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31/01/2003
Comment From Tony & Academy News - Tony Readings has spoken
to the Official Site about him leaving the club and it's a must read
for all Dons Fans, you can read what he had to say by clicking here but as I said yesterday I wish Tony all the best for the future.
Tomorrow mornings academy session has been canceled due to the weather
conditions it will be back next week before the Westfield game.
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31/01/2003
Netherne Cup Game - The cup match between Carshalton Athletic
and Netherne Village has now been rescheduled for Wednesday 5th February
2003 with a 7:45 kick off lets hope it can go ahead this time.
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31/01/2003
More New Players - Two new players have joined the club and
gone straight into the squad for Saturday's derby against Raynes Park
Vale. One is a Midfielder while the other is a striker. More information
on them can be found over on the official
site.As you would expect with the current weather the game will have a pitch inspection in the morning. If I here anything I will of course put details on here. |
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30/01/2003
Tony Departs - Tony Readings who was skipper for our first
league game earlier this year has left the club to take up the offer
of professional contract in New Zealand. Tony apparently flies out
on Sunday so it would be nice if he was at the game on Saturday so
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29/01/2003
End Of The Road In London Senior Cup - Things just don't seem
to be going right at the moment. I wasn't at the game as not well
but listening to the web commentary it sounded like another frustrating
game where we dominated most of the play but failed to get the victory.
A 3-0 defeat is how it ended although 2 of the goals came late on in the game with the last in the 8th minute of injury time. Based on the commentary we had loads of corners in the first half. Kevin Cooper had a couple of chances but didn't seem to be able to convert them.
As time went on it became more likely that we weren't going to score
and Barkingside took the lead on 48 minutes. It was hoped that this
would be the kick start that we needed but it didn't appear to be.
Barkingside went 2-0 up when they scored direct from a free kick with
8 minutes left. Barkingsides 3rd goal came when Glyn Shimmel bought
down an attacker and a penalty was awarded.
At the weekend we have the big derby against Raynes Park Vale and
we need a big performance to get a result after the last two disappointing
performances.
The Man Of The Match vote is now open so please click below to vote.
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29/01/2003
Hartley Wintney Man Of The Match Result - The result of Saturday's Man Of The Match vote is as follows: -
Neil Robson 10 Votes
33.33%
Keith Ward 4 Votes
13.33%
Andy Sullivan 4 Votes
13.33%
Gavin Bolger 4 Votes
13.33%
Lee Passmore 3 Votes
10.00%
Kevin_Cooper 2 Votes
6.67%
Noel Frankum 2 Votes
6.67%
Danny Oakins 1 Vote
3.33%
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29/01/2003
Last Nights Results - Withdean once again won last night to close the gap and still have loads of games in hand.Tuesday 28th January
Premier Division
Bedfont 1-3 Withdean 2000
Frimley Green 1-2 Southall
I am not at the game tonight as once again I am not very well but
will be doing updates etc. via the web commentary.
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29/01/2003
Wednesday Matchday Service - London Senior Cup action tonight
against Barkingside and both the audio commentary and the text updates
will be in operation. The audio commentary can be found by clicking
here while the
text updates can be found here.
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29/01/2003
Hartley Man Of The Match Vote - Just a reminder that the Man
Of The Match Vote from Saturday's game is still open. If you haven't
voted please do so by clicking below: -
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28/01/2003
AFC Wallingford Withdraw Promotion Application? - A couple
of rumors on the Internet regarding AFC Wallingford's application
to join the Rymans league one is that they wont be able to get the
ground work complete and therefore they will need to get a 3 year
ground share in place. The other rumors is that they have withdrawn
their application to be considered for promotion at the end of this
season. What this means in terms of the Rymans promotion we don't
know at present but the meeting on Thursday regarding planned re-organisation
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27/01/2003
Tuesday Night Action - A couple of games on Tuesday night including Withdean in league action to try and close the gap of number of games they are behind us. The full list of games are as follows: -
Tuesday 28th January
Premier Division
Bedfont v Withdean 2000
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27/01/2003
Action This Week - Two big games this week on Wednesday we take on Barkingside in the London Senior Cup at Kingsmeadow in a 7:45 kick off and then on Saturday we have the Merton Derby when we take on Raynes Park Vale also at Kingsmeadow it would be nice to have big crowds at both of these games. |
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27/01/2003
Photo's from Hartley - The photo's from Saturday's game at
Hartley Wintney can be viewed by clicking here.
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26/01/2003
Another Fine Mess - Hartley - Over the past few weeks we seem to have used up all our "Get Out Of Jail Cards" games where we have gone behind but managed to come back for atleast a point if not all three, but yesterday we got caught out.Lee Sidwell missed his first game and was gutted about it and as mentioned Glyn was absent as well. Once again around 1,300 AFC fans made the trip down to the lovely village of Hartley Wintney but the atmosphere was flat this made up for the slope in the pitch.
