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ANDROS TOWNSEND reveals his top three managers, who turned him from a boy to a man, and what it's like playing in sides with no killer instinct

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Bonfire Night against Liverpool was when Andros Townsend detected change in the air at Luton Town, a spark Luis Diaz failed to extinguish with his late equaliser.

‘Nothing was said as such,’ recalls Townsend. ‘You could just feel our lads thinking these big boys were not as good as we were making out. We’d been making out we were little Luton from the Championship and these were super-heavyweights.

‘That night, the manager made the point that if we’re going down we’re going down fighting, playing the way they’d played in the Championship, high tempo with the fans behind us making it a horrible atmosphere.