Crazy Gang Gang, although the club's first ever full-time apprentice Wally Downes is normally cited as the founder, being an inveterate practical joker. Crazy Gang The Crazy Gang is a nickname used by the English media to describe Wimbledon F.C. during the 1980s and 90s. The name, originally that of a well known group of British comedy entertainers popular in the late 1930s, was used because of the often cheeky and boisterously macho behaviour of Wimbledon's players, who were in the habit of playing frequent and outrageous practical jokes on each other and on the club's manager Dave Bassett (later Bobby Gould
The Crazy Gang at the London Palladium, which later became their adopted home. In 1938 they appeared at the Palladium in the hit revue "These Foolish Things" alongside the Sherman Fisher Girls. After being signed by Gainsborough Pictures, they then made several films. The first was "O-Kay for Sound", in 1937, and the best remembered was their war-time film "Gasbags" (1940). They kept people entertained during the war years with their irreverent comedy style, and Flanagan and Allen's very popular songs also contributed to their success. All their films were directed by Marcel Varnel, the Frenchman who directed a long list of classic