Neither team seemed to have any clear chances in the first half hour
but Hatley took the lead when a poor back pass failed to reach Ray
Merry in goal he came out of his box but lost the 50/50 challenge
to the attacker who put the ball into an empty net. Ray was still
down injured and it looked for a couple of minutes if Danny Oakins
may have to replace him in goal, but he was OK to continue.
As the whistle blew for half time the players traipsed off to the
dressing room. Shortly afterwards a number of the players came back
onto the pitch and I thought that half time went quick, it was then
clear that Terry Eames wasn't happy with them and similar to the lines
of the famous Dave Bassett comment at Oxford United a number of years
ago when he told the players after a poor first half "You have been
sunbathing first half why not have an extra 15 minutes out there"
and kicked them out the dressing room.
At the start of the second half a number of changes were made Neil Robson and Gavin Boulger came on for Noel Frankum and Mark Nicholas. Right from the off we were more attacking than we had been in the first half and had a number of chances but the Hartley keeper was having a very good game.
The second goal came about when we had a free kick that Robson took
and smacked against the bar but Hartley broke away and managed to
score so 2-0 down and that was game over. We had a few more chances
namely from Ward and Robson but couldn't get the goal that may have
turned it round. Late on Ben Garner made his AFC Debut but on the
whole it was a disappointing performance.The Man Of The Match Vote is open so please click below to vote.
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26/01/2003
Best Wishes Ray Harford - Just been reading Paul McCarthy's page in the Sunday People and the News that ex Wimbledon Manager Ray Harford is suffering from Lung Cancer. Can I wish Ray all the best he's one of the nice guys in football and hope he's back fighting fit very soon. |
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26/01/2003
Surrey Advertiser Godalming Report - The Godalming version
of the Surrey Advertiser had a nice report on our game from the other
week and thanks to Terry you can see it here.
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26/01/2003
Goalkeeping Situation On Saturday - There was a lot of talk
yesterday both at the game and after it about Glyn Shimmel not being
in the team. Apparently on Friday night Glyn's wife was taken ill
and Ray Merry was bought in, Ray had been suffering with a chest complaint
and if he had been an outfield player he would of been unlikely to
play. This may have explained why he didn't come as far out of his
goal for the back pass that led to the first goal. Hopefully Glyn
will be back for Wednesday's game and his Wife is OK.
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25/01/2003
Bad Day At The Office - Full report tomorrow (Sunday) but for
now we lost 2-0 and this could well go as our poorest display of the
season. Glynn Shimmel was unavailable so Ray Merry was called in but
following a weak back pass on the half hour mark allowed a Hartley
attacker to score. The second Hartley goal came about in the second
half following a Dons free kick that hit the crossbar and allowed
them to break and score at the other end.
The Man Of The Match Vote is now open and please click below to vote.
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25/01/2003
Saturday Results - So Wallingford and Withdean continue to win while we dropped points. The full results are as follows: -
Saturday 25th January
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford 2-0 Feltham
Bedfont 6-1 Cove
Chessington & Hook 5-1 Viking Greenford
Cobham 2-0 Reading Town
Farnham Town 1-4 Chessington United
Frimley Green 0-1 Withdean 2000
Godalming & G 0-2 North Greenford Utd
Hartley Wintney 2-0 AFC Wimbledon
Merstham 0-4 Ash United
Southall 1-3 Raynes Park Vale
Walton Casuals 1-0 Chipstead
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25/01/2003
Saturday Matchday Service - Anyone who was at the Hartley Wintney
game at Kingsmeadow will remember one of the strangest events in football
when we were awarded a corner, it was taken quickly and Andy Wells
a Hartley player but not the keeper caught the ball, the ref gave
a penalty but Cooper missed it. Unfortunately Andy wont be playing
today as he is serving a 56 day ban after have a disagreement with
a referee who he used to work with.
The text updates will be available by clicking here.
In the league today there is a grudge game from Last season when AFC
"We haven't lost all season but don't like to talk about it" Wallingford
play Feltham "We beat AFC Wallingford Twice last season but don't
like to talk about it" FC the full list is as follows: -
Saturday 25th January
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford v Feltham
Bedfont v Cove
Chessington & Hook v Viking Greenford
Cobham v Reading Town
Farnham Town v Chessington United
Frimley Green v Withdean 2000
Godalming & G v North Greenford Utd
Hartley Wintney v AFC Wimbledon
Merstham v Ash United
Southall v Raynes Park Vale
Walton Casuals v Chipstead
Westfield v Sandhurst Town
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25/01/2003
Frenford Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Frenford Senior Man Of The Match vote is as follows: -
Andrew Petty 22 Votes
78.57%
Danny Oakins 2 Votes
7.14%
Andy Sullivan 2 Votes
7.14%
Noel Frankum 1 Vote
3.57%
Stuart May 1 Vote
3.57%
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24/01/2003
Team News For Saturday - The Official Site has the team news
for Saturday's game and another new name is added to the squad. For
more information and an update on the injuries click here.
