Luton Town are improbably back in the top flight for the first time since before the Premier League era, and inevitably much of the talk has been of their home ground. With its small capacity and away end entrance between houses, Kenilworth Road is a real blast from the past for fans used to soulless, identikit out-of-town stadiums.
While work is frantically underway to ready the ground for the new season, it will still be one of the very few stadiums recognisable and largely unchanged since the late 1980s (albeit without the plastic pitch), which was when Giles Goford and his dad Jeremy set out to visit every one of the 92 league grounds. The images that Goford Senior took to chronicle their adventures are a reminder of how far football has come in the last 30 years, for better or worse.
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