Tottenham's Premier League match with Everton on Saturday has been postponed because of the riots in London.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said he was "positive" the other nine games in the opening round of top-flight fixtures would go ahead. And prime minister David Cameron suggested they could kick off earlier than scheduled to assist the police.

LONDON, England AFC Wimbledon won promotion to the Football League for the first time in their history with a dramatic penalty shoot-out win over Luton at Eastlands. After a goalless 120 minutes, top scorer Danny Kedwell netted the winning kick after Dons keeper Seb Brown saved from Alex Lawless and Jason Walker.

AFC Wimbledon, the club whose establishment was regarded as "not in the wider interests of football" by the FA commission that approved Wimbledon FC's move away from South London, will be playing in the 72 next season. The blogosphere will explode with myriad AFC-themed pieces over the coming months and rightly so; as Dons supporters reminded us all upon the final whistle at Eastlands on

Football is a passionate sport. It's played by passionate people, and followed by passionate people, and without such people, the sport would not thrive the way that it does – as Jock Stein famously said, "Football without the fans is nothing". The various governing bodies use the fact that the game is passionate, and that football fans are passionate people in order to sell television rights, and other marketing concepts around the world.

After his nine years with Robbie Jackson and subsequent five years with Sonia, Bianca, Mickey, Vinnie and Gus, I'm sure that many of you, like me, were wondering what became of Eastenders' most famous dog (other than Ethel's little Willie, obviously).
Rumours abound that Bianca killed Wellard by feeding him chocolate, before scattering his ashes on the allotment.

After a couple of weeks off, we're bringing back our weekly round-up of non-league videos. Yesterday saw the Third Round of the FA Trophy, and our first two matches come from that competition, kicking off with AFC Wimbledon's match against Woking. Wimbledon dropped two points against Luton Town during the week and were looking to regain a little momentum.

Milton Keynes Dons 1 Plymouth Argyle 3 - Football League One
In the 1960s, the UK Government decided that a further generation of new towns in the South East was needed to relieve housing congestion in London. Studies identified north Buckinghamshire as a possible site for a large new town, encompassing the existing towns of Bletchley, Stony Stratford and Wolverton.

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As has been well documented in recent years there are a whole host of league clubs who are seemingly operating on borrowed time due to season upon season of poor financial management.

"Not in the wider interests of football". We mentioned this astonishing statement, made on the subject of a new club starting in SW19 at the time that Wimbledon FC was being franchised to Milton Keynes, during our report of the first leg of this evening's Blue Square Premier Play-Off between AFC Wimbledon and Fleetwood Town, but it is a statement that cannot and should not be repeated enough when mentioning tonight's home team.

A Stranger in my own home. (Or the day someone stole my t-shirt). AFC Wimbledon 6-1 Fleetwood (11:05:11) This isn't a European Football Weekend per se, but when Kingstonian fan Jamie Cutteridge comes knocking with a match report, the doors to EFW swing wide open.... The trip from my house to Kingsmeadow is a pleasant, simple one that I have become familiar and comfortable with over the

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So it all comes down to ninety minutes. There can, at least, be little debate that this year's Blue Square Premier play-off final is being played between the two best teams left in the competition, following Crawley Town's testosterone-fuelled championship win but, as we pan across the banks of empty seats at Eastlands this afternoon, it is difficult not to reflect upon the wisdom of the decision to host the showpiece of this league here although we are talking here about ticket prices and specifically not about the decision to play the match in Manchester and wonder what a spectacle the match might have been had it been played in London.

Congratulations to AFC Wimbledon who have today been promoted to the Football League. Whenever I think of Wimbledon, I always remember this quote:

'It should be in the interests of football as a whole that major new stadia are encouraged where there is an untapped demand for major league football, such as in new towns.

Congratulations to AFC Wimbledon who have today been promoted to the Football League. Whenever I think of Wimbledon, I always remember this quote:

'It should be in the interests of football as a whole that major new stadia are encouraged where there is an untapped demand for major league football, such as in new towns.

