Match Of The Week 1 – AFC Wimbledon 1-0 Basingstoke Town
The clouds are leaden grey, and the rain is slight yet relentless. Half of the nations train timetables are running a Sunday service, and the other half aren’t running at...
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The Promotion Jitters
Burton Albion lost 2-1 at Ebbsfleet United in the Blue Square Premier on Wednesday night. There was, in itself, nothing extraordinary about this, but this defeat marks the third successive...
Match Of The Midweek: St Albans City 0-0 AFC Wimbledon
The stutter, then, is becoming a full-blown wobble. A couple of weeks ago, it looked as if the championship race in the Blue Square South was all but over, but...
Match Of The Week: Havant & Waterlooville 0-0 AFC Wimbledon
Quite a lot has changed since the last time we looked at the top of the Blue Square South on here. Two months ago, it looked as if Chelmsford City...
In Praise Of… “The Beautiful Game? Searching For The Soul Of Football”, by David Conn
In November 2001, I (as was my wont at the time) made the short journey from my flat in the centre of St Albans to Clarence Park to watch The...
Chasing The Argonauts
In the name of “progress”, we continue to be reminded about the dangers of frachising in football, and we continue to be right to stay vigilant against attempts to parachute...
Match Of The Week Part I: Bognor Regis Town 1-5 AFC Wimbledon
The story of Bognor Regis Town is largely the story of Jack Pearce. Pearce arrived at the club as a twenty-one year old in 1970 as a full-back, with the...
When The Lights Went Out
AFC Wimbledon supporters will already be aware of the occasionally intransigent ways of the Ryman League. A couple of seasons ago, when an administrative error meant that one of their...
Match Of The Week – AFC Wimbledon 1-4 Wycombe Wanderers
In the end, it was all a step too far. AFC Wimbledon were outdone last night by a Wycombe side that was that little bit fitter, taller and better organised...
Living Vicariously Through The FA Cup
As I hurtle unstoppably towards my late thirties, I tend to find that there is less and less to look forward to. Birthdays long ago became a cause for reflection...
Buying & Selling
Those of us that spend the majority of our time watching lower league or non-league football have no involvement in the awful process and uniquely undignified process of buying tickets....
Match Of The (Mid) Week – AFC Wimbledon 3-1 Bromley
One of the more cunning ideas to have come about in recent years within non-league football has been the introduction of matches on the August Bank Holiday Monday. With the...
Trying To Get Inside The Mind Of The Football League
Back in the day, struggling Fourth Division clubs had to regularly undergo the annual ordeal of re-election, in which the bottom four clubs in the table along with any non-league...
AFC Wimbledon 3-1 AFC Hornchurch
It would probably be fair to say that, for AFC Wimbledon, this season has been a story of “two steps forward, one and seven-eighths of a step back”. It started...
The Match Of The Weekend?
A quick look down the fixture lists for the Premier League and Football League for tomorrow seem to indicate that this might just the worst weekend of the season, football-wise....
AFC Wimbledon 4-0 Chelmsford City
One of the things that had been near the top of my new year’s resolutions list for this season had been “go and see AFC Wimbledon play more often this...
Worthing 1-1 AFC Wimbledon
Imagine, if you will, that you’ve been watching the same team for years and years. Suddenly, and out of the blue, your team is taken over by a “business consortium”,...