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31/10/2002
Advance Information - Just a quick update about our trip to Merstham on 9th November 2002 before the game there will be both an Under 9's Girls & Boys game, the boys game will once again be AFCW's under 9's more info to follow but it will not be an all ticket game. |
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31/10/2002
Woodford Town Man Of the Match Vote - The Man Of The Match Vote for last nights game is now open please click below to vote. This will close on Saturday morning. |
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30/10/2002
Crowds, Sending Off's, Wonder Goals & Victory - So a damp wet
cold evening down at Kingsmeadow for a London Senior Cup 1st round
tie saw 1,403 people turn up to witness a 4-0 victory over Woodford
Town. The main talking points of the evening came when late on Woodford
had two players sent off neither waited for the card and just ran
off taking of there shirts and then a goal by Danny Oakins which
was scored from the half we were defending right out on the touch
line. It would be fair to say if measured it would come in at 65 yards
and a cracking end to the evening the other goals were scored by Gavin
Boulger and Kevin Cooper who scored twice including direct from a
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30/10/2002
Cobham Man Of The Match Results - The result of the Man Of The Match vote is as follows: -
Alistair Russell 74 votes
87.06%
Mark Nicholas 4 votes
4.71%
Danny Oakins 3 votes
3.53%
Simon Bassey 2 votes
2.35%
Tony Readings 1 vote
1.18%
Andy Sullivan 1 vote
1.18%
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30/10/2002
Midweek Match Service - London Senior Cup tonight anyone think
the crowd will be more than 849? :) Audio commentary can be listened
to by clicking here
Text commentary can be viewed here.
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30/10/2002
Man Of The Match Vote - If you haven't voted and want to make
a difference to the winner of Saturday's Man of The Match result you
may have left it to late :) If you still wish to vote click below.
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30/10/2002
More Suspension News - Danny Roberts picked up a 7 day ban following the Brimsdown game when he was sent off he will miss the trip to Wallingford.Terry Eames also had his disrepute hearing on Monday evening and terry was found guilty and fined £50 and a touchline ban of 4 games. As Terry has watched the last four games from the stand he will be back in the dugout from tonight. |
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29/10/2002
Tuesday Night Games - Only three league games this week and they are all tonight. The games are as follows: -
Bedfont 6-0 Viking Greenford
Cove 2-2 Reading Town
Sandhurst Town 2-1 Hartley Wintney
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29/10/2002
Comedy Night - On Saturday 30th November 2002 there will be a Dons Trust fund raiser for the Stadium fund when a comedy night will be held at Wimbledon Theater. The details are as follows: -
The Dons Trust Present
STAND UP FOR THE DONS
A night of hilarious comedy in aid of the 'playing for keeps appealâ
Wimbledon Theatre
Saturday, 30th November 2002:
Starring Mark Thomas and Kevin Day plus special guests
an auction will be held during the evening.
8.00pm start
ticket price: £25.00 & £20.00
Call the Box Office on 020 8540 0362
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28/10/2002
Golden Goal News - On Saturday every Golden Goal Ticket was
sold so a big thanks to everyone who bought one. Golden Goals has
now raised £3,423 towards the stadium fund. On Wednesday night we
will be out selling but this time we have increased the time on a
lot of the tickets and also with the potential of less tickets being
sold the higher your chances of winning either £100 for the first
goal or £25.00 for the second. The winner of the £25 on Saturday was
a first time visitor to AFC Wimbledon and is sure to be back for more
of the same. |
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28/10/2002
Suspension Update - Simon Bassey has got his suspension through from his sending off at the Bedfont Game and he has been given 35 days ban from 18th November and therefore will miss games against AFC Wallingford, Viking Greenford, Chessington United, Sandhurst Town and Chipstead as well as any cup games that may be played during that time. |
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28/10/2002
Cobham Match & Karaoke Photos - The photos from both the match
and also the Karaoke in the evening can be viewed by clicking here.
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27/10/2002
From Hat-Trick Hero to Karaoke King - So far a number of players have gone close to being the first ever AFC Wimbledon player to score a hat-trick with Joe Sheerin, Kevin Cooper & Danny Oakins getting 2 goals each but the honour of the first ever AFC hat trick goes to Ali Russell.
Ali's first goal came after 8 minutes when he headed home but on 17
minutes he scored a goal that you can only say if it was scored in
the premiership it would be on constant loop on every TV channel.
The ball came to Cooper on the half way line but as he tried to go
round a player the ball hit the Cobham player and fell to Russell
who from a good 45 yards hit the ball and as the keeper tracked back
flew over his head and into the back of the net.
I found the first half really strange as although we had the majority
of the possession and were putting in good crosses we didn't appear
apart from the goals to have any real efforts on goal that forced
the keeper into a save. We went into half time 2-0 up and the points
looking safe in the bag.
The second half continued in the same way as the first and after a brilliant run by Danny Oakins he crossed the ball into the box to be met by Ali who forced it home and then ran to the West Bank to celebrate. The match wasn't over yet as AFC Wimbledon were awarded a free kick on the edge of the box and Danny Oakins and Kevin Cooper discussed who was going to take it, Kevin won the discussion and Kevin curled it home into the bottom left hand corner for a 4-0 scoreline.
