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This is, for all but a few, a first for HUFC fans. There will be some survivors from the early trips to Plough Lane or the 93/94 visit to Selhurst Park but The Cherry Red Records Fans Stadium is not one that has featured before on The Bulls fixture list as the home of Wimbledon. The three previous visits have all been against Kingstonian FC during The Bulls’ early Conference years.
The Cherry Red Records name may ring a few bells for Herefordian music fans from the seventies. No, not the Kingston-Upon-Thames football venue but the Malvern Winter Gardens. It was at Malvern that the Cherry Red empire first cut their teeth by promoting the gigs that brought The Groundhogs in 1971 through the late seventies punk era of The Jam, The Stranglers, The Damned and Generation X.
Cherry Red now sponsors the AFCW stadium, which is located just east of Kingston on the A2043. Getting to the ground is fairly easy and you can avoid the later reaches of the M4 and the M25 by going through Bracknell and Bagshot then joining the M3 north to junction 1 from where its just a seven mile drive to the stadium.
Around 900 visitors are accommodated on the covered Kingston Road terrace at one end of the ground. There are two bars under the main stand that normally have been open to visiting fans but it remains to be seen if this continues now they are in The Football League. There is however, a good selection of Pubs in Kingston or nearby New Malden.
Welcome back The Dons.
