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On This Day in 1961
Sutton goalkeeper Ray Watkins foils Brian Martin this time but the Dons forward went onto grab a hat trick in a 4-0 Surrey Senior Cup semi-final victory at Tooting. With Walthamstow losing in their league match on the same day, Les Henley's boys still had an outside chance of completing a league and cup double. With three games in hand on their east London rivals, Wimbledon were nine points behind and would almost certainly have to win all their remaining games to have a chance of being crowned champions.
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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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Yes spit. I think we were back to “too many connections” but I didn’t read it.
8th Apr 2026 19:16:15 
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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 
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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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Do I remember a falling out with a team, maybe even Tranmere, because they were in the playoffs and played a weakened side against Franchise on the last day, saving the latter from relegation?
8th Apr 2026 14:37:35 
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Trouble is they play Bradford on the last day it’s highly likely that before that Bradford will have confirmed that they’re not getting automatic promotion and aren’t going to be knocked out of the playoff spots.
8th Apr 2026 13:54:58 
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We could have a similar situation that day with Huddersfield who look like they may know by then that they can’t get a play off spot - but unless we have a significant return of injured players it doesn’t seem to matter who we play as we just can’t score goals or keep clean sheets. It’s very tense and we could really do with some good news on those injuries.
So, assuming worse case, and we don't get anymore pts, I reckon Exeter are extremely unlikely to get their 4pts from four draws. They have to WIN on of those games. Burton Alb away on the 25th looks the best chance with Plymouth (8th), Stockport (5th) & Bradford (3rd) all chasing playoffs
8th Apr 2026 13:28:55 
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Meadow agree, the players in the 91, generally have fast thought processing than non-league which in my view makes them equipped for that level without needing the legs. In the pro game, there have been some exceptional thinkers that despite not being the quickest, their instincts gave them yardage to compensate.
8th Apr 2026 12:43:25 
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Or even one G and two Ts!!
8th Apr 2026 09:43:43 
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It’s Pigott. Two g’s and two t’s. HTH
8th Apr 2026 09:28:22 
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Depends how many G&Ts you've had RK.
8th Apr 2026 09:18:35 
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I'll get my coat
Never mine this two-week ceasefire, all I want to know is the correct spelling of Joe's surname. How many Gs and how many Ts
8th Apr 2026 08:58:29 
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Meadow vs Sparta
In reference to Joe Piggot, Lyle Taylor has scored shedloads of goals for Chelmsford. Could he and pigs score for us? Probably not, those days are gone.
7th Apr 2026 23:52:08 
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Joe Pigott has scored 17 goals in 33 appearances in all competitions as Folkestone won the Isthmian premier division title with 4 games to spare.
7th Apr 2026 23:44:32 
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“Lol”lywood
7th Apr 2026 22:19:43 
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Helluva few days for Southampton fans.
That Arsenal are poor team😂😂😂
7th Apr 2026 21:52:27 
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Sporting bottle it in injury time
7th Apr 2026 21:48:25 
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