The evening wasn't over yet as Karaoke was due up in the bar after
the usual set from Kris Stewart, Terry & Anne Eames were called up
then it was Ali's turn and after having to be dragged to the stage
I think he ended up doing 4 numbers and a brilliant time was had by
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27/10/2002
Results Round Up - So Ash got knocked off top spot on Saturday following a 2-1 defeat at Southall while AFC Wallingford moved top with a 3-1 victory at Raynes Park Vale. Meanwhile Withdean edged past Viking Greenford!. Full results are as follows: -
Saturday 26th October
Premier Division
AFC Wimbledon 4-0 Cobham
Chessington & Hook 1-3 Bedfont
Chipstead 0-2 Sandhurst Town
Feltham 4-1 Walton Casuals
Hartley Wintney 3-0 Farnham Town
Merstham 2-1 Cove
North Greenford Utd 0-3 Godalming & G
Raynes Park Vale 1-3 AFC Wallingford
Reading Town 2-0 Chessington United
Southall 2-1 Ash United
Westfield 2-2 Frimley Green
Withdean 2000 9-0 Viking Greenford |
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27/10/2002
Cobham Man Of The Match Vote - The Man Of The Match vote is now open please click below to vote. |
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26/10/2002
Saturday Matchday Service - As we are at Kingsmeaddow today
the audio commentary is back so don't forget to tune in from 2:45
to http://www.wdon.com/
if you cant play the sound or just want to keep an eye on the text
updates you can see them by clicking here.
The full fixture list is below and as you can see AFC Wallingford make the trip to Raynes Park Vale while Ash are at Southall.
Saturday 26th October
Premier Division
AFC Wimbledon v Cobham
Chessington & Hook v Bedfont
Chipstead v Sandhurst Town
Feltham v Walton Casuals
Hartley Wintney v Farnham Town
Merstham v Cove
North Greenford Utd v Godalming & G
Raynes Park Vale v AFC Wallingford
Reading Town v Chessington United
Southall v Ash United
Westfield v Frimley Green
Withdean 2000 v Viking Greenford
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25/10/2002
Another Screenshot From CM4 - Liked the one yesterday well
check this one out.
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25/10/2002
Couple Of Reminders For Saturday - Tickets for the game on
23rd November 2002 away at Wallingford will be available for Season
Ticket Holders you will need to bring your books with you and voucher
"C". Golden Goal tickets will be available£100 for the first goal
and £25.00 for the second from either team. Merchandise will be available
from both the Dons Trust Area and also the AFCW "shop" in the back
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24/10/2002
CM4 Screenshot - Since the news that Sports Interactive would
be the shirt sponsor of AFC Wimbledon there have been loads of rumors
about CM4 and would AFC Wimbledon be in it. Well the answer took a
step closer today when SI Games unleashed a 4mb screen shot pack and
on clicking on Match 13 you get the answer I think it's safe to say.
As you can imagine demand for the pack is through the roof with SI
Games site being replaced by a holding page.
I will be uploading the full pack and also individual shots later
tonight but for now if you want to see "match 13" click here.
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24/10/2002
"Kick It Out" Saturday - This Saturday AFC Wimbledon will be
supporting the "kick It Out" Campaign which is the national campaign
against Racism in football more information about the campaign can
be found by clicking below.
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23/10/2002
Farnham Town Man Of The Match Result - With the Ditton game
being off there is no Man Of The Match vote at present and therefore
the result of the Farnham Town vote is as follows: -
Gavin Bolger 14 Votes 37.84%
Danny Oakins 6 Votes 16.22%
Simon Bassey 5 Votes 13.51%
Keith Ward 3 Votes 8.11%
Lee Sidwell 2 Votes 5.41%
Andy Sullivan 2 Votes 5.41%
Tony Readings 1 Vote 2.70%
Lee Passmore 1 Vote 2.70%
Kevin_Cooper 1 Vote 2.70%
Mark Nicholas 1 Vote 2.70%
Ray Merry 1 Vote 2.70%
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23/10/2002
Last Nights Action - Only one game last night and it Saw AFC Wallingford edge nearer the top of the table after they had a 5-0 home victory against Cove. The league table has been updated. |
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22/10/2002
***** Game Off ***** - Tonight's game was called off round
about 4:40 tonight. No new date is known yet. - With this game being off as long as the game isint played this week (it wont) Keith Ward will now only miss one game rather than the expected two. |
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22/10/2002
Tonight's Action - Tonight we start our campaign for the Cherry Reds Books Trophy when we take on Ditton. Any plan to use some of the reserves players tonight went out the window when they played for Netherne Village in the competition on Saturday in there 7-5 victory. One player who will be missing will be Keith Ward who starts his 2 match ban tonight, Danny Oakins will return to defence.
There is unlikely to be any audio commentary so it will just be me
and the text updates I'm afraid over at http://www.gash.net/afcw/.
As ever full service after the game. |
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21/10/2002
Downunder Supporters Association - For anyone that is a member
of the Wimbledon Downunder Supporters Association you should of received
your copy of issue 135 of the brilliant newsletter. This is the first
one I have seen and I have an article in there about the birth of
AFC Wimbledon. If you live in the Australia / New Zealand part of
the world and are not a member drop Robert Smith a line and he will
be able to provide you with more information. Click here To e-mail.
