2005–06 Luton Town F.C. season

Luton Town

2005–06 season
Chairman	Bill Tomlins
Manager	Mike Newell
Championship	Tenth
FA Cup	Third Round
Football League Cup	Second Round
Top goalscorer	League: Steve Howard (14) All: Steve Howard (15)
Highest home attendance	10,248 vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (Championship, 10 September 2005)
Lowest home attendance	7,474 vs Crewe Alexandra (Championship, 22 November 2005)
Average home league attendance	9,139
Home colours Away colours
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The 2005–06 season was the 120th season in the history of Luton Town Football Club, and the club’s 85th consecutive year in The Football League. This was the club's first season in the second tier of English football since the 1995–96 season.

Mike Newell's Luton side made a strong start to the season, topping the table after the first three games and staying in the play-off places until mid-December. However, a poor second half to the season saw Luton eventually slip down the table to finish in tenth place, albeit above more-fancied sides such as Southampton and Leicester City. Striker Steve Howard was Luton's top goalscorer for the fifth season running, scoring 15 goals in total, despite playing parts of the campaign as a makeshift centre-back following injuries to most of the Luton defence. Indeed, this proved a common occurrence throughout the season, with Luton's relatively small squad forcing team members to play out of position when injuries or suspensions materialised.

Kenilworth Road was expanded at the beginning of the season to accommodate over 700 more fans and, combined with the large away followings of clubs such as Leeds United, Norwich City and Wolverhampton Wanderers, this saw the highest average attendance for Luton since their relegation from the top division in the 1991–92 season.

This article covers the period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006.

Background

The 2004–05 season had seen Luton promoted to the second tier of English football for the first time in almost 25 years, winning the League One title with 98 points and both the most goals scored and fewest goals conceded. Six Luton players had been named in the Team of the Year, with 20-year-old centre-back Curtis Davies being named League One Player of the Year.^[1][2] Key players Sol Davis, Kevin Nicholls, Ahmet Brković and Steve Howard had all agreed contract extensions with the club in the face of transfer speculation, while squad players Lee Mansell and David Bayliss had been released.

Review

July and August

Wrexham's Trinidad and Tobago international winger Carlos Edwards joined Luton on a free transfer on 1 July.^[3] The club released utility player Alan Neilson and long-term injured defender Ian Hillier the same day. On 4 July, Luton signed Rowan Vine on a three-year contract from Portsmouth for £250,000. Vine had spent the previous season on a year-long loan at Luton, playing in 49 games.^[4]

The club began pre-season with a mini-tournament in Bulgaria, losing to Bulgarian champions CSKA Sofia, and drawing with Cypriot Second Division side APEP. A day after returning to England, the club signed Aberdeen's Finnish international defender Markus Heikkinen and Reading forward Dean Morgan on free transfers.^[5] Both Heikkinen and Morgan signed two-year contracts. Young striker Calvin Andrew joined League Two side Grimsby Town on loan for a month on 4 August.^[6]

Luton began their season on 6 August with a 2–1 away win to recently relegated Crystal Palace, with Steve Howard and Ahmet Brković scoring, and captain Kevin Nicholls uncharacteristically missing a penalty.^[7] After the game, Luton manager Mike Newell reacted to comments in the Crystal Palace match programme that had suggested the game would be Luton's "cup final". Newell stated that "I do not expect to read condescending comments from fellow professionals."^[8] Three days later, Luton beat another side just relegated from the Premier League, winning 3–2 against Southampton at Kenilworth Road. New signing Dean Morgan scored the winning goal in stoppage-time.^[9] A 0–0 home draw with Leeds United was followed a week later with a 2–1 defeat to Stoke City in which Steve Howard was sent off for spitting at Carl Hoefkens. Howard received a three-game ban after Luton's appeal was rejected.^[10][11][12]

The club progressed into the second round of the League Cup with a 3–1 win over Leyton Orient on 23 August.^[13] Luton won their third league game on 27 August, Ahmet Brković scoring a bicycle kick and Kevin Nicholls a penalty to secure victory over Leicester City.^[14]

