The Bedfordshire town will welcome its footballing heroes on Monday after a Championship play-off victory saw them return to the top flight of English football for the first time in 31 years
But any such structural doom and gloom was far from people’s thoughts this weekend. One the dust has settled on what Luton Council is billing as a “paint the town orange” celebration, the football club and its followers will turn their thoughts to preparing for the coming season and the matter of “The Kenny”, as Luton’s stadium is affectionately known.
The football club has pledged to spend £10m between now and August on upgrading its ageing home to welcome sucharistocracy as Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal in the expectation that its intimate, cauldron-like atmosphere could allow the top flight’s new arrivals to cause an upset or two.
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