Rabid About Wimbledon

The REAL Wimbledon, remember the crazy gang? I do, I was there! I was part of it! I was stood behind that goal at Wembley where everything happened on the 14th May 1988 as a 14 year old who could only live the dream of those times. Good times where the underdogs sometimes beat the big guns. In the days before Chelski, the Gilletts and Hicks' of the world and long before anyone had heard on Ronaldo; in fact the world's most expensive footballer was only 3 years old when Wimbledon won the F.A. Cup.
I was going to plough lane long before anyone had even heard of Milton bloody Keynes and national hockey stadiums.

I rarely get to go to Kingsmeadow(new home of AFC Wimbledon) because of work but I still follow them keenly and look out for their results.
Another good result against tough opposition yesterday, they beat the mighty Wrexham away from home to go just one point behind Crawley who are currently top of the Conference.

Whilst I'm excited about this season, I'm also aware that they went through a blip last season at a crucial moment and fell out of contention for promotion to the league. It will be a massive achievement, beating that of the original Wimbledon Football Club, if we manage to get into the league at the end of this season it would have only been 8 years from being founded to getting into the Football League! A fantastic achievement.
When the dons were relegated from the premiership I was devastated. I knew that I would have to start expecting a different level of upset. I knew we were never going to survive as tenants at Crystal Palace and that proved to be the case when Bradford beat Liverpool to stay up and Wimbledon slipped into what's now The Championship.
Now I await the day when AFC Dons will meet the MK Dons in battle, I'm hoping that it'll be on Wimbledon's way up and Milton Keynes way down. I have nothing but contempt for the MK Dons franchise, it is a poison that has infected the football league and I hope that it will one day soon it go out of business; it has no place in football.