'What Luton have cannot be bought'

Fellow teams wish they had one half of the fight Luton Town exhibit.

If you could bottle and sell the secret of how we keep going through adversity, it would make more than the Premier League sell their broadcasting rights for,10 times over.

The fight displayed during our draw against fellow strugglers Nottingham Forest shows that regardless of how much money you spend, the most important thing in football cannot be bought and that’s truly playing for the badge and team spirit. Something Luton Town have in spades.

Ten times out of 10, I will take what has been assembled at Luton Town rather than what has been overpaid for at Nottingham Forest.

They can buy all the players they want, but at the end of the day, you cannot go out and buy Luton’s team spirit - epitomised by Luke Berry, who has now scored for Luton Town in League Two, League One, the Championship and the Premier League.

Against Forest, Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu was the latest of our squad to go off injured, after Murillo launched him into the advertising hoardings, without earning a booking.

However, I am not here to discuss the state of refereeing in the Premier League - I’m solely here to discuss the fantastic job Luton Town are doing while all the odds are seemingly stacked against us.

Pelly’s injury leaves us with 12 players from our 24-man squad in the treatment room. That’s 50% of our squad injured - the highest proportion in the Premier League.

And so, on to an international break where we can get some much needed rest and hopefully be able to welcome some injured players back into the fold.

Nine massive games to go.

Ollie Kay can be found on We Are Luton Town