Preliminary What?

Fizzy Piss sorry Carling Cup winners, Birmingham City are getting a bye to round three apparently even though they've been relegated to the championship because of Europa league commintments.
This means that for the first time in it's recent history(2002/03 was the last time) the Football League Cup will have a preliminary round comprised of the two bottom placed teams in the league.
So this means that we have to go to Crawley on Friday 29th July before the season has even started! Kick off is 19.45.
Bollocks.
Can't Man Utd just pull out or something? They've got previous for that sort of thing! Oh no I forgot, it gives their Mini-me's a chance to play proper football for once!
Anyway, obviously MK Dons should be just be kicked out instead for not being a real club but what ya gonna do? This is the situation and we have to deal with it. Let's just hope we can kick Creepy into touch!
Now, let's see if I can get the night off.....

New Direction...Kind of.

Afternoon all.

Just a quick one, this blog was originally started so that I could impose my views on things other than beer but it's pretty much turned into an AFC Wimbledon blog and so I've renamed it and will be reporting on news about AFC Wimbledon, the football league and of course games which I get to this coming season.

Hopefully we're going this way!

See you on the Tempest hopefully!

When Saturday Comes

I read an interesting piece by Wimbledon Legend, Lawrie Sanchez, stressing that win or lose on Saturday, AFC Wimbledon fans should start looking toward the future of our club.

I have to say that to a certain extent I agree with him, I'm as militant as the next man when it comes to MkDons and their franchise football but look at what we have built! Look at what we have achieved! Let's not forget the fact that in 9 years we seen the club start at the bottom of the FA's ladder steadily climb into spitting distance of reclaiming our rightful league status which was so awfully and illegally ripped away from us! That's no mean feat for a team that's owned by the fans now. And look at the example we are setting for other fan-owned clubs such as FC United of Manchester, clubs from abroad are also coming to Kingsmeadow to look at how we do things. It's great to know that teams are looking up to us as a beacon of how things should be done!
Win or lose on Saturday, we need to start leaving the anger behind or we risk people branding us a 'reactionary club'. I'm not saying we should ever forget the fact that the FA branded us 'not in the wider interests of football' and no-one will be happier if we reclaim our league spot and shove it up the FA's jacksie, but surely we need to make plans for the future and enjoy the fact we're doing it on our own?
As nervous as I am this week I'm looking forward to Saturday, as much or a squeaky bum time as it is this week, I'm looking forward to Saturday, as much as I've lost so much sleep this week thinking about the game, I'm still looking forward to Saturday. I don't think it's any coincidence that once again we are playing Luton Town on one of the biggest days in our history. What price 1-0 to AFC Wimbledon with Seb Brown saving a penalty? What price a glancing header from Luke Moore in the 37th Minute?
When Saturday comes I'll see you at Eastlands!

Politics - Pah!

So I have just been and done my 'civic duty' and voted in the argument for constitutional change, or not.
I voted no to AV.
Why? I am a cynic/realist. In a general election you vote for candidates from a certain party that you think match your ideals at the time.
No political candidate has matched mine for quite some time because frankly all politicians are lying scum and until there is such a thing as an 'honest politician'(excuse me whilst I shit myself laughing) there will be no point in electoral reform.
After all, just look at who we have to choose from...

Conservative - Fascist assholes.
Labour sorry 'New' Labour - socialist assholes.
Lib Dems - spineless assholes.
Greens - hippy assholes.
BNP - Thatcher-ite assholes.
UKIP - Cunts.

I'm sure there are more but you get my point.

I have so little faith in ANY party or politician that I don't actually think I will ever vote again, so what's the point in electoral reform if you're just voting in a different strain of asshole.
So I voted, what does that make me?

Just another fucking asshole.

Just don't bore me with this shit in the pub.

Two Sides to Every Fan

So there I was sitting in the bar after the AFC Wimbledon game watching the Arsenal game on the big screen and I glance across the room to see a kid in an AFC Wimbledon shirt cheering for Arsenal! WTF?? Come on kid, you come here every home game, what the hell are you doing cheering the gooner scum? Another thing, if you're from South London and you go to football matches in South London, why are you cheering a team from North London?
It does remind me of my best friend though who supports AFC Wimbledon and also 'supports' a premiership side, what the hell is this phenomena about, surely you can only have one team, can't you?
Personally, as you should know by now, I am a Dons fan, I do look out for Portsmouth scores too as my Grandad took me to my first ever football match at the age of about 6 and it was Portsmouth v Manchester City at Fratton Park but I wouldn't call myself a Pompey fan.
Any explanations folks? I really don't understand this need to support a top flight team if your team isn't in the top flight, is it an acceptance thing? A need to be liked? A need to feel popular?
Help me understand.

Winning and Losing.

Bigger men than Giles Coren will ever be.

Morning all, today I am basking in the glory that is an ashes retention. Once again I wasn't awake to listen to TMS, I went to bed for a quick nap after dinner so I could stay up during the last of the play and woke up at 3am after it had all finished. Doh!
Congrats to England and commiserations to the Aussies. I'm one for rubbing it in in a good natured way like most people after all it's natural, and it's borne out of the fact that the Australians are so good at doing the same thing. Until five years ago they had the best cricket team in the world for 20 years and they let everyone know about it. Now they're going to have to get used to the fact that they are a team in transition.
But should we be unsporting and rude about it? Of course not, it's not British, we are a nation that takes defeat graciously and winning with dignity, so I find this article from Giles Coren on The Daily Fail online particularly offensive.
Do you think Andrew Flintoff would say anything like that? Of course not, he's a sportsman, even Ricky Ponting at his irritating worst would not say anything as unsporting or frankly racist as that.
This sort lazy writing has no place online or in print and it proves that Giles Coren knows nothing about sporting behaviour and has to write this sort of garbage to get noticed. How very Daily Hate.

Dons Through to Round 2

The 3rd game I've been to this season, I've got the bug again! Yesterday saw Braintree Town come to Kingsmeadow for the 1st round of the FA Carlsberg Trophy.
The game was a wee bit dire to be fair and the 3-0 result was flattering considering that Braintree Town were a man down for most of the game after Michael Alaile was judged to have committed a professional foul on Danny Kedwell. Dons boss Terry Brown also admitted that the midfield needs more bite, you can see his post match interview here. There wasn't anywhere near enough closing down from them yesterday, Wellard and Gregory seemed to let the game pass them by and Luke Moore looked well below his best, when he was replaced by Mark Nwokeji in the 2nd half The Dons finally looked like they had some spark about them. I think Nwokeji deserves a chance start more games than he currently is, think back to how well John Fashanu and Terry Gibson used to play together in the late eighties-early nineties, think Keds and Nokkers up front. The game on Tuesday night against Dulwich Hamlet might be the perfect opportunity to try it out!
Back to yesterday though, the stand out players for the dons were Danny Kedwell who seems to have lost a bit of weight in the last couple of weeks and looks more lively for it and Sam Hatton who just seems to play well every week and when Ryan Jackson came on late in the 2nd half he looked very dangerous although his crossing needs a wee bit of work, if he can get the final ball right the Dons will have a very potent right hand side.
The goals were well taken and well worked, Christian Jolley his chance very well after some great build-up play, Mark Nwokeji rounded the keeper after Sam Hatton put him through from a quick free kick and Danny Kedwell finished well from the edge of the box. Three highlights in an otherwise ordinary game. Still through to the next round, lets hope they perform like we know they can from now!
You can see the highlights here.