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21/10/2002
Travel For Ditton Game - Nice easy game to get to as it is
being played at Corinthian Casuals ground in Tolworth, by train you
need to get either the xx:37 or the xx:07 trains to Chessington South
and get off the stop before at Tolworth you should be able to see
the lights of the ground from the station as it is only 0.5 miles
away. A map of the area can be seen here.
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21/10/2002
Man Of The Match Vote - The Man Of The Match vote from the Farnham game is now open and due to the Tuesday night trip to Ditton will close on Tuesday evening so please vote as soon as possible by clicking below. |
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21/10/2002
Some More Sad News - Over the weekend I received the following
e-mail: -
My name is Roland Kennedy and I am 11 years old. I do not have a
season ticket but I watch AFC Wimbledon whenever I can.
My Godfather supported Wimbledon FC since the 1970s and since it's
formation, AFC Wimbledon. He was a season ticket holder. He passed
away on Friday from a very serious heart attack. He was a very keen
supporter from the start.
His name was Soteris Chrysostomou. He was only 43 and leaves a widow and 2 young children.Roland KennedyOnce again I am sure that the thoughts of all AFC fans are with everyone connected to the family. |
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21/10/2002
Farnham Photo's - If you wish to view the photo's from Saturday's
1-0 victory over Farnham please click here.
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20/10/2002
Fixture Date And Venue Change - A number of site round the net have a Date and Venue change for our game away at Viking Greenford. The game is now to be played at Hayes ground and is moved from Saturday 30th November 2002 to Sunday 1st December 2002. Once I have more information I will post it for everyone. |
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20/10/2002
Victory At Farnham - So a 1-0 victory with a late goal but this doesn't tell the full story of the day. The game was delayed for 15 minutes due to the travel problems that had been on the roads and allow the 1,100 AFC fans into the ground.
Rumors before the game suggested that Farnham goalkeeper for the day
was there normal midfield player due to an injury to the keeper but
this later turned out to be there second choice keeper but he had
a very good game. On the turnstile was also believed to be there star
striker who was suspended.
In the starting line up for the Dons was Ray Merry in goal but no Conrad Kane who was playing one final time for Whytleafe before joining us on Monday. The ground was a strange one as behind one end was an elevated terrace where the feet of the fans were at the same level as the cross bar and at the other end no fans were behind the goal as there was no room to stand. The players dressing rooms were across the car park which once again was a bit different.The Dons attacked the empty end in the first half and although we had a number of chances we couldn't find the target. The best chances were falling to Kevin Cooper, Danny Oakins who was upfront and also Gavin Bolger.At half time it was 0-0 but during the break it was nice to see both Glyn Shimmel and Andy Bell out kicking a ball about.
The grass was really long and the pitch bumpy and we continued to
battle away trying to get the goal we needed as it didn't look like
Farnham would score as they were playing just one upfront. With about
20 minutes left Ali Russell came on for Kevin Cooper
We started to pepper there goal and Gavin Bolger could have had a
hat-trick with various shots and headers but they just weren't going
in. Then with just 3 minutes left on the clock Ali Russell was being
fouled on the edge of the box but unleashed a shot that smacked the
cross bar and came back but to his credit the ref called it back for
the foul and in Danny Oakins words "I saw the keeper lining up the
wall and I just smacked it" and it bobbled along the pitch and into
the back of the net the relief around the ground was everywhere to
be seen but the day was about to get better as when we got to the
bar the word was going round that Ash United had lost once this was
confirmed the beers flowed.
The Man Of The Match vote is now open and to vote please click below. |
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20/10/2002
Saturday Results - The results from Saturday's league games are as follows: -
Premier Division
Ash United 3-5 North Greenford Utd
Cove 0-5 Raynes Park Vale
Farnham Town 0-1 AFC Wimbledon
Godalming & G 3-1 Chipstead
Southall 2-2 Westfield
Viking Greenford 0-3 Reading Town |
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20/10/2002
Quick Update - Will do a full update later today but today
saw us win 1-0 at Farnham thanks to a Danny Oakins goal from a free
kick in the 87 minute and also saw Ash United lose 5-3 at home to
North Greenford United. This now means we are 7 points behind but
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19/10/2002
Saturday Matchday Service - It looks like there will be no
web audio commentary from Farnham this week but as ever I will be
providing the web updates and these can be found by clicking here
also BBC London will be providing half time and full time scores and
they can be found on you radio at 94.9fm or via the web at http://www.bbc.co.uk/london.The fixtures for today are a mixture of League games and FA Vase matches. We will be able to enter the Vase next season.
