JOHN LYONS WITNESSES AFC WIMBLEDON’S RETURN TO THEIR SPIRITUAL HOME

The way it was: The old Plough Lane in 1989 and, below, the new version

IT SUMMED up 2020 perfectly that when AFC Wimbledon played their first game back at Plough Lane in almost 30 years, the most important people were missing – the fans.
The coronavirus pandedemic has made this a year unlike any other, so we’ve all just had to get used to the unusual.
It was way back in 1991 when the original Wimbledon moved out of their Plough Lane home and began a groundshare at Crystal Palace. But if that was b...