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30/09/2002
Frimley Man Of The Match Vote - With The Bedfont Game On Wednesday Night the vote for the Man Of The Match game will close on Wednesday evening so please vote as soon as you can by clicking the following link. |
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30/09/2002
Dons Trust Launch Fundraising Appeal - The Dons Trust has launched
a new front page where they are asking people to donate money for
the stadium fund if you want to learn more or take a look click here.
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30/09/2002
Photo's From Frimley Green - The photo's that I took on Saturday
can be seen by clicking here.
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29/09/2002
New Improved AFC Wimbledon Update Service - As some of you
will be aware I have been providing a SMS service of updates to people
that haven't had access to the net but have a mobile phone on match
days and I try to provide line up, scores half times and full time
scores. I have been doing this by individually texting people problem
with this is that with over 30 people to text some people get the
message well after we have scored and even miss out on a another goal.
I have found a way that I can do this on a bulk basis and I am now
prepared to add extra people to the service. The only problem with
it is that once you e-mail me to say you want to be part of it I will
e-mail you asking that you join a Website yourwap.com via a link I
supply.
This will mean that I will be able to add you to a group and then
by sending one message it will go out to all that have requested it.
If you currently receive updates I will be contacting you. I hope
this will result in a better and quicker update service if you would
like to be added to the service please e-mail me on sms@itmustbedons.com.
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29/09/2002
It's My Birthday - Another year older today and I now reach
32 years of age. Just want to say a big thank you to every one who
signed the card that was organised for me so a big thanks to Jackie
Harvey and Linda Dennis who I think were the main people behind it.
Getting a card from the players was a lovely surprise and although
today is my birthday I'm claiming it as a birthday weekend and 3 points
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28/09/2002
Rain Or Shine A Five Star Performance - OK so no rain but never
let anything like that get in the way of a good headline :) - So the
possibility of a player going through the whole season playing every
game has finished now that Sim Johnston didn't play today, Sim was
down playing for Nethern who drew 0-0. Also missing was Andy Sullivan
who may be away on Holiday in Italy at the moment.
A healthy crowd of 1,098 officially although a number of people thought
it was higher made the trip down to Farnborough Town's ground for
the match against Frimley Green. Right from the start we attacked
well and on 12 minutes Joe Sheerin challenged the keeper for a ball
in the air but a free kick was awarded against him. Then on 23 minutes
the moment most AFC Wimbledon fans had been waiting for when Joe Sheerin
broke into the box his first shot rebounded off the keeper and came
back to him and he slotted the ball home to put us 1-0 up. The relief
on Joe's and the fans faces was brilliant at first Joe had a look
of "Yes I've done it" then he celebrated with the fans and then ran
the full length of the pitch and so that all his team mates could
celebrate with him it was a great moment and gave the team a real
lift.
We continued to push forward and 5 minutes later Neal Robson had a
shot from the edge of the box that went past the keeper we were now
looking really good. We were storming down both wings with Lee Sidwell
on the right and Sean Marshall on the left and then with almost the
last kick of the half we had a corner the ball was played in and Danny
Oakins steamed in at the back post to put the ball over the line for
a 3-0 half time lead.
5 minutes into the half another corner taken by Neil Robson was once again met by Danny Oakins but his effort was blocked on the line but once again came back to Danny and he prodded it over the line we were now 4-0 up. The show wasn't over yet as Joe Sheerin managed to get his second goal of the day to put us 5-0 up, at that point Joe was replaced by Ali Russell and he left to a brilliant reception. We had a brilliant chance to make it 6-0 but Kevin Coopers header from a couple of yards out hit the inside of the post and came back to the keeper.That was the end of the scoring and a brilliant 5-0 end to a good day. Joe was well happy after the game and everyone was congratulating him after all his hard work it came off today.If you wish to vote for the Man Of The match please click below. |
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28/09/2002
Matchday Service / Results- The Live Commentary goes on the road today
and will be available from about 2:45 this can be found by clicking
here
if you don't have audio but wish to check on the text updates you
can see them here.The full fixture list is as follows: -
Saturday 28th September
F.A. Cup 2nd Qualifying Round
AFC Wallingford 0-1 Eastbourne Borough
Godalming & G 0-1 Hampton & Richmond Borough
Premier Division
Chipstead 1-1 Raynes Park Vale
Cove 1-2 Chessington United
Feltham 2-2 Chessington & Hook
Frimley Green 0-5 AFC Wimbledon (at Farnborough Town FC)
Hartley Wintney 3-1 Bedfont
Merstham 2-2 Reading Town
North Greenford Utd 5-4 Westfield
Viking Greenford 1-4 Ash United
Walton Casuals 2-1 Sandhurst Town
Withdean 2000 5-1 Cobham
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28/09/2002
North Greenford United Man Of The Match Result - After the closest Man of The Match Vote of the season the result is as follows: -
Joe Sheerin 24 votes 26.97%
Andy Sullivan 23 votes 25.84%
Danny Oakins 15 votes 16.85%
Keith Ward 14 votes 15.73%
Glyn Shimmel 5 votes 5.62%
Alistair Russell 4 votes 4.49%
Sim Johnston 1 votes 1.12%
Lee Passmore 1 votes 1.12%
Lee Sidwell 1 votes 1.12%
Kevin_Cooper 1 votes 1.12%
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28/09/2002
Correction To League Table - I have updated the league table as today's opponents Frimley Green played Godalming & Greenford on Wednesday evening. Frimley won 1-0. |
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27/09/2002
Keith Ward Suspended - Following Keith Ward's sending off in
the Ash United game on August bank Holiday Monday he has been handed
a 7 day ban. I don't know when this comes in but I understand he will
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26/09/2002
Travel For Frimley Game - As you know the Frimley Game is being
played at Farnborough Town ground on Saturday the best directions
can be found on a Farnborough Town Website so click here
for the directions.
