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Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

At The Match: AFC Wimbledon 2-2 Doncaster Rovers, November 2020

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

Stak Production

Girls Football, Womens World Cup, Chloe Kelly, Lionesses, Nwsl, Football, Womens Football, England Womens, Keira Walsh, Womens England Football, Sports, Leah Williamson, Soccer, Womens Sports, Womens Soccer, Female Sports

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

There was only one person we could send off from Haydons Road station towards the floodlights at the newly built Plough Lane in South London last week. On today’s At The Match, join Andy Brassell as he witnesses a historic moment for English football: AFC Wimbledon’s return home, after a 29-year wait.


This landmark occasion was a bittersweet one, as The Dons’ first match back at the new Plough Lane couldn’t feature any fans in the stands. Andy still found loyal supporters to speak to, including former player and manager Simon Bassey who discusses his love affair with the club that stretches back over twenty years. Elsewhere, Andy Butler speaks about the team maintaining its Merton roots and fan campaigner Charlie Talbert tries to get his head around such a hectic and momentous day. 


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0:00.0

Hello, this episode of Upfront is brought to you by Transport for London.

0:06.2

TFL are taking a zero tolerance approach towards hate crime and abusive

0:10.0

behavior on public transport and making sure the network is as safe as possible

0:13.8

for passengers and TFL staff. If you find yourself witnessing an incident you might

0:18.3

wonder what you can do to help. More on that's

0:25.0

it's going to be emotional tonight that's absolutely inevitable but I've decided

0:31.8

to lean into that and there are several different ways available for me to get from my current residents to Plow Lane.

0:40.0

But I've decided to take it all the way back when I first started going with my dad when I was 10 11 years old.

0:48.0

We'd drive, he'd drive us to Tulsa Hill Station and and then we get the train from there to Hayden's Road which is the

0:57.9

closest station to Plow Lane.

1:00.8

So that's exactly what I'm going to do.

1:06.0

Hayden's Road, here we come.

1:10.0

For you, Dad.

1:38.7

It will shortly be arriving at Hagenth Road. And so for the first time in 29 and a half years I am quite literally walking down the Hayden's road to see the Wombelaces.

1:48.0

It's such an unusual feeling. I've made this walk a lot of times

1:50.0

when I went to see Wimbledon when I was 11, 12, 13, etc.

1:54.6

But obviously not for so so long.

1:58.2

And it's not hit me yet, even though it's a familiar walk, familiar shape of road.

2:11.0

And in about a couple of hundred yards you turn the corner into Plow Lane.

2:17.0

I can remember walking up with my dad, tons of horseshoe everywhere, it's like minefield that you're trying to negotiate and

2:28.4

then straight into the old stadium.

2:30.4

Now where the old stadium was was on the corner of Hayden's Road and Plow Lane and now that is a series of flats and they're all blocks called Alan Cork House and

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