Trouble at the Top - BBC Documentary about Luton Town

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Alex Nyheim

11 жыл бұрын

How Luton Town was saved from the hands of John Gurney and his mystery consortium.

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@johnnysmith5770 Жыл бұрын

Didn’t think I’d be hearing Tom Baker narrating a luton town documentary but here we are

@deletebilderberg 2 жыл бұрын

Where would we be without those who so cleverly wrestled the club from that scumbag. Many names to mention but Gary Sweet take a bow. It’s almost a miracle what we have achieved since then. That game against Port Vale when we were simply grateful to have a team to support. Never forgotten, but forever appreciative of those who allowed us to dream again.

@bertiebarrett5403 2 жыл бұрын

And look where we are now. Never forgive, never forget. We are Luton Town.

@007ryanwilliams 11 ай бұрын

20 years later and look at where you are now Luton. Credit to you and all that you've achieved, may something like this never happen to you or any club again.

@TheOriginalProfG Жыл бұрын

From the late 70s untill the mid 80s I had a season ticket at LTFC. I was there when we won promotion to the old First Division. I was there when we beat Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs. i was at Wembley when we lifted the cup with a last gasp winner against Arsenal and that wonderful penalty save by Andy Dibble. i was the member of the same snooker club frequented by LTFC players and personally got to know Ricky Hill, Brian Stein, Foster, and the rest. I was there in Kuwait when LTFC played the Kuwait National team. I had a LTFC kit for my brother who wore it to the game. He was he only person in the ground with a LTFC strip. I have not lived in Luton since 1990 but follow them religiously every week and I am rooting for them to go up thi syear. A wonderful chance against some fancied teams in Sunderland and potentially Middlesboro or Coventry. Fingers crossed

@LoosSerine Жыл бұрын

Absolutely insane this club has gone from national League to prem league in 9 years. Well done, true Hollywood story here, especially via a penalty shootout.

@KargoolElvalie Жыл бұрын

Cant write a better story for sure

@highflyingdwarf Жыл бұрын

Well done Luton. Back in the top flight.

@harryurz Жыл бұрын

Always enjoyed my trips to Luton with Kidderminster back in the Conference days, glad to see the Hatters doing well again.

@TheHempman09 11 жыл бұрын

Gary Sweet. Saved us twice. He is Luton Town. COYH

@Maixo Жыл бұрын

A masterclass in how the fans can stop bloated suits from destroying a club. Our steady progress over the last few years has been heartwarming. Gary Sweet you are a legend!! 👏👏👏

@amanchantamang6802 Жыл бұрын

PROMOTED TO PREMIER LEAGUE. REMEMBER THE DATE 27 TH MAY 2023 .

@duncanemmott920 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant! Sherrie the chairwoman is one of those quietly amazing women who hold businesses like that together, but the suits just see numbers to be streamlined. What a brilliant doc tho - amazing story and it didn't end there. Has there been a follow up documentary made?

@JamesMurray1991 3 ай бұрын

Watching this as there now in the Premier League

@Happyman1773 7 жыл бұрын

'How could anyone invest in a company with a debenture then' 'You did'

@cuibono6872 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the comment at the end, "I got a feeling this will be our season" every football fans eternal statement at the beginning of a new campaign, Come on you Hatters !! (You will never take the Oak road)

@tomdevlin9274 3 жыл бұрын

What a cracking story. Fans make football. Asset strippers don't. Heart-warming.

@roonoronno656 2 жыл бұрын

How is Mike Newell not picked up to manage these days, did well at Luton, until all the big players were sold... strange. Mike got them to tenth in the championship during all this business. Big achievement.

@dabro2080 2 жыл бұрын

Because he was sexist to a female linesman, I think that damaged his reputation and perhaps his heart wasn't in it so much because he hated agents ruining the game with greed. Google Marvin Johnson my best eleven he did a podcast with Mike Newell in the last year. Very good podcasts with lots of ex football players.

@Zwia. Жыл бұрын

He causes trouble everywhere he goes, always fighting with someone. he's an alcoholic too, goes drinking with the influential players who run the changing room

@roonoronno656 Жыл бұрын

@@Zwia. never heard that, players liked playing for him, he gave them some slack I heard but in return they loved playing for him and gave everything.

