There was only one regret for Luton Town legend Brian Stein watching his former side reach Saturday’s Championship play-off final against Coventry City.
He’d rather have been at Kenilworth Road to see it live than staying at home with a cup of tea in front of the television.
Luton’s fairytale rise from non-league to the brink of the Premier League in nine years – the same time it took Wimbledon’s Crazy Gang in the 1980s — has captured the nation’s imagination, but the estrangement between Stein and the club is a sad postscript to all the joy.