AFC Wimbledon
Also, Smeltzy used to play for them.Doloras2010-09-08 13:10:08
Interesting reading on the AFCW website that their stadium has segregated burger bars for visiting teams. I'm kind of glad that we don't need to go that far in NZ football.
Wrexham going to kill you, Wrexham for the win
no they didn't I watched the game. they looked very quick on the break with their young players but shaky at the back mid table beckons for the real dons.
no they didn't I watched the game. they looked very quick on the break with their young players but shaky at the back mid table beckons for the real dons.
Honest I did... But it was just the highlights as I said. In saying that I would LOVE the Wombles to be mid table at the end of the year. Couldn't ask for anything more.
Woo-hoo! Wombles avoid relegation from the League by the skin of their teeth. Complete midseason shambles turned around with new coach.
... and we're back. Torquay 1 - 1 AFCW on the first day of League 2 competition. Will the Wombles get a respectable mid-table finish this year? Are the defensive nightmares of last season in the past? Will we have to play the freakin' Franchise again in one of the Cups?!?
Well, AFC Wimbledon did play the Franchise, in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy (for Leagues 1 and 2) teams. AND WE BEAT THE SCUM :D :D :D
Some Dons fans refused to attend the game or even to celebrate the win because it acknowledges the Franchise's right to exist. But that's kind of dead-endish at this stage. This seems to be settling into a (more intense than usual, but still) commonplace interclub rivalry.
And the Dons are wearing Admiral Kit...
Old School Cool
Wombles 7th in League Two - in a playoff spot - with four games left to go, 4 points clear with a game in hand. Interestingly enough, Portsmouth are 6th, and they were an EPL team within recent memory.
Of course, if we do go up, then we'll be most likely faced with the Franchise, aka the Fake Dons, aka the Mutant Cods, who are going down from the Championship. There will be violence, boycotts, mass hysteria, cats and dogs living together, 40 years of darkness, etc.
McDo ald Dons should never exist. They shohld have been their own team - Milton Keynes FC and gone through the various leagues to achieve their place.
McDo ald Dons should never exist. They shohld have been their own team - Milton Keynes FC and gone through the various leagues to achieve their place.
You know this, I know this, an independent commission disagreed 14 years ago.
But AFCW make the playoffs :)
Wimbledon are in the play off final, any wellington based dons out there want to meet up for the final?!
Playing Rory Elbow's old mates at Plymouth Argyle. And if we win, we face the Franchise / Mutant Kents in League One next year. :$
If the real Dons make it, I wonder what the atmosphere would be like during these two games.
That. Was. Awesome.
If the real Dons make it, I wonder what the atmosphere would be like during these two games.
The three times AFCW and the Franchise have faced each other in various knockout cups (match reports 1, 2, 3 - the last one we won!), apparently the Real Dons fans have been raucous but well behaved and generally taken the high road against the hundred or so sad sacks who go to Franchise games. This after serious debate over whether AFCW fans should boycott such games because we refuse to recognize the Franchise - so maybe it will evolve over time into a "normal" rivalry.