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| | TV connection keeps Wimbledon rise in public eye | Non-League | Football | Sport | Telegraph |
 | | AFC Wimbledon's inaugural fixture, a friendly against Sutton United in July 2003, was attended by 4,657 fans, and with successive promotions from the Combined Counties League in 2004 and the Ryman Isthmian League Division One, home crowds still average close to 3,000, with nearly as many travelling away from home. |
 | | AFC Wimbledon are eighth in what is the former Isthmian League, which Wimbledon dominated in the Thirties and the early part of the Sixties, winning the championship eight times. |
 | | Although Kingston is just two miles from Wimbledon, and the ground of Conference standard, the ultimate aim is to return to the spiritual home of the Wombles as soon as possible. |
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