AFC Wimbledon v Macclesfield Town
Cherry Red Record's Stadium (Kingsmeadow)
Tuesday 24th January
7:45pm
Journey Time to the ground: 1 hour 20 minutes. Left the house at 6pm and parked up at 7:20pm. Would have been quicker but for traffic getting out of Reading and on the M25.
Parked 5 minutes walk from the ground. Plently of street parking available in side roads off Kingston Road.
Ticket Price: £10 in advance.
Programme Price: £3.
Had tickets on the John Smith's Terrace. Entered via turnstiles at the far end of the Paul Strank Stand, after passing a burger van and the clubhouse. My bag was searched on the way into the ground. Inside the ground passed the toilets, first aid portakabin and another burger van. To get to the John Smith's Terrace we had to walk across the front of the Tempest Stand behind the goal to the other side of the ground. The John Smith's Terrace had a burger van in the corner between it and the Tempest Stand. The stand is split between home and away fans and we were in the home end. The terrace is partially covered towards the middle of the stand, but arriving five minutes before kick off we were left in the open in line with the edge of the 18 yard box. The terrace consists of three shallow steps and standing on the middle step, surrounded by lots of men a lot taller than me I could see around three quarters of the pitch, but could follow all the action by moving around a bit. The area was almost full to capacity as Wimbledon tend to pretty much sell out home games.
Cherry Red Record's Stadium (Kingsmeadow)
Tuesday 24th January
7:45pm
Journey Time to the ground: 1 hour 20 minutes. Left the house at 6pm and parked up at 7:20pm. Would have been quicker but for traffic getting out of Reading and on the M25.
Parked 5 minutes walk from the ground. Plently of street parking available in side roads off Kingston Road.
Ticket Price: £10 in advance.
Programme Price: £3.
Had tickets on the John Smith's Terrace. Entered via turnstiles at the far end of the Paul Strank Stand, after passing a burger van and the clubhouse. My bag was searched on the way into the ground. Inside the ground passed the toilets, first aid portakabin and another burger van. To get to the John Smith's Terrace we had to walk across the front of the Tempest Stand behind the goal to the other side of the ground. The John Smith's Terrace had a burger van in the corner between it and the Tempest Stand. The stand is split between home and away fans and we were in the home end. The terrace is partially covered towards the middle of the stand, but arriving five minutes before kick off we were left in the open in line with the edge of the 18 yard box. The terrace consists of three shallow steps and standing on the middle step, surrounded by lots of men a lot taller than me I could see around three quarters of the pitch, but could follow all the action by moving around a bit. The area was almost full to capacity as Wimbledon tend to pretty much sell out home games.
The rest of the ground consists of two covered terraces behind both of the goals, the Tempest Stand and the Kingston Road End, and the Paul Strank Stand, a neat all seated stand on the opposite side to the John Smith's Terrace.
The first half was pretty scrappy with Wimbledon having the better of the play but the half ended 0-0. Wimbledon started the second half well, but Macclesfield went ahead against the run of play in the 56th minute, with a goal from just inside the penalty box. Wimbledon hit back almost straight away and equalised two minutes later with a spectecular drive from the left hand corner of the penalty box arrowed into the top corner. Wimbledon pressed for victory for the remainder of the game and were reward with just two minutes left to play as the ball broke inside the box allowing a goal to be scored from just inside the six yard box.
Attendance: 4,000 with 105 from Macclesfield.
Atmosphere: The Wimbledon fans created a great atmosphere with almost non stop singing coming from behind the goal. Even in the uncovered terrace it seemed pretty loud. I was greatful that it didn't rain, as it had been for much of the day and due to the almost capacity crowd, it didn't feel cold at all, considering it was an evening match in late January.
Journey Time home: 1 hour. Walked back to the car and left just after 10pm arriving home at 11pm. It helped that we went in the opposite way to the traffic, but to be honest, it wouldn't have taken much longer if we had travelled with the traffic.
All in all, a very enjoyable experience from the ease of getting to and from the ground, the packed nature of the terrace and the level of football that was played during the game. Standing on the terrace reminded me of going to games when I was younger, especially not being able to see everything!
The first half was pretty scrappy with Wimbledon having the better of the play but the half ended 0-0. Wimbledon started the second half well, but Macclesfield went ahead against the run of play in the 56th minute, with a goal from just inside the penalty box. Wimbledon hit back almost straight away and equalised two minutes later with a spectecular drive from the left hand corner of the penalty box arrowed into the top corner. Wimbledon pressed for victory for the remainder of the game and were reward with just two minutes left to play as the ball broke inside the box allowing a goal to be scored from just inside the six yard box.
Attendance: 4,000 with 105 from Macclesfield.
Atmosphere: The Wimbledon fans created a great atmosphere with almost non stop singing coming from behind the goal. Even in the uncovered terrace it seemed pretty loud. I was greatful that it didn't rain, as it had been for much of the day and due to the almost capacity crowd, it didn't feel cold at all, considering it was an evening match in late January.
Journey Time home: 1 hour. Walked back to the car and left just after 10pm arriving home at 11pm. It helped that we went in the opposite way to the traffic, but to be honest, it wouldn't have taken much longer if we had travelled with the traffic.
All in all, a very enjoyable experience from the ease of getting to and from the ground, the packed nature of the terrace and the level of football that was played during the game. Standing on the terrace reminded me of going to games when I was younger, especially not being able to see everything!
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