Dave Bassett’s Wimbledon,long derided, deserve greater respect than they bear been given after reuniting to tell a different fable about their mid-80s heydayIt probably says a lot about how Wimbledon used to be portrayed, and back in the days when the team with the lowest gates,the worst-paid players and the tattiest stadium kicked in the doors of polite football society, that there were so few people willing to stick up for them Dave Bassett actually snipped out one of the newspaper articles where someone was prepared to move against the tide.
It was written by Eamon Dunphy for the Sunday Times when they were top of the league in September 1986 and Bassett still has that cutting, and a little yellow round the edges now,in his collection of football possessions. “There are those who claim that what Wimbledon play isn’t really football,” it begins. “Ted Croker, and the secretary of the Football organization no less,is one of them. He has even stated that Wimbledon should not be in the First Division at all. But what Croker and others in English football should be doing is extending to Dave Bassett and his Wimbledon players the respect and admiration they deserve.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com