Luton Town manager Rob Edwards isn't too worried about getting respect from people outside of their local area.

The head coach is delighted at how the team have emerged in recent weeks to step away from the relegation zone.

While he knows there is still a lot of work to do, Edwards is focused on results and not pleasing people outside the club.

Per Luton Today, he said: “It's nice, but our job is not to earn respect from people, it's doing the job and winning football matches and staying in this league. We knew we could compete, we didn't know we could do it, because no-one does, no-one's got a crystal ball, but I feel we're going the right way about trying to achieve our goal.

"People are going to have their opinions, they're entitled to, that's fine. I just felt at the beginning of the season it was done with a little bit of disrespect, without knowing us, without seeing us. I still think even now, people won't really know us that much.

“They'll think, 'they're just plucky, they're having a go,' we're not. We've got a good team, we've got some good players, we've got a good identity. We do work hard on the training ground to go into games with a really good plan and to try and win every game, so again, our job is not to earn the respect of everyone else.

"If that comes then great, but it's to get points and win games. I want to do it because I'm ambitious and I want to stay in the Premier League. I don't want to prove anything to anyone. I'm good at what I do, the lads are very good at what they do and we deserve to be here, so I don't need to prove anything.

“If along the way, one or two people see what we're doing and see how brave the players and and how well they're playing then great, because early on there was an opinion of us and the players, I think, deserve a lot of credit as they are starting to shift that, but that's not the most important thing, results and performances are."