Cherry Records Fan's Stadium - AFC Wimbledon
Saturday, September 3rd 2011,
V Port Vale, League Two 3pm
By Paul Dickinson
Cherry Records Fan's Stadium
- AFC Wimbledon
Saturday, September 3rd 2011,
V Port Vale, League Two 3pm
By Paul
Dickinson
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With only seven
grounds of the current 92 still to do and
Leeds not playing due to the International
break, a trip to London with my daughter
allowed me to get another one ticked off
Having planned this trip a
while ago, we were able to get cheap train
tickets from Leeds and arrived in Kings Cross
at 12.30pm. After a couple of drinks at my
favourite real ale pub in London (The Harp, nr
Charing Cross Station), I left my daughter to
go shopping for the afternoon and a lovely 10
minute walk in the sunshine took me to
Waterloo station, where I caught the 1.55pm
train to Norbiton.
Following the directions
in the ground guide (although just follow the
blue & yellow shirts), I arrived at the
ground at 2.35pm, having plenty of time to buy
a programme, bottle of water etc, We had
already eaten in central London, so I didn't
try the food around the ground, but the cafe
and fish & chip shop on the main
road outside, were both doing a
roaring trade
Having visited 75 non
league grounds already, I was interested to
see how Kingsmeadow would look, as it does of
course now host both league and non
league football. My 1st impressions were
positive, I had bought a terrace ticket online
for the Kingston Road stand and managed to get
a perfect view of the pitch, on the back row,
just to the left of the goal.
It was a very enjoyable
game to watch as a neutral - Port Vale
completely dominated the 1st half and should
have been 3 up before the home side scored.
The 2nd half was more even, capped off by a
winning goal in the 5th minute of injury time!
It was a straightforward
walk back to the train station afterwards and
I was enjoying another real ale by 6pm -this
time in the Betjeman Arms in St Pancras
Station
Overall, another fantastic
groundhopping day out. The programme was a
better quality than many I buy at Championship
games, the AFC Wimbledon fans I spoke to
during the game were very friendly and I
can always say that "I was there" to see the
1st home win for AFC Wimbledon as a league
club.
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