Rax
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Post by Rax on Jan 26, 2013 16:53:59 GMT
Norwich City 0-1 Luton Town We'd best get it back next season then.  |
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Beaney
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Post by Beaney on Jan 26, 2013 17:12:22 GMT
Don't you just know that now the record will be about "beating a Premier League team" instead of a "top-flight" one. As soon as journalists can forget about football pre-1992, they do.
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Post by Andy K on Jan 26, 2013 17:12:33 GMT
We've got the consolation of being the last PART TIME side to beat a top flight club. I suppose that will get forgotten in history. Ironic that it happened at Norwich, by an ex-top flight club really...
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Post by Stewart on Jan 26, 2013 17:15:02 GMT
We've got the consolation of being the last PART TIME side to beat a top flight club. I suppose that will get forgotten in history. Ironic that it happened at Norwich, by an ex-top flight club really... Can we also assume Coventry played their first team? |
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Post by bornatotter on Jan 26, 2013 17:24:38 GMT
Don't need to assume it, we know it. Fair play to Luton but ex top flight side beat current top flight side will never capture the magic of our achievement. But a facts a fact and the record goes. Would have been more fitting if the Macc Lads had done it. Anyone seeing the full highlights of our Coventry triumph on football focus today will know nothing else comes close.
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DaveF
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Post by DaveF on Jan 26, 2013 17:24:56 GMT
Yes, Coventry were at full strength.
Records are made to be broken.
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Post by Andy K on Jan 26, 2013 17:44:49 GMT
Records are made to be broken. Very very true, and those of us lucky enough to have been there that day will never forget what we witnessed. And we're still part of a very small bunch whose name was made by that one game. |
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Post by os on Jan 26, 2013 18:30:58 GMT
I thought it would stay forever and in truth it will, Luton are full time professionals no different from Norwich, we did it with brickies and taxi drivers - A feat that will never be repeated!
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Millsy
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Post by Millsy on Jan 26, 2013 18:42:01 GMT
Don't you just know that now the record will be about "beating a Premier League team" instead of a "top-flight" one. As soon as journalists can forget about football pre-1992, they do. Which means that we remain the last non-league team to beat one from the First Division - a record that will never be broken!  |
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Post by bornatotter on Jan 26, 2013 19:16:26 GMT
Luton have been dodging promotion out of the conference for years now with the intention of blagging our fa cup record.
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Post by Amber Aleman on Jan 27, 2013 20:00:56 GMT
The record is now much less interesting than it was, and I'd guess that Luton fans will be a touch embarrassed by it. They probably don't think of their club as non-League, more a League club in temporary exile. If it weren't for the crippling 30 point deduction imposed on them in 2008/09, the chances are that they would never have dropped into the Conference.
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Post by Andy K on Jan 27, 2013 23:05:29 GMT
I think their result won't be as fondly remembered as ours, or Herefords. it certainly didn't make as many headlines as either of those did, and I really can't imagine their goalscorer appearing on the current top chat show come Monday!
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Post by markn on Jan 28, 2013 9:31:42 GMT
Journo from the Daily Mirror was on Talksport this morning and whilst praising the achievement of Luton, he actually said that Luton's "non league" side is completely different to the Sutton side from 1989 and is a league set up in reality.
Having said that, congratulations to Luton. It was still one hell of an effort.
Here's to Manchester United 0 - Sutton United 2 in the third round next year!
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Post by fluffy rascal on Jan 28, 2013 12:53:43 GMT
Journo from the Daily Mirror was on Talksport this morning and whilst praising the achievement of Luton, he actually said that Luton's "non league" side is completely different to the Sutton side from 1989 and is a league set up in reality. Having said that, congratulations to Luton. It was still one hell of an effort. Here's to Manchester United 0 - Sutton United 2 in the third round next year! Manchester United? I'll happily draw Liverpool or Tottenham at the mo |
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Post by sallycat on Jan 28, 2013 13:26:22 GMT
This is great news for us - it gives us a challenge to work towards. We were the only club who didn't have that challenge until now ;D
There - silver lining.
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