AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons meet live on Sky Sports Football.
It’s a competition that doesn’t need describing, and even MK boss Paul Tisdale has confessed from the build-up which”it’s not just another game” for his aspect.
Together with MK winning a penalty shootout after a 2-2 draw the two have met this year from the very first round of this Carabao Cup, however this will be his first league meeting because January 2018.
Since that time, MK have been relegated from League One and then won promotion back while AFC Wimbledon enjoyed a remarkable streak to secure success at the rear end of last season, preserving their third-tier standing.
Here, a buff from both clubs informs us what the competition means …
MK Dons fan Harry Wright
Milton Keynes Dons vs AFC Wimbledon. Yes, AFC Wimbledon. Not Wimbledon. They are two unique things. The latest clash between the two of this weekend is equally as important as ever and MK are searching to kick-start their season after a start.
The game means. How we are treated by them in their ground is a cry for attention and sympathy. It must be about them.
It is to. They are not simply down the road and it wasn’t born within time. This rivalry is still in its fledgling years. For these, we took the heart. For all of us, they left their clubthey left it to die and let somebody else pick up these pieces, then had the arrogance to think they deserve a mention in what happened to it.
Milton Keynes Dons are my neighborhood team. I was born 25 minutes away, when I was seven a club came on my doorstep and that I supported them as any local fan should. But as I grew old, I noticed us known as a’franchise’,”’club stealers’,’vinyl’, which we shouldn’t exist.
However, I believe AFC Wimbledon are making a name for themselves to all the wrong reasons, whereas we’ll always be the real winners because we have a philosophy, an individuality and we’re producing our own history. They still haven’t decided what theirs is.
It’s not the fans that are engrossed in this fixture. Fans from wide and far across the Football League are interested by it. As the years go on the wave is changing and more people are denying AFC Wimbledon aren’t all.
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 sanctioned the relocation of Wimbledon FC to Milton 13, the afternoon.
Me crushed. Before they’d even played with a’house’ match in their town, supporters of Wimbledon had set up a new non-league club to keep their west London legacy. AFC Wimbledon was born.
The FA famously said that our creation was’not in the interests of soccer’. These words fanned the flames, and motivating us to triumph, and also feelings have run high ever since.
As AFC Wimbledon climbed the ladder of success, the inevitability of the two clubs assembly finally manifested in a tense and vitriolic cup tie from Milton Keynes at 2012.
Victory moved to the house team. But a few years ago, AFC Wimbledon rose above MK Dons for the first time in the league, aided by a stunning success within their inaugural league meeting in south west London. Everything clicked on the night. This was magic.
“Where were you when you were ?” That’s every time we meet, what we sing . It’s barely applicable anymore, though. If you had set out to discover’us’ amongst them in their first’home’ game in 2003 you would be an genius. Wimbledon fans stayed home and still reel from their use of this nickname’The Dons’.
Our beginning to the season has not been great but form is pretty much out the window to get this. The Dons that are real and Bucks are visiting . But this match isn’t even a derby, it’s an unwanted obligation. A grudge match.
More to the point, however, it’s a chance to have that first win of this season.