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28/02/2002
More Trond News - Just like to say thanks to Rob Aitkenhead who has sent me the following from the Birmingham Evening Mail.
Norwegian international Trond Andersen has rejected a £1 million move to Blues from Wimbledon. The 27-year old midfielder's rebuff has dismayed manager Steve Bruce. "It's a big disappointment", he said. "We've worked extremely hard the last three or four weeks to try to get him here. The clubs had agreed everything and it was down to the player in the end but he refused." Blues even tried to persuade Andersen to join on loan until the end of the season to get a feel of the club. Bruce said: "I'm sure he has his reasons,good luck to him. We will just have to press on and see who else is available." It is thought that Andersen wants to stay put for the time being to discover if there is any Premier League interest. Andersen, a Norway regular, is a key if often unheralded member of the Wimbledon team. He cost £2.5million from Molde in August 1999 and can play at centre-half, where he has spent most of this season covering for injuries. Bruce also likes Andersen's team mate Damien Francis, the powerful midfielder who turned 23 yesterday, but Wimbledon want a huge fee for him." |
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28/02/2002
Gareth Ainsworth's Site Updated - Anyone who has ever read
Gareth's
Site will know that he always writes from the heart. Well most
recent update shows what a top guy he is and what football means to
him if you haven't read it it is well worth a read.
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28/02/2002
Trond Says No To Birmingham? - At the weekend their was a story
out of Birmingham saying that this week they would sign two players
one from the premiership and another from a division 1 club. With
Steve Bruce being in charge at St. Andrews people thought he would
go back to Selhurst for Dougie Freedman, but during the week rumor's
have started to appear that he was going back to Selhurst but it was
for Trond Andersen. Although nothing appeared in the media it would
appear that a fee was agreed and Trond had talks with them. The outcome
as it currently stands is that Trond turned them down, they may come
back with a better package but I don't know the reason that Trond
said no. |
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27/02/2002
Loan Updates - Both Paul Heald and Ian Selley have had their
loan deals extended with Paul Healds being to the end of the season
and Ian Selley's for a further month. |
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26/02/2002
New Date For Crewe Game - The game against Crewe which was
due to be played tonight but was called off due to Crewe's FA Cup
replay with Everton has now been arranged for Wednesday 17th April
2002 this is the Wednesday night between the Wolves away game and
the last game of the season against Barnsley. |
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26/02/2002
Victory For Reserves - The reserves won 2-1 against Watford
last night with both goals from Patrick Agyemang. The first was a
brilliantly taken goal lets hope he can bring his goal scoring boots
to the first team. |
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26/02/2002
Roberts Loan Extended - Andy Roberts loan at Norwich has been
extended for another month (until 26 March 2002) He will be suspended
for their midweek game this week after reaching the five bookings
mark. Paul Heald's loan at Sheffield Wednesday has reached the end
of the first month but Sheffield Wednesday would like to extended
it for another month, could be interesting when we play Sheffield
Wednesday next week. |
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25/02/2002
Reserves In Action - The reserves are due to be in action tonight
against Watford at Kingstonians, but with the weather being on the
poor side at the moment the game may be in doubt. |
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24/02/2002
Injury Update - Yesterday their were 3 players missing and
I have since found out that Trond had a clash with Lionel in training
and hurt his ankle. Neal Ardley picked up a knock and Darren Holloway
returned back to the North East due to family reasons. I would imagine
that they will all be OK for the weekend. |
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23/02/2002
Millwall Man Of The Match Vote - The Vote for the Man Of The Match at The Millwall Game is now open to vote please click below. |
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23/02/2002
3 Points In London - A number of changes were made to the team
today with Trond Andersen, Darren Holloway and Neal Ardley all missing
and Chris Willmott, Jermaine Darlington and Jobi (pronounced yob-e
by the pa) McAnuff all starting. Mark Williams came on towards the
end of the game which was nice to see him back on the pitch. I think
we had the better of the chances and we took the lead when Kevin Cooper
had a shot from about 25 yards out that bounced just in front of the
keeper before ending in the back of the net. In the second half we
came under a lot of pressure but held on. David Connolly had a golden
chance to seal the points but from a tight angle put the ball into
the side netting. |
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23/02/2002
Saturday Match Service - If you cant make the Millwall
Game the following might help. If you are able to listen to the commentary
from the Official Site click Here.
