All Together Now

How a Group of Football Fans Righted a Wrong and Brought Their Football Club Home

Erik Samuelson

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785319310
• Year: 2021

All Together Now is one of the great sports stories. It's about a group of football fans who were determined to right a wrong. The authorities said they shouldn't try. People in football said it couldn't be done. Robbed of their beloved club, Wimbledon FC, they started again. They had absolutely nothing - no experience of running a club, no players, no manager, nowhere to play. But within nine years they re-formed their team as AFC Wimbledon, rebuilt its community work, won six promotions and fought their way back into the top tiers of the game. En route, they broke records, changed the rules of football and were the subject of Prime Minister's Questions. And now they're back in their spiritual home, Wimbledon, in a brand new stadium. For most of this time Erik Samuelson was finance director and then CEO of the club. He tells the extraordinary inside story of how the most undervalued people in football - the fans - defied the odds to take their club back to the Football League and return home.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• 1. Introduction
• 2. We Are Wimbledon
• 3. Good Vibrations
• 4. One More Try
• 5. Lovely Day
• 6. Season in the Sun
• 7. Help! (1)
• 8. There’s a Place For Us
• 9. Money, Money, Money
• 10. Help! (2)
• 11. Changes
• 12. Runaway
• 13. Help! (3)
• 14. End of the Line
• 15. Tuesday Night’s All Right for Fighting
• 16. Simply the Best
• 17. Help! (4)
• 18. It Should Have Been Me
• 19. Come Together
• 20. Movin’ On Up
• 21. Almost There
• 22. Hints and Allegations
• 23. Let It Be
• 24. For Once In My Life
• 25. Hearing Without Listening
• 26. Reflections
• 27. The History Boys
• 28. Starting Over
• 29. We Gotta Get Out of This Place
• 30. This Land Is Your Land
• 31. Breakaway
• 32. In the Summertime
• 33. Up, Up and Away
• 34. Life in the Fast Lane
• 35. Up Where We Belong
• 36. Shoot It in the Right Direction
• 37. New Kid in Town
• 38. Teenage Kicks
• 39. Sisters are Doin’ It
• 40. Rescue Me
• 41. The Script
• 42. A Pocketful of Mumbles
• 43. Little by Little
• 44. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
• 45. Who Are You?
• 46. Higher Ground
• 47. The Pretenders
• 48. The Long and Winding Road
• 49. Opportunities
• 50. That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
• 51. Hello, Goodbye
• 52. If You Build It
• 53. The End
• Preserve Your Memories
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Acknowledgements
• Photo Credits
• Photos