The Place to Reminisce
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Introduction Welcome to a site dedicated to the memory and history of Wimbledon Football Club. From the humble beginnings on Wimbledon Common in 1889 to their steady rise to the top of Amateur football, culminating in the Amateur Cup Final victory against Sutton United. Their entry into the professional game in 1964 and the meteoric rise from the Southern League to the First Division and the F.A.Cup win in 1988. Live in the America's? Don't forget to join the Supporters Club at USDons.com Dial-Up Users I'm sorry to those without Broadband as some of the pages are getting a bit big. If you have got dial-up, don't click on a picture link unless you really, really want to as some of the images are pretty big. Acknowledgements I am finding almost all of my material in books and press cuttings. I have borrowed much from the Centenary Book of 1989 and other publications. I will endeavour to acknowledge everybody in due course. If you feel you are due an acknowledgment, please let me know. If I am in violation of anything, again please let me know and I will take down the offending material. Guest Book The Guest Book is working now, although behaving rather strangely. I welcome any comments and suggestions. Thanks in advance for your help - I hope it will be worth it. Dave Hambly (SoCalDon) New Content - 21/4/2004 A couple of Photo Galleries from 1963 and 1988 Thanks to Herbie Knott and Pete Baker for their contributions from Walton Casuals and at home to Cove The Early History up until the Seventies is now taking shape. I am indebted to WISA, Ian Pollock and the photographer Gerry Cranham for these match reports and photographs. The authors first trip to Kingsmeadow Alan Young has kindly provided us with his an account of his first visit to Plough Lane in the early sixties. These memories from the Eighties were supplied by Dave James Thanks to Geoff Seel (Old Isthmian) for his Pictures from the Sixties and Andre Yardley for his AFC Pictures. Thanks also to Chris Bushe, a Brentford supporter and Webmaster of www.footballgroundz.co.uk, for allowing me to display this series of compelling images Thanks to Richard Rundle, webmaster of the Football Club History Database http://www.fchd.btinternet.co.uk for all of the Isthmian League tables. Thanks also to Russell Gerrard and the RSSSF for his Southern League Table Archive http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/r.j.gerrard/football/nl/ |