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24/01/2003
Andy Bell Leaves - Another player who started the season in
the team has departed this time keeper Andy "Ding Dong" Bell. He broke
the news in the guestbook of Weird
and Wonderful World and had the following to say first about AFC Wimbledon but then about a discussion on Joe Sherrin: -
I've just had the news that I've been released. To say I'm gutted
would be an understatement! I don't feel that I've shown what I can
really do, so I'm going to go away, get fit and get some consistency
in my game, then hopefully when I'm back in form Terry will give me
a chance to prove him wrong in a positive way. Thank you to all who
I've known personally during my time at the club, and to the rest
of the supporters you are going to carry the team a very long way.
Relating to the guestbook that I've just been reading and the comments
on Joe, speaking from an 'insider's' point of view and a fellow player,
Joe would always be the first name on the team sheet in whatever position
you want to put him. He hasn't just got the obvious quality in his
first touch, but also the heart, effort and workrate are different
class. Good luck for the future, and hopefully I'll be back showing
what I can do rather than what I've produced in games this season.
If anyone wants to keep in touch my e-mail is andybellend@hotmail.com
Andy Bell
cyberspace - Thu Jan 23 13:45:52 2003Can I just say on here a big thanks to Andy for his time at AFC and wish him all the best of luck. It will always be nice to see Andy at games as he has been a big part of AFC Wimbledon. |
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24/01/2003
Travel & Ticket News To Hartley Wintney - Although the game
is all ticket you can buy tickets for Season Ticket Holders, Dons
Trust Members and a guest ticket at the game. Please see the not on
the official site regarding this. You can see the full statement by
clicking here.
Regarding travel you can either get a train with one train an hour
at 1 minute past to Clapham Junction and then pick up the 17 minutes
past from there to Winchfield (which is the nearest station.) Or you
can travel by road. Road directions are on the Hartley
Wintney site. They are also running a bus service from the station
to the ground for £2.00 the station is a good 2 mile away so it is
better to get the bus.
At the ground they are putting on beer tents as well as having the live games on there big screen so if you are not in a rush after the game have a few beers in there club house and put some well deserved money there way. |
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23/01/2003
Frenford Match Report and Man Of The Match Vote - Sorry for the late match report but it's here at last.
This was a strange game as the kick off was about 25 minutes late
for what looked like the fact the ref and linesmen turned up late.
Round about 500 fans made the trip to Ilford and a fair number of
us ended up watching the game from the warmth and comfort of the new
Club bar. AFC Wimbledon attacked the sandpit end of the ground in
the first half and we took the lead just before the half hour mark
when Andrew Petty tried to lob the reserve keeper who had come on
for the starting one who had picked up an injury but he could only
slow the ball down and it nestled into the back of the net.
Ten minutes later we were 2-0 up and the game was over when Petty scored again. Our 3rd goal was scored by Danny Oakins who came on as sub when we lost a number of players early on due to injuries. Steve Lawson and Lee Sidwell had both come off but Danny Oakins scored from close range.
It was just a case of playing out the game but unfortunately for about
the last 15 minutes we had to play with 10 men when Ally Russell went
off injured and all the substitutes had been used.
This now means that we are in the Quarter Finals and will face Waltham Abbey in the next round. The Man Of The Match vote is now open and will be until early Saturday morning so please vote as soon as possible, by clicking below: -
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23/01/2003
Godalming & Guildford Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Man Of The Match vote is as follows: -
Kevin_Cooper 47 Votes
43.12%
Noel Frankum 41 Votes
37.61%
Neil Robson 7 Votes
6.42%
Lee Sidwell 4 Votes
3.67%
Steve Lawson 4 Votes
3.67%
Tony Readings 1 Vote
0.92%
Lee Passmore 1 Vote
0.92%
Glyn Shimmel 1 Vote
0.92%
Alistair Russell 1 Vote
0.92%
Gavin Bolger 1 Vote
0.92%
Sean Daly 1 Vote
0.92%
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22/01/2003
Westfield Venue Change - The Westfield site is reporting that
the game on 12th April 2003 will now be played at Woking Football
Club. More information on this nearer the time. |
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22/01/2003
Midweek Match Service - Frenford are confident that the game
at Ilford tonight will take place, if so I will be providing updates
via the following link.
Don't forget that tickets will also be on sale tonight for the trip
to Hartley Wintney at the weekend.
Both last nights league games were called off, while Withdean lost
3-1 away at Diss Town in the Vase, reports from the ground suggest
that a Withdean player may have broken his leg lets hope he is OK.
