{"id":180798,"date":"2025-10-05T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180798\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:15:11","slug":"matt-bloomfield-luton-town-boss-not-surprised-by-stevenage-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180798\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Bloomfield: Luton Town boss not surprised by Stevenage form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luton Town boss Matt Bloomfield has praised the work of counterpart Alex Revell ahead of Saturday&#8217;s away game against Stevenage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair were once team-mates at Wycombe Wanderers when Revell was on loan there in 2010 &#8211; and he has now steered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/stevenage\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boro to second place in League One<\/a> with seven wins from nine games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Stevenage are very organised, they work incredibly hard. Revs has had real good consistency among their group, coupled with good recruitment over the summer &#8211; I&#8217;m not surprised how they&#8217;ve started at all,&#8221; Bloomfield told BBC Three Counties Radio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Revs is someone I think incredibly highly of. We shared a dressing room together at Wycombe for a little while. I wanted it to be longer but he moved on to Leyton Orient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He had a tough first spell as manager at Stevenage but he went away to coach for a bit and come back; he&#8217;s done an incredible job. They&#8217;ve stuck with their guy and he&#8217;s come through the other side and is getting the rewards for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We see the game and people (in a) similar way, the morals and values we stand by, we&#8217;re very similar in that regard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luton have taken four points from their last two games following back-to-back defeats and are seventh in the table, two points outside the top six. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luton Town boss Matt Bloomfield has praised the work of counterpart Alex Revell ahead of Saturday&#8217;s away game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-180798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}