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On This Day in 1977
Centre forward Roger Connell tries to flick the ball over goalkeeper Pat Cuff as the Dons attack in an FA Cup third round tie against First Division Middlesbrough that ended in a 0-0 draw. Afterwards visiting manager Jack Charlton accused his Southern League hosts of gamesmanship for a preparing a pitch that lived up to the name of Plough Lane, but he also admitted; "they are a good team." His opposite number, Allen Batsford, warned that the replay would be just as close. "We seem to play better away," he said. "The home team has to come forward and that is what we like." In the event, a disputed penalty at Ayresome Park saw Boro secure a narrow 1-0 win.
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Can it really be a decade since that play-off final victory over Plymouth at Wembley? In December 2015, while the club was celebrating Merton Council giving permission for a new stadium to be built on Plough Lane, there was little to smile about on the field. A long run without a win culminated in a home defeat against Stevenage after which the players snubbed fans by missing the post-match presentations to head off for their Christmas party and goalkeeper Ben Wilson went online to mock supporters. After a tough talking team meeting, an underperforming squad emerged into the New Year with a new attitude and started a run that carried them to the play offs where they beat Accrington over two legs before facing the Pilgrims in the final. The latest edition of the Historical Don has the details from every game as well as the battle to return to Plough Lane and the memories of Paul Robinson, Andy Barcham and others.
20th Dec 2025 10:44:05 
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Issue 52 will be on sale from in front of the club shop before home games.
He comes across very well in that article: “Sasu admits the play-off final victory over Walsall was something of a full circle moment, given nine years prior he had watched Wimbledon win that game when he was preparing to join the academy aged 10. ‘To be there and part of the squad at Wembley felt surreal,’ adds the 20-year-old, who admits the Dons made sure to celebrate their achievement that night. ‘If you said five or six years ago when I was trying to push for my scholarship that I’d be part of the squad to get promoted, I’d have been amazed. You need to cherish those incredible moments.'”
9th Jan 2026 14:02:20 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Try this [Link]
9th Jan 2026 13:58:07 
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Sorry DO A pay wall !
9th Jan 2026 13:49:00 
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DO[Link]
9th Jan 2026 13:47:46 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
nug - do you have a link?
9th Jan 2026 13:28:25 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
A good football agent one would think!
9th Jan 2026 13:03:59 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Aron Sasu has a feature piece in the Daily Mail. WTF is that all about !!
9th Jan 2026 12:56:06 
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nug
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Very quite in the transfer window apart from youngsters out on loan...
9th Jan 2026 12:52:31 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
The communist running the country now want to close down x 😂😂😂
9th Jan 2026 12:38:35 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
OtD - i think it is Jeff Bryant. The Boro players look like - Terry Cooper ,Peter Brine, Willie Maddren, Pat Cuff, Tony McAndrew, John Craggs and Stuart Boam.
9th Jan 2026 12:15:08 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
I have Connell, Cooke, Edwards and Marlowe in the 1977 pic v Middlesbrough, not sure about fr left could it be Bryant?
9th Jan 2026 11:42:31 
 [81.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
That Arsenal vs Liverpool game last night was as dull a match I have seen this season, and I went to both our home games against Stevenage and Mansfield. Too much football over the past few months, lots of tired players and lots of players playing it safe. No bite. Referees go through fads, this year it is goalkeepers being counted down, next year goalkeepers will be sure to hold on to the ball too long again, a few years ago it was delaying a restart, players have gone back to standing in front of the ball to stop play, last year it was loads of injury time, referees seem to have gone back to 3-4 minutes as standard.
9th Jan 2026 10:21:32 
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Players seem to have been overcoached, it is why it was so exciting seeing Nkeng last Sunday. Raw and exciting. We haven't had a player like that for years.
The 1978 game that is
9th Jan 2026 09:55:39 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
It was 1978 SMDM, in 1979 we played them in the FA Cup but not on Boxing Day. I remember it as I was working in the White Lion pub and 5 minutes after opening up 100+ Portsmouth supporters descended on the pub. They were well behaved and Jack Ives made a bomb.
9th Jan 2026 09:55:07 
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a4e - are you sure Roy wasn't ctiticising him for not kicking Bradley off the pitch.
9th Jan 2026 09:43:55 
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will Saipan be worth seeing?
Bradley, even though injured, wriggled himself further back onto the pitch.Neither he nor Martinelli showed the 'Corinthian spirit'.
9th Jan 2026 09:41:18 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Trigger - the pretending-to-be-injured time wasting tactic is worse now than it ever has been before, with players actually crawling back onto the pitch when supposedly hurt just so that the referee will stop the game… It needs to be stopped, and cards issued for it too… It made me laugh, however, that of all the people criticising Martinelli for trying to shove Connor Bradley off the pitch when he was genuinely injured last night, one of them was Roy Keane… 🤪😂😂 He’s hardly in a position to have a go at anyone for antics on (or off…) the field… 🤷🏻‍♂️
9th Jan 2026 08:47:01 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
SMDM. I remember that Boxing Day, it was the only time I ever got wacked at a football match in 55 years of supporting Wimbledon.
9th Jan 2026 08:12:59 
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9th Jan 2026 07:42:32 
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Back once again.
Pete - [Link]
9th Jan 2026 02:05:49 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
I rather like the current batch of OTD pictures. All before my time but even though the colourisation isn't perfect, it makes them seem more real to me than some grainy black and white picture.
8th Jan 2026 22:46:28 
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I've only just got around to reading the Stevenage matchday programme (Exeter will be next). Omar seems very happy judging by his picture on page 17 in many ways. Deary me. On page 76 it says WFC played Portsmouth on Boxing Day 1979. I could have sworn it was 1978. I vividly remember that game and just wanted to get out alive, having only recently turned 10 and watching the away support wreck Plough Lane. Scum.
If the club wants any help with their CRM then I’m happy to help. “Book your ga” not really a call to action when you’re spending money on personalised emails.
8th Jan 2026 22:20:31 
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I’m happy to help out on a volunteer (unpaid) basis regardless of the situation. Want the club to succeed regardless.
Blimy mind your language back on tv that’s tv 2 at 11 pm thought that would never be shown again with the woke brigade
8th Jan 2026 21:40:24 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
If this Arsenal v Liverpool game ends 0-0 then I expect a new rule next season about falling over and pretending to be injured because it is, right now, “diminishing the product”.
8th Jan 2026 21:22:42 
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Dreadful game of pretend by people who are paid and able to do so much better.
LLMs will prove to be a dead end (for them not us). It is the neural networks that will be out to get us.
8th Jan 2026 19:47:09 
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LLMs are just very good pattern recognisers