If you just want text updates have a look at the BBC service that
gets updated every 2 minutes by clicking here. |
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23/02/2002
Watford Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Man Of
The Match result for the Watford game is as follows: -
Darren Holloway 20 Votes 39.22%
Trond Andersen 14 Votes 27.45%
Lionel Morgan 9 Votes 17.65%
Kenny Cunningham 3 Votes 5.88%
Hakan Mild 3 Votes 5.88%
Neal Ardley 2 Votes 3.92%
Thanks to everyone that voted and a new vote will open after today's
game. |
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23/02/2002
New Date For Wolves Games - With Wolves currently top of the
table and looking like they will get promotion to the premiership
our game that was to be played on Saturday 13th April has now been
moved to Sunday 14th April with a 1pm kick off so that it can be shown
on the ITV Sports channel. This is the same date as the FA Cup Semi
Finals and explains the slightly earlier time than normal kick off's.
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22/02/2002
I Found Something To Laugh About The Watford Game - One of
the best football websites on the net is a Watford site and anyone
who has ever read Blind Stupid and Desperate will know that the guys
their know their football and in both their previews of games and
match reports they are always funny and accurate, add in the fact
that they hate Selhurst Park and you get to like them even more. To
read the match preview and two match reports for the game on Tuesday
click here.
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22/02/2002
Saturdays Team News - It looks like we will have the same line up as Tuesday nights game when we visit high flying Millwall tomorrow. The only player who may be in with a shout of getting into the squad could be Mark Williams after he played 90 minutes for the reserves on Tuesday night. |
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21/02/2002
Millwall Travel Information - This is possibly one of the easiest
games of the season to get to if you are in the Wimbledon area, even
easier than getting to Selhurst. You can get a train from Wimbledon
(platform 9) at xx:23 and xx:53 change at Tulse Hill for the xx:42
or xx:12 and the train should get to South Bermondsey at xx:52 or
xx:22. For the journey back trains are at xx:13 and xx:43 change at
Tulse Hill for the Wimbledon Service and you should be back at base
for xx:45 or xx:15. If you live in Haydons Road or Tooting the trip
will be even shorter. |
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21/02/2002
Kids For A Quid - Both our games against Stockport (at Selhurst) and Nottingham Forest (Away) are games where kids can get in for £1.00. Also at Forest we are now going to be the Brian Clough Stand. |
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20/02/2002
Injury Update - Michael Hughes injury is only a case of bruising
on the bone and he should be back in about 3 weeks. Gareth Ainsworth
has got another ankle injury which he got in training and explains
why he wasn't even on the bench last night. He will also be out for
a couple of weeks. |
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20/02/2002
Reserves Face Heavy Loss - The reserves lost 6-1 at Ipswich last night. Our goal was scored by Adam Nowland and both Mark Williams and Dean Blackwell played in the game. |
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19/02/2002
Watford Man Of The Match Vote - The Vote for the Man Of The Match at The Watford Game is now open to vote please click below. |
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19/02/2002
Another Midweek Draw - On a very wet night two teams that were
fancied at the start of the season to be in the top six positions
come the end of the season played out a mid table 0-0 draw. Hakan
Mild came in for Michael Hughes with Gareth Ainsworth not in the squad.
It was clear to see this was two teams that were lacking confidence
and to be honest it was difficult too see where the breakthrough was
going to come from, in the end their were a few chances but nothing
came of it so a 0-0 draw and neither team look play-off material.
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19/02/2002
Midweek Match Service - If you cant make the Watford
Game the following might help. If you are able to listen to the commentary
from the Official Site click Here.
