Luton defender Davis suffers stroke

Ipswich 5 Luton Town 0

IPSWICH’S convincing 5-0 Coca-Cola Championship win over Luton was overshadowed by news that 27-year-old Hatters defender Sol Davis had suffered a stroke.

Davis is in a specialist hospital unit after suffering the stroke on the Luton team coach on the way to Ipswich.

Luton manager Mike Newell said: “We kept quiet about it until after the match but it puts everything into perspective.

“It happened 25 minutes after leaving Luton and I am told that it might take six months before he makes a complete recovery.

“He has had an MRI scan but I am not qualified to talk about that. I am not going to use it as an excuse for our performance but we will never know what effect it had on the lads.”

Ireland’s Alan Lee scored a hat-trick with the other Ipswich goals from Sylvain Legwinski and Jaime Peters.

IPSWICH: Supple, Wilnis, De Vos (Naylor 70), Bruce, Harding, Peters (Haynes 68), Legwinski, Walton, Richards, Lee, Clarke (Roberts 68).

LUTON: Beresford, Foley, Keane, Barnett, Emanuel (Brkovic 60), Edwards, Robinson, Bell, Morgan (Perrett 79), Vine, Feeney (Boyd 69).

Ref: I Williamson (Berkshire).