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Story of a Season – 2013-14 – When wily John Still finally led Luton Town to sweet EFL return

When Luton Town were relegated from League Two in 2009, not even the most pessimistic Hatters supporter imagined they’d still be a Non-League team four years later.

by
Chris Dunlavy
26 July 2026

The NLP’S story of a season: Turning back the clock to 2013-14

When Luton Town were relegated from League Two in 2009, not even the most pessimistic Hatters supporter imagined they’d still be a Non-League team four years later.
This was a club who’d spent 16 seasons in the top flight of English football. Who’d missed the inaugural Premier League season by a matter of months. Who, just two decades earlier, had beaten Arsenal at Wembley to lift the League Cup.
Even accounting for the financial collapse that had lubricated their slide through the Football League, they were just too big for the...

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