Ten games and more than four months later Luton have not picked up another point away from home, and they go into Saturday’s home fixture against Preston in 20th place, two points above the bottom three, with the division’s second-worst goal difference and a new manager in the dugout.
Luton ended last season with a relegation but they also came out of it with a boosted bank balance, a determination to return to the Premier League and with Rob Edwards tied to a new four-year contract.
How Luton fell from Premier League into Championship relegation scrap Variety of factors have led club into an unexpected season of struggle and prompted a change of manager.
We know what we are about, we know how to play, we know what we want to do and we want to get back there.
On the eve of the new campaign bookmakers made them third favourites for promotion, while Opta got its supercomputer to simulate the season 10,000 times and concluded they were most likely to finish fifth.
