Beds Senior Cup defeat at Barton.
The Hatters Development Squad bowed out of the Beds Senior Cup after a 1-0 defeat at Barton Rovers on Tuesday night.
After a goalless first half, Rovers took the lead six minutes into the second period when Charlie Milton tapped home.
The Town’s hopes of getting back into the tie took a turn for the worse when Aiden Francis-Clarke saw red for a second bookable offence shortly before the hour mark.
Despite pressing for a late equaliser, the Hatters couldn’t find a way past the Rovers defence and the home side celebrated their place in the next round of the competition.
Town: Blackledge, Giwa, Pinnington (sub Fox), Paternoster, Bateson, Francis-Clarke, Martins, Kayibanda, Lynch, Lorentzen-Jones (sub Phillips), Harris.
Pleat reveals how Luton missed out on Carsten Jancker Stuart Pearce and Frank McAvennie.
Former Town chief discusses his time in charge at Kenilworth Road
Former Luton boss David Pleat has revealed how the Hatters missed out on signing former German international striker Carsten Jancker during his time at the club.
The forward headed over to England in the early stages of his career to turn out for Town in a reserve game against Arsenal but thought better of the move, returning to his home country and signing for FC Koln. He went to join Rapid Wien on loan, where he won the Austrian Bundesliga and was also a UEFA Cup runner-up, then heading to German giants Bayern Munich for six years, winning the Bundesliga four times, the Champions League in 2001, plus the German Cup twice and League Cup four times as well.
Jancker also had stints with Udinese, FC Kaiserslautern, Shanghai Shenhua and SV Mattersburg, going on to represent his country as well, netting 10 goals in 33 internationals, featuring in the 2002 World Cup. Having signed a whole host of players who turned out to be Luton legends, including Ricky Hill, Mick Harford, Mal Donaghy and John Hartson to name just four, then discussing some of the moves that fell through, Pleat said: “There were some players we missed out on, I’ll tell you one, we had a player over called Carsten Jancker, who became a very famous centre forward for the national team.
Former German international forward Carsten Jancker – pic: Ben Radford / Allsport
Former German international forward Carsten Jancker – pic: Ben Radford / Allsport
“He came to Luton, he played at Highbury in a reserve game, he didn’t like the digs, where we asked him to stay. He wasn’t too keen on the people at Luton and he complained that he had an injury and shouldn’t have played at Arsenal. He went back to Germany, we didn’t take him. We had Stuart Pearce but we didn’t take him, three years later he signed for Coventry.