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21/01/2003
Tonight's Game - There are two games that are due to be played
tonight in the league, and they are: -
Premier Division
Bedfont v Raynes Park Vale
North Greenford Utd v Sandhurst Town
They are subject to the weather another game involving a CCL team
is the FA Vase replay of Diss Town Vs Withdean 2000 following there
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21/01/2003
Frenford Senior Directions - For people going to Wednesday
nights game you need to get the train from Liverpool Street to one
stop past Ilford to the station called Seven Kings, this should still
be in the travelcard zone so we should be OK.
As you come out f the station you need to head right towards the swimming
pool which is about 500 yards from the station and the ground is next
to it. A map cam be found by clicking here.
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21/01/2003
Netherne Village In Action - Tonight Netherne Village also known as our reserve team should be in action down at Carshalton Athletic kick off is 7:45 and hope to see a few of you down there if the weather holds off. |
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20/01/2003
Hartley Wintney Ticket Information - If you have been following the guestbook today you will have seen that there has been some confusion over the Ticket situation for Saturday's game at Hartley Wintney.On the official site is the full details but the game has sort of been made all ticket but tickets will be on sale on the day to Season Ticket Holders and Dons Trust members. They will also be on sale at the Frenford game on Wednesday night.
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20/01/2003
Godalming & Guildford Photo's - The photo's from Saturday's
game can be viewed by clicking here.
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20/01/2003
Tooting & Mitcham Questions - Last week before the meeting
on Saturday I put together a questions and answers regarding the ground
situation, following Saturday's meeting some of these may well have
been answered but if you want to have a read of it you can do by clicking
here
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20/01/2003
Happy Birthday Danny O - Just like to wish Danny Oakins a happy
23rd Birthday for today. When asked on Saturday if he would be out
on the town Monday night he said "No got to go to training" It's a
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19/01/2003
Godalming & Guildford Match Report - After the game earlier
in the season between the two clubs turned a bit heated the ref was
given to young Stephen Cook to be in charge of. Before today Stephen
had refereed two of our games and both times everyone had come away
with how impressed they had been. Godalming came into this game on
a run of winning their previous 9 matches and moved up to 4th in the
table so this would be a test for us.
A number of changes were needed due to both Andy Sullivan and Danny Oakins both out suspended due to passing the five bookings mark. In defence new boy Steve Lawson came in and he was made captain. On the bench we had two new boys in Noel Frankum, Robbie Burns as well as Andrew Petty this meant no defensive options and would come to cause a problem later on.
We attacked the academy end in the first half and once again the opposition
were the first to score when they finished from close range. It wasn't
long before we were level when Kevin Cooper fired one home. Just before
Kevin scored Sean Daly at right back had pulled up and was in the
process of being replaced with his hamstring injury when we scored.
With no defenders on the bench it needed a bit of a change around
Noel Frankum came on and Neil Robson moved to the unusual position
for us of right back, talking to Neil after the game he said that
it wasn't a problem as he has played at Right back for 12 years before.Next on the injury list was Lee Passmore who was involved in a clash of heads and while he left the pitch you could clearly see the blood all over his face, he was off the pitch for a while but returned after needing 1 stitch. With just moments before half time we took the lead when Kevin Cooper got his second of the game and smacked it home from the edge of the box. Godalming kicked off and young Stephen Cook blew for Half time.
At half time there was a lovely moment when the wife of Kevin Sandiford
who died at the end of the year placed a Wreath with Joe Sheerin in
the center circle the whole ground fell silent as a mark of respect
before bursting into a huge round of applause even the young academy
lads stopped to observe the silence.
In the second half we continued to dominate but didn't really convert any chances. In the crowd for the game was John Scales from the 1988 Cup final team and he appeared to enjoy the game.
With 10 minutes left Stephen Cook had to make one of his few decisions
of the game when the Godalming Sub was involved in an elbow incident
and he sent the player straight off. The only other incident he had
to deal with was when he awarded an indirect freekick inside the area
for obstruction to us in the first half.
In the closing minutes Godalming had a few corners but we held firm and won another game.
If you haven't voted for the man of the match please do so by clicking
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19/01/2003
AFC Wimbledon Meeting - So yesterday the AFC Wimbledon board
of directors met the fans on a formal question and answer basis and
the general opinion on it was that it was very good. By 11:30 there
were a number of people outside Kingsmeadow and by 12:00 the back
bar was packed with approximately 500 people in attendance.
Kris Stewart started the proceedings off and via the use of a Powerpoint
presentation outlined the options that the club had regarding where
we play next year. Kris explained that there were a number of important
dates regarding applications for Rymans, Planning permission for Tooting
& Mitcham and dates when we had to give notice to leave Kingsmeadow.
Whatever happens unless Brentford move to Kingsmeadow we would have
to pay some sort of "early release penalty" but for confidential reason
Kris couldn't say how much this was. Kris also confirmed that despite
stories on non AFC Website all our home games are guaranteed at Kingsmeadow.
