Marked for Ryan Johnson
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ante Crnac was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at AFC Wimbledon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan Johnson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Marcus Browne’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AFC Wimbledon.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to AFC Wimbledon's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AFC Wimbledon has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ante Crnac was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at AFC Wimbledon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan Johnson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at AFC Wimbledon
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for AFC Wimbledon
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around AFC Wimbledon are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ante Crnac in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AFC Wimbledon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Sep 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. AFC Wimbledon have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ryan Johnson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match5 Sep 2026
Rotherham United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Nathan Bishop. AFC Wimbledon will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AFC Wimbledon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marcus Browne was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ryan Johnson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Charlie Lakin dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match22 Aug 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Wycombe Wanderers defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nathan Bishop and AFC Wimbledon agree another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AFC Wimbledon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcus Browne, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AFC Wimbledon, another week without a signature from Ryan Johnson.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Osman Foyo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and AFC Wimbledon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Steve Seddon and AFC Wimbledon agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marcus Browne was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ryan Johnson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marcus Browne knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AFC Wimbledon, and both men came out saying it was fine.