HAYES & Yeading want Luton to be promoted - so they don’t have to play them next season.
The two meet at Kenilworth Road on Saturday, with United hoping to deprive the high-flying Hatters this time.
But Derrick Matthews wants Luton to win promotion from Blue Square Premier and spare his club the headache of hosting them at Church Road next campaign.
In the home match on March 6 the H&Y general manager had to suffer scenes of bottle and coin throwing, made worse by a Luton fan looking for trouble, stopping play as he walked across the pitch
in the final minutes before being collared by stewards.
But Matthews reckons it was outsiders from both clubs who provoked outrage on the H&Y fans website.
He said: "Our intel was that QPR fans wanted to gain retribution because of history between the two going back to the 1980s, when a Rangers supporter was supposedly stabbed.
"Luton fans for the most part were extremely well behaved. But some were just looking for trouble and I know police turned away 50 of them before they got to the game."
The match provided United’s biggest gate of the season and much-needed revenue for the cash-strapped club. But Luton and their money is something the general manager would forego in the future.
Matthews added: "If Luton stay in this division, let’s say I wouldn’t look forward to next season’s game.
"They seem to be a target for other clubs. And we were aware there was a contingent coming from QPR - but you know they’re not the real supporters when they had a home game against West Brom at the same time."
Matthews paid tribute to sterling police work that kept trouble to the minimum and reckoned the £200 he spent on hiring eight Luton stewards was money well spent.
He said: "The police were excellent and using Luton’s people who knew their own faces made total sense."
