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AFC Wimbledon defender Will Nightingale talks us through his football memories

by
The LeaguePaper Team
29 August 2021

football firsts

First game you watched live?
My family were Chelsea fans when I was younger but being local to AFC Wimbledon, I used to go and watch Wimbledon play at Kingsmeadow when they started back up. I couldn’t tell you who it was against but I think it would have been in the Combined Counties League.
I used to play for the youth team so I used to go along and watch the first team play as well. I loved the atmosphere and went down with my dad, and got into football through him.
My dad played for a few teams but never made it big. I had a lot of people tell me he should ha...

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