Luton Outlaws - Independent Message Board for Luton Town FC

… is someone on Facebook, the vibe on here is sometimes the same, who has said that 2020 won the lottery when we got promoted to the Premier League, and the implications is that they are now not sharing that good fortune with the people who really deserve it, the fans.

That is bullsh!t. I’ve never run a football club, not least one that was in the non-league and got to the Premier League. But what I do know with absolute certainty is that 2020 put in an enormous amount of money at their own risk, worked unbelievably hard (I’m also aware that marriages were lost and so on), the sort of effort that I personally simply could not give. There is no such thing as luck, and even if there wasn’t it.

Yes, some of the communication has been reserved, but I have also never had to manage a complete clear out of rotten playing staff from a football club relegated twice in two seasons with players on contracts that are miles and miles and miles above what place should be paid at the level those players have put us at. The way that football debt works, I would imagine that sorting out this mess is unfathomably hard. And I also believe that they will be doing it.

So yes, we got relegated twice in 2 years. It’s happened to other clubs including wolves and Sunderland. They are not crooked very very clearly, and they are doing things and taking a responsibilities for which I and always will be very grateful as merely a supporter.

So ask decent questions, perish the thought offer to actually help; but back them, or when we do next get promoted and/or we have a great time going into the new stadium, don’t come.

Rant over.