In terms of train travel you can get the 50 minutes past the hour
train that takes about 35 Mins and gets in at 24 minutes past or get
the 10 past from Wimbledon change at Surbiton and pick up the 28 minutes
past that get in at 54 minutes past. Farnborough North is 25 minutes
walk from the ground so it may be a jump in cabs job.
If you cant make the game the web commentary goes on the road this week so you can still listen at home. |
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26/09/2002
Last Chance For North Greenford Man Of The Match - Looks like
the Man Of The Match vote is between Joe Sheerin and Andy Sullivan
so if you haven't voted yet and still want to please click below.
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25/09/2002
All Ticket Games - After Saturday's game our next two Away
Games at Godalming and Walton will be all ticket and will be available
on Saturday from the Wombulance for more information check the official
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25/09/2002
Travel Price To Frimley Reduced - The cost of Saturdays trip
fro the Frimley game has been reduced to £10.00 adults and £5.00 Kids
please book early to avoid disappointment. The coach departs at 12:00
and you can either e-mail me paul@itmustbedons.com
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25/09/2002
Last Nights Results - The three teams above us Ash, Withdean
and Wallingford all dropped points last night with Wallingfords being
there first dropped points of the season. The updated league table
is also now available.
Tuesday 24th September
Premier Division
Ash United 2-2 Merstham
Chessington & Hook 2-1 Withdean 2000
Cobham p-p Chipstead(subject to conf)
Frimley Green p-p Godalming & G
Hartley Wintney 1-1 AFC Wallingford
North Greenford Utd 0-3 Feltham
Reading Town 0-2 Sandhurst Town |
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24/09/2002
Fixtures Tonight - A number of games tonight as teams try and
catch up after all the cup matches that have been played and they
are as follows: -
Moved above as results now in. |
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24/09/2002
Stickmation Action - Neil has added the drama of the Brimsdown
penalty shoot-out into Stickmation and this can be viewed here
and go to the news section. |
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24/09/2002
Frimley Green Game On Saturday - For anyone that has booked
by e-mail for the coach on Saturday can you please re-send an e-mail
to the following address paul@itmustbedons.com
If you haven't booked the coach yet and wish to please send an e-mail
to the same address stating name, and number of adults, concession
and kids places you need cost is £12.00 adults £6.00 Concessions and
Kids. It will depart at 12:00 from Wimbledon Theater.
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23/09/2002
Man Of The Match Vote - This week's man of the match vote is
a close run thing with the leader (at present Andy Sullivan) just
two votes clear of Joe Sheerin, Danny Oakins & Keith Ward so if you
haven't voted but want to please click below to do so.
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23/09/2002
Commentary Clips - If you want to here the clips from Saturdays
game they can be found here.
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23/09/2002
Junior Dons Trust Launch - Saturday saw the Launch of the Junior Dons Trust and it was a brilliant day about 50 juniors joined the trust as well as 60 who joined the matchday academy. The Youngsters got a chance to learn skills with current players and coaching staff and then some of them were selected for a penalty shoot out with Andy Bell in goal. Well done to everyone involved and hope the kids had a good day. |
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22/09/2002
Brimsdown, North Greenford And Junior Dons Trust Photos - Before I get to the Photo's the Match report from Saturday's game.
Right from the start North Greenford came straight at us and in the
second minute they broke down our right hand side the player cut in
and from just inside the box shot past Glyn who (from my view) had
left two much of the goal unguarded once again we had started slowly.
We got going and after we won a corner the ball was headed home after
Sim Johnston "Rose like a Phoenix (C) Wimbledon Web Cast Team 18/9/2002"
to head the ball home but before the half time break could come North
Greenford put the ball into an empty net when the defenders failed
to pick up a player at the back post.
Early in the second half North Greenford increased there lead to 3-1
and it looked like it was game over but we seemed to step it up a
gear and we were having the best of the chances. Then North Greenford
were reduced to 10 men when one of there players got involved in an
off the ball incident, it was now a case of could we make the extra
man advantage play. We continued to push forward and Keith Ward pulled
it back to 2-3 when he connected with an overhead kick in a crowded
box. We still streamed forward and then it was another defenders turn
to get on the score sheet and it was Danny "Are You Oakins, Are You
Oakins, Danny" Oakins who pulled the score level and then there was
only one team that was going to win Ali Russell came on for Kevin
Cooper and he scored his first league goal to put us 4-3 up with just
5 minutes remaining. Kingsmeadow erupted and Ali ran to the West
Bank and was mobbed by the fans.
As the game looked like about 5 minutes injury time was about to be
played the final whistle went and the Dons had pulled back 2 goal
deficits twice in a week. As an AFCW fan this was not the week to
be away in two games we have seen 13 goals, 10 penalties (9 scored)
and two sending offs. The webcast was yet again on top form and in
the photo's of the game you can see "The Dream Team" in action, Mikey
T, Marc Jones & Matt Couper.
