Speaking in the Adjournment Debate as Parliament breaks up for the Summer Hemel MP Mike Penning has given his backing to fans of Luton Town Football Club.

The club has been landed with a 30-point deduction – 10 points by the FA for financial irregularities and 20 points by the Football League for failing to comply with its insolvency policy.

Mike said:

“It will go into the season with a 30-point deduction. It will not survive that, so it will go out of the football league and into the conference. For any team in the country, a 30-point reduction would lead to relegation. For Luton Town, it will mean the end of league status.”

He added:

“I do not believe that if Luton Town were Liverpool, Arsenal or any other premiership club, this would have been done to it. It has been done to it because it is a small club in a small community, and it has been hammered by the bureaucrats who want to set an example.”

Speaking afterwards Mike said:

“These harsh penalties are especially depressing for the fans. All they want to see is good football. The management move on elsewhere, but the fans stay and have to pay the price as they watch their team fall out of the league – not through bad football but through bureaucratic point deductions.

I don’t believe the FA would have done that to Arsenal, Liverpool or Manchester United; they should not be doing it to Luton Town.