Having posted little more than a few photos from Luton, this is now followed up with what's really more of a piece of travel writing than a proper match report - with some musing about how we have escaped (for now) the downward spiral into which the Hatters have been sucked. A few more photos also: http://thisismyengland.blogspot.com/2011/08/back-to-future.html
An excellent read! Great photos too - loved the fly-tipping mattresses at Kenilworth Road - as you opine - a step back in time.
A very well-written piece, it painted a picture of the evening. As for we'll not play them again? Could be in two years time in League One if our worst fears are confirmed!
Its only a friendly.Gettting the team up to scratch. They will be fine... Have u seen our team. SUPERSTARS
About TIME! 21 posts establishes you as one of us (for what it's worth), not simply as an R's fan but a QPRnot606er too! And d'you know what? Proud to have you aboard sir - because on the evidence of your contributions to date, both blogs and covering posts, you're an honest to goodness chronicler who tells it like it is in a well researched and balanced way. But this effort, was particularly good. In fact the best I've read from you to date, at least equalling Clive Whittingham and David McIntyre when they're in top form! For this reason I wish we knew your name, or at least a more conventional sobriquet through which we could identify you and place you on a pedestal together with your peers. TIME in its fuller form just doesn't do it for me! It does nothing for you and/or your craft. As I say, the piece is a riveting and brilliantly fluent and well constructed read. I approached it, as I do with so many lengthy articles atm, with all the enthusiasm of a man looking up a mountain knowing he cannot comment until he's reached the summit and got back down again... I anticipted the usual regurgitation of poignant but given our our circumstances and the imminence of the new season, stale news. I anticipted having to cut across the grain with a blunt saw but instead found the experience more like putting a knife through unchilled butter! Lovely. One well constructed point nicely leading into the next. A 'couldn't put it down' experience that made a visit to football's wilderness (no offence Lutonians) rightly sound like a cultural must for purists! Great stuff, clearly an inspired moment. Hope you were as pleased with it as we evidently are! Looking forward to more of the same readability - if that's at all possible!