If you just want text updates have a look at the BBC service that
gets updated every 2 minutes by clicking here. |
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19/02/2002
Tonight's Team News - With both Mark Williams and Jobi McAnuff
being in the reserves for their trip to Ipswich tonight it looks like
Gareth Ainsworth or Jermaine Darlington may start on the right of
midfield with Neal Ardley in the middle the other option would be
for Hakan Mild to return to the centre of midfield.
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19/02/2002
Crystal Palace Man Of The Match Result - The result is as follows: -
Damien Francis: 14 votes 31.11%
Trond Andersen: 13 votes 28.89%
Kenny Cunningham: 6 votes 13.33%
Darren Holloway: 3 votes 6.67%
Neal Ardley: 3 votes 6.67%
Michael Hughes: 2 votes 4.44%
Peter Hawkins: 2 votes 4.44%
David Connolly: 1 vote 2.22%
Kelvin Davis: 1 vote 2.22%
Thanks to everyone that voted and a new vote will open after tonight's
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18/02/2002
Hughes Injury Update - Looks like Michael Hughes will be out
of action for atleast 3 weeks following the ankle injury he picked
up on Saturday. The club are awaiting the result of the MRI scan to
see how bad it is. |
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17/02/2002
Crewe Game Off - With Crewe getting a 0-0 draw against Everton in the cup, the game that was due to be played on Tuesday February 26th at Selhurst has now been called off, as they will have the replay that week. No new date is known yet. |
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17/02/2002
New Injury Blow For Hughes - Michael Hughes's injury yesterday
looks like it could be worse than first feared. After the game he
departed on crutches to have an x-ray on the injury but he looks very
doubtful for the game against Watford on Tuesday night. If that is
the case it may be a case that Trond Andersen moves into midfield
and Mark Williams makes a return in defence. |
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16/02/2002
Crystal Palace Man Of The Match Vote - The Vote for the Man Of The Match at The Palace Game is now open to vote please click below. |
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16/02/2002
Another Point But Two Thrown Away? - A game that in the first
half was played at a very fast pace but was also very scrappy. We
took the lead through Damien Francis in what was his first goal since
his injury. The header seemed to be fairly weak but Matt Clarke in
the Palace Goal missed it and in went in the back of the net. The
Dons had other chances with the best one being a header from Patrick
Agyemang from a well taken free-kick but he just got his positioning
wrong and put it wide of an open goal. Although we were 1-0 up Palace
were giving us problems with their attacks but Kelvin was playing
well along with his defence to keep them out. Michael Hughes went
in for a challenge with Curtis Flemming that left both players out
of the action as the game continued while the Palace player eventually
got back into play Michael was still down and after lengthy treatment
he tried to continue but ended up being replaced by Jobi McAnuff.
We seemed to lose a bit in midfield from this point but went in 1-0
up at half time. In the second half we once again had chances the
returning David Connolly had a 1 on 1 break on the keeper but from
a tight angle put the ball well wide and then had a header from close
range that went straight at the keeper. Still Palace pushed forward
but it looked a case of when not if Palace would score and then 8
minutes from time Clinton Morrison broke free and put the ball past
Kelvin to level the scores. Both sides had late chances but after
taking the lead it was disappointing to see us only end up with one
point. |
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16/02/2002
Saturday Match Service - If you cant make the Crystal Palace
Game the following might help. If you are able to listen to the commentary
from the Official Site click Here.
If you just want text updates have a look at the BBC service that
gets updated every 2 minutes by clicking here.
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16/02/2002
Gillingham Man Of The Match Result - Thanks to everyone who
voted especially if you voted twice after the first vote failed :).
Although not as many votes as we had when the first vote went down
the winner and other positions seem to be the same as originally so
here is the result.
Michael Hughes 10 Votes 62.50%
Darren Holloway 2 Votes 12.50%
Peter Hawkins 2 Votes 12.50%
Trond Andersen 1 Votes 6.25%
Damien Francis 1 Votes 6.25%
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15/02/2002
Saturday Team News - Looks like Jermaine Darlington will still
miss Saturday's game against Palace. David Connolly could return to
partner Patrick Agyemang up front as Neil Shipperley is suspended.