Luton were close to signing Ghanaian international midfielder Anthony Obodai from Ajax during the month, but the move fell through on 28 August due to complications with his visa.^[15]

Warren Feeney scored his first Luton goal in a 2–1 home victory against Millwall on 29 August to put Luton into third position in the table.^[16] Defender Curtis Davies scored the other goal in what would prove to be his last game in a Luton shirt; on 31 August, transfer deadline day, Davies moved to Premier League side West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £3 million – both a Luton and West Brom record in terms of money received and spent respectively.^[17] Midfielder Michael Leary moved to Bristol Rovers on a one-month loan the same day.^[18]

September and October

Luton drew 1–1 at home to title favourites Wolverhampton Wanderers on 10 September, Kevin Nicholls scoring a late goal, and then lost 1–0 to Queens Park Rangers three days later for their second defeat of the season.^[19][20] A 1–0 win over Hull City came on 17 September, followed by a 2–2 draw with Sheffield Wednesday a week later.^[21][22] Steve Howard scored all three of Luton's goals. In between these two league games, Luton lost 1–0 to Reading in the League Cup.^[23] Luton ended the month with an impressive 3–0 win over the previous season's play-off finalists Preston North End to sit in third place in the table, drawing praise from Preston manager Billy Davies.^[24] Midfielder Kevin Nicholls won the Championship's Player of the Month award for his performances.^[25]

The club beat Cardiff City 2–1 at Ninian Park on 1 October, midfielder Peter Holmes scoring one goal and setting up another.^[26] Bottom-of-the-table Crewe Alexandra beat Luton 3–1 on 15 October, but the club bounced back a few days later to defeat Norwich City 4–2 and return to their almost customary third place in the table.^[27][28] Plymouth Argyle scored a stoppage-time equaliser to deny Luton a win on 22 August, and the club then lost their fourth league game a week later, going down 1–0 at Coventry City.^[29][30]

Off the field, Luton loaned out youth player Thomas Ward to Dagenham & Redbridge, midfielder Stephen O'Leary to Tranmere Rovers, and Calvin Andrew for a second spell at Grimsby Town.^[6][31][32]

November and December

On 1 November, chairman Bill Tomlins announced that the club had changed its plans to build a new stadium near to Junction 10 of the M1 motorway, after being told the site would not be viable if Luton Airport was to earn permission to build a new runway.^[33] Instead, the owners began exploring the possibility of building a new stadium in time for the 2008–09 season near to Junction 12 – almost six miles away from their existing home of Kenilworth Road. Manager Mike Newell exhibited the first signs of a strained relationship with the club's board, criticising the lack of direction from the owners and stating that "[the owners] have been in 18 months, so why has it taken them 18 months to find out they can't build a stadium at Junction 10?"^[34]

The club lost three consecutive matches against Sheffield United (0–4), Burnley (2–3) and Norwich City (0–2) through early to mid-November, pushing them down the table to seventh place.^[35][36][37] Luton then beat Crewe Alexandra 4–1 and Crystal Palace 2–0, their ninth and tenth wins of the season, to end November in fifth position in the table.^[38][39] The club loaned out reserve goalkeeper Dino Seremet to League One side Doncaster Rovers for a month on 24 November.^[40]

Luton won just one of their six league games throughout December, pushing them out of the play-off positions, which they would not return to for the rest of the season. A heavy loss to leaders Reading on 3 December was followed up with narrow defeats to Southampton and Stoke City.^[41][42][43] A 1–1 draw on Boxing Day at Derby County was trailed by a 3–0 victory over strugglers Brighton & Hove Albion two days later.^[44][45] The club then lost 1–0 to Ipswich Town on New Year's Eve to drop to tenth in the table.^[46]

Match results

Luton Town results given first.

