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AFC Wimbledon defender Will Nightingale talks us through his football memories

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First game you watched live?
My family were Chelsea fans when I was younger but being local to AFC Wimbledon, I used to go and watch Wimbledon play at Kingsmeadow when they started back up. I couldn’t tell you who it was against but I think it would have been in the Combined Counties League.
I used to play for the youth team so I used to go along and watch the first team play as well. I loved the atmosphere and went down with my dad, and got into football through him.
My dad played for a few teams but never made it big. I had a lot of people tell me he should ha...

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