{"id":571428,"date":"2020-11-06T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=571428"},"modified":"2021-05-06T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T01:34:22","slug":"barrow-vs-afc-wimbledon-fa-cup-tie-off-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/06\/barrow-vs-afc-wimbledon-fa-cup-tie-off-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrow vs AFC Wimbledon FA Cup Tie Off Due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/30\/barrow-afc-sustaining-that-winning-formula\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Barrow<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=AFC+wimbledon\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">AFC Wimbledon<\/a> FA Cup tie has been postponed after a number of positive Covid-19 tests for some of the Wimbledon\u00a0squad, it has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barrowafc\/status\/1324675570718904320?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Barrow and AFC Wimbledon FA Cup Tie Off<\/h2>\n<p>AFC Wimbledon confirmed the disappointing news on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afcwimbledon.co.uk\/news\/2020\/november\/fa-cup-tie-at-barrow-is-postponed\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a> on 6th November:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTesting of all first-team players and staff is now taking place, as well as under-18 squad members as a precautionary measure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFC Wimbledon\u2019s last game was against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/26\/fa-cup-round-one-draw-doncaster-rovers-faced-with-trip-to-fc-united-of-manchester\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Doncaster Rovers <\/a>who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drfc_official\/status\/1324677003740676097?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced that their manager Darren Moore and his coaching team had come into contact with a positive test and are now self-isolating<\/a>. It is not known whether the two cases are linked.<\/p>\n<p>The first team of Wimbledon were to travel on Saturday 7th November to the North West but instead now have to self isolate.<\/p>\n<h3>Glyn Hodges Disappointed to Miss Out on FA Cup Magic<\/h3>\n<p>AFC Wimbledon boss Glyn Hodges had been hoping for some FA Cup magic this season and sees matches against the likes of Barrow as must-win games as he told Wimbledon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afcwimbledon.co.uk\/news\/2020\/november\/glyn-we-have-to-put-in-the-hard-yards-for-fa-cup-reward\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been giant-killing for years, as have other clubs, and that\u2019s what the FA Cup is all about, but we\u2019ve got to put in the hard yards. You\u2019ve got to go on the road, you\u2019ve got to play at all sorts of places, weird and wonderful, and you\u2019ve got to earn the right to get these ties, so that\u2019s what we will be trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2020\/21 season is an emotional one for AFC Wimbledon and their fans as they finally start to play football once more at Plough Lane. They returned to their proper home in that last match against Doncaster Rovers which they drew 2-2.<\/p>\n<h3>Next Match<\/h3>\n<p>Wigan at home is the next match now for AFC Wimbledon but it remains to be seen as to if that match will be under threat. 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Barrow and AFC Wimbledon FA Cup Tie Off AFC Wimbledon confirmed the disappointing news on their official website on 6th November: \u201cTesting of all first-team players and staff is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":571440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8432,30],"tags":[662,5693,6204,5014,294,2979,6989],"class_list":["post-571428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-fa-cup","category-news","tag-afc-wimbledon","tag-barrow","tag-barrow-afc","tag-covid-19","tag-doncaster-rovers","tag-fa-cup-first-round","tag-plough-lane"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}