AFC Wimbledon began and ended 2015 with a bang.

Chief executive Erik Samuelson hatched a plan to sell Kingsmeadow to Premier League Chelsea to finance a move back to Plough Lane, in the same month the Dons crashed out of the FA Cup third round with a 2-1 defeat to Liverpool screened live on BBC television.

By the end of the year, it was all smiles as Merton Council approved plans to build a new stadium in the borough.

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January: Haydon the Womble did a touch of crowd surfing, top, amid the Dons faithful during the club’s 2-1 FA Cup third round defeat to Premier League Liverpool.  Adebayo Akinfenwa equalised Steven Gerrard’s 12th minute opener to leave the scores level at half time, but the Anfield legend took his side through to the next round with a 62nd minute winner, above

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February:  Kingstonian keeper Rob Tolfrey, pictured above against Margate, climbed into the Kingsmeadow stands to tussle with away fans after being abused during his team’s 2-1 to Bognor Regis Town. Tolfrey would receive a seven-match ban for the altercation

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March: Former Surbiton High School student Phoebe Law, above, won the women’s U20 British Cross Challenge final  in Birmingham to qualify for the World Junior Cross Country Championships in China. But the 18-year-old, who won European Junior Cross Country Championship team gold with Great Britain in 2014, did not make the trip to the Far East due to illness