Kris also confirmed that next years rent hasn't been agreed at Kingsmeadow
although a 3 year deal the rent for the first year was only set. Kris
then answered lots of questions from the floor about Tooting & Mitcham,
Kingsmeadow. Next up was finance director Erik Samuelson and he showed
a number of slides that showed how well the club was doing based on
crowds our average attendance is something like 89th in the country
and that includes conference clubs. Two figures that were of interest
was one of player wages/expenses of £30,000 and stewarding of £16,000
the situation of player expenses was explained that the term expenses
that has been used is used by most clubs at this level and depending
if they are above a certain level is if they have to pay tax on them.
The figure of £16,000 for stewards was based on the Kingstonian stewards
that we use and as they have the safety certificate for the ground
we have to use them.
Season ticket sales for the year are just short of 1,500 which no one can argue is incredible. Erik also raised the subject of next years season tickets which they confirmed the hoped would be no more than this season and would also talk to the fans about if they were prepared to make another optional donation like last season the advantage of this is that it is Tax and VAT free.Next up was Ivor and he talked about the club from the Commercial side he said that things were going brilliantly. SI Games our shirt sponsors are over the moon, and as you are well aware we have had world wide media coverage. Ivor added that we have the best programme in Non League Football and Radio Wimbledon goes from strength to strength. The clubs information SMS service has just short of 2,000 subscribers. Ivor said that although the White shirt would be out in February next season no new shirt would come out.
The last person to speak from the board was Lou Carlton-Kelly who
is operations director and involved in the day to day running of the
club. She thanked all the volunteer's who worked on a matchday from
Merchandise sellers to turnstile operators and Programme Sellers and
Golden Goals sellers. She said that the police are pleased with how
things are going and next season we are looking at both a family area
and also numbered seats for the main stand for season ticket holders.
I thought the meeting was very good and very professional and answered a lot of questions that people had. Kris confirmed that there would be atleast one more this season as well as a Dons Trust SGM to discuss next season. |
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18/01/2003
Man Of The Match Vote For Godalming & Guildford Match - After once again going behind to an early goal we came back to win thanks to two goals from Kevin Cooper. A Couple of new players also made there debuts today and you can vote for the Man Of The Match by clicking below: - |
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18/01/2003
Saturday's Results- The results today are as follows: -
Saturday 18th January
F.A. Vase - 4th Round
Withdean 2000 2-2 (AET) Diss Town
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford 2-0 Southall
AFC Wimbledon 2-1 Godalming & G
Ash United 1-2 Bedfont
Chessington United 1-2 Walton Casuals
Chipstead 5-2 Frimley Green
Cove 0-2 Merstham
Feltham 0-2 Hartley Wintney
North Greenford Utd 5-0 Cobham
Raynes Park Vale 2-1 Reading Town
Sandhurst Town 1-0 Chessington & Hook
Viking Greenford 0-1 WestfieldThe revised league table is also up.
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18/01/2003
Saturday Matchday Service - Today we take on Godalming & Guildford which earlier in the season produced a very heated meeting. Once again today Withdean are not in action as they have a FA Vase game.
As usual the text updates and audio commentary will be in action Text
updates can be seen here
and the audio commentary can be listened to by clicking here.
The full list of games for today are as follows: -
Saturday 18th January
F.A. Vase - 4th Round
Withdean 2000 v Diss Town
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford v Southall
AFC Wimbledon v Godalming & G
Ash United v Bedfont
Chessington United v Walton Casuals
Chipstead v Frimley Green
Cove v Merstham
Feltham v Hartley Wintney
North Greenford Utd v Cobham
Raynes Park Vale v Reading Town
Sandhurst Town v Chessington & Hook
Viking Greenford v Westfield
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18/01/2003
AFCW Meeting - Just a reminder of the AFC Wimbledon meeting take place from 12:00 to 2:00 in the back bar at Kingstonian's today. It will be a chance to ask questions to the board about this season and the future. A large crowd is expected and they have asked people to be considerate in terms of who needs seating and who doesn't for the meeting. |
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17/01/2003
Danny Roberts Departs - As you may have read Danny Roberts
has been released, after the news broke Danny posted a message on
Weird
& Wonderful World and in case you haven't seen it he said the
following: -
I'd just like to say thanks to all of those people that made me feel very welcome at the
club. I have made some very good friends & will continue to support & watch AFC
play, when I can! During my short stay with the club I have experienced some great
times (if brief) which I am positive will not be matched. I take some good memories
with me, Kingstonian & Sandhurst away immediately spring to mind as well as a great
night standing on the tables & chairs in the Blue Hawaii singing endless AFC songs
with Trevor & a number of the other players! I don't feel I have done myself justice at
the club, injuries, illness, suspension & loss of form really didn't help my cause. I hope
to play for Netherne for a couple of games whilst I decide where to play next, so I'm
sure I'll see a few of you in the bar! Thanks Again.
