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On This Day in 1966
White shirted Gerry O'Rourke heads for goal in a pre-season friendly against Gillingham played in front of 1,400 fans at Plough Lane. Preparing for their second season of Southern League Premier division football the Dons beat their Division Three opponents 2-0 thanks to second half goals from Ian Cooke. The prolific striker was set to score 39 league and cup goals in 50 appearances during the campaign and become the Southern League's top marksman.
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50 years ago, a hat trick of Southern League titles and two high profile FA Cup runs were not enough. In the days prior to automatic promotion, club chairman Ron Noades had to travel the country canvassing votes from his Football League counterparts as part of a high profile ‘Dons 4 Div 4’ campaign before the Dons were finally accepted. Relive every kick of Wimbledon’s final non-league year through the pages of the latest edition of The Historical Don with match reports and pictures as well as the memories of Noades, manager Allen Batsford and several members of his all-conquering team. On sale at the home games in August and priced at £3, it is hoped that payments can now be made via a card machine!
24th Jul 2026 09:57:31 
 [152.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Good match from 97 minutes, nice day , need a better manager ,nice to see some old faces
9th Aug 2026 00:49:50 
 [82.lo.gg.ed] 
14 pints in.
Aideen, I didn't like the home or away shirts and thought the third shirt was bland. I've bought the yellow GK shirt and the beautiful women's away shirt. Both in Junior XL which saved me a significant amount of money.
9th Aug 2026 00:02:02 
 [109.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Anyone know why all the sponsors signage is blue and white except for cherry red ? Also first time seeing the kits in the flesh, the third one is beautiful.
8th Aug 2026 23:23:11 
 [151.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Wrexham are an outlier they can afford to throw money around like one day it’s all going to go sour. Would love to know how many L1 players with as few first team appearances as Nkeng have commanded £800k fees from Premier League clubs.
8th Aug 2026 22:50:10 
 [195.lo.gg.ed] 
Even the Saudi league aren’t spending money on their own league or in Newcastle anymore.
6M, our treatment of Palmer was appalling. That twerp we had on player recruitment at the time explained to him that he was too old to stay with us, if I recall. Poor man looked like he was trying not to cry in the Wrexham unveiling video. At least he had a good time there.
8th Aug 2026 22:46:26 
 [31.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
On the flip side, Ipswich overpaid for AAH (which derailed our season so serves them right - they did it to us before with Piggott when he was a footballer) and we did well getting £1m for Assal, who was worth nothing like that.
8th Aug 2026 22:28:03 
 [81.lo.gg.ed] 
I'll never forget Silent Joe breaking his silence to brag we got £300k for Palmer, only for us to subsequently not win another game that season and get relegated.
Nkeng would go out on loan or fisappear but Wrexham paid 5 million for Danny Imray who on Friday night's performance looked a far worse player than Nkeng. Anything less than a million is really neither here nor there to a Premier Leaguue side. The price might be less than 850k but of that order. As an aside Assal was the steal for us at 1 million. I doubt a Premier League club would have looked at him and we'd have been lucky to get 500K from a Championship side. Lovely guy off the field and with a really nice family I'm told but didn't set the Qatar league on fire.
8th Aug 2026 22:23:42 
 [81.lo.gg.ed] 
or the short version, I wouldn't be surprised at Nkeng goint to Forest for 500k, 750K or 1 million.
The player the club sold too cheaply and thought at the time they did well when it was clear he was destined for better things by being one of the few (only?) players on our side away at Arsenal who looked like he belonged at that level was Rudoni. He is by far and away the best player we've had and we let him go to Huddersfield for £800k, part payment of which was a giraffe masquerading a footballer.
8th Aug 2026 22:20:04 
 [81.lo.gg.ed] 
Hash - your nephew wasn't the only one who didn't really know what was going on. That applies to most the players from both sides today, including the officials.
Trigs seems like the classic 'this bloke might turn out to be good so lets just get him in case he is and he ends up somewhere else' type signing. Agree I highly doubt it is £850k but then there are some mad amounts of money being thrown about in football so who knows.