@geedeecunningham3515 9 жыл бұрын

Legal papers stated that the "consortium" was just a wealthy Chinese restaurant owning family who had possibly been told they were being sold a cash cow. This "bridging brokering" is all but illegal now. That Craig White fella, up in Scotland, tried the same with Glasgow Rangers.

@Happyman1773 7 жыл бұрын

Didn't expect to hear DJ Shadow

@BenDPB 7 жыл бұрын

As a Luton fan this is so hard to watch! It's a David Brent special

@pudboy123456 3 жыл бұрын

brent wouldn't threaten to destroy the club if he lost it - on camera

@vincentoboy1621 2 жыл бұрын

@@pudboy123456 pp

@vincentoboy1621 2 жыл бұрын

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@vincentoboy1621 2 жыл бұрын

@@pudboy123456 ⁹j

@aishikpanja3931 Жыл бұрын

Good luck for the premier league

@cuthbertspackleader 11 жыл бұрын

GURNEY- "If I have to walk away, I'll make sure there's nothing to walk away from." .....Two years later, a Gurney-free Luton won the League One championship and it was Gurney who went down the pan.

@SteveBucemi 5 жыл бұрын

Felt so bad for the lady

@conorfensome4698 6 жыл бұрын

Look at us now!! We are Luton Town!

@sparticuzj19 5 жыл бұрын

Conor Fensome Luton on the way up from the brink of death.

@cardjunkie 3 жыл бұрын

Look at us NOW!! Championship team coyh!

@pudboy123456 3 жыл бұрын

I'm an LFC fan but Luton are my second team and have been ever since the days of the Stein brothers when they destroyed Arsenal in 87

@aishikpanja3931 Жыл бұрын

@@cardjunkie premiership

@gazzaamsterdamaged1110 6 жыл бұрын

as a leeds fan i cant help but sympathise

@swansealoyal3706 10 жыл бұрын

Coming from a Swansea fan, I know how this feels, we was bought for a quid by our now chairman. Will be good to see you back in the Football League. Well done! RESPECT FROM SWANSEA.

@young321bookie 6 жыл бұрын

@Swansea Loyal - And look at Swansea AFC now....

@cardjunkie 3 жыл бұрын

@ Swansea loyal WE R BACK WHERE WE BELONG we made it

@blumphy 5 жыл бұрын

An article today in The Guardian brought me here and all I can say is, John Gurney, I hope by now his head has fallen off!

@misskhan6093 5 жыл бұрын

That's a little off lol...but he wasn't able to do right by the club

@reaper060670 3 жыл бұрын

What happened to the land that Luton Owned?? That's why this club was bought and no other reason.. IMHO

@KamaalJones Жыл бұрын

@@reaper060670We sold that land in 2022 to fund the new stadium and development in the town centre

@kieranb71 9 жыл бұрын

If any bastard tried to kill my football club the way gurney tried to kill Luton, I'd happily do time.

@djstyles1649 7 жыл бұрын

I loved it when someone booted Gurney's flash motor in and the little fella was a tough nut to tackle as it took about 4 big coppers to arrest him. Think he went to prison for it.

@Baggieboy-zb8lw 5 жыл бұрын

Doctor Who Tom Baker doing the voice over great to see Luton Town coming back up the league.

@niallgreathead3268 5 жыл бұрын

Love the Game and people like John Gurney have no place in it. Wish someone would put some much needed funds into my beloved Gillingham

@GregCathalina 9 жыл бұрын

To me as a neutral viewer, this almost comes across as a caricatural black comedy show on football (with the comically corrupt and arrogant chairman as its main character), making it all the more tragic and bizarre that this an actual documentary with events shown as they are happening. Thank goodness Luton got out of this catastrophic mess.

@WelshSwan1986 7 жыл бұрын

Same here. I ended up taking nearly 2 hours to watch this as there were points when I had to pause and watch something else because it was so cringeworthy in the extreme.

@neilirons8866 5 жыл бұрын

GregCathalina God bless ya thankyou for what said

@ianetherington3132 5 жыл бұрын

Agree. Ricky Gervais could dream of writing something like this.