Mark Williams could be on for a place in the squad after his comeback
in the reserves. |
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15/02/2002
Ticket News - Although we have games at Selhurst against Palace
on Saturday and Watford on Tuesday just a reminder that the following
Saturday's game away at Millwall is all ticket and therefore tickets
need to be purchased in advance. The adult price is £18 and £10 for
OAP's and Kids. |
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15/02/2002
Lionel On International Score Sheet - Lionel Morgan scored
the first goal last night in a 3-1 victory for England Under 19's
against Germany. His goal came after 8 minutes but he was subbed after
64 minutes. Describing his goal the official FA
Site say "The Wimbledon winger, whose pace, skill and athleticism,
has recently attracted strong attention from Tottenham, accepted Ashtonâs
pass into his gallop before sliding the ball home low to the Îkeeperâs
left." |
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14/02/2002
Football League Meeting - The Football League have their monthly
meeting today and one issue that may be on the agenda is the decision
by the Football Association to pass the "relocation of Wimbledon Football
Club" back to them. It's likely that they will decide what the next
step will be but once again we are unlikely to have an answer for
a couple of months. |
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14/02/2002
International Review - Trond played the full 90 minutes in
midfield in their 1-0 defeat in Belgium. He had a couple of shots
one that needed a good save from the keeper. (Cheers to Vegard for
his assistance). Kenny Cunningham only played the first 45 minutes
in the Republic Of Irelands 2-0 victory at home to Russia. Michael
Hughes played the complete game and almost set up an equalizer to
put the score at 2-2 but Northern Ireland lost 4-1 in Cyprus against
Poland in front of 221 fans! |
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13/02/2002
Selley On Loan At Southend - Ian Selley Who has only made 4
appearances for us and none this season has gone on loan to Southend.
The loan is for one month but could turn out to be either longer or
even a permanent move. |
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13/02/2002
International Games - Their are International games tonight
and Kenny Cunningham, Michael Hughes and Trond Andersen should all
be involved. I will provide an update on how they all do once the
games have been played. |
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13/02/2002
Problem With The Man Of The Match Vote - Due to the classic "Problem beyond my control" all votes for this week's Man Of The Match Vote has been lost. Can I please ask that everyone who did vote in the weekend's game please vote again and anyone who didn't and wants to can as well. Sorry about this. |
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12/02/2002
Shipperley Out On Saturday - Neil Shipperley is out of Saturday's game against Crystal Palace after he has picked up 5 bookings. David Connolly may be back after his injury but otherwise we will have neither of them starting the game for the first time this season. Adam Nowland was part of the squad at the weekend and scored for the reserves last night and may get his first chance in the first team. |
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12/02/2002
Victory For Reserves - The reserves had a 2-0 victory over
Spurs on Monday night. The goals came from Gavin Bolger and Adam Nowland.
Gareth Ainsworth played for the whole game while Mark Williams completed
60 minutes of the match on his road back to the first team.
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11/02/2002
Reserves In Action - The reserves should be in action tonight against Spurs at Kingstonians with a 7:30 kick off. If for any reason the game doesn't go ahead I will let you know in here. |
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11/02/2002
Trust Launch a Success - Yesterday's Trust Launch was a brilliant success with over 1200 people in attendance. Some of the highlights included Carl Leaburn lifting the FA Cup, the parade of ex players/manager and the auction where a picture of the goal at wembley signed by Lawrie Sanchez went for £3,700. |
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10/02/2002
It's Dons Trust Launch Day - Today sees the launch of "The
Dons Trust" and it should be a brilliant afternoon down at Wimbledon
Theatre. If you can make it down their doors open at 4:00 and their
will be a chance to have your photograph taken with the FA Cup. Also
in attendance will be ex-players as well as a prize draw and Auction.
On a quick note a lot of people have put a lot of hard work into this
and I would like to give a special well done mention to Louise Carlton-Kelly
well done mate. |
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10/02/2002
Congratulations To Ian and Trui Feuer - Just like to say Congrats to Ian and his wife on the birth of their new son on Saturday evening. |
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09/02/2002
Gillingham Man Of The Match Vote - The vote for the Man
Of The Match at the Gillingham game is now open please click
below to vote.
