Luton Town 3-2 Arsenal
Date Played – 24th April 1988

Arsenal took early control in this match, soaking up 14 minutes of continuous pressure. However Luton scored with their first attack. David Preece’s quickly taken free kick found its way to the skipper Steve Foster. He angled an assist to Brian Stein who buried the ball past the goal keeper John Lukic. Arsenal spent the remainder of the half in search for an equalizer however they almost went two down when Mick Harford came close from another counter attack. The early stages of the second half proved just as fruitless for Arsenal. However in the 72nd minute, Paul Davis sent a free kick into the penalty area. It was only half cleared by Luton’s Steve Foster and the ball reached Alan Smith whose low cross was turned in by Hayes to equalize. Four minutes later, Michael Thomas found Alan Smith free on his right and he thundered the ball in giving Arsenal a 2- 1 lead. Arsenal were awarded a penalty moments later, which Dibble saved. In the 83rd minute, Kingsley Black caught Gus Caesar in possession and passed to Brian Stein, whose low cross was headed home by a stooping Danny Wilson. With only a minute remaining, Ashley Grimes passed to Brian Stein who fired home the winner. Luton were the winners of the 1988 Littlewoods cup.

Nottingham Forest 2-1 Luton Town (FA Cup Final)
Date Played: May 1959
Nottingham Forest and Luton Town battled out the FA Cup final of 1959. Both sides were old established clubs; however they only had one major honour between them. Forest had won the FA Cup in their only other appearance in the final 61 years before- the same year that Luton entered the league. Luton did not have a manager at the time of this match and were led out at Wembley by their chairman. Forest took a 2-0 advantage after only 14 minutes however, in the 32nd minute, the scorer of the first goal was taken off with a broken leg. To their credit, the ten Forest players continued to play great football and Luton were only able to pull one goal back. Seven injuries during the match meant that eight minutes of injury time had to be played and the question of substitutes became the main topic for discussion.

Nottingham Forest 3-1 Luton Town
League cup final – 1989
Luton once again reached the final during the 1988-89 season, as this time they met Nottingham Forest in the final. Forest ran out every comfortable winners 3-1 to win their first league cup in nine years. It was the second successive season that Ray Harford guided the Hatters in to the final as Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest came out on top.

Nottingham Forest 1-0 Oldham Athletic
Date Played – 29th April 1990

The match got off to a lively start as Neil Adams of Oldham curled a shot in which just went wide of the Forest post. Oldham dominated the early stages as Andy Ritchie struck a fierce shot which hit the Forest cross bar. The match went into half time at 0-0 and Forest improved in the second half. In the 48th minute, Nigel Jemson and Nigel Clough made some clever link up play and Jemson scored to make the score line 1-0. In the final twenty minutes Oldham dominated the game as Roger Palmers shot narrowly went wide. The scoreline ended 1-0 to Nottingham Forest and they were the league cup winners of 1990.