Gills blog: Gillingham's defeat to AFC Wimbledon could be the sign of things to come as non-league grows stronger
12:35, 04 October 2011
updated: 13:19, 27 May 2021
Eyebrows were raised on Saturday as "little" AFC Wimbledon battered the Gills into submission.
Under-estimating clubs coming up into the Football League is an easy mistake to make and just ask fans at Grimsby, Lincoln and Darlington if they think the Conference is a walk in the park.
In recent years the non-league scene has been transformed with full-time players. Only a handful of teams in the Conference Premier are now operating on a part-time basis, which has narrowed the gap between the top of non-league and League 2 massively.
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