It is the end, then, of another long, hard season, and perhaps now is an appropriate time to be looking at how those clubs that are owned and run by their supporters trusts this season managed to fair. As AFC Wimbledon paraded the trophy that confirmed their accession into the Football League nine years after their formation, the words of the FA's committee, that a new club in the borough would be, "not in the wider interests of football", have never sounded more hollow.

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I've written a few pieces recently with criticism of some of the facets of the modern game that have left me feeling that the dignity and the beauty of football is slipping away. With the promotion to the Football League of AFC Wimbledon, football has shown that it is far from dead, that the fairy tales still live on, and there is still hope for all of us who so love the beautiful game [.

In early October of 2010, I sat at the bus stop and politely nodded as a flushed woman in a floral print mu mu described to me her irrefutable eschatological proof that the Day of Judgement was not only approaching, it was known.

"May twenty-first!" she declared, a little too loudly. "Prepare your soul!

Rarely have the bottom division's promoted teams started a season with so much expectation. The rapid ascent of AFC Wimbledon on the English football ladder and big spending of fellow league debutants Crawley Town means last year's elite Conference National outfits will be under close scrutiny.

The financial strength of the Sussex club might mean they start the season as favourites in the football betting.

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After his nine years with Robbie Jackson and subsequent five years with Sonia, Bianca, Mickey, Vinnie and Gus, I'm sure that many of you, like me, were wondering what became of Eastenders' most famous dog (other than Ethel's little Willie, obviously).
Rumours abound that Bianca killed Wellard by feeding him chocolate, before scattering his ashes on the allotment.

With the division in general overviewed by Ian yesterday, it's time for the annual jinx that is the official twohundredpercent pre-season previews. We've gone about them slightly differently this season. With the transfer window affecting some managers psychologically to the point that they build their team by the end of the transfer window, rather than the start of the season, predicting how it all ends up before teams have finalised their squads is tricky, especially when you consider that Bury started last season with fifteen players with league experience, only to add five players to their promotion winning squad before the end of August.

Paolo Di Canio Re di coppa Di Renato Cignoni AFC Wimbledon 1 (Yussuff '81) 1SWINDON TOWN 1 (Risser '69) 3 dopo calci di rigore AFC Wimbledon:Seb Brown, Jamie Stuart (capt), Fraser Franchi, Callum McNaughton, Christian Jolley; Kirean Djilali (Minshull '61), James Mulley, Chris Bush, Rashid Yussef, Ricky Wellard, Jack Midson (Porter '61)Sostituti non utilizzati: Jack Turner (GK), Charles Ademeno,

Swindon Town: "Chi ha bisogno di Mourinho quando abbiamo Paolo Di Canio?" Di Renato Cignoni AFC Wimbledon 1 (Hatton '6)SWINDON TOWN 1 (Connell '73) AFC Wimbledon:Seb Brown, Sammy Hatton, Brett Johnson, Callum McNaughton, Chris Bush; Ryan Jackson (Minshull '71), Sammy Moore, Rashid Yussuff; Midson Jack, Christian Jolley (Mulley '43), Ricky WellardSostituti non utilizzati: Luke Moore, Jack Turner,

In his regular column for The Seventy Two, AFC Wimbledon striker Jack Midson tells us that the latest prank to achieve popularity among the players is to place items of fruit in each other's kit bags. Given that in their heyday, the original club's 'Crazy Gang' were prone to setting fire to Armani suits, smothering jock straps with Deep Heat and christening taxi doors with steel toe caps, this

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October was a tough month for Boro. It started with 3 straight defeats to the likes of Scunthorpe, AFC Wimbledon and Huddersfield. It soon picked up though and the win against Charlton kicked off another unbeaten run.

Stevenage 1-0 Charlton

A Stacy Long goal was enough for Boro to beat unbeaten, table-toppers Charlton Athletic.