To view the photos click one of the following links:-
Brimsdown
Rovers
North
Greenford United
The
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22/09/2002
Coach Travel For Frimley Green Game - AFC Wimbledon will once again be running official travel to next Saturday's game against Frimley Green that is being played at Farnborough Town's ground. The details are as follows: -
12.00 Departure from Wimbledon Theatre
14.00 Arrival at ground
17.00 departure directly after end of game
£12.00 for Adults £6.00 for concessions
Contact afcwimbledon02@aol.com text or phone 07950-763566 |
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21/09/2002
Merton Car Free Day - Sunday is Car Free Day in Wimbledon and AFC Wimbledon will be in attendance with players and management about I think it will be from about 12:00 so if you are in the area pop down. - Update - It was nice to see a number of people down in Wimbledon as well as Terry Eames, Daniel Couch, Sim Johnston, Ally Russell & Trigger |
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21/09/2002
Quick Update on Dull Boring Game! - Sorry we don't get dull
boring games at AFC Wimbledon and today proved that point after going
behind in the first minute and then being 3-1 down early in the second
half North Greenford United were reduced to 10 men and then we came
back in and came away with a 4-3 victory with the winning goal from
Ali Russell.
I will do a full report on Sunday as well as information on the Junior Dons Trust Launch but for now the Man Of The Match vote is open and to vote click below. |
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21/09/2002
**** LIVE WEB AUDIO COMMENTARY **** - Right I think you may
have had a chance to listen to the commentary either in full on Wednesday
night or the highlights so if you want to the fun at today's game
set you MP3 player (winamp, media player) to http://www.thedonstrust.org:8000/
and if it doesn't start straight away open the media player and type
that address into the file location box. The team hope to have coverage
from about 2:40 today but may be a bit earlier. For added enjoyment
you can also log onto the Weird And Wonderful World guestbook
to chat with other people round the world and also the odd comment
from the presenting team.
If for any reason you cant use Audio I will be doing the text updates
over at http://www.gash.net/afcw/index.html which I hope you will enjoy.
In terms of other games round the league the only other game is Ash
United Vs Hartley Wintney as all other teams are in the FA Vase. If
we win today we will go 4th. |
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21/09/2002
Brimsdown Rovers Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Man Of The Match Vote is as follows: -
Keith Ward 21 votes 45.65%
Glyn Shimmel 7 votes 15.22%
Lee Passmore 4 votes 8.70%
Alistair Russell 4 votes 8.70%
Danny Oakins 3 votes 6.52%
Sean Marshall 3 votes 6.52%
Andy Sullivan 2 votes 4.35%
Danny Roberts 1 vote 2.17%
Lee Sidwell 1 vote 2.17% Well done once again to Keith Ward on another Man Of The match Performance.
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20/09/2002
Launch Of The Junior Dons Trust - Saturday sees the official launch of the Junior Dons Trust as well as the Junior Dons Matchday Academy. All places have now gone for the Matchday academy but there will still be loads to do. The fun will start at about 11:00 and go on to 2:30 it will include a bouncy castle, beat the AFC Wimbledon Keeper (Andy Bell) and other football related fun. You will also be able to have your photo taken with some off the players as well as Terry Eames and the Supporters Direct Cup. And then once all that has finished you can watch some football. |
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20/09/2002
Team News - On the official site it has the team news for Saturdays
game as well as some brilliant reaction from Terry Eames and a few
of the players following Wednesday Nights game to read it click here.
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19/09/2002
So Did You Listen? - So Saturday's commentary didn't work and
then there was last nights that was one of the funniest things you
will ever have heard. Chris Phillips and Matt Couper with analysis
by Marc Jones put on a wicked show and thanks to Darren Foreman you
can now here the best bits by clicking here.
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19/09/2002
Big Thank You - Just to say that between now and when I do the next update there is a fair chance that I will past the 200,000 unique visitor mark. When you think back to the fact that I only reached 100,000 on 5th September 2001 that is a brilliant rate of visitors and a big thanks to everyone that reads what I put up. |
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19/09/2002
Correction On First Goal - It would appear that while doing
the update at 01:30 this morning I may have made a mistake on our
first goalscorer instead of Sean Marshall who I gave it to it was
Ali Russell who headed the ball past the keeper. |
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19/09/2002
Who Needs The Champions League - So Wednesday was day 2 of Match week 1 in champions League speak but search round Europe and you wont find a more enjoyable game than the "London Senior Cup Preliminary Round" match at Kingsmeadow between AFC Wimbledon and Brimsdown Rovers.
Most AFC fans went into this game expecting a walk over but Brimsdown
were out to cause an upset and after 16 minutes they took the lead
when a bad back header fell short of Glyn Shimell and was put away.
Things were to get worse when Brimsdown broke away in the second half
and scored the best goal of the match, it turns out that Danny Roberts
was booked for the foul in the build up to the goal when the ref waved
play on but from my view I thought he could have well gone off for
it.
As it looked like we could be going out of the London Senior Cup we got back in when Sean Marshall scored with a header but soon after we looked in trouble when Danny Roberts was in trouble for a sliding tackle, the ref showed him his second yellow card and he was off we were down to 10 men and needed another goal. We started to play some of our best football of the match and then in the last minute of normal time Keith Ward was there at a corner to level the scores and send the game into extra time.Extra time was just as eventful as Brimsdown took the lead again in the first half of extra time and once again we were forced to battle back and with minutes remaining we scrambled the ball over the line to make it 3-3. In the remaining minutes we had clear cut chances but couldn't find the net so penalties were in store.
