Woeful for 70 minutes, superb for 20 minutes – we can all breathe a big sigh of relief. It has to go down as one of the greatest Dons comebacks, second only probably to the West Ham one all those years ago, and it does demonstrate that the Wimbledon never say die spirt lives on. When that goal line scramble some how didn’t go in for us in about the 70th minute, it would have been easy for heads to drop and to think it wasn’t our day. But the team battled on and got their rewards. In true Wimbledon fashion they showed we never know when we are beaten.
Not sure Ardley’s 4-3-3 served us well for the first half, we were out numbered and played in midfield. But Ardley has to take credit for sticking Barnett on for the fightback, and credit to Barnett – who’s taken a lot of flak – for getting a superb equaliser for us. But it was that man Elliott again who was the game changer, and indeed game winner. Thank goodness we have Tom Elliott.
I had been thinking after an hour of the game that I was glad I hadn’t got up at stupid o’clock to go up to the game. Now I really wish I had! That is a game we’ll talk about for a long, long time.
