*~*~* Luton v Sunderland match thread *~*~*

[Mace]

Imagine being a Luton fan and having to watch that shite. Im far from a football snob but that was absolutely lifting. Centre halfs and full backs picking the ball up and just wellying it up field. In the words of Bobby Saxton...minging.

 

[myleftfoot1978]

Maybe I need to see it again, on sky+ it looked onside and the lad that was offside wasn't interfering.

The lad in the middle of the goal who tried to head it and missed it was not interfering? My initial thoughts is he got a touch on it, but even if he never he was that close to touching it and patto would have definitely had to watch him, 100 percent interfered.

 

[wisemensaysteve]

anyone got the video at full-time
I had to go for a celebration Wee

 

[Dash riprock]

Still can’t believe their commentators were saying the ref should have pulled Humes perfect tackle before mundel rifled it in Clowns

think it was the slight contact from Jobe they were on about .

 

[Hardyman's Yugo]

What impressed me the most was we stepped up the tempo of our game after the equaliser and scored quickly. It looked like we believed we could win.

 

[parsonjohn1985]

Will Oxford park their bus on Saturday? Their last 5 games have been draws.

They don't normally but with Branaghan out they're playing more direct

 

[Gingermackem]

It’s the hardest fought for sure. I think beating Burnley and Boro more impressive as both are good sides and we did proper tactical jobs on them both.

I’d taking some convincing if anyone was to suggest that the way we got the points tonight was by design. We certainly rode our luck at times tonight and showed a real lack of composure for large parts. But when it mattered, Rigg and Mundle showed composure and quality.

Brilliant three points and it will give a great deal of confidence to them going forward

Take your point, Burnley and boro are both a much better footballing side than Luton which helps us and both were completely different wins from tonight.

Think Luton force teams to play like we did because of how they go about it themselves which I think makes this more impressive as we had to battle hard, ride our luck a bit (which every team at the top gets) but we also had the quality and composure like you said, we’d have crumbled in that game last season & season before

 

[HoxtonMackem]

They're taking it well on Twitter

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The fume is strong

 

[Luca Changretta]

Chris Iwelumo the biggest sky commentator tosspot ever and there’s been a few

Makes Andy Hinchcliffe sound professional

 

[Wrenthorpe Mackem]

Mind you - to go up to the Prem, bag a hundred million, keep most of a “prem” squad together, and still be churning out the “football” they are, should be provoking some serious questions from their supporters.

Surely a club with parachute payments etc should be serving up something a lot better than that.

Think it's pencilled for new stadium ?

 

[southstander]

They must be up on a misconduct charge for their behaviour at the end and their keeper should have had red for grabbing Mepham round the neck.

 

[Sea to Shining Sea]

They're taking it well on Twitter

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They just did a lap of honour after a loss!

 

[ontap]

Goal was offside

Correct

 

[SOLid]

But in the leeds and Hull games we got big moments go in our favour.

Wasn't it Napoleon who said, "Give me a lucky general."
Vive LeBris

 

[SteveFTM]

It’ll be as important for future games as it is for the three points.

Important that this team believe/see that they can stand up to that kind of physical pressure, soak it up and still find a way to win.

There’ll be more grinding games like this through the winter months. Especially away from home. Hopefully they can draw on the performance tonight when they need to.

Exactly ^

 

[Blyth]

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[tynevalleyblackcat]

Who was the biased jock commentator? One of the lads must have shagged his Mrs

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He once did this and he used to play for Luton.

 

[Luca Changretta]

Take your point, Burnley and boro are both a much better footballing side than Luton which helps us and both were completely different wins from tonight.

Think Luton force teams to play like we did because of how they go about it themselves which I think makes this more impressive as we had to battle hard, ride our luck a bit (which every team at the top gets) but we also had the quality and composure like you said, we’d have crumbled in that game last season & season before

Especially on their glorified 5 a side court, get them up here on an expansive pitch, see what they are like then.

 

[---Nemo---]

Put me in mind of Wimbledon, Refs allowing all sorts of nonsense because that's how they play. We played with great courage tonight but our superior skills won the day.

 

[myleftfoot1978]

Anyone know the the Scottish commentator was by the way?