It’s good to see that TV’s sport channel intends to get into the Christmas spirit and tell a footballing story that amounts to something of a fairy tale.

You know, the one where a football club won promotion into the Football League and just 11 years later beat the most celebrated club in the country at Wembley to win the FA Cup?

The one that if they had put in the pages of Roy of the Rovers you would’ve thought it too fanciful to believe?

However, just as Wimbledon’s epic story isn’t a disappointing omission from Sky’s superb 16-part series of Football’s Greatest Teams, it will be given lip service as BT Sport looks to serve up its Boxing Day nasty.

Much of the fairy tale will be swept aside as the hype builds up ahead of AFC Wimbledon’s FA Cup third round clash with Liverpool as this will be a chance for those wonderful self-publicists John Fashanu and Vinnie Jones to thrust themselves back into the public eye.

They will tell how they ruled the dressing room and opponents alike by fear, and explain how their notoriety was what made the Crazy Gang what it was.

Except, of course, the term Crazy Gang pre-dated the pair of them. Dave Bassett and Bobby Gould weren’t the first or last football managers to create a great team spirit and create a culture where the total was more than the sum of its parts.

Fashanu and Jones are the rather dubious poster boys of a team that defied the odds but it’s a shame they weren’t so vocal when that team was being ripped apart little more than a decade later.

While others – Bassett, Dave Beasant, Terry Burton and current boss Neal Ardley spring to mind – were quick to nail their colours to the AFC mast, there was a silence from some of the biggest names of 1988 while their former fans had their club stolen from under their feet.

At some point, the AFC Wimbledon story will make a compelling TV programme or film. And hopefully not even Fash or Vinnie will be able to hijack that and turn it into a horror movie.