@CARLIN4737 4 жыл бұрын

its tragic as burys demise

@KebabMusicLtd 10 жыл бұрын

Brilliant move by the Supporters Trust to buy shares in Hatters Holdings and then call in their loan in order to force Gurney out. Unfortunately, the Bill Tomlins period was still to come. Despite our promotion season of 2004-05, I would still rate BT on a par with Gurney!

@JordanLTFC 9 жыл бұрын

Manager idol!! Im so glad muppets like this will never step foot in our club again, nice to see us so well run now and on the way up. New stadium looking more likely than ever to!

@Sephyrulz 4 жыл бұрын

4 yearslater, you're right.

@pudboy123456 3 жыл бұрын

"Swing it for me"

@KebabMusicLtd 10 жыл бұрын

To outsource the shop and ticket office would surely have increased the overheads of the club. It would have meant that money going through the turnstiles would have gone straight into Gurney’s pocket. Ironically, the boycott of season tickets saved us. But this underhand sale of Football Clubs is something that the FA and Football League need to outlaw. A similar thing happened at Notts County.

@zwelintuli2201 5 жыл бұрын

Best mockumentary ever.

@moodychops1988 2 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen this for years -- I remember (but want to forget) that horrible feeling that we were potentially going to get destroyed by "our owners". Look at us now - still with a "slightly" older Gary Sweet & 2020 steering us in the right direction. Amazing turnaround especially after the -30 points in 2009 and 5 years in non-league, to now be sitting mid-table in the Championship. It's always been one hell of a ride supporting the "least boring" club in the World. COYH.

@oisinmcnevin Жыл бұрын

Who’s here after they won promotion to the prem

@The_Hoxton_Hipster 4 ай бұрын

I’m a Lutonian by birth and while I support a London team my family are Hatters, and I’m always glad to see them do well. One group of people I did not see offering support to the lowly paid staff…the players. I apologise if they did weigh in but it seems to me that at whatever club gets into trouble, the support staff always suffer, and the players are nowhere to be seen putting pressure on the owners to get the staff paid. As I say, if I’m being unfair and it did happen I’d gladly apologise.

@68hatter 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing have not seen this before

@fireinapetshop 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks for putting this on youtube. COYH

@jimcreed8381 5 жыл бұрын

Power Court Approved now!

@KargoolElvalie 5 жыл бұрын

Quite interesting, the field he takes the interviewer through is the field is where the club wants to build Newland Park

@TheKizzywhizzy 8 жыл бұрын

Great documentary

@snowball9163 Жыл бұрын

And now a Premier League Club 🎉🎉

@LUTONVIDS 11 жыл бұрын

Great work Trondy..........

@doodiesgirl 11 жыл бұрын

Ive been looking for this for ages :)

@robertmclean3612 10 ай бұрын

Fair play to Luton what a comeback

@michaelelliott7887 5 жыл бұрын

As a Torquay fan we are going through a power struggle with Clarke Osbourne and his mates. They want the land the ground is built on for housing and don’t give a shit about the club. Going from a football league club to the National South is a disgrace.

@edprice3690 3 жыл бұрын

The only people that want involvement with lower/non-league clubs are purely interested in their assets-land etc. Also massaging their own egos. It's sick

@markmccreesh8420 2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe they were so calm when the consortium rep. tried to get out of paying the wages on time, stating the owners couldn't understand why they couldn't wait until the end of the month. If they tried that shit in China the workers would have locked her in the office and not let her out until the wages were paid.

@ExSquaddieTales 2 ай бұрын

Nice to see Luton now in the Premier League

@swiftcee266 6 жыл бұрын

STAND. The ole Luton moto. RESPECT.

@KamaalJones Жыл бұрын

Cherry is life and soul of Luton

@thegreathadoken6808 5 жыл бұрын

David Brent the football chairman

@walboyfredo6025 2 жыл бұрын

I know one time Luton Town was the most HATED club in the UK since they banned aways fans, but the Luton Town fans don't deserved this!

@CARLIN4737 4 жыл бұрын

Should have done one about Brighton back in the day. Bhafc.

