Luton enjoyed a brilliant season and deservedly go back to the Football League after spending the last five seasons in non league. The Hatters were hoping for a new beginning under John Still, who took the reigns at the tail end of a the previous season. He made some important changes to the squad and brought in genuinely good players for this level like Luke Guttridge and Paul Benson. The start of the season was actually stuttering and the team found goals very hard to come by, getting just seven in the first eight games of the season. Yet, that period was mostly about adaption and gelling before Still settled on his best 11. The goals started suddenly flowing in from October onwards and some hard-earned comebacks wins over Halifax and Lincoln gave the team a lot of belief about the season ahead. Yet, Luton were not really firing on all cylinders in these early stages and occasionally turned rather flat displays. They still established themselves as one of the chasers of runaway leaders Cambridge and were comfortable at third place ahead of the busy festive period. This is when something in the team clicked and they really went on an amazing run of results, leading up all the way to March. The team won 13 out of their next 14 games and a big amount of them saw some absolute thrashings of the opposition. They were the sort of displays that further added confidence to an already flying group of players and the Hatters were top of the table by early January. A wily old manager like Still knew how to handle the pressure of being top, especially with all the expectations attached to the biggest club in the division, and did a brilliant job to bring some fresh players on loan and maintain the momentum. Luton looked as good as any side have done at this level for a great number of years during these few months and made some pretty good sides look very ordinary. That burst of form, alongside Cambridge’s timely collapse in form, basically secured the title by March. The injury of Guttridge, alongside the overall complacency that set in, resulted in a drop-off in results in the next few weeks. But Still weathered that storm soon enough and the team still finished the season in blistering form, getting eight wins from the last ten games. They were absolutely the best side in the league overall and the shrewd leadership of Still eventually proved the inspiration for a very enjoyable season. Now the aim is to finish high in League Two next season as well and it can be safely assumed that Luton will not be playing in the non-league for a number of years to come.
