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2009/10 PREVIEW: CAMBRIDGE UNITED

Posted on: Tue 07 Jul 2009

It's the second week of our look at the clubs the Hatters will face next season and today we look at Cambridge United.

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Cambridge United

Nickname: The U's

Manager: Gary Brabin

Ground: Abbey Stadium

Last season: Conference 2nd

2008/09 average attendance: 3,829

2009/10 BSP title odds: 8/1

Previous meetings:

Luton wins 5

Cambridge wins 4

Draws 7

The Hatters have lost just two of 14 league meetings against United, winning their last encounter thanks to a long-range winner from Matthew Taylor in March 2001 at Kenilworth Road.

Recent history:

Cambridge fans will want to go one step further in 2009/10 and end two years of play-off agony by returning to the Football League as Champions.

After relegation from the league in 2005, long-suffering U's fans have twice been heartbroken by two consecutive play-off final defeats to two sides from Devon at Wembley.

Defeat to Exeter City in 2007/08 was followed by another at the hands of Torquay United in May which even more galling after finishing second and coming close to overhauling long time leaders and eventual Champions Burton Albion.

FACT: In 1992 the Hatters signed striker Steve Claridge from the Abbey Stadium for £120,000 but five months later he was sold back to the U's for £190,000.

Official website: www.cambridgeunited.co.uk

Tomorrow: Chester City.

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