May 2004.

Sunday 30th May 2004
PreSeason friendly

Kingstonians website has us done for a pre season friendly away to them on Tuesday evening on the 8th August, its not on the Dons O/S as yet watch for further confirmation soon.

Sunday 30th May 2004
Two Years Ago Today

Happy Birthday to us how great have the last two years been, long may it continue.

Friday 28th May 2004
Two more PreSeason friendlies announced.

The Dons will take on Banstead Athletic on Saturday 17 July, away at Merland Rise, which will also be the ground were AFC Wimbledon reserve play their home matches next season.

The 1st PreSeason friendly this season at Kingsmeadow will be against Barnet who finished 4th in the Conference last season, this is also the day that the new kits should be launched.

Tickets will be on sale on the day only and there will be none on sale in advance prices are as follows; : Main Stand- Adult £8, Concessions £4, Under-16s £3 Terraces – Adult £6, Concessions £3, Under-16s £2.

Saturday 15 May 2004
Parade of the Champions

Between two and three thousand turned out to celebrate this wonderful season one last time as the team were paraded down from Wimbledon Hill to Centre Court where the bus was aloud to stop for a few minutes so players and fans were able to applaud each other before proceeding with a tail of Dons fans behind in the road at normal speed pass Wimbledon Theatre on their way to the civic reception Morden Town Hall.

Click here for pictures from the parade from Centre Court to Wimbledon Theatre.

Thursday 20 May 2004
AFC Wimbledon to face the Bees in pre-season friendly

AFC Wimbledon will play Brentford at Griffin Park Tuesday 20th July 2004 KO 7.45pm

Admission prices for the fixture are as follows: Adults: £10. Concessions: £5. Juniors: £1. Family tickets (two adults and two juniors) can be purchased for £15.

Saturday 15 May 2004
Merton civic reception granted

Merton Council have granted the double-winning AFC Wimbledon team a civic reception and bus parade on Sunday 23 May , the team will proceed down Wimbledon Hill at 12 noon in an open-top bus and travel slowly down until reaching Wimbledon theatre at about 12.30 pm.

It would be great to see as many fans as possible there to cheer the team through Wimbledon town centre.

Wear your colours and fly your flags and celebrate the double one last time.

Also Nicky English has signalled his interest in taking the U-18s coaching job for next season.

Click here to read more on the O/S.

Thursday 13 May 2004
New pre-season fixture announced.

The Dons have announced the second of their pre-season fixtures. They will travel to Kent to face Gravesend & Northfleet on July 27 for a 7.45pm kick-off. Gravesend finished 11th in the Football Conference in the 2003/04 season.

Further fixtures will be announced as soon as they are known, AFC Wimbledon will play their first home fixture on Saturday 24 July, when they will hopefully launch the new kit for the 2004-5 season. The only other confirmed fixture so far is the trip to Dagenham & Redbridge on July 10, which will mark the start of the pre-season campaign.

Tuesday 11 May 2004
New Manager Announced.

Following the conclusion of the interview process, the AFC Wimbledon board has appointed Dave Anderson as first team manager with immediate effect. click here to read more, Big thanks to Nicky English hope you take the U18's job, you did a stop job as acting manager.

Monday 10th May 2004
ISTHMIAN LEAGUE DIVISION ONE

These are the team's that we will be playing next season

ASHFORD TOWN FC (KENT)
BANSTEAD ATHLETIC FC
BASHLEY FC
BROMLEY FC
BURGESS HILL TOWN FC
CORINTHIAN CASUALS FC
CRAY WANDERERS FC *
CROYDON ATHLETIC FC
CROYDON FC
DORKING FC
DULWICH HAMLET FC
HASTINGS UNITED FC
HORSHAM FC
LEATHERHEAD FC
METROPOLITAN POLICE FC
MOLESEY FC
NEWPORT IOW FC
SITTINGBOURNE FC
TOOTING & MITCHAM UNITED FC
WALTON & HERSHAM FC
WHYTELEAFE FC

* Cray Wanderers subject to confirmation, if not then Fleet Town

Bye Bye and thanks to all the CCL teams Hello to the Rymans 1st division.

Sunday 9th May 2004
U14's Final replay

AFC Wimbledon U14's beaten Croygas three two in extra time and achieved the double, well done to Benny and the boys more silverware for the cabinet.

Saturday 8th May 2004
AFC Wallingford 1-2 AFC Wimbledon

Last game of the season and plenty of silverware to be handed out and on hand was a man not unaccustomed to a bit of silverware Mr Dave Beasent, once again Coops won the Junior Dons Player Of The Year award, the Players Player Of The Year was Matt Everard.