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09/02/2002
Point In A Dull Game - I didn't go to the game today but listened
to the webcast off the official site. The commentary came across as
a very dull performance in the first half and they said their were
more chances in the first 5 minutes of the second half than the whole
of the first half. Last year's game at Gillingham was very flat and
it seems to be one of them grounds we struggle to put a performance
out at. We had chances from Agyemang and Francis but they just didn't
seem to go in. Anyway another point on the board and also means we
wont go into the Palace game with back to back victories which in
a way is good as I cant remember the last time we won 3 league games
on the trot. |
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09/02/2002
Saturday Match Service - If you cant make the Gillingham
Game the following might help. If you are able to listen to the commentary from the Official
Site click here.
If you just want text updates have a look at the BBC service that
gets updated every 2 minutes by clicking here. |
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09/02/2002
Manchester City Man Of The Match Result - The result for the Manchester City game is as follows: -
Neil Shipperley 35 Votes 47.30%
Michael Hughes 15 Votes 20.27%
Patrick Agyemang 10 Votes 13.51%
Neal Ardley 4 Votes 5.41%
Damien Francis 3 Votes 4.05%
Trond Andersen 3 Votes 4.05%
Kenny Cunningham 2 Votes 2.70%
Darren Holloway 2 Votes 2.70%
Thanks to everyone who voted a new vote will open following the Gillingham game. |
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08/02/2002
Trust Launch Sunday - Just a reminder that on Sunday afternoon
the Dons trust launches at Wimbledon Theatre from 4:30pm. Please be
their early and their will be plenty to do including being photographed
with the FA Cup. For more information check out the web site at http://www.thedonstrust.org.
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08/02/2002
International Call Up For Trond - It would appear that Tronds recent good performances have been noticed at International level as he has been called up for their game against Belgium on Wednesday. |
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07/02/2002
Revised Gillingham Ticket News - Saturday's game at Gillingham is no longer an All Ticket game and therefore you can buy tickets at the door. Prices are £14.00 for Adults, £10.00 for O.A.P's and £7.00 for Kids. |
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07/02/2002
Reserve Fixture Friendly's - After Monday's reserve fixture was called off against Fulham the club have arranged a game on Friday against Crystal Palace at their training ground. The aim is to assist Mark Williams in his comeback. Their is also a planned game for the reserves on Monday against Spurs so lets hope we see him back soon. |
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06/02/2002
Gray Loan Extended - Wayne Gray's loan deal at Leyton Orient has been extended for another month. This will now make three months that he has been at Orient and after this month they will need to extend it to an end of season loan or he will return to us. |
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06/02/2002
Lionel Move Off? - It looks like Lionel Morgan's move to Spurs
is off. Terry Burton has said he is not for sale adding "He's a
fantastic talent and he's 100 per cent in my long-term plans."
Apparently David Pleat was interviewed on sky following their game
on Tuesday night and said the deal was off as he believed we were
selling another player instead. |
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05/02/2002
International Call Up's - Both Kenny Cunningham and Michael
Hughes have been called up to play in International games that take
place in between our trip to Gillingham and game against Palace. The
Republic Of Ireland are at home to Russia while Northern Ireland are
off to Cyprus to play Poland. |
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05/02/2002
Lionel Off To Spurs? - Reports across the Internet suggest
that Lionel Morgan our England Under 19 winger could be about to complete
a £750,000 move to Spurs. Lionel is believed to be one of the many
players out of contract at the end of the season. It will be a shame
to see him go but I'm sure that it will see him fast track into the
England Under 21 Squad. |
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04/02/2002
Reserves Called Off Tonight - With the rain still falling the
reserve game due to be played tonight has now been called off.