All results, goals, attendances etc. taken from Soccerbase^[47] and verified with match reports from LutonFC.com.^[48]

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

Friendlies

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers	Notes
17 July 2005	CSKA Sofia	Away	2–3	Unknown	Howard (2)
19 July 2005	APEP	Neutral	1–1	Unknown	Robinson
27 July 2005	OFK Belgrade	Home	2–2	2,026	Howard (2)
28 July 2005	Aylesbury United	Away	5–2	Unknown	Leary, Morgan (2), Showunmi, own goal
30 July 2005	Stevenage Borough	Away	2–1	Unknown	Underwood, Brković
1 August 2005	Hitchin Town	Away	2–1	1,034	Perrett, Vine
4 August 2005	Hemel Hempstead Town	Away	2–1	Unknown	Richardson, Sinclair (pen)	Luton Town XI

Football League Championship

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers	Notes
6 August 2005	Crystal Palace	Away	2–1	21,166	Howard, Brković
9 August 2005	Southampton	Home	2–1	9,447	Nicholls, Brković, Morgan
13 August 2005	Leeds United	Home	0–0	10,102	–
20 August 2005	Stoke City	Away	1–2	18,653	Morgan
27 August 2005	Leicester City	Away	2–0	22,048	Brković, Nicholls (pen)
29 August 2005	Millwall	Home	2–1	8,220	Feeney, Davies
10 September 2005	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Home	1–1	10,248	Nicholls
13 September 2005	Queens Park Rangers	Away	0–1	13,492	–
17 September 2005	Hull City	Away	1–0	19,184	Howard
23 September 2005	Sheffield Wednesday	Home	1–1	8,267	Howard (2)
27 September 2005	Preston North End	Home	3–0	7,815	Feeney, Brković, Howard
1 October 2005	Cardiff City	Away	2–1	14,657	Morgan, Holmes
15 October 2005	Crewe Alexandra	Away	1–3	6,604	Morgan
18 October 2005	Norwich City	Home	4–2	10,248	Feeney, Edwards, Holmes, Howard
22 October 2005	Plymouth Argyle	Home	1–1	8,714	Feeney
29 October 2005	Coventry City	Away	0–1	22,228	–
1 November 2005	Sheffield United	Away	0–4	22,554	–
5 November 2005	Burnley	Home	2–3	8,518	Howard, Feeney
19 November 2005	Norwich City	Away	0–2	25,383	–
22 November 2005	Crewe Alexandra	Home	4–1	7,474	Vine (2, 1 pen), Morgan, Showunmi
26 November 2005	Crystal Palace	Home	2–0	10,248	Heikkinen, Vine
3 December 2005	Reading	Away	0–3	19,478	–
11 December 2005	Southampton	Away	0–1	19,086	–
17 December 2005	Stoke City	Home	2–3	8,296	Brković, Nicholls (pen)
26 December 2005	Derby County	Away	1–1	26,807	Brković
28 December 2005	Brighton & Hove Albion	Home	3–0	9,429	Howard, Feeney, Robinson
31 December 2005	Ipswich Town	Away	0–1	23,957	–
2 January 2006	Watford	Home	1–2	10,248	Edwards
13 January 2006	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Away	1–2	21,823	Howard
21 January 2006	Queens Park Rangers	Home	2–0	9,797	Heikkinen, Howard
31 January 2006	Sheffield Wednesday	Away	2–0	23,965	Nicholls (pen), Vine
4 February 2006	Hull City	Home	2–3	8,835	Keane, Coyne
11 February 2006	Preston North End	Away	1–5	15,237	own goal
14 February 2006	Cardiff City	Home	3–3	7,826	Vine (2), own goal
17 February 2006	Reading	Home	3–2	8,705	Vine (2), Morgan
25 February 2006	Leeds United	Away	1–2	23,644	Howard
4 March 2006	Millwall	Away	1–2	9,871	Coyne
11 March 2006	Leicester City	Home	1–2	9,783	Howard
18 March 2006	Derby County	Home	1–0	9,163	Howard
25 March 2006	Brighton & Hove Albion	Away	1–1	7,139	Robinson
1 April 2006	Ipswich Town	Home	1–0	9,820	Howard
9 April 2006	Watford	Away	1–1	15,922	Brković
15 April 2006	Coventry City	Home	1–2	8,752	own goal
17 April 2006	Plymouth Argyle	Away	2–1	13,486	Vine, Andrew
22 April 2006	Sheffield United	Home	1–1	10,248	Brković
30 April 2006	Burnley	Away	1–1	12,743	Vine

