Rob Hadgraft
@robhadgraft.bsky.social
AUTHOR (active), JOURNO (retired), RUNNER (clapped-out),
LUTON TOWN SUPPORTER (active).
DNA RESULT UPDATED: 49% English, 25% Scottish, 13% French, 9% Danish.
MY WEBSITE: www.robhadgraft.com
LUTON TOWN SUPPORTER (active).
DNA RESULT UPDATED: 49% English, 25% Scottish, 13% French, 9% Danish.
MY WEBSITE: www.robhadgraft.com
Thanks to Eric Brown (Sports Journalists Association) for this very positive review of my new book 👍 It's out now - a stocking-filler for Xmas! 🎅🌲 bit.ly/49szolP
Highs and lows of 'miracle' club Luton Town chronicled in new book - Sports Journalists' Association
A book charting Luton Town's mercurial rise from Conference football to the Premier League is reviewed by Eric Brown...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Thanks to Eric Brown (Sports Journalists Association) for this very positive review of my new book 👍 It's out now - a stocking-filler for Xmas! 🎅🌲 bit.ly/49szolP
Dropped in for a chat with Stockport's Des Hinks, who represents the OTHER club who call themselves Hatters! He sat me down and pinned my ears back with 20 tricky questions about Luton Town. Here's the result:
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“Our younger players are a bit up and down, and with a number of big names still injured we would regard a draw as a good result”
Author and Luton fan Rob Hadgraft drops in for a chat ahead of the first Hatters derby since 2013
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November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Dropped in for a chat with Stockport's Des Hinks, who represents the OTHER club who call themselves Hatters! He sat me down and pinned my ears back with 20 tricky questions about Luton Town. Here's the result:
open.substack.com/pub/thescarf...
open.substack.com/pub/thescarf...
At Luton when things go bad, they go really bad . . . . Imagine taking a penalty and the opposition goalkeeper saves your kick with one hand tied behind his back! 😲😲😲 (Pic: David Horn)
October 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
At Luton when things go bad, they go really bad . . . . Imagine taking a penalty and the opposition goalkeeper saves your kick with one hand tied behind his back! 😲😲😲 (Pic: David Horn)
Troubled times at Luton Town lately..... but things are looking up! Not only has the club hired a new manager, today is publication day of my new book, chronicling the 9 years when the only way was up! 😉 Get it via Amazon or publisher Amberley: bit.ly/48rH33d www.amberley-books.com/luton-towns-...
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Troubled times at Luton Town lately..... but things are looking up! Not only has the club hired a new manager, today is publication day of my new book, chronicling the 9 years when the only way was up! 😉 Get it via Amazon or publisher Amberley: bit.ly/48rH33d www.amberley-books.com/luton-towns-...
Life’s never dull at Luton Town ….. This week the manager got the boot, there’s a couple of local derbies (sort of), and some new books coming out! 😁⚽️📚
October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Life’s never dull at Luton Town ….. This week the manager got the boot, there’s a couple of local derbies (sort of), and some new books coming out! 😁⚽️📚
In 51 years as a supporter I've seen 21 different Luton Town managers. Is this man to be the 22nd?
October 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In 51 years as a supporter I've seen 21 different Luton Town managers. Is this man to be the 22nd?
Well I recognised TEDEN MENGI on his return to the team, but nearly missed CAMERON McGEEHAN - who looks like he's shrunk since we last saw him 😆😆😆 #COYH
September 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Well I recognised TEDEN MENGI on his return to the team, but nearly missed CAMERON McGEEHAN - who looks like he's shrunk since we last saw him 😆😆😆 #COYH
Liam Walsh's training injury means Luton have TEN first-teamers out with "long-term" injury. This has been going on for so long- is it really just bad luck? (Walsh/Baptiste/Adebayo/Walters/Jones/Odoffin/Brown/Mengi/ Lockyer/Al Hamadi). Two more (Doughty/Holmes) left recently & immediately injured!