Danny Roberts
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16/01/2003
Behind Closed Doors - On Wednesday night AFC Wimbledon played
a game against Haywards Heath in which we won 3-0 thanks to goals
from Russell, Cooper and Petty. You might be thinking why wasn't this
game mentioned anywhere? Well the simple reason was that it was mentioned
briefly on a site but the club wanted it used as a training game to
try out a couple of players.
I was aware of the game and considered going but was asked to keep the news off the site. So if anyone feels let down about not being informed about the game this was the reason why, and we get a chance to see the players in action on Saturday. |
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16/01/2003
Official Site Update - The official site has a number of updates
including dates for cup games (one next week) and a couple of new
players in and one player out. You can have a look by clicking here
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16/01/2003
Games Round Up - This week only one of the league games went ahead when Frimley Green beat Cove 3-2. Tonight in the London Senior Cup Tooting & Mitcham beat Corinthian Casuals 2-0 in the 2nd round and therefore we could still meet in the semi final. |
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15/01/2003
New Date For Netherne Game - The Cup game between Carshalton
Athletic Vs Netherne Village game has been rearranged for Tuesday
21st January 2003. |
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14/01/2003
Tuesday Night Games - Two games should take place in the league tonight they are : -
Tuesday 14th January
Premier Division
Chessington & Hook v Ash United
Frimley Green v Cove |
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14/01/2003
Rearranged Game and New Venue - The official Site has details
of the rearranged date for the Cobham game as well as a new venue
for the Chessington United game. Both sets of information can be found
by clicking here
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14/01/2003
Statement From The Dons Trust - Following on from Sunday's
Open day the Dons Trust have released a statement about future plans.
The full statement can be read over at the Dons Trust Site by clicking
here.
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13/01/2003
Saturday's Meeting - As you may be aware this Saturday will see the opportunity for a question and answer session with the directors of AFC Wimbledon. The venue will be the back bar at Kingstonians and it will be from 12:00 to 2:00. Following on from Sunday's open day at Tooting & Mitcham it could be an interesting meeting and I would recommend that people get there early to hear what is said. |
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13/01/2003
Photos From Tooting & Mitcham - The photo's that I and Chris
Carroll took on Sunday can now be viewed by clicking here.
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12/01/2003
Tooting & Mitcham Report Part One - Right one thing for sure
today will definitely open up a big debate about what direction AFC
Wimbledon are taking. I took a number of pictures today and will do
a detailed account of the day later so for the time being this is
a brief report.
On a cold crisp morning a good turn out of mainly AFC fans made the trip to Imperial Fields to have a look at what could be our new "Home" from next season. The obvious thing to notice was that although it's a lovely ground for most teams at our level and even a division above if we were to go there a lot of work would need to be done.The things that would need to be done in my opinion include: - 1,000 extra seats and extended roof in the main stand. Extended roof and possible filling in of back of both Terraces. New bar area for AFC fans use. Club offices, Shop Area for sponsors for pre/post match entertaining.A number of the points that were being made today with the main one being would the proposed "initial" 3 year deal lead into something more permanent? If you have any views on this post them on the guestbook. |
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12/01/2003
Tooting & Mitcham Open Day - The open day at Tooting & Mitcham's
ground takes place today from 11:00 to 13:00. This will be a chance
for us to have a look round and talk to both officials of AFC Wimbledon
and Tooting & Mitcham about the proposed ground share for next season.
Details of how to get to the ground can be found over on the Tooting
& Mitcham Site by clicking here.
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11/01/2003
Saturday's Results - Only two games survived the weather today and they saw Chessington & Hook beat Frimley Green 2-1 while Cove managed a point at Walton with a 1-1 draw. The word from Walton was that Walton scored late on a almost frozen pitch. I have updated the league table. |
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11/01/2003
A Couple Of Newspaper Clips - Two bit's in the paper today
first of all Jim White in the Guardian has written a very lengthy
article which can be read here. The second bit is a letter to the Independent by Dickie Guy who was featured last week in a section called "Where Are They Now?" Dickie's letter is as follows: -Sir: I am writing regarding your "Where are they now?" item on
4th January about my days as Wimbledon goalkeeper. The article
was accurate until the close, when you stated that I still go
to Selhurst Park and support Wimbledon FC.
This could not be further from the truth. My allegiance is now
with AFC Wimbledon. I would not be seen dead supporting my old
club, though these are words I never thought I would say about
Wimbledon FC, for whom I played more than 500 games over 11
seasons.
I still have great respect for Wimbledon FC's players and
coaching staff for what they are achieving under difficult
circumstances. I have even more respect, though, for the likes
of Kris Stewart, Ivor Hellor and everybody else at AFC
Wimbledon. Starting with nothing, not even a team or manager,
they formed their own club, appointed my old team-mate Terry
Eames as manager, built a squad after holding trials on
Wimbledon Common and are in second place in the Combined
Counties League. So good luck to AFC Wimbledon - and please
don't say I still support Wimbledon FC.