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers	Notes
Third Round	7 January 2006	Liverpool	Home	3–5	10,170	Howard, Robinson, Nicholls (pen)

Football League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers	Notes
First Round	23 August 2005	Leyton Orient	Away	3–1	2,383	Coyne, Feeney, own goal
Second Round	20 September 2005	Reading	Away	0–1	6,941	–

League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Reading (C) (P)	46	31	13	2	99	32	+67	106	Promotion to 2006–07 FA Premier League
2	Sheffield United (P)	46	26	14	6	76	46	+30	92
3	Watford (P)	46	22	15	9	77	53	+24	81	Qualification to 2005–06 Championship Playoffs
4	Preston North End	46	20	20	6	59	30	+29	80
5	Leeds United	46	21	15	10	57	38	+19	78
6	Crystal Palace	46	21	12	13	67	48	+19	75
7	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	16	19	11	50	42	+8	67
8	Coventry City	46	16	15	15	62	65	−3	63
9	Norwich City	46	18	8	20	56	65	−9	62
10	Luton Town	46	17	10	19	66	67	−1	61
11	Cardiff City	46	16	12	18	58	59	−1	60
12	Southampton	46	13	19	14	49	50	−1	58
13	Stoke City	46	17	7	22	54	63	−9	58
14	Plymouth Argyle	46	13	17	16	39	46	−7	56
15	Ipswich Town	46	14	14	18	53	66	−13	56
16	Leicester City	46	13	15	18	51	59	−8	54
17	Burnley	46	14	12	20	46	54	−8	54
18	Hull City	46	12	16	18	49	55	−6	52
19	Sheffield Wednesday	46	13	13	20	39	52	−13	52
20	Derby County	46	10	20	16	53	67	−14	50
21	Queens Park Rangers	46	12	14	20	50	65	−15	50*
22	Crewe Alexandra (R)	46	9	15	22	57	86	−29	42	Relegation to 2006–07 League One
23	Millwall (R)	46	8	16	22	35	62	−27	40
24	Brighton & Hove Albion (R)	46	7	17	22	39	71	−32	38

Updated to games played on 2 December 2011.
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Player statistics

Last match played on 30 April 2006. Players with a zero in every column appeared either as unused substitutes or were assigned squad numbers.^[49]

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Marlon Beresford	41	0	1	0	1	0	43	0	1	1
2	DF	[50] Kevin Foley	35 (3)	0	1	0	0	0	36 (3)	0	4	0
3	DF	Sol Davis	17 (4)	0	0	0	2	0	19 (4)	0	5	1
4	DF	Chris Coyne	28 (2)	2	1	0	2	1	31 (2)	3	5	0
5	DF	Russell Perrett	9 (2)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	9 (3)	0	1	1
6	DF/MF	Paul Underwood	28 (1)	0	1	0	0	0	29 (1)	0	2	0
7	MF	Carlos Edwards	38 (4)	2	1	0	2	0	41 (4)	2	1	0
8	MF	Kevin Nicholls	31 (1)	5	1	1	2	0	34 (1)	6	6	1
9	FW	Rowan Vine	21 (10)	10	1	0	0	0	22 (10)	10	5	0
10	FW	Warren Feeney	29 (13)	6	0 (1)	0	2	1	31 (14)	7	2	0
11	MF	Steve Robinson	26	2	1	1	0	0	27	3	3	0
14	MF	Michael Leary	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
15	MF	[51] Stephen O'Leary	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
16	FW	[52] Enoch Showunmi	15 (26)	1	0 (1)	0	1	0	16 (27)	1	2	0
17	MF	Paul Hughes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	MF	Ahmet Brković	39 (3)	8	1	0	1	0	41 (3)	8	5	0
19	FW	Steve Howard	40 (3)	14	1	1	1	0	42 (3)	15	8	1
20	DF	Curtis Davies	6	1	0	0	1	0	7	1	2	0
21	MF	[53] Keith Keane	5 (5)	1	0	0	1 (1)	0	6 (6)	1	1	0
22	MF	Danny Stevens	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
23	FW	Dean Morgan	25 (11)	6	0	0	2	0	27 (11)	6	1	0
25	GK	Dino Seremet	6 (1)	0	1	0	0	0	8 (1)	0	1	0
26	DF	[54] Markus Heikkinen	38 (1)	2	1	0	0	0	39 (1)	2	6	0
27	MF	Peter Holmes	16 (7)	2	0	0	1 (1)	0	17 (8)	2	2	0
28	MF	[55] David Bell	2 (7)	0	0	0	0	0	2 (7)	0	0	0
29	FW	Calvin Andrew	0 (1)	1	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	1	0	0
33	GK	Dean Brill	5	0	0	0	1	0	6	0	0	0
45	DF	Leon Barnett	12 (8)	0	0 (1)	0	1	0	13 (9)	0	4	0
47	GK	Rob Beckwith	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Managerial statistics

