Water polo?

This was probably the weirdest game of the season to date, played in torrential rain on a quagmire of a pitch that wasn�t fit for a Sunday league match. Russ Perrett was unlucky to be dropped after his performance last week but Markus Heikkinen has to be first choice.

Luton opened the game much better than their opponents and, while there were very few goal scoring opportunities, it was hardly what they deserved to find themselves a goal down on 18 minutes.

Hinshelwood crossed into the Luton box and Gifton Noel-Williams glanced a header inside Beresford�s right hand post.

Brighton gained a little belief in themselves after the goal and matched Luton for the rest of the game, although they created very little in the final third of the pitch.

Underwood had a shot well saved by Henderson, which was about the only other incident of note, as the rain took hold and water began to collect on the surface.

Warren Feeney should have scored early in the second half but again Henderson saved.

Brighton might have sealed the game on 59 minutes when Frutos grazed the bar, but Luton equalised shortly afterwards when Feeney waltzed around the defence on the right and fired a dangerous ball across the face of goal. Henderson committed himself and got to the greasy ball, but couldn�t hold it and, as Robinson applied pressure, Henderson panicked and flapped at the loose ball pushing it against the hapless defender McShane, and it rebounded into the net.

Beresford did well to keep out another Noel-Williams strike and later saw a Hammond drive hit his left hand post but the conditions were winning the match more than either team and both seemed to lose interest and to just want the debacle to end.

Luton did give a last flurry of effort towards the end and Feeney and Vine had reasonable chances, but a draw was the outcome and, in the circumstances, was a fair result in a match that should not have been completed.