8th Aug 2026 22:16:13 
 [80.lo.gg.ed] 
Also agree it will be good for his bank balance and don't blame him for going for it. However as you say he will just end up playing academy / junior football now instead of a full season of men's football which would surely have been better for his development and long term career. Anyway lets see what happens.
Nkeng would only go into a Premier League team’s academy and either disappear there or go out on loan. You don’t pay big money for that. You might pay inproved wages to tempt a player away knowing that, at that age, you don’t need to pay a decent amount. A tribunal wouldn’t come up with that amount - I reckon.
8th Aug 2026 22:12:00 
 [195.lo.gg.ed] 
We’ll all just have to wait and see.
Anyway that was fairly abysmal and we got away with it and yes the referee was abysmal too. Why would he love Newport so much? Seems a random team to love.
8th Aug 2026 22:11:43 
 [80.lo.gg.ed] 
Plus side took my nephew to his first football match and he loved it even if he didn't really know what was going on
Forest are desperate for new players so I heard on the radio 750k is loose change to them
8th Aug 2026 21:58:38 
 [89.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
There’s no way Nkeng goes for £850k. Assal went for £1m I think and was far more advanced. What did Ipswich pay for AAH? I loved watching Nkeng take the game on during our crap phase(s) last season but he wasn’t Assal or AAH (regardless of how they turned out) and the game doesn’t pay well for unknown quantities.
8th Aug 2026 21:31:52 
 [195.lo.gg.ed] 
It mitigates risk and the risk here is huge for whoever takes him on so lickle money for the fan owned club in no position to negotiate anything because we keep shouting about how poor we are.
Airsy @ 20.41 - in my WhatsApp group, several people are "confirming" that it was the same ref.
8th Aug 2026 21:27:16 
 [46.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Well thank heavens the typo was that.
8th Aug 2026 21:26:36 
 [195.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
“kob” should be “job” in the post below- apologies for the typo
8th Aug 2026 21:11:15 
 [81.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Sad to see Nkeng leaving, though it’s his kob snd you absolutely can’t blame him for taking the ££££££ on offer, further support for the view that the role of the youth system is now really just to produce reserve team players for PL squads (and mediocre compensation for us). Very unlikely that we will ever again see a youth team player come through our system and become a first team regular for us
8th Aug 2026 21:10:06 
 [81.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
We need the money and Nkeng is still unproved. He looks great at times and totally naive at times (as you'd expect for someone of his age).
8th Aug 2026 21:02:06 
 [81.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Thanks CW. I wouldn't want to miss out.
8th Aug 2026 20:43:14 
 [81.lo.gg.ed] 
If that Nkeng rumour is true and we can get a decent sell on clause, then we should grab it. He has potential but doesn't really fit into the way we play. He was also starting to get found out too. That money will tide us over for another year as we need about another £1m to find to stay solvent with all those bond redemptions due next February and PLB3 bombing so far.
I am reasonably confident that today's ref was the same one as for that Boxing Day game against Newport who gave Hudlin that dubious red card and that penalty against Biler?
8th Aug 2026 20:41:53 
 [194.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Spartan - more than double the missing £400k!!!
8th Aug 2026 20:31:26 
 [109.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
I'm hearing that Nkeng has gone to Forest for £850,000. ???
8th Aug 2026 20:29:12 
 [46.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Millwall keeper set a record-equalling four penalty saves today - he was denied the chance to go 5 out of 5 because the penalty shoot out ended (only 2-0) without the 5th penalty being needed.
8th Aug 2026 20:16:14 
 [195.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Historical Dons did sell out but more available at the Reading game
8th Aug 2026 20:06:19 
 [89.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Awful game of football. Two poor sides. If Newport stay up in League 2 we could well be playing them next season on that showing. I have to believe we will play better than that. The only decent thing was our penalties, which were surprisingly good. Did Hackford touch the ball after coming on? I'm glad he wasn't one of the five who took one, although as a forward you would expect him to.
8th Aug 2026 19:46:26 
 [81.lo.gg.ed] 
Were there any Historical Dons being sold today? Didn't see any on sale at 2.45 pm or after the game either. Assume they sold out. Hope they are available for Reading in two weeks.