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After successive victories in our first two away games of our Football League life, we now need to follow this up with 3 more points in front of our own supporters against Hereford tomorrow.

I will be working in the burger van, but will be listening to the oohs, aahs and hopefully lots of cheering from the Dons fans.

I am just hoping that being in a play-off position at this early stage won’t affect us in the latter part of the season. If we can have another season like the last one that would be great. But as we all know no two seasons are ever the same.

We will just have to win as many games as we can and try not to think about either the play-offs or automatic promotion until at least March.

After I finish working in the burger van, I will be popping into the back bar for a few drinks. I will be wearing my maroon shirt, with my Dons Trust member badge.

Then I need to head home as Gary (my fiancé) and I are having to dog-sit for our friends. On Sunday I will be just be chilling out at home with Gary ahead of my busy week at work (Mencap). I am doing interviews in Bristol (Tuesday), London (Wednesday), Birmingham (Thursday) and London again (Friday).

Hope you all enjoy your weekend and for all you Dons fans going to tomorrow’s game come on let’s hear some noise for the lads to help
them score the goals and get those three points.

Take care of yourselves and hope to see you at some point tomorrow.

Bernie
Twitter: @berniemc1

For those who need their daily/weekly fix of play off promotion reminiscence, and to persuade themselves that they didn’t dream it all, please see http://www.flickr.com/photos/andythephotographer/sets/72157626655705931/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/andythephotographer/sets/72157626785774388/ and http://www.littlehampdon.co.uk/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=586, for pictures of the play off final, and for overall summaries of events, please see http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/23/in-praise-of-afc-wimbledon and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1389830/Martin-Samuel-Nine-years-AFC-Wimbledon-come-wombling-wilderness.html then relive the penalty shoot out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-gl9-_ReEI or here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC0ICDJiR9M&feature=youtube_gdata_player or with added (biased) commentary here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_WQm9BGUC0 or even just Kedwell’s penalty from behind the goal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rawv32SKncM&NR=1 then a view from a Luton angle, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_o6ohoiUzE&feature=player_embedded and from back behind the goal again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMxbk9TfXVM and overall match highlights can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89rGJhFM454 A video from “Life is a Pitch” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c9CN2-bUjM There’s also a compilation of sound bites from our life in non-league from the BBC here http://audioboo.fm/boos/364367-afc-wimbledon-the-journey-from-bbc-london-94-9

Chris Perry will be attending the fundraising party in aid of Motor Neurone Disease Association on Saturday 12th March 2011 (after the Kidderminster match) in the main bar at Kingsmeadow. Also scheduled to attend are Mikey Haswell, Alan Inns and Jon Main.

Mikey T will be the DJ for the evening and a cold buffet and sweetie table are being provided.

There will be a raffle and mini auction of Wimbledon memorabilia also taking place.

This party is in conjunction with lifelong Dons fan Tina Massey’s entry in this year’s London Marathon. Tina is running to raise funds for MNDA, as is Chris.

If you would like to reserve party tickets, for payment and collection at the Altrincham game, please email tinamassey@btinternet.com

Tickets are just £10 per person and can be acquired from Paul Raymond, who will be selling tickets in the lobby between the two entrance doors to the main bar between 2-3pm and at half-time, then from inside the main bar after the match on Saturday versus Altrincham.

Please support Tina, Chris and MNDA.

Ok then, here they are. The highly anticipated GB 2010 Awards results. Thanks to everyone who voted, congratulations to everyone who got a vote and, of course, special congratulations to the winners. Enjoy!

1. Poster of the year:

Old Isthmian – 7 votes

Tudor – 6

REPD – 3

Ray, Surrey Bob -2

CurranHung, Triggerfish, Pete Winkelman, Bath Womble, Meadow, Haywards Heath Womble, Classless Bandwagoner, BD, Secret Agent, Numancia Don, Laurence, Fermin, Wagner the Brazilian Don, Trebor – 1

2. Best Guestbook Joker:

Hardon – 7

Tudor – 4

Haywards Heath Womble, Wagner the Brazilian Don – 3

TinTin, Pete, Guido Pazzi – 2

Nick, Weston Green Don, Meadow, REPD, Classless Bandwagoner, BD, Lloydy, Yidaho Colin, Barnsley Dave – 1

3. Favourite Adversary:

Tudor – 4

Burgess Hill Benny, Hardon – 3

REPD, Lloydy, Classless Bandwagoner – 2

Secret Agent, Trebor, Jertzee, Meadow, The Nob with the fake town who stole my club as his name Don, BD, An Interested Observer, Watford, Chuckle Brothers, Sam The Don, Cho – 1

