My Day Trip to Luton

Danny gave me his ticket!!! He insisted I take it and refusing was not an option.

Danny, I am eternally grateful mate, thank you so much – top man and I owe you big time.

Great character and selflessness Danny, and Neil, a true die-hard as well. UTFTs!

Glad you got in, Neil, and I know you'll return the favour when it is needed.

What I will say is that you didn't miss much, in terms of the ground anyway, as you seem to have seen a fair bit of the game on the TV. What an absolute dump of a ground Kenilworth Road is. Granted, they have been out of the top flight of English football for donkey's years, even spending some time out of the Football League altogether, and thus not having any money to re-develop it. How it passed Premier League standards, god knows?

Coaches left Goodison at 1 pm and we were parked up outside the ground by 5:30 pm. I say 'outside the ground', but you wouldn't know it as it was behind terraced houses, with the turnstiles built in between two houses.

Once entering through the turnstiles, it was like you were in someone's backyard. Above us were bathroom and living room windows. You could probably open one of those windows and scale down the walls into the away end!

We ended up in a Wetherspoons away from the ground, and got talking to a Luton fan who told us of his experience when visiting Anfield. He said him and a couple of mates, wearing Luton shirts, went to go into the Arkles pub and got threatened, and told to leave. As there was nowhere else for them to go, they just went into the stadium. What a gang of scumbags that lot are.

Anyway, game was far from a classic, but as we were already safe, we had no nerves and I suppose a draw was just about the right result. We had a smooth journey home, getting back to the Rocket about 1:50 am. One away game left, which we're on the train for, before we can relax for a couple of months!

I've just been looking. If we win the remaining matches and without the points deductions, we would be on over 50 points.

Danny, class act.

Rob, glad you got home with no issues.

How do you get away tickets not being a season ticket holder???

Friends, family and trusted people. For home games, my membership sometimes helps.

I have just read your article; your act of kindness will be rewarded somewhere down the line.

Mel, if you're still on here, every time I'm with Danny at games he goes on and on about you like you're Cleopatra reincarnate.

He says if you could cook as good as you look, he'd give up Everton and stay home with you.

(Hope that helps, Danny boy 😘)

You're probably right – I don't.

I'll stop digging now.

Take care of yourself and Danny.

I'm sorry, that was wrong of me!

Knowing you a little by now, Danny, you did not see this as some sort of heroic, selfless and generous gesture to be lauded and admired, but as what an Evertonian in those precise circumstances should do for another Evertonian.

Good on you!

I know some Evertonians might dislike that notion though!

Rob @ 10

Your description is spookily familiar to me. The worrying thing being, I haven't been to Kenilworth Road since 1991. It does make you wonder how Kenilworth got approved as a Premier League ground this season?

Danny - your description of Luton was very, erm... diplomatic (?)