The Dons kicked off attackingthe Athletics End and within three minutes a bad header back to the keeper let in Jamie Taylor to open the scoring, but was it too early, the home team came start back at the Dons, but where unable to make all their pressure count and the closes they came was a thunderous strike that left the crossbar rattled.

At half time the Womble Underground Press Young Player Of The Year was awarded to Gavin Bolger and the Reserve Player Of The Year was Sam Elliott.

The 2nd half was again saw the Wallies put the Dons under pressure with the help of a very nippy substitute, it looked like the three games in less than a week and the long hard season was starting to show and with twenty minutes gone a clumsy challenge gave the Wallies a freekick just outside the box, up stepped SSK oops sorry that was last season he now plays for us, but the goal direct from the freekick was just as good it did look like Matt Martin was still trying to organise the wall at the time and could not get over quick enough to save it, but the ref had allowed the kick to be taken so one all and a fairly scoreline given the performance of the Wallies.

With the Dons upping the gears and looking more like the team that had dismantled CCL teams all season well apart from four, this made for an exciting end to the game with both teams having their fair share of play and it took a deflection off Coops from a well hit strike from outside the box by Gareth Graham to beat Paul Strudley in the Wallies goal.

Two one to the Dons, well done AFC Wallingford for giving us another taste of what to expect next season some good close football, both teams went off to raptures applause while some more silverware was laid out on a table in the centre circle, then out came AFC Wallingford to receive their well earned league runners up medals and a team photo, then out came the Champions, 1st up Phillo announced the WISA Sponsored AFC Wimbledon Player Of The Year which went to Matt Everard, well done Matt, followed very closely in 2nd & 3rd was Danny Oakins & Kevin Cooper, then Phillo asked Coop's girlfriend to come onto the pitch as at the start of the season Coops had promise to marry her if he got less than forty one goals in the season and as he had well pass that, there was not much chance of that then, until to her surprise, but no one else's Coops asked Sophie too marry him and after a moments pause she said yes, good luck to the both of you.

Then it was time for the Champions to receive their medals/awards and then Captain Joe Sheerin and Matt Everard went to the canter circle together to lift the CCL Cup this was followed by a lap of honour with both the league and cup trophies on show, what a way to end the season more again soon please, but not to soon as the players look like they need a rest.

Goal Scorer : Jamie Taylor (3m), Gareth Graham (83m)

Goals Scored Against : (65m)

Team : Matt Martin, Steve Gibson, Matt Everard, Danny Oakins,Darren Dobinson, Lee Sidwell, Gareth Graham, Seb Favata, Ryan Gray, Jamie Taylor, Kevin Cooper.

Subs Used : Keith Ward, Shane Small-King,

Not used subs : Lewis Taylor, Jamie Angell, Paul Quinn

Attendance : 3,785

Saturday 8th May 2004
Premier Division
AFC Wallingford 1-2 AFC Wimbledon (at Kingsmeadow)
Chipstead 4-0 Cove
Godalming & G 4-1 Cobham
Horley Town 2-3 North Greenford Utd
Reading Town 3-1 Chessington & Hook
Walton Casuals 1-1 Raynes Park Vale
Westfield 1-2 Merstham

Saturday 8th May 2004
Team News

Nicky English has named the following players for today's final match of the season away at Kingsmeadow against 2nd place AFC Wallingford.

Matt Martin, Steve Gibson, Keith Ward, Matt Everard, Lewis Taylor, Danny Oakins, Jamie Angell, Paul Quinn, Darren Dobinson, Lee Sidwell, Gareth Graham, Seb Favata, Ryan Gray, Jamie Taylor, Shane Small-King, Kevin Cooper.

The last game of the season will also mark the end of a twenty year non-league playing career for Keith Ward, hopefully Keith will be able to take part in the match and received the warm applause that he has earned, good luck Keith and thanks for everything.

To read what Nicky English has to say about the game and also he's comments on the Reading T game click here.

There will also be some silverware being presented to the team after the game today, so please please stay off the pitch.

Thursday 6th May 2004
AFC Wimbledon 3-3 Reading Town

What should have been a fairly easy game, turned into a struggle to hold onto the unbeaten run, the Dons were being out muscled in the middle and unable to brake down the Reading Town defence so much so that in the 1st half we had no shots on goal and Reading should have been two up.

Just after the brake Reading took the lead and then on sixty seven minutes doubled their lead, resulting in the instant bring on of top scorer Coops, who within three minutes had one a freekick on the edge of the box, which he placed and hit the low pass the wall into the corner pocket, ten minutes later from an identical position on the Dons again received a freekick and Coops produced the same result two all.

With time running out the Dons pilled on the pressure and from a cross on the right, the ball was cleared off the line by a defender, but only for Coops to scramble it into the back of the net for his hat-trick an to give the Dons the lead three two.

