I’ve got lots of celeb claims to fame but the only sporting one is that I once did a tug of war with that bloke from The Bill.

And Mickey Stewart, another ex-Don's player, lives almost opposite my Dad's old place in New Malden.

Paul Fishenden and Kevin Gage shared a flat in Merton Mansions during the mid 80's, almost opposite us. It was known as the Pleasure Dome. One of our founding fathers lived there in more recent times.

When i was in the running for Mr UK in the early 90s,Geoff Capes was one of the judges

Bob - this was in Cambridge when I was a student (1977 or 1978), he was happy to chat with people in the clubhouse after the game too… 👍

A4E - I used to see Geoff Capes a lot - either at the Crystal Palace Sports Centre where I was having indoor nets or in the Wimpey Bar at Crystal Palace where he was eating hamburger after hamburger. A really nice guy who was happy to give some of his time.

Pretty cool to have played at Plough Lane.

I played against Geoff Capes when I was doing my degree - he was in goal, we played the Cambridgeshire police team…

StD - possibly due to the Miners strike resulting in power shortages hence the need to kick off at something like 14.00 to avoid the need to use floodlights??

That would make sense StD. I remember when they were building that Sainsbury's in the early 1980s. I even remember the two tier terracing it replaced at the Whitehorse Lane end [Link] and the corner away supporters subsequently got put in before that end got redeveloped too when we were playing there [Link] There seem to be quite a few on here with connections to players around that time. I doubt there were many in the late 1990s when instead of using local players we were using substandard Scandinavians.

Same age as me six million. PALACE played a lot of games mid 80s on Sundays something to do with sainsburys and the car park from memory.

I'm the same age as Ryan and Fitzgerald. It was only primary school level I played for Wandsworth (we moved out of the borough in 1980 when I started secondary school, hence competing in the Surrey Schools cup in 1982). We used to live in Balham and I went to primary school in Clapham Park. I was a better athlete than footballer (I used to win the annual Wandsworth Schools championships for my age group at sprinting held at Tooting Bec every year) but whilst I still like watching football now I have totally lost interest in athletics.

6 million: hodges and Morris were my age range. They played for Merton and Surrey (I played for wandsworth /London ). I played with Hodges twice for the “south of London” in an unusual rep game. Even then hodges was class

Mark L - I played for Wandsworth Schools too, in 1980. I played against Vaughan Ryan and Scott Fitzgerald when they played for Victoria Schools and also in the same Sunday league team as them for a while (Putney St Mary). We all played for London Schools that year too. That was about as high as my football achievements went.

That Palace away game 41 years ago, to this day, remains my favourite Wimbledon game for either incarnation, bar none. I seem to recall it was a Sunday game for some reason too. I went to secondary school in Upper Norwood and where I lived was full of Nigels. I was the only Wimbledon supporter. Despite how crap they were, they were so confident of beating us. To absolutely annihilate them on their own pitch like that was sheer bliss. We could have had 10 that day it was so one-sided, especially the second half. To see their supporters so annoyed and unhappy just compounded my happiness. Being in that corner with 2,000 other wombles laughing our heads off is what football is all about. Happy days.

I always felt with Fishenden that he never quite fulfilled his potential. He had a great record in the youth and reserve teams but it never quite happened for him consistently enough in the first team. He seemed to be injured or out on loan at clubs in Scandinavia or down under a lot so I don't know if that helped or hindered him.

I'm sorry if I caused a few of you work with my Paul Fishenden question. I know how irritating it is when you want to know the answer to something and can't find it anywhere. I remember that 1986/87 season pretty clearly as it was so exciting finding ourselves in the top flight and being competitive. I'd forgotten Fishenden was even at the club by that stage and I'm 99.9% certain he didn't play a league game, so he can't be a member of the "having played in all four divisions" club I'm afraid.

CW - he did not play at Man City in first Div 1 match. Cannot find appearance records for 86/7 season anywhere.

I have a prog/teamsheet from the Finland under 21s friendly in summer 1986 and Fishenden is listed on that which suggests he was around then

That’s not boring 👍

Boring fact…. I played against paul Fishenden when I was about 14. He played for Hillingdon district, I played for wandsworth district. He scored past me although we won 2 1 (I think!)

Everton deliberately watered their pitch for a game against us in 1988 as they had a big cup game 2 days later and wanted to protect pitch and players

Sorry if AR [Link] Kings Lynn under investigation for deliberately water logging their pitch

He had a decent scoring rate though of 25 goals in 75 appearances

CW if your interested bulls at Sevenoaks on Friday night live on YouTube 730 ko