EXCLUSIVE: Not even Covid or his club's relocation to Milton Keynes could keep Michael Taliadoros from watching Wimbledon - and he can tell you about every one of the 2,000 matches14:33, 12 Aug 2026Updated 15:33, 12 Aug 2026A football superfan has watched every single one of his team's matches since 1989 - and can tell you what happened in all the games and the exact date of every fixture!Michael Taliadoros celebrated his 2,000th consecutive Wimbledon match on Saturday, an epic adventure that began 37 years ago after opening his first pay packet as a teenager.Not even a global pandemic or his club being uprooted to Milton Keynes could hold him back, so the small matter of motorway madness and a supporters' coach breakdown were hardly likely to ever stand in his way.Incredibly, Michael, known as MikeyT at Plough Lane, claims he can not only remember the score from every game, but when they took place - and we put him to the test. The 55-year-old now helps the League One Dons as a matchday commentator and he counts his blessings with his role allowing him behind-closed-doors during Covid.He told the Mirror: “The run started away to Charlton on May 6 1989, and and the last match I missed was at manchester-united-fc>Manchester United a few days earlier."That was the last Wimbledon game I wasn’t at. I had only just started work, and I hadn’t had my first pay packet. I’d just left college but as soon as I'd been paid for the first time, there was no stopping me!“The next season was our centenary year, so that summer a few of us said we’re going to try and do every game and it snowballed from there really. I did all 47 that year, including the Zenith Data Systems Cup away at Ipswich on a Thursday night just before Christmas!“The season after, my friend who had suggested going to every game got a better job so couldn’t carry on, I maintained a more humble existence employment-wise so I just carried on."I make sure I am at every first tea, competitive league and domestic cup game. The friendly games don't count, as sometimes they split the squad and play twice in one day.“I just never wanted to stop. If I keep eating spinach and keep drinking cans of Lidl’s Red Bull equivalent, then who knows when the run will end. Myself and Rob [Cornell, co commentator] will be like Statler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show into our 90s!”He passed the milestone last weekend as Wimbledon secured a penalty shoot-out EFL Cup victory over Newport County thanks to a late Callum Maycock equaliser.While a lot of fans often struggle to recall what grounds they've been to, Mikey can tell you the score and even the date of every single one.Putting his claim to the test, we demanded details of Wimbledon's season opener from the 1992/93 campaign.“We played Leeds United away on August 15," he said sharply. "We lost 2-1. Lee Chapman scored two for Leeds, in between a Warren Barton Hail Mary looping cross, shot, pass, whatever the f**k was it!"As he prepares to take in his 2,001th consecutive match at Huddersfield Town in Saturday's league opener, we needed to know if the Dons die-hard, who started going to Wimbledon games with his dad in 1980, has had any near-misses.“There’s been no colon-clenching moments," he delicately put it. "I have always managed to get there with enough time.“But I’ve been late for a few! Middlesbrough away in the FA Cup third round in 2002 sticks out. We broke down on the M1, but we got there in the end.“There was something about the North East because on the night of the Eric Cantona at Crystal Palace thing we were in Newcastle. We got stuck on the M62 slip road. We got there at 8.25pm and got home at 7am in the morning! Newcastle went a goal up and we were still driving and listed in on Metro Radio."Then one time the supporters' coach broke down. I called a cab to get to the train station but didn’t need it in the end."Covid caused havoc when sport stood still but there was also the small matter of Wimbledon's relocation in 2003 with the club subsequently renamed MK Dons in one of football's most controversial decisions.By that time, AFC Wimbledon was up and running and the club made its ways up from the Combined Counties League to League One - even overtaking the club in Milton Keynes in the football Pyramid.“When Covid happened I didn’t think too much of it at first but then of course it got more serious," he said. "Thanks to the grace of god I was helping with the commentary, so I managed to still attend every game during the lockdown season.“I know how lucky I was. I know a guy Colin who hadn’t missed a Wimbledon game since Chelsea away on Boxing Day in 1997 and he couldn’t go. But I don’t think he has broken his run. There’s dispensation, there has to be.“I have highlights of course during that run. You look at the play-off finals, Luton, Plymouth and Walsall - we won them all. There were also the games we got so close in the cup semi-finals against Tottenham, Leicester and Chelsea where we ran into Zola and Hughes.“We went 10 years without losing at Arsenal! Then of course going through the leagues with AFC Wimbledon, reclaiming what was ours (EFL place) and over-taking a certain Buckinghamshire retail park in the league standings was very special.Article continues below“There’s been ups and downs. We went from watching the Premier League to having curries on the terraces at Southall and cheese rolls at Merstham."But this is my club, this is Wimbledon and I love every second of it."
Football fan who's been to every team game for 37 years celebrates 2000th match
EXCLUSIVE: Not even Covid or his club's relocation to Milton Keynes could keep Michael Taliadoros from watching Wimbledon - and he can tell you about every one of the 2,000 matches