Brimsdown took the first and Glyn saved it then the remaining 9 were
scored our score's in order were Passmore, Cooper, Gallimore, Oakins
& Russell. Ali Russell penalty was extra special as he had a chance
in normal time to finish the game but somehow put the ball wide.
The Man Of The Match Vote is now open please click below to vote. |
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19/09/2002
Reading Town Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Man Of The Match vote is as follows: -Joe Sheerin 38
61.29%
Lee Sidwell 9
14.52%
Keith Ward 3
4.84%
Sean Marshall 3
4.84%
Kevin_Cooper 2
3.23%
Dave Towse 2
3.23%
Danny Oakins 1
1.61%
Lee Passmore 1
1.61%
Andy Sullivan 1
1.61%
Glyn Shimmel 1
1.61%
Alistair Russell 1
1.61%
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18/09/2002
Midweek Match Service - Tonight AFC Wimbledon hope to be able
to bring you live audio commentary at present I don't know a) if this
will work, b) What the URL will be. Once I do know the URL I will
post it along with the usual text updates over on the updates
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18/09/2002
Who Are Brimsdown Rovers? - Brimsdown Rovers play in the Spartan South Midland League Division One which is one league below the Combined Counties League although via a different feeder system it all leads into Division One of the Rymans. On Saturday they lost 5-0 at home to Pitstone & Ivinghoe and had a new keeper in goal "Dave Finch" who joined them from Cockfosters, this was there first home game of the season as they share there ground with a cricket club, and also Enfield Town. So far this season there league record stands at Played 7 Won 1 Lost 6 For 4 Agi 17 Pts 3. |
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18/09/2002
Last Chance For Reading Town Man Of The Match Vote - The Man
Of The Match Vote will close at 7:45PM tonight so if you haven't voted
yet and wish to do so please click below.
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17/09/2002
Midweek Fixtures - Results are below and table is also up.Tonight there are a number of games including Cobham's replay with Tooting and Mitcham in the FA Cup. I will post results as well as the league table as soon as the results are in.
Premier Division
Farnham Town 1-4 Southall
Godalming & G 1-2 AFC Wallingford
North Greenford Utd 3-2 Walton Casuals
Reading Town 0-3 Hartley Wintney
Viking Greenford 1-2 Bedfont
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17/09/2002
News On Wednesday Nights Game - On Wednesday night if you wish
to sit in the stand you will need to say this when you go through
the turnstile, there will be no transfer tickets available inside
the ground. Also blocks F & G Will be a non smoking section of the
stand after consultation with AFCW supporters, these areas will be
marked as such. |
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16/09/2002
Comments On Saturdays - The AFC Wimbledon Official
Site has comments from Terry Eames, Andy Sullivan and Sean Marshall
about Saturday's performance and is worth having a read.
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16/09/2002
London Senior Cup - On Wednesday night a Wimbledon side enter
the London senior Cup for the first time since we won it in 1977,
our last year as a non league club. The game sees us take on Brimsdown
Rovers who play in the Midland Spartan Division 1 (a division below
Milton Keynes City) and in the structure of the pyramid one division
below us. Brimsdown are at present bottom of the league. Everyone
must pay at the gate and prices are £5 for adults. |
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15/09/2002
Photos from Reading Town Match - The photos from the Reading
Town game can now be viewed by clicking here.
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14/09/2002
Victory Over Reading Town - First of all apologies about the audio commentary that didn't work this afternoon, this was due to a technical problem with a laptop and should be sorted by Wednesday evening for the London Senior Cup game with Brimsdown Rovers.As you may have seen in the team line up on the official site we had two new players in Ali Russell and Sean Marshall on the bench. Kevin Cooper returned after his hamstring injury but apart from that it was the normal starting line up.
The game on a whole was a strange one we defended the covered end
in the first half and although we had the better of the play and the
better chances we didn't seem to have that killer finish that we looked
like needing but then on 23 minutes Joe Sheerin broke down the line
cut into the box and then squared it to an unmarked Andy Sullivan
who fired home to put us 1-0 up this remained the score until half
time.
The second half seemed to run along similar line to the first half
but with the fear that out of nothing would come a reading equaliser.
Then with about 15 minutes left Terry Eames made a double substitution
with Andy Sullivan and Kevin Cooper being replaced by Ali Russell
and Sean Marshall straight away they were both into the games and
both had good efforts all of a sudden the momentum had swung and it
looked like we would get atleast one more goal then the ball was played
across the goal just behind Joe Sheerin for Sean Marshall to place
across the keeper and into the back of the net for a goal on his debut
this meant the points were safe as the game came to a close with us
winning 2-0.
Looking at results elsewhere everyone above us dropped points including Ash United who failed to win for the first time this season, we are now up to 6th in the table.The Man Of The Match vote is now open and if you wish to vote please click below. |
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14/09/2002
Saturday Matchday Service / Results - The results for today are as follows: -Saturday 14th September
F.A. Cup - 1st Qualifying Round
Chatham Town 2 v 3 Godalming & G
Hertford Town 1 v 4 AFC Wallingford
Tooting & Mitcham 0 v 0 Cobham
VCD Athletic 2 v 1 Bedfont
Southall 2 v 3 Yaxley
Walton & Hersham 3 v 0 Cove
Chipstead 1 v 3 Three Bridges
Premier Division
AFC Wimbledon 2 v 0 Reading Town
Chessington & Hook 1 v 1 Raynes Park Vale
Chessington United 1 v 1 Westfield
Feltham 1 v 1 Withdean 2000
Hartley Wintney 1 v 0 Viking Greenford
North Greenford Utd 5 v 1 Merstham
Sandhurst Town 2 v 2 Ash United
The text update service will be available as ever and it will include the web
address of the live commentary service for text updates click
here. To give you advance information on the performance of our
Home Record this season against Reading towns away performance click
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14/09/2002
**** Live Audio Matchday Commentary **** - Today AFC Wimbledon tries to move into the multi media age with live audio commentary to quote one of your hosts Chris Phillips of Kiss 100 -
On Saturday we are going to attempt a live Internet broadcast
from the Reading Town game at K's!!
