Sometimes in Football, you face an opponent who you will not celebrate too loudly beating out of respect for what they represent as a club and as fans. Today is one of those days. AFC Wimbledon are everything a football club should be, and beating them will be bittersweet for me. Owned by the fans, created from the ground up to serve the interests of the footballing man or woman in the street, this allows them to undertake truly classy endeavours such as a full page in their programme for the match dedicated to informing their fans on the struggle for Justice for the 96. AFC Wimbledon were denied local football by their team moving from London to Milton Keynes, so they made a new team in 2002 with their own hands, owning the means of production directly. They have been promoted five times in nine seasons, had a 78 game unbeaten run and in 2014 beat MK Dons, the team that deserted them for cash and commercial gain 3-2 for the first time. It is an honour to face teams such as AFC Wimbledon, Borussia Dortmund and Olympiakos who are so in touch with the needs of their fans and players, from AFCs complete fan ownership to Olympiakos traditional ownership model with lofty athletic ideals and triumph in devastating adversity, they all represent qualities which we ascribe to Liverpool FC and which when seen in others allow us to face an opponent as an equal regardless of their prowess on the pitch at the time. /b/
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:10:45 +0000
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