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It’s how most of England looked in a lot of our childhoods and when some of us started going to away games. There were entrances similar to this to go with the plush marble halls at the frankly middle class art deco shrine that was Highbury where the directors were Old Etonians The point being the clubs were mostly situated in communities in which they were founded . There is great deal to be said for that in the third decade of the 21st century. When a lot of institutions that tied us to each other have been dismantled or closed due to lack of interest (eg mass workforces in factories and trade unions, the church and organised religion, even local pubs ffs) football clubs outside the premier league elite still serve as places where locals can congregate and share something. When you then consider the last 30 odd years of Luton’s history ie where they were, where they ended up and their journey back then for me the football club is a brilliant thing to have literally in among the houses of the supporters

Merry Christmas everybody. Remember to all at Toontastic having sex on a regular basis helps keep your memory alive. And have very happy 2016.

You could see on the camera the sky was a beautiful colour. Most enjoyable part of the match tbh

This was the view in the second half The zinc pipe is the floodlight pedestal The other is the 20th century roof support and rainwater pipe 👍 Probably hasn’t come out great but the sky has a really nice hue to it here

In my opinion, the new rules against time wasting have really impacted our ability to shithouse. It's definitely something that's been brought in with us in mind. Same as the new rule about one coach in the technical area. It hasn't been made into a big deal because we've had bigger problems but the rule changes have certainly had an impact, perhaps even contributing to the injury crisis in part. It's another problem too between the rule changes and the injury crisis which means we really can't afford to pick up bookings and suspensions. I think if this season can be described as simply as possible, it's a product of over-achieving, rule changes, bad luck with injuries and fixture draws and not having the money and squad resources to handle it all and to pursue our high intensity gameplan across multiple competitions. I don't agree necessarily that Howe lacks a Plan B. We have seen him tweak things. And I think our away performances have been more subdued in order to preserve energy. (Granted that subdued style has not worked.) But perhaps it would've worked with more players and better players to call upon. Add to that that we have a lot of new players and perhaps multiple gameplans would be difficult to teach and implement with players who are getting used to each other, Howe's methods and gameplan, and (for many of them) playing in Europe is also something new. There'll be progress followed by growing pains through this process. Especially with the establishment kicking and screaming and establishing stumbling blocks for us every time we outperform the expectations they have for us. I know everyone here is onboard with Howe. And I think most sensible journalists and the wider community too are with Howe. (Not to be super conspiratorial but there'd a good chance that any serious chat about Howe's position is the product of those who wish to see us derailed by making the mistake of offloading perhaps the best young manager in the English game.) Last night's result and performance was frustrating and a thorough disappointment in a season where we've seen a few. But we'll get there. The team is together. It has a core of good professionals and a core of immensely talented players. It's just a process we have to go through with a few ups and downs along the way.

Happy Christmas you lovely pack of wankers!

Yeah we were in just after two… we had our mate with us, a teetotal ground hopper who was properly hyped up to get in… pleased we did really enjoyed the clerb 🍺 Highbury is/was my favourite away ground. Got beat 5-1 after SBR was sacked, we were so bad Ray fuckin Parlour scored three. Went to the pub where all the buses left from and there were about 50 of us all singing and going defiantly. There was a little fellah in there with a flat cap and a huge red and white scarf almost bigger than him, looking a bit bemused …. “What appens when you lot win then?” he said

This actually happened. Here's some old footage of that incident at the monument just before the 15 year old MLF kicked the shit out of the NME which lead to two of them freezing in shock.

All the best folks. There's an eerie and uncharacteristic calm about our house that surely won't last. Fuck that reminds me, I've still got a trampoline to build.

Merry Crimbo you utter cunts

Good news for Mrs Gemmill and Mrs CT 🙂

Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you all get what you deserve. I mean desire. Actually, maybe I was right the first time

We have a little family tradition of giving each other a small gift on Christmas Eve. I got a universal remote control just now from the kids. This changes everything.

Merry Christmas you filthy perverts!

Merry holidays guys

Happy Christmas you lovely bunch of cunts

In the true spirit of Christmas, for one day only I’d like to declare a truce between the cultured, clean, standers of this fine board, and the filthy toilet spelunkers who dig in the dark. We can all appreciate this…

Treat yourselves you filthy animals https://boobychristmas.com/

Forgot to say, Brexit loving resident of Monaco, Jim Ratcliffe. Lovely bloke.

That’s why gift bags were invented.

Has it got massive tits?

Merry Xmas everybody. Wishing you all all the best.

