Graffiti on the locked gates of Wimbledon F.C.‘s home ground, the original Plough Lane, in 2006. The club, nicknamed “the Wombles” or “the Dons”, last played first-team matches there in 1991, and the stadium was demolished in late 2002. Blocks of flats have covered the site since 2008.

“Wimbledon Football Club relocated to Milton Keynes in September 2003, 16 months after receiving permission to do so from the Football Association on the basis of a two-to-one decision in favour by an FA-appointed independent commission. The move took the team from south London, where it had been based since its foundation in 1889, to Milton Keynes, a new town in Buckinghamshire, about 56 miles (90 km) to the northwest of the club’s traditional home district Wimbledon. Hugely controversial, the move’s authorisation prompted disaffected Wimbledon supporters to form AFC Wimbledon, a new club, on 30 May 2002. The relocated team played home matches in Milton Keynes under the Wimbledon name from September 2003 until June 2004, when following the end of the 2003–04 season it renamed itself Milton Keynes Dons F.C. (MK Dons). Wimbledon F.C. spent most of its history in non-League football before being elected to the Football League in 1977. …”
W – Relocation of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes
Wimbledon playing against Oxford United at Plough Lane during the 1981–82 season