The Crazy Gang is a nickname coined by the UK media to describe the Wimbledon football team of the 1980s and the 1990s. The name, originally that of a group of British comedy entertainers popular in the 1940s, was coined because of the often eccentric and boisterous macho behaviour of Wimbledon's players, who were in the habit of playing outrageous practical jokes on each other and on the club's manager, Dave Bassett. Additionally, their playing style was often accused of being basic and unsophisticated and their general approach to the game as amateurish, but the team was nonetheless very successful and the joking behaviour undoubtedly bred an intensely close team spirit. Regardless of the criticism, or perhaps because of it, the club thrived and within only a few years, they won promotion from the bottom of the Football League to the very highest level, without ever changing either their playing style or their "us against the world

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