‘People were naked all the time in the Crazy Gang – that was the punishment for anything: birthdays, scoring a goal, winning a game. You’d get stripped’ Dean Lewington takes us inside the Wimbledon dressing room

Wimbledon players celebrate their FA Cup final win over Liverpool at Wembley in May 1988.

When Wimbledon gatecrashed the old First Division in 1986, the exploits of the so-called ‘Crazy Gang’ became mainstream.

Since the early 1980s, tales of the south London side’s outlandish behaviour had begun to permeate English football’s collective consciousness, but reaching the top flight meant they were well and truly mainstream.