Saturday 19th October
F.A. Vase 1st Round
AFC Wallingford v Arundel
Bedfont v Didcot
Chessington & Hook v Abingdon United
Cobham v BAT Sports
Lymington & New Milton v Walton Casuals
Merstham v Withdean 2000
Sandhurst Town v Gosport Borough
Premier Division
Ash United v North Greenford Utd
Cove v Raynes Park Vale
Farnham Town v AFC Wimbledon
Godalming & G v Chipstead
Viking Greenford v Reading Town
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19/10/2002
Walton Casuals Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Walton Casuals Man Of The Match vote is as follows: -
Mark Nicholas 22 votes 40.00%
Tony Readings 7 votes 12.73%
Gavin Bolger 6 votes 10.91%
Danny Roberts 4 votes 7.27%
Andy Sullivan 4 votes 7.27%
Glyn Shimmel 4 votes 7.27%
Kevin_Cooper 2 votes 3.64%
Simon Bassey 2 votes 3.64%
Sim Johnston 1 votes 1.82%
Keith Ward 1 votes 1.82%
Lee Sidwell 1 votes 1.82%
Neil Robson 1 votes 1.82%
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19/10/2002
Team News - As mentioned earlier in the week Glyn Shimmel had
an operation on Monday so today will see the AFC Wimbledon debut for
Ray Merry the Netherne Village keeper. Also joining us today is Conrad
Kane who has played for Tooting & Mitcham in the past although Conrad
is 39 years of age he apparently has the fitness of a 20 year old
and is known to bang the goals in from distance lets hope he can do
the business for us.
Keith Ward plays his last game before a week off following his sending
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18/10/2002
Keith Wardy, Wardy Wardy Wardy - You may have seen Keith's
interview with the South London Press but if not the full article
can be read by clicking here. In the interview Keith talks about: - How he plans to stay at AFC Wimbledon until his playing days are over. How he went and watched AFC Wimbledon's first game against Sutton United as football fan. How he watched Wimbledon FC at Plough Lane. And How it's the best club he has ever played at.
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18/10/2002
Feltham Result And League Table - As you may have seen on Wednesday Feltham lost 3-2 at home to Westfield this means we remain 4th in the table.
I have updated the table and there were a couple of errors in it (now
sorted) sorry about that, and thanks to Rob at
http://www.afc-wombles.com/. None of the changes effect our end of the tables.
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17/10/2002
Travel To Farnham Town - OK first up if you live between Streatham
and Sutton and normally get the thameslink to Wimbledon for onward
travel you will need to know that the service is suspended this week
and although there is a replacement bus service it adds a fair amount
of time to the journey. If you are also coming from Tooting way Plough
Lane is closed so it could take even longer a 57 bus may be the way
to go if you live near the route.
The train you get from Wimbledon is either direct to Woking and then
change or train to Surbiton then Woking then Farnham. The easiest
route from Wimbledon is as follows: - 12:50 leave Wimbledon 13:11
arrive Woking 13:16 leave Woking 13:39 arrive Farnham the times are
the same for the 13:50 but just an hour later.
On the following map
the red dot is the train station and the ground is where it says babbs
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17/10/2002
Next Academy Date - At the last Saturday home game the Junior
Dons Academy was launched and was a sellout a brilliant time was had
by all and a number of the youngsters were selected for the ADC Wimbledon
Under 9's team that played at Walton on Sunday. If you have a youngster
who is interested in taking part at the Cobham game on 26th October
2002 get you place reserved as soon as possible by clicking here.
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17/10/2002
More Results - Couple more results from Tuesday night Chessington United 1-0 Chipstead
Godalming & Guildford 3-2 Hartley Wintney
Reading Town P-P Cove
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16/10/2002
Fixture Updates - The official Site has details of two home
cup games, the London Senior Cup game against Woodford Town and The
Premier Cup game against Southall to check out this information click
here
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16/10/2002
Last Nights Scores, Tonight's Game - Not all last nights results
have appeared on the usual places as of yet but the ones I do have
are as follows: -
AFC Wallingford 8-1 Sandhurst
Chessington & Hook 0-1 Merstham
Cobham 2-2 Walton CasualsTonight one game is due to played and that is Feltham Vs Westfield. I have updated the table with the results I have. |
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15/10/2002
Tuesday Night Match Action - There should be a number of games being played tonight but the weather may have put paid to some of them, anyway the one that should have gone ahead are as follows: -
Tuesday 15th October
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford v Sandhurst Town
Chessington & Hook v Merstham
Chessington United v Chipstead
Cobham v Walton Casuals
Godalming & G v Hartley Wintney
Reading Town v Cove
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15/10/2002
Ticket Information - First of all Saturdays game at Farnham is not all ticket. Tickets will cost £5.00 but anyone under the age of 14 will get in for free.
AFC Wallingford have announced ticket prices for the game at there
ground on 23rd November 2002. Once again the price is £5.00 and these
have been sent to AFC Wimbledon so more details will be made available
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14/10/2002
Glyn Shimell Out For Few Games - I understand that Glyn Shimmel
went in to hospital for an operation that he had been due to have
for a while today at present I don't know how long he will be out
for. With Andy Bell also out at the moment all though he has just
started doing light training it looks like the next few games could
well see a new goalkeeper appearing for us. The rumors going round
is that it will be the keeper that has been playing for Netherne Village
for the past few games. |
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14/10/2002
Cobham Home Game - Just to confirm that this match that was in doubt as it could clash with a Kingstonian's home FA Cup match will now go ahead after Kingstonians lost at the weekend. |
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14/10/2002
Man Of The Match Vote - The Man Of The Match Vote for the Walton Casuals game is open and if you wish to vote please click below. |
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14/10/2002
Sad News From Australia - Robert Smith of AFC Wimbledon Down
Under Supporters Association posted the following on the WISA site
over the weekend and I thought it would be nice to see the support
we get from round the world, I am sure all our thoughts are with the
Family of Jack Russell.
