observer midweek

[HEAVY TRUCKER]

now i'm ready to be corrected if i'm wrong but the mid week claims that maidenhead utd are making some sort of record this weekend when they play afc wimbledon in the trophy as the first club to play the original wimbledon ,mk dons and afc wimbledon in competetive games, now i'm sure this has been done not only by slough town but by other clubs as well, am i right?

[mal316]

I found this on another forum going via the Maidenhead one:-

 

http://www.nlpl.co.uk/forum/gforum.cgi?p...d;guest=2353253

 

It appears that if you include only competitive matches then Maidenhead would be the first but there are four other clubs that have played all three teams if you include friendlies.

 

Slough are also the only side to have played all incarnations of the now Dagenham & Redbridge according to the link above.

[Martin]

Well Slough have definitely played MK and AFC in competitive games - when the original incarnation of Wimbledon were at the Isthmian level I was not around so can't be certain that Slough have played them competitively but would have thought so.

[Matt]

I thought the old Wimbledon were in the Southern League, in which case it's less likely we played them competitively. But then this is all before my time as well.

[Barry Scott]

Wimbledon were in the Isthmian League from 1921 to 1964, and the Southern League from 1964 to 1977. We only joined the Isthmian League in 1973 at Division 2. We never played them in a cup competition after 1948 either, so unless we played them before that year then Maidenhead will be the first

[Martin]

Good point, just seems weird that we managed to miss them in competitive games. Should be a good game Saturday.

[Guest Anonymous]

We played the original Wimbledon F.C. in the Premier Midweek League in the late Sixties - early Seventies on I think 4 or 6 occasions, M K Dons in the Berks 7 Bucks then A F C Wimbledon in the Ryman Isthmian League