AFC Wimbledon 1 Stockport County 0 ( Football League 2 ) Saturday 28 January 2023

County went down 1-0 today at Plough Lane in a dreadful game that was ultimately decided by a masterful display of the dark arts by John Jackson`s AFC Wimbledon side that left a sour taste in the mouths of over 1100 travelling County fans and surely any neutrals present! From the off, our hosts fed off the referee`s gullibility with a rich mixture of fouls, feigned injuries and assorted time wasting. County seemed not to be fazed though, indeed slowly began to impose themselves but this proved an illusion quickly punctured by Hippolyte`s missed penalty, culminating in Pell`s goal for the unimpressive Dons early in the second half that was the cue for the most prodigious display of time wasting and fouling I can recall seeing- designed( successfully) to disrupt the games flow and rhythm. If I was disgusted at Wimbledon`s tactics I was equally disappointed with County`s response. The edge was clearly off their work after the break probably not unrelated to some of