Ladies
For the full article see, see AFC Wimbledon Ladies.AFC Wimbledon Ladies switched affiliation from Wimbledon F.C. after the 2002–03 season.
Tony Milstead is the current manager and the team currently competes in the London and South East Regional Women's Football League.
Wimbledon Ladies’ former player Sophie Hosking won an Olympic gold medal for Team GB in the women’s lightweight double sculls at the London 2012 games. Hosking continues to be an avid supporter of AFC Wimbledon and demonstrated as such when she painted her fingernails in the club’s royal blue and yellow colours for the final at Eton Dorney on 4 August 2012.
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Famous quotes containing the word ladies:
“The eleventh day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Eleven ladies dancing,”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 76–78)
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—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
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—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)