Jack Russell passed away in an Adelaide hospital last Sunday. He
was 85. A wonderful supporter of Wimbledon FC and latterly AFC
Wimbledon, Jack was a foundation member of Wimbledon Downunder
Supporters' Association (WDSA). His son, Paul, a passionate
Dons' man, says: "Jack's funeral went well. I think he would
have loved it. We draped the coffin with Wimbo scarves and
played the "We are Wimbledon" song as part of the service." Jack
was at Wimbledon's FA Cup amateur victory over Sutton at Wembley
in 1963 before emigrating to Australia and hosted a legendary FA
Cup party at his Adelaide home on the night of May 14, 1988.
There was hardly a dry eye in the house that night, much the
same as it was this week as we at WDSA mourn the passing of a
deeply-respected, caring Dons' man. Your memory will stay with
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13/10/2002
Under 9 Game - On Saturday the Under 9's had there debut against
a strong Walton Casuals who last year won the league and cup. At half
time we were two nil up but after a number of changes by both sides
Walton scored 6 goals and in the end the game finished 8-5 to Walton
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13/10/2002
Loads Of Photo's - Just uploaded photo's from the last two
games as well as some that I took at the Westfield Vs Netherne game
in the week. Netherne are in White and Green.
Photo's from Godalming & Guildford can be seen by clicking here
Photo's from Westfield Vs Netherne can be seen by clicking here
Photo's from Walton Casuals can be seen by clicking here
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13/10/2002
Happy Birthday Mr Eames - Just like to wish Terry a Happy Birthday for today as I am sure all readers of the site would like to. |
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12/10/2002
International AFC - If you watched the England game on the
BBC you would have seen the AFC Wimbledon Flag above the exit of the
England fans. I am not sure who took it out there as a number of fans
made the trip well done to all that went. I also Understand that Jonathan
Pearce gave it a mention on Radio 5. |
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12/10/2002
Southall In Next Round After Win On Penalties - Our second cup game of the season and our second win on penalties. To be honest it wasn't a classic but Kevin Cooper put us 1-0 up with almost the last kick of the second half.
With 15 minutes remaining of the second half Glyn Shimmel thought
that a looping effort was going in when it looked like it was going
wide and managed to deflect it into his own net. Not much more happened
in Extra time and so it was penalties, once again all our player scored
and with Walton missing 2 we won 4-1 and now face Southall at Kingsmeadow
in the next round.
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12/10/2002
Saturday Matchday Service / Results- Today you have three ways to keep
updated with the game at Walton Casuals.
1) Web Commentary - This can be found over at http://www.wdon.com
and the dream team of Chris Phillips, Marc Jones & Mikey T will be
bringing you the news while be perched on the club house roof!
2) Text Updates - I will be updating the major events that happen
and this can be found by clicking here.
If you cant get access to the net but are in the London Area Half
Time and Full Time scores should be announced on BBC Radio London
at 94.9fm this can also be picked up via the web by going to http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/.In The CCL today we have some league games and also two rounds of the League Cup the full fixture list is as follows: -
Saturday 12th October
Premier Division Challenge Cup 1st Round
AFC Wallingford 4-0 Godalming & G
Chipstead 2-5 Feltham
Farnham Town 1-3 Withdean 2000
Merstham 4-1 Viking Greenford
Raynes Park Vale 1-0 Bedfont
Reading Town 0-2 Southall
Walton Casuals 1-1 AET 1-4 Pens AFC Wimbledon
Premier Division Challenge Cup 2nd Round
North Greenford Utd 2-1 Cove
Westfield 2-1 Chessington United
Premier Division
Chessington & Hook 1-0 Sandhurst Town
Frimley Green 1-1 Cobham
Hartley Wintney 1-8 Ash United
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12/10/2002
Walton Today - As you may know a lot of entertainment going
on today down at Walton with Music an under 9's football match (kicks
off 1:45) and then after the football they will be showing the England
game in the clubhouse, look out for the large AFC Wimbledon flag that
will be at the game. One person who wont be entertaining us is Mr
Fish who was the referee at last weeks game, he was a late replacement
for last weeks game and due to be in-charge at today's game but following
the match he has been changed.