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04/02/2002
Gillingham Ticket News - Just a reminder that Saturday's match at Gillingham has been made all-ticket and therefore tickets need to be purchased in advanced. Gillingham only offer away fans standing and it's an open end as well. |
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04/02/2002
Reserves In Action Tonight - The reserves are in action tonight at Kingstonians tonight against Fulham with Kick Off at 7:30. Both Gareth Ainsworth and Mark Williams are expected to be involved in the game tonight. |
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03/02/2002
Manchester City Man Of The Match Vote - The vote for the Man
Of The Match at the Manchester City game is now open please click
below to vote.
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03/02/2002
Another Victory On ITV - We have now played 2 Sunday afternoon games on ITV and won them both. Today we had a brilliant 2-1 victory over the team that look like they will win the League. We have now beaten them both "Home" and Away and I think goes to show what we can be like but at other times are just too inconsistent. The victory was a complete team effort today with players all over the pitch being outstanding. Neil Shipperley scored two goals and worked really hard at the other end their was one double tackle from Peter Hawkins and Kenny Cunningham that showed how hard they were all playing. Patrick Agyemang caused City plenty of trouble and in the final minutes Stuart Pearce was sent off after hauling down Jobi McAnuff who was clear on goal. |
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03/02/2002
Sunday Match Service - If you cant make the Manchester City
Game the following might help. If you are able to listen to the commentary from the Official
Site click here.
If you just want text updates have a look at the BBC service that
gets updated every 2 minutes by clicking here. The game is also live on ITV1 from 2:00 in the London and Manchester area's. |
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03/02/2002
Walsall Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Man Of The Match vote for the Walsall game is as follows : -
Trond Andersen 7 votes 35%
Duncan Jupp 5 votes 25%
Peter Hawkins 2 votes 10%
Kenny Cunningham 2 votes 10%
Kevin Cooper 1 vote 5%
Neil Shipperley 1 vote 5%
Lionel Morgan 1 vote 5%
Neal Ardley 1 vote 5% |
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03/02/2002
A Lovely Day In York - As you may know yesterday York City
had a Fans United Day and a fun day it turned into. When I got to
Kings Cross at 10:00 for the 10:40 train we saw that no trains were
going north. The Party of about 20 was reduced to 11 who fancied trying
the coach to Peterbrough then train to York route. All this time we
were traveling the match was subject to a 12:00 pitch inspection.
And then as we left Doncaster we got a call saying the march had arrived
at the ground to be told the game was off. (Go on laugh you know you
want to :) ) when we got to York we unloaded the "Fans United Scarf"
and were met by some York City Fans it was a case of OK we have three
hours lets find a pub. We went to a pub called the Bootham and it
was packed with fans from all over the country Brighton, Man City,
Bradford, Lincoln, Sunderland, Chelsea, Manchester United, Spurs the
list goes on. We were met by a couple of other dons who had made the
trip. After a brilliant afternoon chatting football and singing "One
Gareth Ainsworth" with the Lincoln Fans for most the afternoon we
headed back to the train station and a 4 hour journey back to Kings
Cross via Inter City a fun coach ride with an Only Fools And Horses
Video and then a local train. We didn't get to see any football but
it was a great day that shows what Football means to all Fans.
"Fans United Will Never Be Defeated"
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02/02/2002
Football Free Saturday? - With the Dons not being involved
today it doesn't necessary mean a Football Free Day a group of about
20 of us are of to York City for their Fans United Day (Pitch Inspection
Permitting). Whilst In Wimbledon some Wimbledon Fans will be promoting
the Trust Launch if you have some spare time and would like to give
out some leaflets pop along from about 10:30. The bus should be outside
Center Court entrance. |
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01/02/2002
New Date For Portsmouth Game - The game away at Portsmouth
that has been called off twice has now been rearranged for March 12th
with a 7:45 kick off. |
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01/02/2002
Early Sunday Team News - Looks like Jermaine Darlington, David
Connolly will miss Sunday's game and Damien Francis is struggling
with a dead leg. Michael Hughes and Darren Holloway should be back.
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01/02/2002
Walsall Man Of The Match Vote - The vote for the Man Of The
Match in the Walsall game is still open so if you haven't voted yet
please do. From Sunday the voting system will slightly change and
it will provide better Stats so you can see the average number of
votes each player has got over the season. |
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