So, if you're a far off or simply on-line Womble check back here (wisa chat)
in footy chat from around 1pm for the link and help give some
feedback to let us know if you can hear it etc.
There'll be bugger all to listen to until k.o and nowt at half
time but m'self and Matt Couper will attempt to keep you amused
and informed from the PA box as the action unfolds!
Expect a tongue-in-cheek 90 minutes of madness and hopefully the
sound of two blokes going mental as we stick goal 6 in! I'll
have to interweave my PA duties whilst doing it so it might be a
tad shoddy ;-)
Of course it's subject to technical provisions so NOT PROMISING
anything but really hope we can do it.
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14/09/2002
Withdean 2000 Man Of The Match Result - The result for the Withdean 2000 man of the match vote is as follows: -
Glyn Shimmel 20 votes 66.67%
Lee Sidwell 5 votes 16.67%
Sim Johnston 1 vote 3.33%
Tony Readings 1 vote 3.33%
Keith Ward 1 vote 3.33%
Andy Sullivan 1 vote 3.33%
Joe Sheerin 1 vote 3.33% Thanks to everyone that voted, and a new vote will open after the game against Reading Town.
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13/09/2002
Junior Dons Trust Matchday Academy - It's just over a week to the launch of the Junior Dons Trust and the Matchday Academy and the following information has been provided.
Get your kids booked in for the very first Junior Dons Match Day Academy
from 11.30-1.30 next Saturday 21st Sept.
They'll have fun and two hours of structured training with Terry, the
players, qualified coaches AND special guest coach ROGER JOSEPH!
This takes place in the Kingsmeadow athletics ground next door to the
football ground, home of AFC Wimbledon. There will be plenty of refreshments
and covered seating for parents.
£10 joining fee (actually Junior Dons Trust membership)
£5 each match day session (£4 for current ST holding kids)
All kids then admitted at no extra cost to the game afterwards. They'll also
get a chance to show out in the half time academy skills goal shoot out.
E-mail now matchdayacademy@thedonstrust.org or Call Anne Eames on 07929
573680
Hurry, only a few limited spaces left!!
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13/09/2002
The Dons Trust Wins Major Award - On Thursday The Dons Trust
were announced as the winners of "The Trust Of The Year" at the Supporters
Direct conference in London. So not only are we members of the biggest
trust in the country it is now officially the best as well. Well done
to everyone involved in the trust it's been a monumental year for
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12/09/2002
AFC Wimbledon Statement On Car Parking - AFC Wimbledon have
made a statement on the official
site at about the car park at Kingsmeadow. If you drive to the game you should well read it. |
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11/09/2002
Shirts Available On Saturday - The last of the pre ordered
shirts and the first of the open sale one will be up for grabs on
Saturday so don't forget to bring along your cash or Cheque book.
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11/09/2002
Departing Players Return - Two players that departed AFC Wimbledon who Terry Eames had high hopes for have returned the players are Ali Russell & Sean Marshall. |
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10/09/2002
Midweek Games - Results- Lots of goals in the Combined counties
tonight with Hartley Wintney winning 6-4 away and Withdean 5-3 away
two other 4-1 away winners and Ash won 6-1 at home. Full results below.
A number of games in the Combined Counties tonight and once the scores have come in I will update the scores and the league table.
Tuesday 10th September
F.A. Vase - 1st Qualifying Round Replay
Chipstead v Horsham YMCA
Premier Division
Ash United 6-1 Cove
Bedfont 0-1 AFC Wallingford
Chessington & Hook 3-0 Walton Casuals
Chessington United 3-1 Godalming & G
Frimley Green 4-6 Hartley Wintney
Merstham 3-5 Withdean 2000
Sandhurst Town 2-0 Farnham Town
Viking Greenford 1-4 Southall
Westfield 1-4 Raynes Park Vale
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10/09/2002
Brimsdown Rovers Date Announced - The London Senior Cup game
against Brimsdown Rovers has been announced for next Wednesday, this
match will not be available on Season Ticket holders and everyone
will pay. More information can be found on the official
site. |
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10/09/2002
Withdean Man Of The Match Vote - The vote for the Withdean Man Of The Match vote is still open so to vote please click below. |
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09/09/2002
No Midweek Game This Week - Just to confirm we don't have a midweek game this week after the game with Feltham was called off. Most of the other teams in the league are playing to make up for the games they missed following recent cup action. |
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09/09/2002
Withdean 2000 Photos - I have now uploaded the pictures from
the Withdean 2000 game and they can be seen here.
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08/09/2002
New Venue For Frimley Green Game - The game against Frimley Green that is to be played on 28th September will now be played at Farnborough Town's ground which has a capacity of 4,000. |
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08/09/2002
Happy Birthday Trigger - Today is Triggers birthday I am sure everyone wishes him a Happy Birthday. |
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08/09/2002
Defeat At Withdean & Man Of The Match Vote - A 2-0 defeat against
Withdean 2000 on Saturday. The day started with the supporters coach
breaking down at Tesco's express in south Wimbledon and a 1.5 hour
delay to our journey but thanks to Withdean who put the game back
about 10 minutes we got to the game in time.
