By Matt Badcock

TOP DONS: AFC Wimbledon made it into the EFL within nine years

SIMON BASSEY fi rst walked through the Plough Lane turnstiles as a ten-year-old boy to see Wimbledon play Leicester City.
He was in the Wembley stands for the famous 1988 FA Cup final win over Liverpool and was in the youth set-up until he was released at 16.
Having done his YTS at Charlton Athletic, Alan Pardew put him onto former Dulwich Hamlet boss Billy Smith who was at Carshalton Athletic.
A move to Aldershot Town followed but he snapped his cruciate aged 22 and, after completing The Knowledge to become a...