Football novels always can't avoid some teams and some stories, which carry too many people's youth and too many people's past.

With the fourth round of the FA Cup just around the corner, Walker leading the players on the pitch and Hydward alone in the dressing room looking through the books in hand, as if time had gone wrong.

"Get back to where you need to be, go to the top league! Back to where to go, South West London!! ”

"You need to be fearful so that you can respect me."

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A novel is still a novel after all, it's not real football, but it's like London's Baker Street, where the omnipotent Sherlock Holmes really lies quietly on the second floor reading a book.

Time travels through Ward's books and back to the Wimbledon era.

Wimbledon were drafted to the D division in 1977 and promoted to the third division two years later, but played for one season and were quickly relegated again.

In 1981, new coach Bassett took over, and Wimbledon was promoted again that summer, but soon returned to the D division, and February '83 was a turning point for all future experiences.

Bassett's team changed their previous style of play, and began to use long passes to quickly counterattack to pass forward, and the style of play became rough and wild, and a little violent.

No one would have resented Wimbledon if they had simply passed forward, but their style of play had taken a bad habit from the start. In the 3-1 win away to Stockport, local media questioned why they were using lame tackles and delaying tactics? …… They want to achieve their goal by leveling up at any cost, as if no one can stop them.

Wimbledon's game was unsightly, but it was able to sweep away the unsuspecting opponent and then climb the ladder.

Wimbledon succeeded, but the fans walked away.

"We tried everything when we played good football, but the people in this place [in London] are too cold. "What he meant by that was that we weren't playing good football, it was the kind of football we were just trying to win, and if the fans couldn't attract them anyway, why didn't we play anti-football that could scare people?

Almost no one in England appreciated them, the players were a little intoxicated by the lack of applause, and everyone cared a lot about the induction ceremony – burning the suits of the new signings and enjoying the brutal hand-to-hand kicks.

British columnist Stephen Crabtley wrote in The Amazing Journey of Wimbledon: "Like all angry outliers, Wimbledon blames his unlikability as 'snobbery'. He uses the word repeatedly in the book.

In the 1988 FA Cup final, Wimbledon put the finishing touches on their magical journey. Midfielder Lauri Sanchez scored the winning header and eventually scored the biggest upset in football history at Wimbledon from set-pieces, beating Liverpool 1-0 with almost all the trophies on the shelf.

Unfortunately, according to most players, the key to victory was the scissor kick that Vinnie Jones showed to McMahon shortly after the opening, which scared Liverpool away.

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Hydward calmly closed the book, the game was about to begin, it was rare to read, and it was as if it had been stolen.

In his opinion, the Wimbledon players regard the so-called violence as the key to their own success, and they are simply tarnishing football!

Maybe their budget dictates how the team plays, but that's not an obvious justification for violent and hurtful behavior, it's not pragmatism as Ward understands it, it's terrorism. The players all eat this bowl of rice, so why smash other people's rice bowls.

Putting the spirit of winning at all costs into the blood, this is the key to victory, which is a team spirit that many football clubs under Jinyuan Football that only focus on economic interests cannot imagine.

In the FA Cup final, the Wimbledon goalkeeper saved Liverpool's penalty, and it was not because Aldridge was afraid that he would not even have the power to take the penalty. That's because goalkeeper Dave Bisant has studied the habit of taking penalties from everyone in the Liverpool team, and Aldridge's habit of hitting the right side of the goal has long been known to him.

Almost every player at Wimbledon comes from the slums, and the will to "stubborn" and "fight" is what a group of die-hard fans are really looking for, and those who leave are driven away by their violence.

The team's magic could not be sustained after their success, the success blinded many people, they began to superstitious about their own individual ability, the core players were also sucked away by high salaries, and Wimbledon finally withered in England like a flash in the pan.

Take history as a mirror and take people as a mirror. A highly cohesive and united style of play is enough to make a club from an unknown place successful. The "Crazy Gang" went all the way and turned the whole of English football upside down.

Edward have little respect for the current Milton Keynes Dons, who suffered the same situation as Portsmouth a few years ago, when a £20 million club went bankrupt and the team went into financial trusteeship. In September of the same year, Wimbledon, unable to pay the high rent at the London stadium, moved the team to Milton Keynes Keynes.

The stadium curtain call was attended by less than 1,500 people, most of whom were even away fans.

Wimbledon's owner, Winckelmann, was a bastard even worse than Antonov, and for the club's commercial development in the region, Winckelmann changed the name of the team to the current Milton Keynes Keynes despite all objections.

The fans of the "Gang" made the same choice as Tom when they formed a new club and started over from the lowest league. It's not a good choice but it's not particularly bad, with AFC Wimbledon having completed a shocking quadruple jump in seven seasons so far last year. At one point, they were unbeaten in 78 league games, setting a record for the whole of England.

What about Milton Keynes? Playing in League One, AFC Wimbledon are just one level below them.

After the rebirth of the "Crazy Gang", their official website has this quote: "We believe that a club is not only the legal entity that controls the team, but also the community of fans and players who have built the same goal. ”

There is a quote from the novel "Red Rebels" that Hydward has been quoted as a classic to this day: "I want to prove that football without fans is nothing!" ”

He pushed open the door to the locker room, the sun outside pouring rain on him, and for the first time, Ward felt disdain for the opponent he was about to face. Milton Keynes Keynes has lost the soul they once prided themselves on, and AFC Wimbledon is the opponent he wants to beat.

The game hasn't even started, and the outcome is already sealed.