This article explores AFC Wimbledon, a club founded by fans after the original Wimbledon FC was moved. It delves into the spirit of community and dedication that defines the club, highlighting its unique history and passionate supporters.
Daniel Storey pays a visit to Plough Lane on the day they host rivals MK Dons, and discovers fans having the time of their liveshere“Resurrecting the club from its ashes as, say, ‘Wimbledon Town’ is, with respect to those supporters who rather that happened so they could go back to the position started in 113 years ago, not in the wider interests of football.”
To describe Jones as avuncular is underselling it by several weight categories. He is the perfect guide to the club, because it runs through him like an aorta and because he is so capable of expressing what makes it what it is. As we tour around the ground, everybody wants a word of good luck or therapy about what might unfold. I am emphatically an outsider and yet, even on this day of all days, am treated by all as a friend.
Saturday felt different. It’s something that Jones repeats often over the two hours before the game, but around the ground there is less of the existential angst that has long haunted their experience of this game. Bubbling tension fills the air, naturally, but it rarely rises above that. Perhaps it’s because Wimbledon were favourites to win. Perhaps it’s because the last-minute last year “lanced a boil”, to use Jones’s own words.
If that’s true here, the Cherry Red Records Stadium should be the whole of the truth. Not only did a fan-owned club manage to build a new ground, they were able to a) get back to the same road as their original home and b) construct a magnificent home for football. Its facilities are comfortably When their club was moved to Milton Keynes, the end result of a bitter, grim process, it allowed AFC Wimbledon – in appalling circumstances – the chance to define what they really wanted and determine what really mattered. As Jones says: “We got to put a football club into a sieve and give it a shake to see what was left that provided joy: people, community, comradeship, ownership”.
The game is a living dream for all of those who sit around me. Before the game, Jones details how the perfect match plays out: a 3-0 lead that allows for “oles” during the final 30 minutes. By full-time he’s changed his mind based on what he’s just witnessed and I have nothing to say in disagreement.
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