@Rossboy2112 2 күн бұрын

Well done Luton from an Arsenal fan Wrexham are doing it aswell now they will reach the premier league soon also Swansea city went through the same situation when the supporters bought the club from Tony petty a shark from Australia we nearly went out of the football league in 2003 winning 4.2 on the last game of the season against hull then they went up to the premier league in 2012 it’s a great story jack to a king is the Swansea documentary

@pottsyuk Жыл бұрын

So glad my club was finally run by good people, true fans 2020. WEMBLEY CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY OFF FINAL ON SATURDAY! Prem here we come? COYH 🧡🎩🧡

@zeinmets3550 Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the prem bud. It'll be challenging, hope you lot don't go down early like Leeds did.

@theguy8275 Жыл бұрын

Amazing where Luton are now

@igorjibble9736 10 жыл бұрын

Is that really how they picked the manager or is this a joke?

@CARLIN4737 4 жыл бұрын

Popular manager Joe kinnear!😉

@SMC01ful 2 жыл бұрын

Fucking incredible how Luton have gotten outta the shite. Jesus, things were fucking dire. I hate seeing smaller football clubs get fucked over.

@jakeotib3279 7 жыл бұрын

what's the music at the start?

@forgive7449 7 жыл бұрын

14:54 - hillarious !

@bBlandarN 9 ай бұрын

Whats the song ID from 2:16

@zeinmets3550 Жыл бұрын

And to think that they're in the Prem now.

@shaunlever1104 Жыл бұрын

Very clever use of Labi Sifre in the intro

@CARLIN4737 2 жыл бұрын

Keep the Faith. Albion.

@lodersracing 7 жыл бұрын

I wonder where those late votes came from lmao

@argylelei 10 жыл бұрын

Manager Idol? no wonder the club went tits up lol, love the oak stand btw, brill the way you enter by a normal house, class that

@secretboxes2010 11 жыл бұрын

The message has to be....... keep the inspection covers firmly fixed on your sewers. Otherwise a Gurney might crawl out and take over your football club. Or join the Board of a major bank. Or become an MP. Or set up a Payday loan company. Or...(etc, etc). COYH

@antr7493 3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me when Joe Spano tried to buy the New York Islanders. IT was a big three card monty scheme

@PeaveyPV20 9 жыл бұрын

Felt it for luton so many idiots running clubs now even in non league. Am glad they got promoted but that antique stadium has had its day and they deserve a championship sized ground

@misteryreviewer1426 5 жыл бұрын

And the new one has just got through planning

@wotsitalabowt 3 жыл бұрын

"You'll have to sway it then ..." Nods and turns away, remembers he's on camera, comes back "No won't have to ..."

@thecornedbeefcouncil9792 Жыл бұрын

Even says “…consider it” before remembering not to say “done” so as not to make the whole thing look as crooked as it so obviously was 😂

@lcw8876 10 жыл бұрын

I am not sure Trust in Luton bought the shares. I did not receive any money for mine. I gave them my shares in order to get rid of Gurney.

@pianostool44 2 жыл бұрын

and now in the championship play offs!

@falihsaukhan5365 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately lost in the semi, it's would be great if them promoted to pl next season

@Mr-zx8fu 6 жыл бұрын

In business any old clown can sometimes slide through. Here he is.

@theguichardsadventures3720 5 жыл бұрын

Always sad to see this mess in Football.... as a neutral it’s good now to see Luton on the cusp of the second tier after spending time in the Non League.... we have seen it with Portsmouth and currently Coventry, how do these Clowns get to buy Clubs!

@seand1011 Жыл бұрын

They're Premier League bound now.

@MrPaulc222 10 жыл бұрын

You have the resources and fanbase to start going up the league now. It wouldn't surprise me to see you in the Championship within 5 years. You should have gone up the year that we topped the Conference because you were the better team in the playoff final against AFC Wimbledon. Not so easy getting out of the Conference as there's only one guaranteed spot.

@No-zf5bt 6 жыл бұрын

MrPaulc222 in 2027/18 Luton are going up #COYH

@aldlsllalsapdpapal8430 3 жыл бұрын

Right about the championship

@milageen1340 3 жыл бұрын

You were right we are in the championship

@TheSRGILL01 Жыл бұрын

How could John Gurney and the consortium not know about the debenture prior to buying the club, that has got to be a rookie mistake for not spotting that beforehand, questions their ability as businesspeople.