4. Favourite Poster of the Opposite Sex:

CurranHung – 4

Chestnut, Meadow, McKechnie –  3

Zoe, Trebor, Old Sarum – 2

Colette, REPD, Classless Wagoner, BD, Bob M, The Big Tissue, Karen Lioness, Lady Womble, Raspberry, Old Isthmian, Meadow, Bubble, SW16 Girl, TinTin – 1

5. Mr/Ms Incognito:

Chestnut – 3

McKechnie, Dave Skinner, Yorkshire Womble, Trebor, Lloydy, Amir, Yidaho Coiln – 2

Weston Green Don, Island Womble, Hardon, Black Finger Nail, Egg Chasing Womble, Meadow, Maliniok, OldSkool80s, Classless Bandwagoner, BD, REPD, Jabod, Sussex Don, Bradford Don, Fleydon, CurranHung – 1

6. Favourite Non-Womble Poster:

Barnsley Dave – 11

Fermin – 6

SW16 Girl – 5

RS – 3

Artist Known as Newfan – 2

Meadow, Alan IOW, Styles, Classless Bandwagoner, BD, Beano, Ebbsfleet Supporter – 1

7. Favourite Guestbook Stayway:

Classless Bandwagoner – 5

Paul Raymond, Paul R, Cho – 3

Donato, Mike A, Ronan – 2

Burgess Hill Benny, Hot Chocolate, Jill/Aideen (joint), BD, Meadow, Paul R, Alan, Jonesy, SK, SW16 Girl – 1

8. The Most Repetitive Poster:

Lloydy, Flying Jock – 4

REPD, Hardon – 3

Dave Skinner, An Interested Observer, Barnsley Dave, Tudor, Surrey Bob, Meadow, Tudor, TinTin, Classless Bandwagoner, BD, Andy Roberts, Bath Womble, Milton Keynes Citizen, Bazzacabs, Anyone talking about carvery, Chigwell Lee, Jertzee -1

With the FA Cup run over, THAT game not likely to happen at least for another year, Russia having won the WC2018 bid, new DT board members already elected and an odd football match here and there postponed due to weather, here is something to keep you all, dear WUP Guestbook posters, busy: The Womble Underground Press Guestbook Awards 2010!

The idea is simple: There are 8 categories for which you have to elect the winners from among each other.  You can vote for the same poster in more than one category, but for each category you can only choose one candidate. Here are the categories:

1. Poster of the year – Someone whose posts are the most factual, well-balanced,
informative and up to the point.

2. Best Guestbook Joker – someone with outstanding sense of humour,
whose posts are amusing, make you smile or laugh.

3. Your Favourite Adversary – a poster with whom you usually disagree
but, nonetheless, you enjoy and respect his/her posts.

4. Favourite Poster of the opposite sex – Boys vote for girls and girls,
vote for boys, boys vote for boys or girls vote for girls. Your choice.

5. Mr/Ms Incognito – a poster you only know by tag but would like to
meet in person.

6. Favourite Non-Womble Poster – voting for WUP Guestbook contributors from
other clubs.

7. Favourite Guestbook Stayway – someone who used to post and whose
contributions on the guestbook are hugely missed.

8. Most Repetititve Poster – a poster who tends to repeat their ideas
and often repeats their comments, jokes, ideas, etc.

Please send your votes to awards@wup.me.uk and sign it with BOTH you guestbook tag and full name – this is to ensure that everyone, including those with multiple tags, votes only once. Voting closes on Friday, 17 December at 8 pm. Feel free to ask questions if anything is unclear.

EDIT: Please do not post your votes in comments to this post!

The voting is now on to pick the players who have helped make this a memorable first season in the Blue Square Conference.

Is it the top goalscorer? Or the scorer of the best goal? Is it the midfield dynamo, or the unsung defensive workhorse? Might it be a keeper whose performance in goal helped us stay in a crucial game? Whatever your reasoning, the choice is yours.

Our end of season awards will be made on the pitch at our last home game of the regular season, against Tamworth on Tuesday 20th April.

As always, there are two awards which will be decided by you, the fans.

The WISA Player of the Year trophy, inaugurated in 2002, was won last year by Ben Judge.

For the Natalie Callow Memorial Trophy for the AFCW Young Player of the Year sponsored by Womble Underground Press, you can vote for the player of your choice from the following who have featured in the first-team this season and were under 21 at the start of the campaign:
Jack Turner, Seb Brown, Sam Hatton, Rick Wellard, Kennedy Adjei , Ross Montague, Luke Moore, and Peter Rapson

To vote:
At the Stevenage & Grays games, you can use a voting slip as handed out by WISA and WUP volunteers or to be found by the WISA ballot boxes in the bars at Kingsmeadow.

You can also vote online, by e-mailing: poty@afcwimbledon.co.uk giving your WISA membership number, season ticket or AFCW PLC details.

