EMPTY HOMECOMING FOR WIMBLEDON IS A

MUCH has been made of the sadness of Liverpool’s first Premier League title, or Leeds’ promotion, taking place without fans. Yet tonight AFC Wimbledon will come home, playing at Plough Lane for the first time since May 4, 1991. And the ground will be empty. Liverpool will have great days again. Leeds will have bigger ones than the culmination of the 2019-20 season, but Wimbledon’s return against Doncaster Rovers can never be repeated. The club was set adrift, and left to die. It was, famously, ‘not in the wider interests of football’ that it shouldn’t be sold out to MK Dons. Yet AFC Wimbledon not only reformed and carried on, the club fought its way back into the Football League, won promotion and now