Can I just say that Owls4Life is a massively thick immature *****. Points deduction incoming, no transfers allowed and welcome to League One for that massive club and dated stadium.
I do like that short excerpt about 1969 lifted from Outlaws above. It supports from the opposite side what Oli Phillips has written on the subject a number of times. I'm intrigued by such things but your conclusion about it being hopefully a bygone age is a sensible one of course. I note that as a compliment in return the guy named Real Ale Drinking Saddo Bloke (I think that's his full posting name now abbreviated to RADSB) is posting a lot of stuff directly lifted from this forum on Outlaws. Again. Yet again.
You forgot monkey noises from the director's box when we beat them 3-2 there in the early '80s with Digger and Luther ( I think?)
I think it will be good for some of our younger fans to see what a real rivalry is, instead of pathetic pretend rivalries with the likes of Bournemouth which is miles away. I was only a kid in 2002 and my Mum wouldn't let me go to the game but I do remember it being mayhem in the town centre.
Just a couple of points; as we were the frst club in British football to field a team contaning more black players than white, and had a song at the time that went " We're black we're white, we're f***ing dynamite, Luton Town, I think that any monkey noises you heard would have been from a miniscule part of our support, although I won't doubt the veracity of what you say. Secondly you never beat us 3-2 in the early eighties, at home.
This thread is being used by L*ton fans on Twitter. Well done guys. You rung the bell, now they are drooling relentlessly.
He's talking about Sheffield Wednesday you thick ****. Quite obvious when there is a clear reference to "Owls4Life" Mind you I think Diamond's reply was more pertinent.
This doesn't excuse anyone however I can remember Luther getting the oo oo oo chants but I can also recall opposing black players recieving it. What I will say is that when a player is getting dogs abuse it is because they are a threat. My dad who was Scottish used to say many moons ago about the abuse Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore received at Hampden. "They don't boo the bad players"
