AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons Match for the Very First time on Saturday, live on Sky Sports Football.
It’s a rivalry that doesn’t need describing, and even MK boss Paul Tisdale has admitted from the build-up which”it is not just another game” for his aspect.
With MK winning a penalty shootout after a 2-2 draw Both have met this year in the first round of this Carabao Cup, but this is their first league meeting since January 2018.
Ever since that time, MK were relegated from League One then won marketing back while AFC Wimbledon enjoyed a run to fasten survival in the rear end of last year, preserving their standing.
Here, a buff from both clubs tells us what the rivalry means to them…
MK Dons enthusiast Harry Wright
Milton Keynes Dons vs AFC Wimbledon. Yes, AFC Wimbledon. Maybe not Wimbledon. They’re two unique things. This weekend’s most current struggle between the two is equally as important as ever and MK are trying to kickstart their season.
The match means. The way we are treated by them at their bottom is a cry for attention and compassion. It has to be on them.
It is a rivalry no other lovers will relate to. They aren’t just down the road and it was not born over time. This rivalry is still in its fledgling years. For all those, we took the heart. For us, they abandoned their club, they left it to expire and allow somebody else pick up these bits had the arrogance.
Milton Keynes Dons are my regional team. I was born 25 minutes off, when I was seven a club came on my doorstep and I supported them as any neighborhood fan should. However, as I grew old, I heard us predicted a’franchise’,”club stealers’,'plastic’, which we should not exist.
However, I feel AFC Wimbledon are earning a name for themselves because we’ve got a doctrine, an identity, whereas we will always be the real winners and we’re making our personal history. They have not decided what theirs is.
It’s not the fans that are engrossed in this fixture. Fans from far and wide across the Football League are interested by it. As the years go on the tide is changing and more people are realising AFC Wimbledon aren’t all they make themselves out to become.
Long may it last.
AFC Wimbledon fan Chris Phillips
Every time we face MK Dons, I can’t help but think back to May 28, 2002. The FA declared the relocation of Wimbledon FC to Milton 13, the day.
I was crushed by the movement. However, before they’d even played a’home’ match in their town, fans of Wimbledon had put up a new club to continue their west London legacy. AFC Wimbledon was born.
The FA famously said that our formation was’not at the interests of football’. These words fanned the flames, and inspiring us to triumph, and also feelings have run since.
As AFC Wimbledon climbed the ladder of success, the inevitability of the 2 clubs assembly eventually manifested in a tense and cup tie in Milton Keynes at 2012.
Victory moved to the house team. But a couple of years on, AFC Wimbledon rose above MK Dons for the very first time in the league, aided by a magnificent victory in their first-ever championship meeting in west London. Everything clicked on the night. This was magic.
“Where were you when you were us?” That’s every time we meet what we sing . It’s barely applicable though. If you had set out to find’us’ amongst them in their’home’ game in 2003 you’d be an genius. Wimbledon supporters stayed home and reel in their use of the nickname’The Dons’.
Our beginning to the season has not been great but form is pretty much out the window to get this. The real Dons and Bucks are visiting again. However, to us, this game isn’t a derby, it’s an obligation. A grudge match.
More importantly it is a chance to find that first win of the season.
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