AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons meet for the ninth time on Saturday, live on Sky Sports Football.
It’s a rivalry that does not need explaining, and also MK boss Paul Tisdale has admitted from the build-up that”it is not just another game” for his side.
Together with MK winning a penalty shootout after a 2-2 draw, Both have already met this year in the first round of the Carabao Cup, but this is their first league meeting because January 2018.
Since that time, MK were relegated from League One and then won immediate publicity back from League Two, while AFC Wimbledon enjoyed a run to procure victory preserving their status.
Here, a lover from both clubs informs us what the competition means to them…
MK Dons enthusiast Harry Wright
Milton Keynes Dons vs AFC Wimbledon. Yes, AFC Wimbledon. Maybe not Wimbledon. They are two distinct things. The latest struggle between the two of this weekend is equally as critical as ever and MK are seeking to kick-start their season.
The game means so much more than 90 minutes. How we are treated by them at their ground is only a cry for empathy and attention. It always has to be about them.
It is to. They aren’t only down the street and it wasn’t born within time. This competition is still in its fledgling years. For these, we took the heart. For us, they left their team they left it to die and allow someone else pick up those bits had the time to think they deserve a say in what happened to it.
Milton Keynes Dons are my team. I was born 25 minutes off, when I was seven a club arrived on my doorstep and that I supported them as any fan should. However, as I grew older, I heard us known as a’franchise’,”club stealers’,”plastic’, which we should not exist.
However, I feel AFC Wimbledon are making a name for themselves to all of the wrong motives, because we’ve got a philosophy, an individuality, whereas we’ll always be the real winners and we’re making our own history. They haven’t decided what theirs is.
It is not. It fascinates fans from far and wide across the Football League. As the years go on the tide is changing and more people are denying AFC Wimbledon aren’t all.
Long may it continue.
AFC Wimbledon fan Chris Phillips
Every time we confront MK Dons, I can’t help but come back to May 28, 2002. The FA declared the relocation of Wimbledon FC the afternoon.
Me crushed. Before they’d even played a’house’ game in their new town, supporters of Wimbledon had put up a new non-league club to continue their west London legacy in the lower reaches of the soccer pyramid. AFC Wimbledon was first born.
The FA famously said that our formation was’not in the interests of football’. Those words fanned the flames, so motivating us to triumph, and feelings have run since.
Since the ladder of success climbed, the inevitability of those two clubs meeting manifested in cup tie and a stressed from Milton Keynes in 2012.
Victory went to the home team on such occasion. But a couple of years ago, AFC Wimbledon climbed above MK Dons for the very first time at the league, aided by a midweek success in their championship meeting from west London. Everything clicked on the evening. It was magic.
“Where were you when you’re us?” That is what we sing whenever we meet. It’s barely relevant though. If you’d set out to discover’us’ amongst them at their’home’ game in 2003 you’d be an genius. Wimbledon fans stayed still and home reel in their use of the nickname’The Dons’.
Our beginning to the season has not been great but form is pretty far out the window for this. The Dons and Bucks are currently seeing again. But to people, this game is not even a derby, it’s an obligation that is unwanted. A grudge match.
More to the point it is an opportunity to find that first win of the year.
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