Just before kick off today a minutes silence will be held to remember Milly Dowler who was from Walton and this is an opportunity for her local community to show there respects. I am sure that it goes without saying that all Dons fans will show there respect for her as well. |
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12/10/2002
Godalming & Guildford Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Man of The Match vote at last weeks Godalming and Guildford game is as follows: -
Danny Oakins 26 Votes 43.33%
Kevin_Cooper 12 Votes 20.00%
Lee Sidwell 10 Votes 16.67%
Keith Ward 6 Votes 10.00%
Danny Roberts 2 Votes 3.33%
Neil Robson 2 Votes 3.33%
Simon Bassey 1 Vote 1.67%
Glyn Shimmel 1 Vote 1.67%
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11/10/2002
Team News - The squad has been named on the official site and
includes a number of changes to the last few weeks. This includes
places for our two new players and also for the player who's home
kit is sponsored by itmustbedons.com Trigger. Click
here to visit the official site |
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11/10/2002
Terry Charged - As you may have seen on the official site Terry Eames has been charged with bringing the game into disrepute following last weeks game at Godalming & Guildford. Terry will attend a hearing this month but up until then he will not be present in the dugout or technical area. |
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10/10/2002
Walton Casuals Game On Saturday - Walton Casuals are putting
on loads of entertainment on Saturday and if you don't have a ticket
you can now pay on the gate. The gates open at 12:45 and from 1:30
to 2:45 music by "The Midnight Toakers" will be in the beer tent at
1:45 it will be the debut of AFC Wimbledon's Under 9 that were selected
following the Matchday Academy the other week so it would be nice
if people could be there to cheer them on.
The address of Walton Casuals is Walton Casuals FC, Franklyn Road
Sports Ground, off Waterside Drive, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. KT12
2JG. A map of the ground can be found here.
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10/10/2002
Couple Of Players In - News of a couple of players who have
joined the squad first up is a name that you may know in Gavin Bolger,
if you think you know the name it's because last year he was part
of Wimbledon FC's youth team so it's extra nice to welcome Gavin to
the club. Another player and also with Selhurst connections, but Palace,
is Mark Nicholas who was one of there youth team players. Both players
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10/10/2002
Couple Of Players Moved On? - Reports on the net say that two
of our players are playing for Walton Casuals at the moment, Craig
Carley and Carlo Castronovo but Craig may have broken his ankle on
Tuesday night in a reserve game for them. Carlo could be in the running
for a starting line up position against us on Saturday. I will put
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10/10/2002
Wednesday Nights Result - On Wednesday Night Feltham won 4-0 at home to Raynes Park Vale. Atleast one reader of the site will be happy with that. I have updated the league table. |
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09/10/2002
Tuesday Nights Results And Wednesday Nights Fixture - Although Rob posted the results in the guestbook late on this afternoon I will post them below.
Tuesday 8th October
Premier Division Challenge Cup 1st Round
Cobham 0-2 Chessington & Hook
Premier Division Challenge Cup 2nd Round
Ash United 4-0 Frimley Green
Premier Division
Cove 2-5 Hartley Wintney
Farnham Town 2-2 Godalming & G
Southall 3-0 Chessington United
Viking Greenford 1-3 AFC Wallingford
Only one game is being played tonight and it's Feltham Vs Raynes Park
Vale and this is a league game. The table is up after last nights
results and will be updated again once I know tonight's result.
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08/10/2002
Never Say Netherne - Tonight I made the trip down to Westfield
to see the Surrey Intermediate Cup Match between Westfield reserves
and Netherne. The Netherne team had a number of AFC Wimbledon players
in it including Akin Gallimore, Dave Fry, Daniel Couch, Mehmet Mehmet,
Trigger, Dave Towse & Daniel Jones sorry if I missed anyone. When
I first got there the place was empty and to be fair to Westfield
the ground is very basic. They hadn't even planned on charging any
admission and about 100 AFC Wimbledon fans had made the trip easily
Westfield's biggest crowd of the season.
Netherne soon went two goals up when first Dave Towse scored and then Sim Johnson scored but by half time the score was 2-1 and then Westfield pulled it back to 2-2 and it looked like extra time and penalties could be on the card and not the game of siccisor paper stone that was suggested by some sections of the fans.But with a few minutes left Trigger managed to head home a chance to put Netherne into the next round where they will be away to Cobham reserves.Just before half time a Westfield official came round with a collection box and it was good to see everyone putting in a few quid. A lot of people were talking about when we make the trip down there for the league game and although the word is that it can hold 1,200 some people were suggesting it may be played over the road at Woking. |
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08/10/2002
No Results Yet - I have checked all the usual places for tonight's
results but so far they are not available so as soon as I see them
I will post them here. Word is AFC Wallingford won 3-1 away at Viking
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08/10/2002
Tuesday Night Games - Tonight's games in the CCL and also CCL
Cup games are as follows: -
Tuesday 8th October
Premier Division Challenge Cup 1st Round
Cobham v Chessington & Hook
Premier Division Challenge Cup 2nd Round
Ash United v Frimley Green
Premier Division
Cove v Hartley Wintney
Farnham Town v Godalming & G
Southall v Chessington United
Viking Greenford v AFC WallingfordI will add the results once I get back from the Netherne Village game against Westfield. |
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08/10/2002
Man Of The Match Vote - The Man Of The Match vote for the Godalming
and Guildford game is still open so if you haven't voted et please
do by clicking below: -
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07/10/2002
Travel To Westfield - So if you are looking at going to the
Surrey Cup match at Westfield on Tuesday evening you need to get a
train to then head for Woking Football club which is about a mile
away when you get there walk past the ground and Westfield football
club is on the next turning on your left full details can be found
here.
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07/10/2002
Please Don't Tell Me You Missed It - If you watched the programme
tonight at 7:30 on BBC1 I am fairly sure you will have since watched
either the video or the webcast atleast once again, I know I have.
