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Adebayo Akinfenwa
AFC Wimbledon
Allen Batsford
Author_Erik Samuelson
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Crazy Gang
Dave Bassett
Dennis Wise
Dickie Guy
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Erik Samuelson
FA
FA Cup Final
Football Association
Football League
Football pyramid
Ivor Heller
Joe Kinnear
John Fashanu
John Hartson
Kings Meadow
Kingsmeadow
Kingstonian
Lawrie Sanchez
London
Lyle Taylor
Milton Keynes
MK Dons
non-league
Play-offs
Plough Lane
Robbie Earle
Sam Hammam
Selhurst Park
The Dons
The Football Association
Vinny Jones
Wimbledon
Product details
- ISBN 9781785318504
- Weight: 740g
- Dimensions: 160 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 03 May 2021
- Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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All Together Now is one of the great sports stories. It's about a group of football fans who were determined to right a wrong. The authorities said they shouldn't try. People in football said it couldn't be done. Robbed of their beloved club, Wimbledon FC, they started again. They had absolutely nothing - no experience of running a club, no players, no manager, nowhere to play. But within nine years they re-formed their team as AFC Wimbledon, rebuilt its community work, won six promotions and fought their way back into the top tiers of the game. En route, they broke records, changed the rules of football and were the subject of Prime Minister's Questions. And now they're back in their spiritual home, Wimbledon, in a brand new stadium. For most of this time Erik Samuelson was finance director and then CEO of the club. He tells the extraordinary inside story of how the most undervalued people in football - the fans - defied the odds to take their club back to the Football League and return home.
Erik Samuelson used to sit with his family behind the goal supporting Wimbledon FC. When the club was hijacked to Milton Keynes he gave up his role as a partner in City giant PwC to be finance director and then CEO of AFC Wimbledon, the re-formed club. From 2002 he was at the heart of the club and was paid a nominal GBP1 a year. He stepped down in 2019 but continues as chair of its charitable arm, AFC Wimbledon Foundation.
