Tom Lockyer has a chat. He looks very chirpy and relaxed, and says “I want to be a bit more involved now, if I can help the lads in any sort of way”. Also:
It’s a massive game, isn’t it? Let’s not shy away from it tonight. The gaffer’s just done his talk. He’d probably have taken this position at the start of the season, coming into it. I hope the fans think like that as well. Everton are safe now and we’re hoping they’re going to be on the beach. The only thing we can hope for is maybe it’ll mean more for us today – we’ll run faster, we’ll fight harder. But with a Sean Dyche team that’s a given for them.
Ashley Young is making his 450th club appearance today – pretty good given he’s had a few severely injury-affected seasons. “We’re not coming into this game any differently. We want to win, we want the three points, and it’s no different to if it wasn’t a relegation fight,” he says.
Luton’s Thomas Kaminski has a chat to Sky. He says almost exactly what you’d expect him to say: “The pressure’s on us and we need to go for a result to keep our hopes alive. The target is clear, to put pressure on the other teams it’s very clear what we have to do.”
The protagonists in tonight’s breathless drama are these: