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On This Day in 1959
Isthmian League champions Wimbledon were in training ahead of the new season. At a civic reception to celebrate the club's first title success in in 23 years, Sydney Black tried to dampen expectations. "There are far too many people in Wimbledon who think that next year we will win the Amateur Cup," he said. "All I will say is that there will come a time when we will bring it back.' Perhaps the chairman knew that the young team that he and his coach Les Henley were assembling had yet to fully mature.
Click here for On This Day at historicaldons.com
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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 
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Bad Egg - [Link]
12th Aug 2026 18:51:44 
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I’m winging it and watching the eclipse through the wrapper from a 1970s bottle of Lucozade.
12th Aug 2026 18:44:38 
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Suffolk
Eclipse well underway.
12th Aug 2026 18:40:42 
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I flew past New York not long after 9/11. Smoke still rising above the city.
12th Aug 2026 18:36:51 
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Before I worked in Docklands I used to motorbike up to the City to work. My route home took me either through Brixton/Streatham or Balham/Tooting - I would decide at the fork of the road at Kennington. One night I chose straight ahead instead of left and missed the start of the Brixton Riots.
12th Aug 2026 17:57:34 
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The moral - forks are useful
I once left a knife in the fork section of my kitchen drawer but remembered before I had got on the motorway.
12th Aug 2026 17:38:10 
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I was one of about 50 wimbledon fans standing in the leppins lane stand 10 days before the disaster
12th Aug 2026 17:27:50 
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I had tickets to an evening with Liam Trotter but had an urgent hair appointment at the last minute.
12th Aug 2026 17:26:07 
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I lived near Battersea Park in the early '70s and went on the Big Dipper a lot with my art school mates. Not on 30th May 1972 fortunately.
12th Aug 2026 17:16:37 
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I was off sick the day the Docklands Bomb went off and blew in all the windows of our 11th floor office several hundred yards away.
12th Aug 2026 16:27:34 
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Got the whole of the following week off.
A4e-I was there in 1999 only 3 years before
12th Aug 2026 16:20:14 
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The guy at Sun Microsystems that hired me as a consultant was meant to be giving a talk at a conference there on September 11th. Luckily he'd pulled out a couple of weeks beforehand but he probably beats most of us for close shaves.
12th Aug 2026 16:10:40 
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Trust you visited the Barromean islands OI including the palace where they hold details of the failed peace deal between Hitler and GB brokered by Mussolini
12th Aug 2026 16:04:17 
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stunning place but probably too touristy now
I went to the 107th floor of the World Trade Centre in 1980…
12th Aug 2026 16:04:15 
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I went on the Stresa (Italy) cable car before it failed. [Link]
12th Aug 2026 15:41:47 
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a couple of years so not that close a shave
Trigger - I went on the cable car in Tbilisi a couple of months ago, and thankfully I only discovered this - [Link] - afterwards
12th Aug 2026 15:30:46 
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Sandy - yep, thought as much. Did Fulham v Villa last season and Villa fans were waiting outside at 10.40
Swig - you might be correct…
12th Aug 2026 15:18:40 
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That's why it was put there a4e 👍👍
12th Aug 2026 15:09:42 
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George is the Simon Bassey of the women's game
12th Aug 2026 14:55:13 
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Hash - thats because they lost all the best players to George’s Farnham fc !
12th Aug 2026 14:53:52 
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Trigger there's a video of an operation taking place when an earthquake hits Japan. So much to go wrong there, the only one not bothered by it was the patient.
12th Aug 2026 14:53:49 
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REPD - the Eight Bells is indeed an away pub. At least, it was last season.
12th Aug 2026 14:33:46 
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Saw a video just now of some people on a cable car during the Colombian earthquake. That's gotta be pretty scary.
12th Aug 2026 14:18:41 
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It is the partnership not the brewery that launched last year a4e
12th Aug 2026 14:07:23 
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Womens team making loads of signings. Seems to be one every couple of days.
12th Aug 2026 14:06:20 
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