The ref seem too find plenty of injury time and with about six minutes pass the ninety Reading had a corner from which they got a deserved equaliser three all and just enough time to kick off before the ref blow his whistle to the relief of the two thousand odd Dons.

Goal Scorer : Kevin Cooper (70, 80, 86)

Goals Scored Against : 51m, 67m, 90m

Team : Matt Martin, Steve Gibson, Paul Quinn, Lewis Taylor, Matt Everard, Darren Dobinson, Lee Sidwell, Seb Favata, Gareth Graham, Shane Small-King, Jamie Taylor

Subs Used : Kevin Cooper, Danny Oakins, Ryan Gray

Not used subs : Jamie Angell, Ross Standen.

Attendance : 2,208

Monday 3rd May 2004
Raynes Park Vale 2-3 AFC Wimbledon

On a very wet Bank Holiday Monday at eleven thirty the Dons nearly let slip the unbeaten run, the surface of the pitch was not in the best of conditions and the none stop rain was not helping, but both teams had to play on it and from the start Raynes Park seemed quicker to adapt their play and had the best of the early action.

With just over ten minutes gone the Dons received a freekick just outside the box, Gareth Graham line the ball up and tried to curly the ball round the wall, but the ball hit a RPV player and fell into the path of of Matt Everard who calmly side footed it pass the RPV keeper.

With the weather getting worse and the canter of the pitch becoming more and more unplayable RPV started to play more and more long balls over the top and on the half hour mark one of these balls caught Danny Oakins out leaving him stretching his leg out in vain, but the ball had passed him and let in a RPV player who sent in a low ball that was knocked pass Ross Standen in goal.

Ginge had a chances to put the Dons into the lead, but from close range managed to hit the ball over the goal and into the crowd too chants of how high do you want the goal, then just before half time the Dons went behind after a RPV player had picked up the ball on the left and on the only surface of the pitch that the ball moved well forward and skipped pass a couple of Dons before striking a low ball into the bottom right corner of the net.

The 2nd half started with the Dons making a change up front Jamie Taylor came on for Jones Bamfo and with the rain still chucking it down it was not surprising that the usual change of end by Dons supports behind the goal on mass did not happen, but with less than ten minutes gone and a far bit of pressure those that did were treated to a close up of the Dons equaliser from a corner on the main stand side the ball was swung in low and after a couple of swings at the ball it looked like RPV had cleared the the box, but their no fifteen who had just came on head the ball back towards goal and over the head of the player on the line jumping to clear it two all.

With the Dons putting RPV under more & more pressure mainly from the right wing where Lee Sidwell who seemed to have more mud on his kit than the pitch had grass kept on slipping pass the defenders and sending in cross, Lewis Taylor and Kevin Cooper where brought on with about fifteen minutes left, Lewis replaces Ginge in midfield and Coops replaces Ryan Gray and Shane Small-King moved out onto the left wing and it was from this position the SSK reproduced his tapin from Tuesday night picking the ball up outside the box, moving slightly infield struck the ball into the far right corner given the keeper no chance and then setting off on his own celebration run that went across the pitch before circling back towards the goalmouth.

As the ref finally blew the whistle for full time Coops who had some how kept his kit spotless was dragged by his team mates through the mud, turning him the same colour as the rest yellow and brown, that probably answers the question why did Sutton Utd choice those two colours for their kit ? answer saves on cleaning.

Goal Scorer : Matt Everard (11), OG (56), Shane Small-King (84)

Goals Scored Against : 30m, 43m

Team : Ross Standen, Steve Gibson, Matt Everard, Danny Oakins, Darren Dobinson, Lee Sidwell, Seb Favata,Gareth Graham, Jones Bamfo, Ryan Gray

Subs Used : Lewis Taylor, Kevin Cooper, Jamie Taylor

Not used subs : Paul Quinn

Attendance : 1,438

Monday 3rd May 2004
Premier Division
Ash United 4-0 Farnham Town
Chessington & Hook 1-1 Southall
Cove 0-2 AFC Wallingford
Frimley Green 0-0 Horley Town
North Greenford Utd 2-0 Cobham
Raynes Park Vale 2-3 AFC Wimbledon (at Sutton United FC)
Reading Town 0-1 Bedfont
Withdean 2000 1-1 Merstham

Sunday 2nd May 2004
Bristol City 6-0 AFCW Ladies
The AFCW Ladies lost 6-0 today to the new champions Bristol City, in what has been a great season for the Ladies they reached the Semi Final in the London Cup and finished 3rd in the Division finishing only five points behind Bristol City, Well Done Ladies and lets hope for more of the same next season.

Season Tickects 2003/04

Season Tickect forms are being sent out tho ST holders and also where being handed out a Kingsmeadow, so far the club has received 300+ applications and the seasons not even over yet.

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