September 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Liam Walsh's training injury means Luton have TEN first-teamers out with "long-term" injury. This has been going on for so long- is it really just bad luck? (Walsh/Baptiste/Adebayo/Walters/Jones/Odoffin/Brown/Mengi/ Lockyer/Al Hamadi). Two more (Doughty/Holmes) left recently & immediately injured!
Hope I'm proved wrong this afternoon - but having Longwijk and Nelson starting line-up while Naismith and Walsh are on the bench is baffling....
August 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hope I'm proved wrong this afternoon - but having Longwijk and Nelson starting line-up while Naismith and Walsh are on the bench is baffling....
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.396): This week’s choice of ancient vinyl is PREFAB SPROUT’s acclaimed 1984 debut SWOON - which is exactly what many folk are doing in this week's heatwave . . . Sadly the band's tuneful album output ceased long ago, but people certainly don’t forget that weird band name 🥹☀️🎸
August 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.396): This week’s choice of ancient vinyl is PREFAB SPROUT’s acclaimed 1984 debut SWOON - which is exactly what many folk are doing in this week's heatwave . . . Sadly the band's tuneful album output ceased long ago, but people certainly don’t forget that weird band name 🥹☀️🎸
The funeral of BRIAN OWEN is this Friday (8th) in Essex. He was a unique & well-liked figure who had an amazing six decades in professional football (at Watford,Colchester,Wolves,Ipswich,Luton,Cambridge,C.Palace & the FA). Here's my story of his stint at Luton: hattersheritage.co.uk/longer-reads...
August 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The funeral of BRIAN OWEN is this Friday (8th) in Essex. He was a unique & well-liked figure who had an amazing six decades in professional football (at Watford,Colchester,Wolves,Ipswich,Luton,Cambridge,C.Palace & the FA). Here's my story of his stint at Luton: hattersheritage.co.uk/longer-reads...
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.394): This week’s ancient vinyl getting a spin is the unmistakable JETHRO TULL's big-seller ‘War Child’ of 1974. Multi-millionaire singer Ian Anderson MBE (the Laird of Strathaird) has come a long way since life in a Luton bedsit earning £5 a week cleaning cinema toilets! 😟 🎸
July 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.394): This week’s ancient vinyl getting a spin is the unmistakable JETHRO TULL's big-seller ‘War Child’ of 1974. Multi-millionaire singer Ian Anderson MBE (the Laird of Strathaird) has come a long way since life in a Luton bedsit earning £5 a week cleaning cinema toilets! 😟 🎸
Josh Keeley the sponsors' man of the match? Can't recall him having a save to make!
July 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Josh Keeley the sponsors' man of the match? Can't recall him having a save to make!
I humbly tip my hat to www.soccerbooks.co.uk for this generous write-up about my forthcoming book in their marketing catalogue! 👍
July 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I humbly tip my hat to www.soccerbooks.co.uk for this generous write-up about my forthcoming book in their marketing catalogue! 👍
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.392): This week’s choice of ancient vinyl for the office turntable is STRAWBS, an all-time favourite band of mine. Vocalist and songwriter DAVE COUSINS died earlier this week, sadly another addition to the long list of 1970s music icons who have left us recently 🙁 🎸
July 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.392): This week’s choice of ancient vinyl for the office turntable is STRAWBS, an all-time favourite band of mine. Vocalist and songwriter DAVE COUSINS died earlier this week, sadly another addition to the long list of 1970s music icons who have left us recently 🙁 🎸
Invited into the hot-seat this weekend by the excellent 'Scarf My Father Wore' blogsite. They wanted to know about Luton Town's prospects for 2025-6. Click here to see how it panned out ........
“Most of our fans are demanding Waitrose purchases (because of all that Premier League and parachute cash) but that doesn’t seem to be happening”
Author and Luton fan Rob Hadgraft drops in for a chat
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July 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Invited into the hot-seat this weekend by the excellent 'Scarf My Father Wore' blogsite. They wanted to know about Luton Town's prospects for 2025-6. Click here to see how it panned out ........
