Luton Town: A New Season and A Fresh New Start

After three successive relegations, which have seen Luton Town fall from the Coca-Cola Championship right the way through the Football League and end up in the Blue Square Premiership, Luton Town must now feel they have hit rock bottom and the only way is up.

Last season Luton Town had to overcome the mammoth task of trying to overhaul a 30-point deduction that was handed to them by the Football League and the FA for financial irregularities and for not exiting administration with a CVA.

The effort of the players was Herculean but unfortunately the points deduction was just too much and has Luton Town outside the Football League for the first time in their history.

Even though Luton’s season ended with relegation from the league, Luton still went on to beat Scunthorpe United in an exciting final of the Johnston Paint Trophy.

Luton will now be looking to bounce straight back up to the Football League at the first attempt. Mick Harford has managed to keep most of last season's squad together, but with the likes of Chris Martin and Michael Spillane returning to Norwich City to help in their attempts to return to the Championship and also releasing Dean Brill, Sam Parkin, Dean Morgan, and Sol Davis.

Mick Harford has managed to add few key players to help the push for a return to the Football League. Some of the new faces that have been brought in are Liam Hatch, Mark Tyler, Andy Burgess, and Adam Newton.

The Blue Square Premier is a league that sits at the top of the non-league football pyramid and is made up of clubs that have worked their way up from an amateur and semi-professional background and is also littered with former League clubs who have fallen out of the league and struggled to return.

Whilst Luton will start the league as red-hot favourites for promotion back to the professional divisions. This year’s league will be stronger and there are several teams who will fancy there chances but I personally feel Oxford United could be one of Luton’s main rivals for the Championship.

Luton will need to keep focused on the task in hand and they will have to be wary of the pitfalls that have hampered so many other former league club's attempts for promotion back to the top leagues.

I personally hope we have now found a Plateau in which Luton Town can now start building towards a bright future and working our way up the leagues.

The new season kicks off on the 8th August against AFC Wimbledon at Kingmeadow.