MATT BADCOCK: It began with a brain storm

Matt BADCOCK

Luton Town playing their first ever game in the Premier League brought to mind that great John Still quote having watched them lose 2-0 to Braintree Town just hours after he’d left Dagenham & Redbridge to take over as Hatters boss.
In the car on the way home, he turned to assistant manager Terry Harris and said, ‘Shall we tell Dagenham we’ve changed our minds?’
By then they’d had three unsuccessful play-off campaigns — including two defeats in finals to AFC Wimbledon and York City — and were about to miss out on the top five altogether.
A little over ten years later and th...

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