The club describes the new away shirt as 'navy, white & black', but in the photos it looks green, white & black. Is this something to do with the Slovenian sun, or maybe I need to change my computer screen settings?
July 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The club describes the new away shirt as 'navy, white & black', but in the photos it looks green, white & black. Is this something to do with the Slovenian sun, or maybe I need to change my computer screen settings?
Long journeys for away games in January are always unwelcome ..... but the EFL fixtures computer has contrived to give Luton Town TWO trips to Devon (Exeter & Plymouth) and TWO to Yorkshire (Doncaster & Huddersfield), all 4 of them in the space of 28 days in January 2026! 😲
June 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Long journeys for away games in January are always unwelcome ..... but the EFL fixtures computer has contrived to give Luton Town TWO trips to Devon (Exeter & Plymouth) and TWO to Yorkshire (Doncaster & Huddersfield), all 4 of them in the space of 28 days in January 2026! 😲
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.388): This week’s ancient vinyl getting a spin is a green re-issue of the 1976 LP that was the biggest seller on the entire planet for over 30 years! They are called ‘EAGLES’ by the way, not ‘THE EAGLES’, as most people think! (Highly recommend Mick Wall's new book on them) 🎸
June 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.388): This week’s ancient vinyl getting a spin is a green re-issue of the 1976 LP that was the biggest seller on the entire planet for over 30 years! They are called ‘EAGLES’ by the way, not ‘THE EAGLES’, as most people think! (Highly recommend Mick Wall's new book on them) 🎸
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.387): This week’s ancient vinyl on the office deck is a slice of outrageous 1970s American glam-punk. Top bands of this genre like NEW YORK DOLLS crashed & burned, but THE TUBES are still at it 50yrs later! They used to be so scary that even Cher fled the theatre in terror! 😯👄
June 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.387): This week’s ancient vinyl on the office deck is a slice of outrageous 1970s American glam-punk. Top bands of this genre like NEW YORK DOLLS crashed & burned, but THE TUBES are still at it 50yrs later! They used to be so scary that even Cher fled the theatre in terror! 😯👄
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.386): This week’s ancient vinyl on the creaky turntable is #HEART, whose stunning debut ‘Dreamboat Annie’ is 50 years old this summer! 😳 This album LITTLE QUEEN followed it in 1977. Despite setbacks galore, they are ploughing on in 2025 -another big tour underway this week! 🎸🎤
June 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.386): This week’s ancient vinyl on the creaky turntable is #HEART, whose stunning debut ‘Dreamboat Annie’ is 50 years old this summer! 😳 This album LITTLE QUEEN followed it in 1977. Despite setbacks galore, they are ploughing on in 2025 -another big tour underway this week! 🎸🎤
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.385): This week’s ancient vinyl on the creaky turntable came out 50 years ago this week - at a time the biggest stars didn’t even bother putting their name on the cover! This WINGS album gave PAUL McCARTNEY the tough task of following up his '73 classic ‘Band on the Run’ 🎸
May 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
THROWBACK THURSDAY (No.385): This week’s ancient vinyl on the creaky turntable came out 50 years ago this week - at a time the biggest stars didn’t even bother putting their name on the cover! This WINGS album gave PAUL McCARTNEY the tough task of following up his '73 classic ‘Band on the Run’ 🎸
It's only a minor point, but worth mentioning that out of the last SIX clubs to be relegated from the Premier League, Luton Town amassed the highest PL points total (26)! And this despite only spending peanuts in the transfer market and having only half a defence for half of 2023-4! 😁
May 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It's only a minor point, but worth mentioning that out of the last SIX clubs to be relegated from the Premier League, Luton Town amassed the highest PL points total (26)! And this despite only spending peanuts in the transfer market and having only half a defence for half of 2023-4! 😁