As mentioned Kevin Cooper missed the game due to a hamstring injury
with Simon Bassey coming into the line up. Joe Sherrin played the
lone striker role in a 4-5-1 formation and the first half was very
even. Withdean are a very organised side and both teams had a few
good chances in the first half but neither team could take the lead.
All of a sudden in the second half a mistake allowed Withdean to break away and they went 1-0 up. Soon after this they also won a penalty this was hit low to Glyn Shimmel left and he got down to save it. We were always going to be up against it with only one striker and Withdean were awarded a second penalty but this time they put it away for a 2-0 lead. This was the result of the game.
In the evening a number of the players went out and they were very
disappointed with the result and the performance as a whole. As a
number of them said we have been a bit unlucky with injuries and with
Cooper out at the moment we lost our main striking option, cooper
should be back next week and that can hopefully give us that extra
edge.
The Man Of The Match Vote is now open and if you wish to vote please click below. |
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08/09/2002
Saturday's Results -
Saturday 7th September
F.A. Vase
Abingdon Town 3-0 Chessington United
Farnham Town 0-4 Whitehawk
Godalming & G 1-0 Three Bridges
Horsham YMCA 1-1 Chipstead
Merstham 6-0 Hartley Wintney
Westfield 3-4 Eastbourne Town
Whistable Town 2-4 Raynes Park Vale
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford 4-1 Chessington & Hook
Bedfont 2-1 Frimley Green
Cobham 1-2 North Greenford Utd
Cove 0-2 Southall
Reading Town 1-2 Feltham
Viking Greenford 1-1 Sandhurst Town
Walton Casuals 2-3 Ash United
Withdean 2000 2-0 AFC Wimbledon |
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07/09/2002
Saturday Match Service - Once again we are up against one of the strong teams in the division today in Withdean 2000. If you want to check out the the pre match guide you can by clicking here.
The full fixture list for today's games are as follows: -
Saturday 7th September
F.A. Vase
Abingdon Town v Chessington United
Farnham Town v Whitehawk
Godalming & G v Three Bridges
Horsham YMCA v Chipstead
Merstham v Hartley Wintney
Westfield v Eastbourne Town
Whistable Town v Raynes Park Vale
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford v Chessington & Hook
Bedfont v Frimley Green
Cobham v North Greenford Utd
Cove v Southall
Reading Town v Feltham
Viking Greenford v Sandhurst Town
Walton Casuals v Ash United
Withdean 2000 v AFC Wimbledon
If you cant make the game I will be doing live updates over on the
WISA Site to see these updates please click here.
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07/09/2002
Southall Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Southall
Man Of The Match vote is as follows: -
Glyn Shimmel 15 votes
48.39%
Sim Johnston 4 votes
12.90%
Andy Sullivan 3 votes
9.68%
Ben Oaken 2 votes
6.45%
Lee Sidwell 2 votes
6.45%
Glen Mulcaire 2 votes
6.45%
Keith Ward 1 vote
3.23%
Neil Robson 1 vote
3.23%
Dave Towse 1 vote
3.23% Thanks to everyone who voted and a new vote will open after the Worthing game.
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06/09/2002
100 Days Old Today - Today is 100 days since the meeting at
Wimbledon community centre when people said lets form AFC Wimbledon.
It is amazing what has been done in that time And once again well
done to everyone involved. |
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06/09/2002
Team News For Withdean Game - The squad for the trip to Withdean
2000 is unchanged except for the fact that Kevin Cooper wont make
the trip due to his hamstring injury. More information over at the
official
site. |
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05/09/2002
Travel To Withdean - Don't forget this game is played in Worthing.
By train you need to go to either East Croydon (by tram) or Clapham
Junction to pick up either a direct train to Worthing (53 minutes
past the hour from Clapham) or go to Brighton and change. For direction
visit Worthing FC Website by clicking here.
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05/09/2002
Stats Service Gets A Make Over - The Stats comparison service
for the Withdean 2000 match are now up and the Stats have had a make
over I hope you like them. To view click here.
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05/09/2002
Coach To Withdean - Just a reminder that a coach is running to Withdean on Saturday places are going fast with only about 15 left so if you want to use the service please book it as soon as possible. The details are: -12.00 Departure from Wimbledon Theatre
14.00 Arrival at ground
17.00 departure directly after end of game
£10.00 for Adults £5.00 for concessions
Contact afcwimbledon02@aol.com text or phone 07950-763566 |
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04/09/2002
Southall Photo's - Sorry only 3 photos from the Southall game
as it got dark very quickly but anyway to view them click here.
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04/09/2002
Injury News - News from the official site that both Joe Sheerin
and Kevin Cooper have knocks at the moment. Kevin should be OK for
the weekend as he felt a tightening of his hamstring last night while
Joe picked up another injury to his toe and will have an x-ray on
it but may well miss Saturdays game. |
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04/09/2002
Couple Of AFCW Sites - Just to give a couple of AFCW Sites
a plug one a site I have mentioned before is Adam Proctor's brilliant
site with goal animation now to view this click
here. Another site is the very clever AFC
Dons Diary have a look I am sure you will like them, I will also be updating the links part of my site to show all the new sites. |
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03/09/2002
0-0 Draw That Ends In Chaos - So our first 0-0 in the division
that never has 0-0 games but managed two tonight (Chessington United
Vs Merstham being the other) but before I get into the game just a
quick note about the food fest that was put on for us. I arrived about
an hour before kick off and there must have been a good 100 people
waiting to be served curry and the word was it was first class.