It’s not just that either. By that I mean they’d had massive investment for well over a decade before that too. It’s not like they were starting from where we were two years ago.

Keith the mod over there got nicked at a derby.. "This mag was giving a young scarfer a few clips, I dropped him" So, he is hard as nails 😂 https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/a-long-time-since-we-played-the-scum.1622782/page-2

Longshot like, but that wasn't you body popping the mags at the monument a few years ago so was it, @safcforever?

My brother is married to a Mackem and I enjoy taking the piss and I also enjoy her family taking the piss. It is funny and the real fun behind a local rivalry. I cannot imagine 'hating' a football club or a bunch of people, let alone a bunch of people for the team they enjoy, or suffer, watching. It is just bizarre. I put Sunderland till I die on our of curiosity and ended up glued to it. It was just nuts. I have recommended it to friends who don't have any interest because it is about Sunderland and they 'don't care' about them. I have tried to explain that it is fascinating car crash TV but they don't bite haha. I would have been gutted if it had been about NUFC under the Ashley era and I imagine some of the things that went on were probably equally as painful to observe.

There's a thread here which is oozing with vitriol towards us. Really extreme stuff, the stuff were it not about football would get them added to a terrorist watch list. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/a-long-time-since-we-played-the-scum.1622782/ I don't want to talk for anyone else, but seriously wtf man. I don't hate anyone based on their football allegiances. Some of the best people I've ever met have been mackems. There was piss taking, but it never got in the way of friendship. But then, I've also encountered real life MLFs like on the SMB who literally start slavering like a rabid dog when NUFC comes up. Offered me out for a fight based on nowt. I like looking on the SMB not because of hatred, but purely because I find them hilarious. The way they are so bipolar, constantly flip flopping, desperate for affirmation (which they accuse us of - wrong - I couldn't give a shit what people think of us). They are also the personification of the David Brent of football clubs. Sunderland till I die could only have been made about that club. I still laugh when I watch it. But hate them, naah, I don't think so.

I wonder what these people are like to meet in real life. It has nothing to do with them being Mackems either. It reminds me of the IT bloke off The Office. I didn't think people like that actually existed. I don't think I would be able to talk to someone like this without laughing at them. Unless they only save their tales for Internet forums.

I see the home secretary has been getting marriage guidance tips from Gemmill

From a TV viewing perspective, Kenilworth Road is dreadful as you can't really see what's going on in either box due to the camera angle. From a nostalgic perspective though, it's great to see such a timewarp ground scrape into the Premier League. Thanks PL for the photos.

If you look above the YouTubers twathat you’ll see the case for the dartboard, unfortunately locked up for our visit. This was obviously an old clerb room tucked away under the stand 😊

Luton.. a town so rough they keep the Sally Army band behind bars 😬 The whole place has a pleasing 1970s feel to it….

How(e) do we put this? Eddie is rightly the man for the job but he needs to sort out a plan B and C, if he wants to move both the club and himself into that next level. Yes the players look like they are running on empty but it appears he knows no other way than intensity is our identity. With someone like Rafa, you always knew the team could switch from an initial plan to an alternative, Eddie just hasn't shown this and it is obvious in the way he uses or more precisely, doesn't use, his substitutes. Yes injuries are a huge factor and limiting what he can do but there is no use having players on the bench if they cannot do a job - the Fulham game being an example of playing 10 men, comfortably one nil up and he still waits until the 75 minute to rotate players. Here is hoping he can turn things around but at the moment the wheels have fallen off and no one has the strength to push things home - the lack of shithousery this season is also worrying.

Aye, most of the mackems at work were all behind him, and thought he'd been shafted by the owners. I'm not sure RTG is representative of all the mackems. However, it is where the most mental ones reside and it provides endless amounts of entertainment, which is especially useful when we're playing away from home, as was the case today

It was bought by one spectacularly massive tit if that counts but I'm guessing photos of me building trampoline isn't what you're edging for.

It’s car washes these days marra.

How about living in a house in Sunderland but, just for fun, camping out under one of the bridges there? That’s if there’s no roundabouts free

The Monument a few minutes before the 100 Mags turned up..

Just seen the hand ball and they fucking were LOL

I know it's been a shit day/week/month as an NUFC fan but fuck me, I have never seen the Mackems as upset as they are now, including when they were relegated. They are fucking fewming tonight, and now absolutely bricking it over the derby. They want to lynch their owner, manager and half their players just a few weeks ago they thought were worth 100 million quid. The "model" is shit apparently too. Oh well, never mind, boo hoo.

I can't think why CT is so bothered about wanting to see this pianist again?