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On This Day in 1971
Ian Cooke goes close as his hat trick helps the Dons keep alive their slim Southern League title hopes with a 4-0 win over Hillingdon Boro. The FA had ordered the club to display warning notices around the ground in response to a bottle being thrown onto the pitch during an FA Trophy tie in February. But director Alec Fuce was keen to play down talk of hooliganism at Plough Lane. "It is a storm in a teacup over some silly lad who tossed a bottle onto the pitch from behind the goal." he said. "Our supporters have a good reputation."
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As the Premier League clubs grew richer 30 years ago, little Wimbledon struggled to survive. Despite a good start to the 1995-96 season, an alarming autumn slump saw the Dons flirting with relegation before victories at Stamford Bridge and Highbury within a four-day period over Christmas lifted some of the gloom. Progressing through to the FA Cup 5th round, only a late, late equaliser from Efan Ekoku at Huddersfield kept hopes alive before a memorable quarter final with Chelsea. Four wins in the five games after a replay defeat ensured survival for another year. Every match is celebrated with the memories of Ekoku and many others in the latest edition of the Historical Don.
30th Mar 2026 19:42:02 
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On sale from outside the club shop at the Luton, Plymouth and Huddersfield games for just £2. With printing costs soaring, the price will increase next year so grab it while you can.
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Dust your boots down, guys - this is your chance to play on the hallowed turf of Plough Lane. The WAWF Cup takes place on May 31 and we are looking for fans to line up to play along side the likes of Jon Main and Mickey Haswell (more TBC), in teams managed by Mark Robinson and Terry Brown. Full use of stadium/changing rooms etc. Hampshire referee etc. West Stand open for fans, Phoenix open for thirsty fans/players. Photos of the day and probably a few bits thrown in tbc too. And if you can't play, why not be an assistant manager or a mascot for the day... All proceeds to the playing budget, too. [Link]
26th Mar 2026 12:37:56 
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Meadow, what meeting do you refer to?
9th Apr 2026 07:35:35 
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And, Tranmere fans are Berks from Birkenhead. 😁 😉
9th Apr 2026 03:30:32 
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Red Kite - definitely Pigott.
9th Apr 2026 03:29:23 
 [89.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Any feedback from the meeting? I've seen nothing on social media.
8th Apr 2026 22:52:02 
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Apparently shuttlecocks are in short supply because the Chinese are eating more pork. Also has anyone ever seen the "Ketamine Queen" and Barbra Streisand from the 1970s in the same room? [Link] and [Link]
8th Apr 2026 22:00:52 
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hoping the links work
Postie- will be at Burton biting nails
8th Apr 2026 21:36:41 
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Barca 2-0 down at home
Substitute buying shares for having an owner willing and able to cover loses and you could argue that nearly every football club is kicking the can down the road.
8th Apr 2026 21:27:44 
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Will continue until wages become a sustainable percentage of revenue.
Thanks to all those who have bought shares, enabling us to kick the can down the road again.
8th Apr 2026 20:21:18 
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[Link] Seems I missed an opportunity to invest in a loss making football club. Phew!
8th Apr 2026 20:14:56 
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[Link] AFCW seeking investment
8th Apr 2026 20:06:33 
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CW if your not doing anything bulls are at Beckenham town this sat at 3
8th Apr 2026 19:48:11 
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That Tranmere lost in the play-offs that season was very satisfying. I’ve hated both the club and the supporters since the late 1980s.
8th Apr 2026 19:42:56 
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Anyway was payback for 2004/5, where Tranmere fans said only their team mattered ;)
8th Apr 2026 19:32:41 
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and they lost to Hartlepool United in the playoffs on penalties ... karma
Yes spit. I think we were back to “too many connections” but I didn’t read it.
8th Apr 2026 19:16:15 
 [195.lo.gg.ed] 
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That was kind of his point, Swiggy - he argued that points per game had an obvious margin of error when you looked at what PPG would have predicted for previous seasons versus the actual final points total per team. He said if you applied that margin of error across all teams and any team would have sat outside of a relegation zone then they shouldn’t be relegated.
8th Apr 2026 19:15:25 
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So in essence he was saying exactly what you said - relegating a club based on a points prediction could open the league up to legal challenges, hence his system resulted in fewer clubs getting relegated. It made sense, it just made the following season harder for the EFL to manage and that was the basis of most clubs voting for PPG. Obviously in our case we had a vested interest in voting for that but if I remember correctly we stated that as such we would just vote alongside the majority.
Carsh, people from the Wirral are not scousers
8th Apr 2026 18:56:25 
 [86.lo.gg.ed] 
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Has wup had a load of trouble loading today?
8th Apr 2026 18:47:41 
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Ladies team manager leaving at the end of the season
8th Apr 2026 18:30:20 
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Problem is relegating / promoting teams on what was effectively a "what if?" methodology would have created legal challenges, which have also been based on "what if?" to be true. Points per games already played was a factual basis for making the decision.
8th Apr 2026 18:19:16 
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Tranmere are scousers and all scousers are whinging bad losers, that is all
8th Apr 2026 18:12:22 
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I had to go and check. It was 2004/5. They beat a weakened Tranmere side on the last day to stay in League 1 on goal difference.
8th Apr 2026 17:46:01 
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too long ago for some of you youngsters
That is to say that the Tranmere owner’s system would have meant neither them nor us got relegated. It was a sensible system where teams only got relegated if there was no reasonable chance for them to have survived based on a margin of error of predicted end of season points from all remaining games. The margin of error was based on calculations over the previous x seasons so was statistically valid.
8th Apr 2026 17:44:30 
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It was a very good proposal, imho. But like I say it would have meant only 2 or 3 teams relegated rather than the standard 4 and the league didn’t want to have to deal with the ramifications of that whether an expanded division or telling a team in the L2 promotion spots that they weren’t going up. Can’t remember what happened that season about playoff places - was it just the top 4 went up?
Same as Alan I link Tranmere’s hatred of us with the Covid season cessation voting. Their owner at the time did have a very plausible and mathematically valid alternative but their end result was that fewer teams got relegated and the EFL/FA wanted to keep it clean in terms of not reducing the number of teams relegated or promoted. I had some sympathy with them because it did appear that without Covid they would have probably overtaken us and survived, but some of their fans were right wet lettuces about it so ah well.
8th Apr 2026 17:39:22 
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I don’t remember OI’s weakened team scenario at all tbh. But that’s not to say I’m saying it definitely didn’t happen. Just I don’t remember it.
A PE teacher at one of my schools said football was about decision making and pace, build etc came after that. Of course, you had to have the basic skills to a high level. He played in the States in the 90s on a football sholarship so was probably no mug.
8th Apr 2026 17:00:48 
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I know Tranmer hate us because of the Covid season halting of leagues were decided against a system they wanted which would have kept them up and sent us down, but the league didn't accept their gerrymandering and went with one of their own, points per game.
8th Apr 2026 16:57:25 
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