Only competitive games from the 2005–06 season are included.

Name	Nat.	From	To	Record							Honours
				PLD	W	D	L	GF	GA	W%
Mike Newell		23 June 2003	15 March 2007	49	18	10	21	72	74	36.7

Awards

Awarded on 23 April 2006.

Award	Name	No.	Pos.	Notes
Supporters' Player of the Season	Markus Heikkinen	26	DF	[56]
Players' Player of the Season	Markus Heikkinen	26	DF	[56]
Website Player of the Season	Markus Heikkinen	26	DF	[56]
Young Player of the Season	Keith Keane	21	MF	[56]
Young Members' Player of the Season	Carlos Edwards	7	MF	[56]
Special Achievement Award	Steve Howard	19	FW	[56]^[A]
Goal of the Season	Dean Morgan	23	FW	[56]^[B]

Transfers

In

Date	Player	From	Fee	Notes
1 July 2005	Carlos Edwards	Wrexham	Free	[3]
4 July 2005	Rowan Vine	Portsmouth	£250,000	[4]
22 July 2005	Markus Heikkinen	Aberdeen	Free	[5]
22 July 2005	Dean Morgan	Reading	Free	[5]
12 January 2006	David Bell	Rushden & Diamonds	£100,000

Out

Date	Player	To	Fee	Notes
1 July 2005	Ian Hillier	Released
1 July 2005	Alan Neilson	Released
31 August 2005	Curtis Davies	West Bromwich Albion	£3,000,000	[17]
31 May 2006	Rob Beckwith	Released
31 May 2006	Paul Hughes	Released
31 May 2006	Dino Seremet	Released
12 June 2006	Enoch Showunmi	Bristol City	Free

Loans out

Date	Player	To	End date	Notes
4 August 2005	Calvin Andrew	Grimsby Town	4 September 2005	[6]
31 August 2005	Michael Leary	Bristol Rovers	12 December 2005	[18]
14 October 2005	Thomas Ward	Dagenham & Redbridge	14 November 2005	[31]
21 October 2005	Stephen O'Leary	Tranmere Rovers	21 April 2006	[32]
26 October 2005	Calvin Andrew	Grimsby Town	26 November 2005	[6]
24 November 2005	Dino Seremet	Doncaster Rovers	17 December 2005	[40]
1 January 2006	Dino Seremet	Tranmere Rovers	18 March 2006
6 January 2006	Michael Leary	Walsall	1 May 2006
30 January 2006	Calvin Andrew	Bristol City	6 April 2006
26 March 2006	Rob Beckwith	Chesterfield	1 May 2006

See also

• List of Luton Town F.C. seasons
• 2005–06 Football League

Footnotes

A. ^ The Special Achievement Award went to Steve Howard for scoring his 100th goal for Luton Town during the season.

B. ^ The goal of the season was awarded to Dean Morgan for his 25-yard curling shot in the final minute of Luton's 3–2 win against Southampton on 9 August 2005.

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