Dickie Guy
by email
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11/01/2003
Saturday's Games - Although our game has been called off today there is the possibility of other games in the division going ahead so the fixture list is as follows: -
Saturday 11th January
Premier Division
Bedfont v Withdean 2000
Chessington & Hook v Frimley Green
Chipstead v North Greenford Utd
Farnham Town v Viking Greenford
Godalming & G v Chessington United
Hartley Wintney v Westfield
Merstham v AFC Wallingford
Reading Town v Ash United
Sandhurst Town v Raynes Park Vale
Southall v Feltham
Walton Casuals v Cove
The Netherne game has a 11 O'clock pitch inspection and I will post
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10/01/2003
Cobham Game Off But A Trip To Watch Netherne On - As expected
Saturdays game at Cobham has been called off, but it looks like we
can see some AFC Players in action as Netherne Village are away at
Bookham and the word is that the game is ON. Trains depart from Wimbledon
at 28 & 58 minutes past the hour and the journey takes 30 minutes.
As the game kicks off at 14:00 I would recommend the 12:28 as being
the last train to get you there in time. The station is just under
2 miles from the ground and although it's a straight road (church
road) that leads to the ground. On the following map the station is
the back spot at the top and the ground is near the "H" in Bookham
and can be found here.If once you get to the station you want to get a cab there are two local cab firms - Jetstream Car Hire 01372 457483 or Bookham Dorking Leatherhead Cars on 01372 451351 this one looks nearer the station.
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10/01/2003
Tooting & Mitcham On Sunday - Just a reminder that the Open Day takes place at Tooting & Mitcham on Sunday 11:00 to 13:00 I will be over there to take my first look around the ground. |
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10/01/2003
Official Site Updates - The Official Site has a number of updates
tonight including details of a new player and also about changes to
the backroom staff. The official Site can of course be found by clicking
here.
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09/01/2003
Cobham Details - No news on the game being off at the moment but the plan earlier in the week was for the snow to be cleared off the pitch on Friday morning and hopefully the pitch should be OK for Saturday.The train takes 20 minutes from Wimbledon to Cobham and Stoke d'Abernon which is the local station and trains depart Wimbledon at 25 and 55 minutes past the hour.
The station is about 2 miles from the ground so it may be a cab job
or a pleasant stroll with a pub stop off. You can see the route you
need to do by clicking on these three maps (down station road turn
left and follow the main road, the big red one). First part from Station
can be seen here
The middle part here
and then the rest of the route to the ground can be seen here.
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09/01/2003
Southall Man Of The Match Result - The result from Saturday's Man Of The Match vote is as follows: -
Kevin_Cooper 25 Votes 33.78%
Alistair Russell 11 Votes 14.86%
Gavin Bolger 11 Votes 14.86%
Lee Passmore 10 Votes 13.51%
Andrew Petty 6 Votes 8.11%
Tony Readings 3 Votes 4.05%
Sean Daly 3 Votes 4.05%
Joe Sheerin 2 Votes 2.70%
Danny Oakins 1 Vote 1.35%
Andy Sullivan 1 Vote 1.35%
Simon Bassey 1 Vote 1.35%
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08/01/2003
Confirmation Of Game Being Off - As expected tonight's London Senior Cup game against Barkingside has been called off due to a frozen pitch. No new date is known as of yet. |
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08/01/2003
Wednesday Matchday Service - On the unlikely chance of tonight's
game against Barkingside going ahead I am putting up the details of
the webcast and text service. Last night all games in the league were
called off so no results. The audio service can be listened to by
clicking here and
the text updates can be viewed here.
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07/01/2003
A Number Of Games Off - Tonight's game at Carshalton Vs Netherne
as well as Withdean Vs Chessington United and Southall Vs Walton have
all been called off tonight, and I would imagine that the other games
could go as well.
As you can imagine our game on Wednesday night has got to be in doubt and as soon as I know I will post on here. |
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07/01/2003
Proposed Tuesday Night Games - A number of games are planned for Tuesday night but are of course subject to the weather anyway the league games that should be on are as follows: -
Tuesday 7th January
Premier Division
Chessington & Hook v Westfield
Chipstead v Bedfont
Sandhurst Town v Frimley Green
Southall v Walton Casuals
Withdean 2000 v Chessington United |
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06/01/2003
Tuesday Night Reserve Action - On Tuesday night Nertherne Village
(our sort of reserve team) take on Carshalton Athletic reserves at
Carshalton's ground in the 3rd Round of the Surrey Premier Cup. Most
weeks Nertherne have about 7 players who are on our books on display
so it could be a good chance to see the likes of Dave Towse, Trigger,
Mehmet, Couchy and the others all have a run out. Directions can be
found over on the Carshalton site by clicking here.
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06/01/2003
Raynes Park Match Report - Yes I know the game didn't take
place but one of the best sites on the net Blind Stupid & Desperate
the Watford fanzine have done a write up of there trip to Kingsmeadow
on boxing day. It's well worth a read and can be found by clicking
here.
