Wimbledon supporters want to move the club back to the borough where the team was born. It's only in the last few months that the council, club, local MP and supporters have sat down together to discuss a way forward. Plough Lane was host to reserve games and to Wimbledon Ladies until 1998, when the gates were closed for the last time. Sam Hammam had found a buyer, a large supermarket chain that wanted to redevelop the site. Work still hasn't begun due to planning difficulties, and Plough Lane lies decaying, the once smooth playing surface overgrown.
Bushes grow along the touchlines.
There's an old washing machine in one of the stands. The evidence of several fires and graffiti are plain to see. For a while last year, a horse was grazing on the pitch. Although Plough Lane was never the jewel of English grounds, it was still home, and many a supporter still wanders past, wistfully looking at the turnstiles. More than a few avoid the area, preferring to remember the good times of ten years ago, when Wimbledon supporters were the majority in their own ground, and a home game really was played at home.