Wimbledon and Crawley fans get into a scrap with each other on a train with one supporter seen rather injured at the station.
Josh Davison and Ali Al-Hamadi put the Wombles 2-0 up by 18 minutes in the Friday night fixture, before Will Wright reduced the lead with less than 10 minutes remaining.
Wimbledon boss Johnnie Jackson was sent off just before the break, while also seeing defender Joe Lewis sent off, though AFC Wimbledon held on though to seal all three points, giving them their first League Two away win since early October as they picked up a 2-1 win at Crawley.
The result means that Wimbledon sit 7th with 35 points from 22 games played, and are 8 points from the automatic promotion places.
Meanwhile, Crawley are 15th with 30 points from 22 games, five points from the playoff places and 15 points above the drop zone.
But it seems on the day of the League Two fixture, there was a number of incidents that took place between both sets of supporters, as can be seen in the videos below…
AFC Wimbledon fan knocked out clean by a Crawley fan yesterday 🥊 #afcwimbledon #crawleytown pic.twitter.com/YRHXhLA4gk
— Casual Chaps 🇬🇧 (@CasualChaps) December 23, 2023
Crawley v Wimbledon last night 🚂👊🏻 pic.twitter.com/sHjt9P658g
— Casual Chaps 🇬🇧 (@CasualChaps) December 23, 2023
Crawley town fans throwing stuff at Wimbledon after the the road😬…
(#)#AFCW|#TownTeamTogether pic.twitter.com/RyGnKYmUnr
— awaydays_insta (@AwaydaysInsta) December 24, 2023
Wimbledon assistant manager Terry Skiverton said: “I’m very proud of the lads. It was a really frustrating night but we’re proud of everybody tonight. We brought Alex Pearce on and we were solid and organised. We saw the game out, we had a goalkeeper with a calm head – Alex Bass has pulled off some world class saves for us.
“To have that celebration with the supporters at the end – unfortunately the gaffer wasn’t allowed to do that – it was brilliant. They took the roof off, it was like playing at home. It’s galvanized us. We’re on a good run. Sometimes you can wilt under that pressure at the end there but the lads stood up to it.
“We should have had three goals really with Ryan Johnson’s header which came off the post. I’m really happy for the lads. The gaffer was ecstatic, he said to the lads afterwards, “that character and that spirit is what being a true Don is all about!”
“It felt like everything was against us but the supporters behind the goal were magnificent. And the lads, I can’t wait to see their data, because it will be through the roof. To a man they were magnificent.
“Our goalkeeper had bottles thrown at him and the officials added an extra minute on. It’s terrible. We’re trying to protect our players from that and all of a sudden more time is added on.
“The gaffer instills it [the fast start] in them. We tell them to come out and be on the front foot, defend high, put balls forwards, put teams under pressure etc. You can play off of that. Rather than practicing short goal kicks and it being a bit slower we’re all about high energy and tempo.
“We’re traditionally fast starters and we like that tag. We’re going to keep doing all of the stuff we work on in training to ensure that we’re on the front foot. We’re great in transition and in this past month we’ve been very clinical.”
Crawley Town boss Scott Lindsey said as per Sussex Express: “Not good enough, first half especially.
“A local derby like that we needed to show more fight and character.
“We didn’t show enough for me at all. We changed shape in the second half and it kind of helped us.
“We were a little more aggressive, pushed players further up the pitch and played with two strikers instead of one and became a threat but it was too little too late.
“You can’t play in a local derby half a game, you can’t play half a game in any game, never mind a local derby.
“We got what we thoroughly deserved, nothing.
“When you come across teams that are going to do different things to you, they pressed us high, they had an energy about them, they dropped on second balls, they won tackles, they won headers, they huffed and puffed and we let them do it, they run all over us first half and we let them. It’s the worst they have played under me, really disappointed.”
“I asked [at half time] for a lot more desire, will and determination to get something from the game, which showed in the second half, but like I say, for 45 minutes of running hard and doing the right thing is never going to be enough.
“Really, really disappointed, for the first time actually because I think we have been really good all season.
“Today we showed no desire.
“You are not going to get anything out of football if you are not prepared to work and they wanted it more than us in that first, which disappoints me, and it doesn’t reflect me.
“And it doesn’t reflect them, which is the most disappointing thing.
“I know how hard they work everyday because I see them everyday.
“They are really professional, but we let ourselves down tonight.
“I am pleased we had a go second half because it gave them [4,500 string crowd] something to cheer about but we wanted to give them more than that.”
This is how Twitter users reacted after seeing Wimbledon and Crawley fans get into a scrap on a train with one supporter injured at the station…
@pbcarter7: 2 names that shake you to your bone in the football hooligan world
@KS_250204: Crawley talk the talk🤏🏻🤣
@LDotMFC: Proper smart not like trains have any CCTV
@Fanerella21: “yeah let’s go for the innocent old bloke minding his own business, then film us backing off that will look well hard ladies will love it”
@HarryHewett5: Took 3 of them to knock out an old man with his back turnt 🤣
@GeorgeDo04: 2-2 in my eyes
@CountyAX: Don’t think you know the meaning of out cold 🤣
@StephenJAdams: Three crawley fans jumped an older guy from behind and ran off. Well done
@alzwhite44: To be fair I saw that fella giving it large outside the pub at the end. So not that innocent as you think. What were the dons singing on their way out “Crawley get battered everywhere they go” ……..
@alexafcw9696: Wannabe gangsters/football hooligans 😂😂 punch an old bloke and then leg it
@FPLEdgeworth: Hit a 60 year old guy and ran away bunch of shitebags
@SK14Hatter: The most surprising thing here isn’t that Crawley fans are dickheads who start on the elderly. It’s the fact that Crawley… have fans?
@Porky_1974: Hey @sussex_police fancy looking into this?
@Ahudd02: Getting knocked out by a Crawley fan would make me change sport to tennis or snooker can never go back to a match surely
@GorgeousGriggy: Merry Christmas Dons fans x
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