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06/01/2003
Suspensions Start - Today was the day that Joe's 35 day suspensions started that he picked up in the game against Wallingford. Also out for the next 7 days is Danny Oakins so he will miss the Barkingside and Cobham matches. Danny is also due to pick up another ban in a couple of weeks I understand so he will be missing comes back and then goes missing again all in a short space of time. |
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05/01/2003
Plans For This Week - After missing out on yesterday's game
I hope to make up for it this week with getting in a number of games.
This of course is subject to the Weather being OK and also me feeling
better, but the plan for the week is as follows: -
Tuesday 7th January 2003 - Surrey Senior Premier Cup - Carshalton Athletic
Vs Netherne Village 19:30
Wednesday 8th January 2003 - London Senior Cup - AFC Wimbledon Vs Barkingside 19:45
Thursday 9th January 2003 - London Senior Cup - Tooting & Mitcham
Vs Corinthian Casuals 19:30
Then next Sunday 12th January from 11:00 to 13:00 Tooting & Mitcham will be holding there open day so that people can have a look and ask questions about the proposed move to Imperial Fields next season.
So that's my plans for the week I imagine I might see one or two of
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04/01/2003
Saturdays Results - As expected only 4 games survived the weather today and the results were as follows: -
AFC Wallingford 3-0 Farnham
AFC Wimbledon 2-2 Southall
Chessington United 9-0 Cove
Merstham 1-2 CobhamThe league table has been updated. |
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04/01/2003
Southall Man Of The Match Vote - For the second week running we decided to let the other side have two goal lead but this week unlike last week we couldn't pull three goals back and only came away with a point. The goals were scored by a Kevin Cooper from a penalty with 12 minutes left and then with about 8 minutes left Lee Passmore leveled. The match official played 8 minutes injury time and the last five minutes we just attacked the goal but couldn't get the full three points.The Man Of The Match vote is now open and you can vote by clicking below. |
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04/01/2003
Saturday Matchday Service - Today's Matchday service will be
a bit different as unfortunately I wont be at the game due to me being
struck down by this horrible bug going round. Therefore I will still
be doing the text updates but this will be based on the audio commentary
that Radio Wimbledon produces. The Text Updates can be found here
with the audio service available here.
Elsewhere in the division I expect a number of games to be called off but the fixture list is due to be as follows: -
Saturday 4th January
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford v Farnham Town
AFC Wimbledon v Southall
Ash United v Feltham
Bedfont v Raynes Park Vale
Chessington United v Cove
Frimley Green v Viking Greenford
Hartley Wintney v Godalming & G
Merstham v Cobham
North Greenford Utd v Sandhurst Town
Reading Town v Chessington & Hook
Westfield v Chipstead
The Withdean Vs Walton game has already been called off.
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04/01/2003
Southall Game Should Go Ahead - AFC Wimbledon are confident
that the game today should go ahead today. The go-ahead has to be
given by the match ref and he wont be at the ground until 13:00 but
from what people have seen of the pitch it is fine.
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04/01/2003
Chipstead Man Of The Match Result - The result of the Chipstead Man Of The Match Vote is as follows: -
Lee Sidwell 24 Votes 35.82%
Joe Sheerin 16 Votes 23.88%
Keith Ward 9 Votes 13.43%
Danny Oakins 6 Votes 8.96%
Lee Passmore 3 Votes 4.48%
Gavin Bolger 3 Votes 4.48%
Andy Sullivan 2 Votes 2.99%
Andrew Petty 2 Votes 2.99%
Kevin_Cooper 1 Votes 1.49%
Mark Nicholas 1 Votes 1.49%
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03/01/2003
Still No Definite News On Saturday - Kingstonian officials
were busy working on the pitch today and our people will be over first
thing in the morning to try and get the game on. As soon as I here
anything I will post on here.
Couple of important things on the Official
Site about an open meeting next Saturday (18th January) and a
questionnaire that the Dons Trust are conducting on Saturday, please
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02/01/2003
Saturdays Game - As you can imagine the weather at the moment is making Saturday's game in doubt. As soon as I know any news on the game I will post it on here. On the Guestbook is a post that I made that Trevor Williams the club secretary made on W&WW if anyone can help tomorrow please contact Trevor.
Whatever happens the Merchandise team will be in action at Kingsmeadow
on Saturday so if you have any Christmas money left over or haven't
yet got your calendar you can pop along and purchase one.
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01/01/2003
Happy New Year - Well 2002 will certainly be a year that we
all remember the last 6 months have been incredible and to be honest
I don't think any of us a year ago could look forward and say in a
years time we will have our club playing in a league 6+ divisions
below where we were taking 1,000 fans to every away game and loving
every minute of it.
I was looking back through the itmustbedons.com news files and saw
a story from one year ago today. The story is called "more ground
rumors and can be found by clicking here as I said it makes interesting reading. Anyway lets hope for a brilliant 2003.
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