The Hatters are back in training today with 38 days to go until the start of our season in the Blue Square Premier and Simon Pitts takes a look at the number 38 in numbers...Enjoy!

38 - The only player to have made exactly 38 League appearances for the Hatters is Paul McVeigh. After signing from Norwich McVeigh made 24 starting appearances, with a further 14 from the subtitutes bench. He netted three goals during his time at Kenilworth Road, and all came in a five match run in November and December 2008.

38 - Is the most League Cup appearances a player has made for Luton Town, and it's is Ricky Hill. His first League Cup appearance was a 3-1 defeat at Sunderland in 1976, and his last was at Wembley when the Hatters lost to Nottingham Forest in 1989. Hill scored five goals in this competition, with three of these coming in that 1988/89 run to the Final.

38 - The total number of Luton appearances for post-war players made by Darren Currie, Jim Gibson, Claude Gnakpa and Matt Woods.

Gibson joined from Cambridge United and played for two seasons 1964-66, making 32 League and six Cup appearances, with his solitary Luton goal coming in the League Cup 1-1 draw with Brighton in 1965.

Woods, a team-mate of Gibson, made all his appearances in the 1965/66 season with 34 in Division Four and four in the FA Cup. Unlike Gibson, Woods failed to score for the Hatters.

Darren Currie was also only a Luton player for one season, and like Paul Furlong who was featured yesterday it was 2007/08.

Currie scored twice in his 31 League appearances and failed to find the net in seven Cup ties.

Claude Gnakpa joined the Hatters from Peterborough last summer and made 29 starts last season, with another nine appearances from the bench. Gnakpa netted three times, twice in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, and once in the League, in the 2-1 defeat at home to Darlington.

38 - Two players have netted 38 career goals whilst at Luton Town: Dwight Marshall and Ahmet Brkovic.

Marshall made his debut, as a substitute, on the opening day of the 1994/95 season in a 1-1 draw at home to West Bromwich Albion after joining from Plymouth Argyle. Marshall netted 13 goals in 51 appearances in his first season. In total he scored 28 league and 10 Cup goals from 155 appearances for Luton.

Brkovic joined from Leyton Orient and made his debut, as a substitute, at Scunthorpe United in October 2001. His first goal for the Hatters came in a 3-2 defeat at Southend in the FA Cup, and his only League goal of the season was enough to win at Torquay on March 2nd 2002. The "Croatian Sensation" really hit the headlines during Luton's League One Championship winning season in 2004/05 when he scored 15 goals, including several spectacular overhead kicks, and a last-gasp winner against title challengers Hull City at Kenilworth Road from his 39 appearances that season.

38 - When Luton won the Second Division Championship in 1981/82 they scored 38 goals away from home. This is the joint highest number of goals scored from 21 away games in a season. The other time was in 1927/28.

38 - Only three times have the Hatters ended a League season on 38 points. The first was in 1949/50 when Luton won 10 games, drew 18 and lost 14. This breakdown of results was repeated in 1971/72 as Luton finished 13th in Division Two. Six years later and it was the same place finish once again as the Hatters won 14 matches, drew 10 and lost 18.

38 - Is also the number of League matches played against each of the following Clubs: Arsenal, Chelsea, Chesterfield, Everton, Hull City, Man Utd, Stoke City and West Brom. With the exception of Chesterfield all of these sides were playing top flight football last season!

Luton's best achievements against these teams is 16 victories against Chesterfield and Hull, 13 draws against Stoke, and only 11 defeats against Chesterfield. Most goals scored, 56 against Hull (with 51 against Chelsea also worth a mention) and only 38 conceded against Chesterfield.