Post by chrish on Feb 1, 2009 0:29:16 GMT
These are some pictures I took today during the AFC Wimbledon V Chelmsford City Blue Square South game at Kingsmeadow. I quite enjoyed our visit there last year in the FA Trophy, so I decided to go and watch the game from the very vocal home end. It's a very compact little ground. In fact it felt very compact today with 4,690 inside.
As for the match, well, I thought that Jeff King's Chelmsford side played the better football, but got caught cold by the nippy Jon Main twice in the space of 10 minutes and found themselves 2-0 down. Chelmsford deservedly pulled one back after half time to make it 2-1 and more interesting but soon after missing one golden opportunity to make it 3-1, then another ballooning a shot at an open goal over the bar, Wimbledon then scored another. Players of note were Jon Main, Dwayne Lee and Danny Kedwell.
I mentionned Jon Main on here last week. He's about 5"8 or so, probably weighs about 6 stone dripping wet, but he's very nippy and has an eye for goal. I wonder if he would actually score goals at a higher level. I'm sure that his pace and his workrate will get him some goals but up against better quality defenders I don't think that he would score so many. His strike partner Danny Kedwell is very hard working and does a lot of the dirty work. Big Dwanye Lee is a rather awkward looking central midfielder and looks more like a giraffe roaming the plains of the Serengeti rather than a professional footballer. But he covers a lot of ground and passes the ball quite well.
The only player on the Chelmsford side that really is impressed me was their right back called James Lawson. I read in the programme notes that he's usually a winger or a striker but as an attacking full back he was excellent.
As for the AFC Wimbledon fans. Well they are certainly vocal. I can't fault their passion to the cause but sometimes today it spilled over into hysteria. I know that they've been royally fecked over by the Merton Council, Norwegian owners and the FA but I wonder whether the niggle and constant songs about Franchise and Milton Keynes will always win them friends as they progress through the leagues. The sympathy they currently enjoy will run out one day.
Anyway here are the pictures.
As for the match, well, I thought that Jeff King's Chelmsford side played the better football, but got caught cold by the nippy Jon Main twice in the space of 10 minutes and found themselves 2-0 down. Chelmsford deservedly pulled one back after half time to make it 2-1 and more interesting but soon after missing one golden opportunity to make it 3-1, then another ballooning a shot at an open goal over the bar, Wimbledon then scored another. Players of note were Jon Main, Dwayne Lee and Danny Kedwell.
I mentionned Jon Main on here last week. He's about 5"8 or so, probably weighs about 6 stone dripping wet, but he's very nippy and has an eye for goal. I wonder if he would actually score goals at a higher level. I'm sure that his pace and his workrate will get him some goals but up against better quality defenders I don't think that he would score so many. His strike partner Danny Kedwell is very hard working and does a lot of the dirty work. Big Dwanye Lee is a rather awkward looking central midfielder and looks more like a giraffe roaming the plains of the Serengeti rather than a professional footballer. But he covers a lot of ground and passes the ball quite well.
The only player on the Chelmsford side that really is impressed me was their right back called James Lawson. I read in the programme notes that he's usually a winger or a striker but as an attacking full back he was excellent.
As for the AFC Wimbledon fans. Well they are certainly vocal. I can't fault their passion to the cause but sometimes today it spilled over into hysteria. I know that they've been royally fecked over by the Merton Council, Norwegian owners and the FA but I wonder whether the niggle and constant songs about Franchise and Milton Keynes will always win them friends as they progress through the leagues. The sympathy they currently enjoy will run out one day.
Anyway here are the pictures.
Can't say I'm anything but disappointed Chris with your total failure to use that telephoto lense to reveal the goings on in the bedroom of no 232 Cambridge Road behind the goal! 
- perhaps you and I could take some lessons from him!
