Many consider the all English Champions League Final to be England’s greatest success story this season, Bristol City fans may disagree after their rise to the Championship ended with the playoff final in sight. However the real success has come from a team formed through a protest at the relocation and renaming of their beloved team.
AFC Wimbledon recently overcame Staines Town in the Ryman Premier League Playoff Final to gain promotion to the Conference South for the 2008 season. Not bad for a club who were formed in 2002 and started all over again in the same league equivalent as my local club Woodbridge Town F.C, who have an average attendance of 110 people. Successive promotions led to Wimbledon reaching the Ryman Premier, where they narrowly missed out on promotions for two seasons consecutively.
Now Wimbledon are only two leagues off a return to the football league in which they belong, and hopefully we can see a Wimbledon team that are competing at the highest level in the next few years.
Another team who deserve a mention are Aldershot Town who recently gained promotion from the Conference National to the Football League. Aldershot Town were formed after Aldershot F.C went bankrupt in 1992. Aldershot F.C had been one of the founding members of the old third division (Coca-Cola League 2) and was a member of the football league since the early 1920’s.
I thinks its always pleasing to a see team who once struggled now making a comeback, especially one who was formed after a takeover which I personally was also against.
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