@horwichlad350 10 жыл бұрын

Expect to see you back in the league next season, its where you belong IMO.

@KargoolElvalie 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks! We hope to be back with a vengeance!

@Theraiman616 4 жыл бұрын

This is a mockumentary right ?

@sas22thebest48 2 жыл бұрын

The financial director is Charlie kray double!!🤣🤣

@welcome2mytruth 10 жыл бұрын

Thank god the club is now in a much better place. I hope Gurney rots in hell for the damage he did. Poor Cherry, I really feel for her as she has put her heart and soul in to the club.

@KargoolElvalie 10 жыл бұрын

He sure is!

@stepanovicci 10 жыл бұрын

This all sounds so very familiar, 40 years of bad management brought us to were we are now---> 10 years in second division with 22 million € of debts and a stadium that is falling appart. We have managed to avert bankrupcy the last 3 years and now a part our fans, the Antwerp Community Trust, ACT as 1, are trying to take over the club, wich won't be for now just yet....Our old president, Eddy Wauters, the man who left us behind (he was kicked out by the new management) and created all these debts in his 40 year reign, also started a procedure to get his 5 million € he alledgedly invested in the club, better said filled the gaps he's responsable for, with his own money to keep the club all this time alive. Anyway, happy to see you Luton guys in a few weeks. Greetings with respect from a Royal Antwerp fan!

@mattybarnes96 11 жыл бұрын

Tranmere fan here an its sad to see people like that gurney to buy clubs when they have no interest in the club whatsoever an then ruin it ! And its not a company. its a club!!!

@zidannemaulana1537 7 жыл бұрын

4:41 Idols Theme

@shanemoran518 Жыл бұрын

Now in the Premier League for season 2023/24.

@philipmahon4306 6 жыл бұрын

London Luton wtf it is Luton town

@subz7352 6 жыл бұрын

What was the whole point of the voting if you still choose the coach as management?

@thegreathadoken6808 5 жыл бұрын

50p per call

@paulpnepreston2926 7 жыл бұрын

So glad Preston are the only club that is debt free and that's thanks to a owner who wants successs but won't go out a pay millions

@thegreathadoken6808 5 жыл бұрын

Barnsley are also debt free. Might not have quite been when you said this, although I think they were.

@ebneigh5191 8 жыл бұрын

Fans of Rangers FC in Scotland should have seen this. No good will ever come of local councils, football clubs etc going cap in hand to businessmen because they are only in it for número uno.

@BenL-gk9jc 7 жыл бұрын

What happened to Gurney in the end?

@harrygood9681 7 жыл бұрын

BenL1812 dunno mate, hope he went bankrupt

@Jez2008UK 7 жыл бұрын

Money laundering and drugs money handling I believe he went to prison. Just did a little research and found this PDF on a twitter feed called "John Gurney Criminal" - here's an interesting copy/paste from that PDF; "By way of background, John Gurney has previously been convicted of Conspiracy to Obtain Property by Deception in the UK and has been deported from the US. According to information from UK based confidential sources, he has several convictions and has served sentences of imprisonment, both in the US and in UK. There is information that JG has worked of some of the most violent and dangerous criminals ever convicted in the UK. He can certainly be linked to the infamous ‘Brian WRIGHT’ Cocaine Trafficking Organisation by virtue of a bank draft issued on one of his company accounts, which was used to purchase a small yacht, which was later used to smuggle Cocaine into the UK. Please see the below appendices for relevant information: - " thuledrilling.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/mh-jg-criminal-activity.pdf

@thegreathadoken6808 5 жыл бұрын

@@Jez2008UK The "consortium"...

@Jez2008UK 5 жыл бұрын

@@thegreathadoken6808 Don't understand.

@erinandadam 3 жыл бұрын

To this day that man isnt welcome back at our club

@harbster2 6 жыл бұрын

Anyone got any idea what John Gurney is up to now?

@matthewsalisbury4789 Жыл бұрын

He was made bankrupt in 2008.

@aughhelpmeimdead Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the name of the club secretary in this, Sherry Newburry it sounds like to me? (Might be misunderstanding Baker's (?!?!?!?!) lilt). Anyone have any information on her now? Would love to know how she's feeling.