Only one change in the line up Dave Towse came in for Danny Roberts
who was rested and said that he had been a below his best over the
past few games. About 1000 fans made the trip to Chalfont St Peters
for the game which was played on a very hard and bumpy pitch. Right
from the start challenges were going in from both teams but the referee
seemed to only punish our players. A couple of our players were booked
Joe Sheerin for kicking the ball away and another player who I cant
remember.
Everytime there was a bit of a scuffle and this happened on a number
of occasions he seemed to either only talk to our player or book our
player and award the free kick to them. There were a few chance in
the game but Southall defended very well so were hard to break down.
In the closing moment all hell went off and a big punch up happened
in the box involving Trigger now once again it was the Dons player
pulled aside rather than Number 16 for Southall and by all accounts
the ref showed the "RED Card" but ma have then changed his mind as
Trigger remained on the pitch the ref then showed he didn't fancy
it any more and blew the full time whistle a good 5 minutes early.
None of the Fans (AFC Wimbledon and Wycombe) could understand why
no one had been sent off.
If you wish to vote for the Man Of The Match please click below. |
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03/09/2002
Tonight's Results - Tonight's results are as follows: -
Ash United 5-0 Frimley Green
Chessington United 0-0 Merstham
Chipstead 2-3 Westfield
Cove 1-1 Farnham Town
Godalming & G 3-1 Walton Casuals
Hartley Wintney 1-1 Cobham
Raynes Park Vale 1-1 Bedfont
Reading Town 3-0 North Greenford Utd
Southall 0-0 AFC Wimbledon
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03/09/2002
Hartley Wintney Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Hartley Wintney Man Of The Match Vote is as follows: -Sim Johnston 34 votes
53.12%
Kevin_Cooper 12 votes 18.75%
Glyn Shimmel 9 votes 14.06%
Lee Sidwell 4 votes 6.25%
Keith Ward 2 votes 3.12%
Andy Sullivan 2 votes 3.12%
Dave Fry 1 vote 1.56%
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03/09/2002
New Stats Service - I have been working on producing a new
Stats service and I am pleased to say it can now go live. At present
I have had to put it on a separate page as I need to tweak it a bit
but all the information is there.
The Home and Away table and the averages
compare Southall's "Home" record against AFC Wimbledon's "Away" record
the form guide shows the last six games played so at the moment is
the same as the overall table and the graph shows the league position
after each game played.
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03/09/2002
Midweek Match Service - Almost a full programme in the Combined
Counties League tonight. I will be doing updates as ever and these
can be found by clicking here.
The full list of the other games are as follows: -
Tuesday 3rd September
F.A. Cup - Preliminary Round Replays
AFC Wallingford v Brentwood
Chessington & Hook v Hillingdon Borough
Premier Division
Ash United v Frimley Green
Chessington United v Merstham
Chipstead v Westfield
Cove v Farnham Town
Godalming & G v Walton Casuals
Hartley Wintney v Cobham
Raynes Park Vale v Bedfont
Reading Town v North Greenford Utd
Southall v AFC Wimbledon
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03/09/2002
Player Sponsorship - In case you were not aware you can sponsor AFC Wimbledon Players kit this season for information on this check the official site.
Itmustbedons.com is pleased to be sponsoring the home kit of Glenn
"Trigger" Mulcaire for the 2002/03 season. |
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02/09/2002
Directions To Southall - Tuesday evening we make the trip for
the Southall game. This game is played at Chalfont St Peters ground
and that can be found here.
The road directions can be found here
but this may not be the quickest route due to the rush hour.
If you are traveling by train you need to get a train from London
Marylebone the journey takes about 30 minutes and then is about a
20 minute walk so the following train times may help. 17:47, 18:10,
18:13, 18:28, 18:45. Once you get to the station it looks like it's
a cab ride. Admission is £5 adults £2 kids and the programme is £2.00
don't forget a curry stand will also be on offer. |
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02/09/2002
Hartley Wintney Man Of The Match Vote - Don't forget the Man
of The match vote will close on Tuesday evening so if you haven't
voted yet click below.
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02/09/2002
Bookies Take A Bashing - You may remember last week that William
Hills were taking over what game would get the highest attendance
us Vs Cove or the game at Selhurst Park well there was only going
to be one winner in this and unfortunately Mr Bill Hills priced it
up wrong and on Friday night they had AFC as 11/10 2nd favorites.
After a bit of detective work I have managed to get the following
out of William Hills about the bet.
It was pretty much one-way traffic. We went 5/6 take your pick
on Saturday morning before AFC became 8/11 favorites by around midday.
The book closed at about 12.30. It was a very successful novelty bet
in terms of creating interest, but punters were the winners.
Although they wont say how much they lost on the day the word is that it was a fair amount, hey never mind :) |
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02/09/2002
Hartley Wintney Photo's - I have now uploaded the photo's from
Saturday's game and also a few from the Karaoke hope you enjoy. They
can be viewed by looking here.