For anyone who missed it it's the first feature on the programme and
lasts for about 12 minutes. It includes interviews with Kris, Chris
Phillips, Joe Sheerin and Daniel Couch and shows loads of fan shots
you can watch the webcast by clicking below.
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06/10/2002
This Weeks Midweek Football - This weeks midweek football is
a bit different as on Tuesday night I will be making the trip to Woking
to see Netherne Village take on Westfield. As you will know a number
of our players are down at Netherne and it gives us a chance to see
them in action. I will on Monday night provide more information on
getting there for anyone that is interested and after the game I will
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06/10/2002
Monday Night TV - So if your wondering what to watch on Monday
evening before the "best league in the world(c)" game and The Office
don't forget to tune into to BBC1 South East at 19:30 for a programme
that will have a 10 minute section on AFC Wimbledon, the cameras were
at the North Greenford Game and so should have some good action as
well as following Kris & Ivor round.
If you don't live in the London area don't panic you have two options,
from 20:00 the show will be on the BBC Website at the following link
but if you have SKY Digital you should be able to get BBC London by
reading the following (click
here) when it gives you the option of local programme ignore it
and it will pick up the London Signal, I hope this all works.
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06/10/2002
And I thought This Was an Eleven Aside Game? - For the second game running both sides finished with 10 men AFC Wimbledon also had Terry Eames and our Fitness coach sent to the stand but the main thing was we came away with the points in the bag.
Neil Robson returned to the starting line up as well as Andy Sullivan
and things started really well when just on 3 minutes Kevin Cooper
had a shot from the edge of the box across the keeper and it went
in at the far side to give us a 1-0 lead. We continued to play well
but very few clear cut chances were being produced then just after
the half hour Godalming & Guildford had a shot from the edge of the
box which curled into the top corner to put the scores level, it was
a very good goal and most of the AFC Wimbledon supporters applauded
it.
As the half began to draw to a close Joe Sheerin all of a sudden went
down in the box and it was clear that he would have to go off the
word is that he heard his Hamstring "pop" and therefore could be out
for a good 6 weeks. As Joe was limping round the pitch Danny Oakins
managed to lob the ball over the keeper and manage to get it under
the bar to put us 2-1 up at the break. Although we had a penalty appeal
in the first half turned down little did we know what was to come
in the second half.
After Ali Russell had replaced Joe Sheerin in the first half the game
restarted and Russell was straight into the action with an effort
that just went wide. Russell also had a chance to play the ball across
to an unmarked Cooper but his cross ended up with the keeper. Then
on the 60 minute mark Cooper lobbed the keeper for a similar goal
to Danny Oakins to put us 3-1 up. Cooper ran straight over to the
bench to celebrate with Terry Eames.
It was from this point that the ref seemed to lose control he had
already been giving silly free kicks and had already booked a number
of our players but then a few of the Godalming players appeared to
be trying to wind our players up including Danny Oakins. A number
of off the ball incidents seemed to be going on but the ref although
having words took no action then after awarding AFC a free kick he
booked two Godalming players and sent off Neil Robson, I didn't see
what for but I assumed for an off the ball incident, people around
me said that one of the players had thrown a punch, we were once again
down to 10 men and soon afterwards Terry was asked to sit in the stand
as he may have questioned the ref's ability to ref the game. By this
stage Sean Marshall had replaced Kevin Cooper. The ref's day wasn't
finished yet after the number 8 of Godalming done a bad challenge
on one of our players right in front of our bench our fitness coach
ran on the pitch to "have words" both the number 8 and our fitness
coach were sent off and it looked like the ref took the names of everyone
on our bench.
The rest of the game came to a boring end but the second half lasted almost an hour as the AFC Wimbledon players left the pitch the fans celebrated 3 hard won points.If you wish to vote for Man Of The Match please click below. |
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06/10/2002
Bedfont Pictures Now Up - The pictures from the midweek game
against Bedfont can be seen by clicking here.
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05/10/2002
Saturday Matchday Service & Results- No audio commentary today I'm afraid
as not a suitable telephone point down at Godalming so if you are
not going you will have to rely on my text updates that will come
up on the this
link as no commentary I will try and do more updates than usual.
A full programme of games today and the three teams above us Ash, Withdean and AF Wallingford all play teams that we have already played this season so it could give us a better idea of how we are doing.Today's results are as follows: -Saturday 5th October
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford 4-2 Chipstead
Bedfont 2-4 Ash United
Chessington & Hook 0-3 North Greenford Utd
Chessington United 1-1 Farnham Town
Cobham 1-1 Feltham
Godalming & G 1-3 AFC Wimbledon
Raynes Park Vale 3-1 Walton Casuals
Reading Town 2-1 Westfield
Sandhurst Town 0-3 Withdean 2000
Southall 1-2 Merstham
Viking Greenford 1-2 Frimley Green
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05/10/2002
Bedfont Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Bedfont Man Of The Match vote is as follows: -
Joe Sheerin 35 votes 47.30%
Lee Sidwell 17 votes 22.97%
Keith Ward 8 votes 10.81%
Simon Bassey 7 votes 9.46%
Danny Oakins 3 votes 4.05%
Danny Roberts 1 vote 1.35%
Glen Mulcaire 1 vote 1.35%
Kevin_Cooper 1 vote 1.35%
Andy Sullivan 1 vote 1.35%
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04/10/2002
Get Well Andy Bell - As you may have seen on the official site
Andy Bell is out to the end of October following an appendix operation,
he hopes to be able to fight for his place and get back in the starting
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04/10/2002
Ticket & Travel For Godalming & Guildford - This game is now
not all ticket and they can be purchased at the game. For the details
on the ground check the official
site.
