Luton 1-0 Newcastle: Townsend's first-half header secures Hatters' third PL win

‘Do it for Locks’ has been the message after an emotional, traumatic and scary week for all connected with Luton.

And they honoured their recovering captain Tom Lockyer in the best way possible against Newcastle.

Lockyer is back at home now after suffering a cardiac arrest against Bournemouth last week and having an ICD device fitted in midweek in order to prevent a repeat of his collapse.

But he was not far from the thoughts of anyone at Kenilworth Road.

His shirt, shorts and shin pads were laid out in their usual place in the Luton dressing room while his teammates ran out with shirts bearing the message ‘4 Locks’ on them, a reference to his shirt number but also their motivation.

His image was on the cover of the programme, his name was sung throughout and there was applause for the defender in the fourth minute.

Along with a ‘get well soon Tom’ banner from the visiting Newcastle fans there was also one for Lockyer placed in one of the home sections too.

But what would have lifted Lockyer just as much was the performance his teammates produced in his absence led by their impressive manager Rob Edwards whose emotions were there for all to see as he shed tears at full time .

Determined, defiant, dogged and with some dashes of quality mixed in, Luton secured a victory that was thoroughly deserved.

Andros Townsend’s first-half goal was the winner, celebrated fittingly by the former Newcastle winger holding up a shirt bearing Lockyer’s name that was also hung in the home dugout.

Their margin of victory should have been greater too as they also hit the bar twice.

The failure to score a second left the door open for Newcastle right until the end of the seven minutes of added time.

But there was only more misery on the road for