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01/09/2002
Victory Over Hartley Wintney - Yesterday saw us play Hartley Wintney it what turned out to be a game that had some strange incidents. The Dons made one change with new keeper Glyn Shimmel replacing Andy Bell. Glyn had played against us for Bromley in our pre-season campaign.Within the first couple of minutes the Dons should have gone 1 up when Kevin Cooper ran down the line and cut the ball into Joe Sherrin who's effort crossed the line but was then clawed back by the keeper. I was directly behind the goal and the ball was a good yard over the line but the ref and linesman waved play on so the score remained at 0-0.
Then on 20 minutes I can only say that the strangest incident that
I have ever seen at football took place. The dons had a corner and
normally Andy Sullivan would take it but Kevin Cooper played a quick
short corner to Lee Sidwell who chipped it into the box as it came
over the defender caught the ball, the referee blew his whistle at
this point I thought that one of there players had kicked the ball
way from the corner to time waste and the referee was going to book
the player but to the shock of everyone he pointed to the spot. Kevin
Cooper stepped up for the penalty and hit low to the keepers left
but the keeper saved it to be honest I think most people thought this
was a fair result.
The Dons had a number of chances but just couldn't convert them but the team were playing well. We took the lead on 37 minutes when Kevin Cooper made up for his penalty miss and scored his 5th league goal of the season. So we went in at half time 1-0 up and all was looking good.In the first half the Dons has attacked the covered end so most people changed round at half time so they could be at the end the Dons goals would go in but I stayed at the covered end and got a good chance to watch Glyn Shimmel in action and as early as the second half he was called into action and made a big save to keep up 1-0 up.
10 minutes into the half we went 2-0 up when Neil Robson put us 2-0
up. Although we had been 2-0 up at Ash we were looking really good
here but the best was still to come. After 20 minutes of the second
half Sim Johnston picked up the ball in his own half and ran towards
the half way line he then continued then from a good 35 yards he smacked
the ball we thought never mind but all of a sudden it was like the
ball was being radio controlled it then looked like it was just going
wide but then dipped over the keeper and smashed into the back of
the net. The place exploded with the whole of the AFC bench on the
pitch. We were now 3-0 up and the points were in the bag. This now
meant that Tony readings could come on for his first appearance since
the Sandhurst game, he had a huge bandage on his head but it was nice
for him to have a run out.
Hartley Wintney managed to get a consolation when a good leaping header
beat Glyn to make it 3-1. During the second half Hartley Wintney had
a player taken off injured on the stretcher, at first it was feared
that he had a broken ankle but it now appears that he has damaged
ankle ligaments hope he is OK and back soon.
So full time and another three points before the "Game" Match report
signs off can I just say a big thanks to the Wolves Fans and Clydebank
fan as well as the two guys over from Hungry to see AFC Wimbledon
play.
So 5pm comes and off to the bar we go for a few drinks and Karaoke
had been set up it all started a bit slow but it all started going
when Kris Stewart chairman of AFC Wimbledon did his classic Meatloaf
"Bat Of Hell" in the bar were the whole of the Hartley Wintney squad
and management and all they could do was turn to people and say "That's
your chairman isn't it" next up was Kevin Cooper and the players who
were selected for "Coops Up side your head" that had about 10 of us
on the floor doing the movements. Before the evening closed Kris was
about to do "True" but the challenged was laid down and Kris wasn't
allowed to sign before the chairman of Hartley Wintney did a turn
and oh how he did one. They seemed to enjoy it as much as us, and
I think a challenge has been laid down for when we go down to Hartley.
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01/09/2002
Saturday Results - Raynes Park Vale went down 4-3 at the weekend to lose there 100% record. A lot of teams were involved in the FA Cup and therefore only 5 Combined Counties Games. Two result of not Southall scored 6 in the FA Cup and Reading Town went down 1-0 and therefore our game against them on 14th September will go ahead.
Saturday 31st August
F.A. Cup - Preliminary Round
Bedfont 3-1 Whitehawk
Brentwood 2-2 AFC Wallingford
Camberley Town 0-1 Cove
Eastbourne United 0-3 Cobham
Godalming & G 3-0 Whitchurch United
Hillingdon Borough 2-2 Chessington & Hook
Merstham 3-4 St Leonards
Sandhurst Town 2-6 Herne Bay
Selsey 3-0 Ash United
Stowmarket Town 1-6 Southall
Westfield 1-2 Dorking
Whitstable Town 1-2 Chipstead
Whyteleafe 1-0 Reading Town
Premier Division
AFC Wimbledon 3-1 Hartley Wintney
Frimley Green 1-0 Feltham
North Greenford Utd 2-0 Chessington United
Viking Greenford 1-3 Farnham Town
Withdean 2000 4-3 Raynes Park Vale
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01/09/2002
August News Moved - Due to the amount of news last month and
the time it was taking to load I have now moved it to the archive
section if you wish to read the news please click on "Archives News"
section on the left. |
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01/09/2002
New Addition To The AFC Family - Big congratulations to Lee
Sidwell and His good lady who last night became the proud parents
of a baby girl. Don't know any other details as of yet.
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01/09/2002
Coach Travel To Withdean - AFC Wimbledon will once again be running official travel to next Saturday's game against Withdean 2000 that is being played at Worthing. The details are as follows: -
12.00 Departure from Wimbledon Theatre
14.00 Arrival at ground
17.00 departure directly after end of game
£10.00 for Adults £5.00 for concessions
Contact afcwimbledon02@aol.com text or phone 07950-763566 |
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01/09/2002
Hartley Wintney Man Of The Match Vote - The vote for the Hartley Wintney Game is now open and you can vote by clicking below.
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