What are the Dons?

Last updated : 17 July 2002 By
Having supported Wimbledon for almost ten years now, I looked back on why I wanted to associate myself with them. The reasons were that nothing was to be taken for granted, yet we could overturn "fashionable" teams like Manchester United, and Liverpool. However. we always did well.

Suddenly, I found myself less and less interested in the team. For no reason that I could really spot, until the protests really started: this wasn't Wimbledon. It wasn't the team that I had supported for all that time; where had the Crazy Gang spirit gone; the characters that made the club stand out? Everything had fallen apart bit by bit, to make us "just an ordinary team". There was nothing romantic or appealing about Wimbledon FC to me anymore, and I really didn't care.

Many people have said that AFC Wimbledon are the real Wimbledon, and indeed they are, but what one must remember is that we will carve our own identity; I doubt that it will be anything like the identity Wimbledon FC had for themselves in the 1990's. One thing I do promise is that we will make our way up the leagues, to bigger and better things.