Luton Outlaws - Independent Message Board for Luton Town FC

Being shit scared to open your mouth at away matches up north and how it’s changed - I’ll give an example of that :- Newcastle away in November 1981 - one of the few games we lost that season, me and another fellow getting sussed out whilst walking to the station and having to seriously leg it - a couple of young Geordies (I swear Alan Shearer was one of them ) heard us talking and took umbrage at our accents, fortunately back then I was pretty light on my feet. Contrast that with the 4-4 draw up there last season and it seemed from the moment we set foot in the ‘Get Carter’ pub everyone wanted to make conversation with us - the locals couldn’t have been friendlier and we had a great night out up there.

Also, somewhat bizarrely - pretty much the first person I bumped into upon entering St James Park last year was the bloke with whom I’d been chased around the centre of Newcastle some 40 odd years previously and I think we both stumbled out the same sentence as we greeted one another ‘bit different from the last time we saw us up here eh!’

Didn’t you once tell me that Bolton was a particularly intimidating place to go back in the day - even for someone living in Greater Manchester?