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Articles by Kevin Harper

About Kevin Harper
Kevin Harper is host of the award-winning Luton Town Supporters' Trust Podcast available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Podbean or wherever you get your podcasts.
The permanent fans' flag that hangs in Kenilworth Road remembering the punishments the FA and the Football League dished out in 2008
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Opinion: Let’s hope fans are allowed in to watch Watford derby

August 17, 2020 Kevin Harper Comments Off on Opinion: Let’s hope fans are allowed in to watch Watford derby

It has been over three weeks since the wonderful ‘Great Escape’ was completed, and having finally come down from cloud nine with the news that pre-season has already begun, and in some style I might […]

Nathan Jones
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Opinion: If Hatters seal Great Escape it might just be the club’s best ever result

July 21, 2020 Kevin Harper 3

After the wonderful win at Hull City on Saturday afternoon to put our destiny in our own hands, it has got me thinking about how big an achievement survival would be, and where it ranks […]

Cameron Carter-Vickers slides in against Preston
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Opinion: Spurs star is rapidly becoming Luton’s best ever loan signing

June 30, 2020 Kevin Harper Comments Off on Opinion: Spurs star is rapidly becoming Luton’s best ever loan signing

While watching the Town’s impressive win away to Swansea on iFollow on Saturday, I couldn’t help but be mesmerised by another calm, composed and controlled performance from Cameron Carter-Vickers – and it got me thinking […]

Martin Cranie patrols the touchline as substitutes Callum McManaman and Andrew Shinnie (left) watch on in front of an empty Kenilworth Road peppered with fan photos
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Opinion: It’s football, but not as we know it

June 27, 2020 Kevin Harper Comments Off on Opinion: It’s football, but not as we know it

Lockdown has given me the opportunity to really appreciate things that I had previously taken for granted. Things such as seeing my family when I want, getting a proper haircut, my favourite takeaway and much […]

Nathan Jones when he re-joined as Luton manager for a second time in May 2020
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Opinion: Nathan Jones’ return is the sensible decision regardless of popularity

June 8, 2020 Kevin Harper 2

It is just over a week since Luton Town rewrote the football rules for expecting the unexpected, when Nathan Jones was appointed as manager for the second time. I’ve been pretty vocal about Jones since […]

Graeme Jones
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Opinion: By getting rid of Jones, Luton are showing football will have to cut its cloth after Covid crisis

May 3, 2020 Kevin Harper 2

Finding things to do during lockdown is not the easiest task in the world, but thankfully that was not an issue last Friday. With it being the anniversary of the greatest day in Luton Town […]

Kevin Harper (left) celebrates promotion in 2018
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Opinion: Littlewoods Cup glory, winning League One and promotion at Carlisle – this is the week that was in Hatters history

April 24, 2020 Kevin Harper Comments Off on Opinion: Littlewoods Cup glory, winning League One and promotion at Carlisle – this is the week that was in Hatters history

As I pen this column on this, the 32nd anniversary of the greatest day in the history of Luton Town, the day Brian Stein put the ball in the Arsenal net back in 1988, I […]

Luton players applauding the fans could be a thing of the past if Championship matches resume in empty stadiums
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Opinion: Playing behind closed doors won’t be the worst thing for Luton

April 18, 2020 Kevin Harper Comments Off on Opinion: Playing behind closed doors won’t be the worst thing for Luton

With everything that is going on in the world due to Coronavirus, football is of little importance right now. However, there will be a time when it comes to the forefront of our minds once […]

Simon Sluga makes a save against Charlton as Glen Rea looks on
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Opinion: Sluga turnaround shows players should not be written off so quickly

March 7, 2020 Kevin Harper Comments Off on Opinion: Sluga turnaround shows players should not be written off so quickly

Back in October I wrote a column on this website suggesting that, in the interests of fairness, for everyone involved, it was only right that Simon Sluga was dropped from the Luton starting 11. This was after […]

Simon Sluga and boss Graeme Jones hug after the 3-1 win at Barnsley
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Opinion: Enough of this ‘Graeme Jones has lost the dressing room’ rubbish

February 22, 2020 Kevin Harper Comments Off on Opinion: Enough of this ‘Graeme Jones has lost the dressing room’ rubbish

‘Graeme Jones has lost the dressing room’. If I had £1 for every time I have read that quote over the last three to four months, I could probably pay for Newlands’ Park myself, and still have […]

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