Saturday was Luton’s 130th birthday and they tweaked their badge to mark it – and maybe sell shirts. Sadly they could not tweak the nose of Burton Albion, the League Two leaders, making their first visit to Kenilworth Road. Matty Palmer’s late goal gave the Brewers their second 1-0 win over them. In November it was Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink’s first home match as manager and Luton were top.
Burton have lost only three of 26 games under him and with four to go need five points to be sure of promotion. Luton all but stayed with them, mostly in fourth, until last month when they lost all seven games. It was as if they had strayed into the company of the March Hare and Mad Hatter, where nothing makes sense. Now they will be glad of the final play-off place.
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from Sport | The Guardian http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/666716/s/455449ef/sc/13/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0Cfootball0Cfootball0Eleague0Eblog0C20A150Capr0C120Cluton0Etown0Eburton0Eleague0Etwo0Ematch0Ereport/story01.htm

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