Hats off to Fred letter day for Nat

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LUTON boss Nathan Jones wasn’t going to let a yellow card and a terrible refereeing decision ruin a brilliant day for the Hatters.

Jones’ men stormed to an opening-day victory with Fred Onyedinma enjoying a dream debut after being snapped up from relegated Wycombe.

The forward scored the third after laying on goals for Elijah Adebayo and Harry Cornick.

And justice was done after referee Andy Woolmer failed to send off Mark Beevers with the score at only 1-0 for a deliberate handball with Adebayo set to race clear.

Jones, booked for his protests, said: “It was a wrong decision from the referee. Adebayo is the last man, the defender has handballed it after he knocked it round him.

“It didn’t affect the result – but it could have. It wasn’t a difficult one.

“Fred was brilliant but that’s why we brought him here, and he is nowhere near his ceiling.”

Darren Ferguson, seeing his team play a first Championship match for eight years, had dad Sir Alex watching from the directors’ box – and was fearing a hair-dryer on the way home.

He said: “It is a disappointing result. The second half, the two goals we gave away … that’s bad for any level. My dad and mum were here, they have come to stay at mine for a bit.

“I expect I’ll be getting the lowdown in the car.”

LUTON: Sluga 7; Bree 7, Osho 7, Naismith 7, Bell

7; Campbell 7, Mpanzu 7 (Lansbury 85th); Cornick

7 (Muskwe 78th), Clark 7, Adebayo 7, Onyedinma

9 (Gomes 82nd)

PETERBOROUGH: Pym 6; Thompson 6, Beevers

6, Kent 5, Butler 5; Ward 6, Knight 5 (Hamilton

(62nd) 6), Grant 6, Tomlinson 6 (Randall (58th) 6); Szmodics 6; Clarke-Harris 6

STAR MAN: Fred Onyedinma

REF: A Woolmer