Young player votes should be emailed to ypoty@wup.me.uk mentioning the player’s name in the message (no membership/season ticket information needed).
Closing date for all votes, 6 p.m on 13/04/10.

Things are looking a bit grim for the Ladies!

2 points off the bottom, but they have 2 games in hand!

Why not come along on a Sunday and offer your support! They need a “twelth man” (or woman) !
See guestbook diary for forthcoming fixtures.

League Table

1 Panthers 17 11 3 3 22 36
2 Maidstone Town 16 11 2 3 24 35
3 Old Actonians 16 10 4 2 18 34
4 Littlehampton Town 16 10 2 4 16 32
5 Wingate & Finchley 16 6 3 7 -11 21
6 Wandgas 16 6 1 9 -11 19
7 Denham United 18 6 3 9 -2 17 *
8 Crawley Wasps 15 4 4 7 -8 16
9 Horley Town 14 5 1 8 -11 16
10 AFC Wimbledon 16 4 0 12 -29 12
11 Garston 18 3 3 12 -8 10 *

1 promotion & 1 Relegation from League

Garston to play Wandgas & Old Actonians

Some of your fellow guestbookers and Dons fans are participating in charity events soon and WUP hopes to help raise awareness and funds…..

Essex Womble (Paul Jeater) is participating in Ian Botham’s sponsored walk on April 18th to raise funds for Leukaemia Research in Chelmsford. The walk will mark the 25th Anniversary of Ian Botham’s first Lands End to John O’Groats walk.
http://www.beefy25.com/

Leukaemia remains the largest killer of teenagers and young adults in Britain, survival rates have greatly improved, but more resources are needed.

Paul will have sponsor sheets at all home games Barrow, Rushden and Wrexham & Stevenage , between now and then. You can find him at the Dons Trust table in the back bar, before those matches.

Mrs Womble66 is taking part in the Race For Life on Sunday, 18th July and here is a link if anyone would like to sponsor her in aid of Cancer Research.

http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/carolinekingstonlynch

Emily Armfield (daughter of Ray) is also running the Cancer Research UK ‘Race for Life’ at Mote Park, Maidstone on 16 May 2010 and would welcome any donations towards her target figure of £100 via this link…

http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/emilyarmfield1

Baskers has yet to fulfil his two year old promise to run naked around KM if the Dons achieved play off promotion, but partly by way of atonement, he is doing the London Marathon this year for his brothers’ charity Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. You can support him by visiting:

http://www.justgiving.co.uk/jason-baskaran

Simon Booth (tag name: Simon) is also participating in the London Marathon representing Tyume Valley Schools.
They are a great charity that aims to improve the educational opportunities for the children of the Tyume Valley area of South Africa, and have established a Resource Centre within the valley that gives the children the opportunity to access IT facilities and a library. They also run activity camps which develop their English, Science and personal skills as well as allowing them to participate in games and have some fun.
Check out their website for more information http://www.tvschools.org.uk/

They would like to raise funds to be able to buy a minibus so that the children in the surrounding villages can access the resource centre.

Simon’s sponsorship target is £1800 and you can donate to the charity via the biggive http://www.thebiggive.org.uk/charity.php?charity_id=495&search=9e8156f3-c030-404f-aa2d-87c3b412caf3
Our very own Haydon the Womble is running the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday April 25th.

Haydon is running for the Children’s Trust in Tadworth, which provides care, education, therapy and rehabilitation to children with multiple disabilities, complex health needs and acquired brain injury.

Their website is here: http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/

You can find Haydon at a game and sponsor him there or you can do it here: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Haydon-the-Womble

If you could spare even 50p to sponsor any of the above it would help to make a difference to the above named charities,

Also Haydon’s friend Dean Parsons AKA Tintin, is running a raffle to help raise extra funds. Tickets are £1 and all prizes have been donated so that every penny goes to the Children’s Trust:

Prizes so far include:

2 Queens Stand tickets for Epsom race course at any race day (except Derby Day)
Family pass for Painshill Park, Cobham for 2 adults and up to 4 children
£25 Elys Vouchers
Trevor Sorbie Male Grooming Lap top bag gift set
Trevor Sorbie Ladies Moisturising gift set with vanity bag.
Bottle of Bacardi
Bottle of Russian Vodka
Lush Pamper pack
4 bottles of red wine
2 bottles of white wine.

If you know of any companies that would be willing to donate anything for the raffle please let Dean know, he is hoping to be Radio Jackie and Surrey Comets official marathon runner, so they will get promoted there.

Also any support on the day would really be appreciated, especially as Dean will need people around the route with towels, energy gels, water etc to help Haydon to get round, so if you can assist in any way please let Dean know via WUP email address.

All the above fundraisers thank you for reading and for your support

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