For people going by train you can either change once by getting a
train from Wimbledon to Clapham Junction then down to Farncombe which
is the nearest station or get a train from Wimbledon to Surbiton then
to Working and then Farncombe if you get the train via Clapham Junction
it departs at 9 minutes past the hours the Surbiton one goes at 10
minutes past the hour they both arrive at 2 minutes past the following
hour. There is also the 50 minutes past the hour from Wimbledon to
Woking and then to Francombe and that arrives at 32 minutes past the
hour. |
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03/10/2002
Wednesday Nights Commentary Highlights - If you want to relive
the action from Wednesday night or here interviews with Chris Perry
and Mehmet Mehmet the following link is just for you. To here click
here as mentioned before you will need winamp to listen to them.
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03/10/2002
Fixture Changes - As you may have seen a number of fixtures
have been changed the Farnham game goes ahead as planned but the game
against Feltham on 23rd October has been canceled as we are now playing
Ditton in the Cherry Reds Trophy the venue is to be arranged and as
soon as I know it will let you know as well. |
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02/10/2002
10 Aside And Six Goals - Tonight we moved joint 3rd in the
table and only 4 goals behind AFC Wallingford after our 5-1 victory.
After only 20 minutes Simon Bassey was booked and only a couple of
minutes later he could of left the pitch after an after the ball incident
occurred but the ref didn't see this. A couple of minutes latter both
sides were reduced to 10 men when Bassey and there number 3 were ordered
from the pitch for having a fight on the floor.
The Dons took the lead on 32 minutes when good work by Kevin Cooper
allowed him to cross for Sheerin to score his third goal in two games.
The game seemed to be in our control but right on half time they broke
from the halfway line and dispatched a shot after our defenders had
let the player run at them the ball went past Glyn and it was 1-1
at half time.
In the first minute of the second half Lee Sidwell got the ball on
the edge of the box and cut in then shot across the keeper to put
us 2-1 up we continued to push forward and Cooper had a shot from
the edge of the box that went over. It looked like the match would
finish 2-1 but we ended up having 3 goals in the final 5 minutes first
up was Sheerin's second then Ali Russell put one in with a side high
kick from about 8 yards and then in the last minute a Keith Ward header
that looked like it was going in was touched over the line by Danny
Oakins.
Scoring goals late on in games could well be important as we may need goal difference to climb the league and once teams go a couple down there heads seem to drop so once again a good night.After the game there was a lot of talk about who the Man Of The Match was but now you should get your chance to vote by clicking below. |
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02/10/2002
Frimley Green Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Frimley
Green Man Of The Match poll is as follows: -
Joe Sheerin 36
52.94%
Danny Oakins 9
13.24%
Lee Sidwell 9
13.24%
Keith Ward 3
4.41%
Danny Roberts 2
2.94%
Lee Passmore 2
2.94%
Simon Bassey 2
2.94%
Kevin_Cooper 1
1.47%
Neil Robson 1
1.47%
Glyn Shimmel 1
1.47%
Dave Towse 1
1.47%
Sean Marshall 1
1.47%
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02/10/2002
Tonight's AFC Wimbledon Matchday Service - After dropping down
to 6th after last nights results a win will take us up to joint 3rd
place tonight when we take on Bedfont. If you cant be at the game
you can get the brilliant webcast by going to http://www.wdon.com
the commentary team will be in action from 7:30 tonight with kick
off due at 7:45. If you cant get access to audio but wish to keep
uptodate with the action I will be doing the live text updates and
these can be seen here.
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02/10/2002
Commentary Clips - The commentary Clips from Saturday can be
downloaded by clicking here.
The files have been recorded in "ogg" format which means they are
as good as MP3's but just smaller in size. Ogg files will play on
winamp so if you don't have it download it from here.
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01/10/2002
Tonight's Match Action -More games tonight including AFC Wallingford
against our opponents who we played last weekend, Frimley Green. Once
the results come in I will update the results and also the league
table. - We are now 6th after tonight's results table now updated.
Tuesday 1st October
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford 4-0 Frimley Green
Chessington & Hook 3-3 Southall
Chessington United 0-1 Cobham
Chipstead 0-2 Feltham
Merstham 2-2 Walton Casuals
Raynes Park Vale 3-0 Farnham Town
Sandhurst Town 2-0 Cove
Westfield 2-5 Withdean 2000
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01/10/2002
Junior Dons Gifts - Two of the Junior Dons joining gifts are now in stock. The parents of JDs who ordered baseball caps or mini footballs can collect them on Wednesday, at the game against Bedfont, by going to the merchandise area between 7.00 and 7.30. |
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01/10/2002
Correction On Dons Trust Link - On the link for the dons Trust
yesterday I had the URL down it should of been http://www.thedonstrust.org/
by clicking on the link you can make a credit card donation to the
stadium fund. |
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