I would have thought that AFC Wimbledon would want that tie as well, but by all accounts they are dead against it. They say they would play the fixture, but wish they didn't have tohugh jardon wrote:The game I'd love to see is AFC Wimbledon v MK Dons.
MKD truly present all that is evil with modern day football and it'd be a venomous atmosphere at Kingstonians
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Percy Dalton
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Living close to MK I have to say that a lot of the venom aimed at the MK Dons is totally out of order.
The old Wimbledon would never have survived. They had no ground, no money and to be completely honest, no fans. Their star players (Wise, Jones, Fashanu, Beasant) were all long gone. They were a dead duck.
I do agree that it was very harsh on the few Wimbledon supporters there were but there was a simple choice, relocate or lose the club altogether.
The only thing I do think was wrong is the fact it gave MK a football team in the higher leagues of football instantly.
However, the MK Dons now have a fantastic new stadium that is on the list to be used should England win the World Cup bid. The kids n the area now have a local team to support rather than Man Utd, surely a good thing, and the ground is used for many local projects.
Sounds better to me than a derelict Plough Lane and nothing else.
My family have strong connections with the old Wimbledon (uncle played for them, brother supported them) so I should be more anti-MK Dons but when you examine the facts it is clear to see that something very good has come out of something that was on its last legs and ready to go under.
The old Wimbledon would never have survived. They had no ground, no money and to be completely honest, no fans. Their star players (Wise, Jones, Fashanu, Beasant) were all long gone. They were a dead duck.
I do agree that it was very harsh on the few Wimbledon supporters there were but there was a simple choice, relocate or lose the club altogether.
The only thing I do think was wrong is the fact it gave MK a football team in the higher leagues of football instantly.
However, the MK Dons now have a fantastic new stadium that is on the list to be used should England win the World Cup bid. The kids n the area now have a local team to support rather than Man Utd, surely a good thing, and the ground is used for many local projects.
Sounds better to me than a derelict Plough Lane and nothing else.
My family have strong connections with the old Wimbledon (uncle played for them, brother supported them) so I should be more anti-MK Dons but when you examine the facts it is clear to see that something very good has come out of something that was on its last legs and ready to go under.
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The game I hope never happens
Percy Dalton : I strongly disagree. AFC Wimbledon is living proof that Wimbledon could have survived. Wimbledon had I believe 7,000 season ticket holders in Division 1 when the FA murdered the Club. I know of very few AFC Wimbledon fans who want to play Franchise. As someone said on twitter it's like Palestine being asked to play Israel in the World Cup. Those ***** stole my club, and we have spent the last eight years working hard to right the wrong and get Wimbledon back in the League, the correct way.
Why should we welcome MK Dons to our ground, it's like inviting the bloke who's burgled your house in for tea. For us time has not healed the wounds. The FA's decision was wrong in 2002 and it's still wrong.
Why should we welcome MK Dons to our ground, it's like inviting the bloke who's burgled your house in for tea. For us time has not healed the wounds. The FA's decision was wrong in 2002 and it's still wrong.
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Percy Dalton
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I am not suggesting that you welcome the MK Dons with open arms but I am saying that their players and supporters never caused any harm to your old club.
The fact is Wimbledon woud have been a long distant memory either way by now. They would have simply ceased to exist or, as has happened, they moved on.
It is all well and good saying you had 7000 season ticket holders but you had no ground to put them in and the rent for Selhurst etc was crippling you. All of your valuable assets had been sold and there was a mad Norwegian in charge.
I am not saying what happened was right but I am saying that the MK Dons as they are were not to blame for your clubs demise.
Sure there are certain people that deserve your wrath but you surely can't hold a grudge against people who have supported what is to them their local team for the last decade?
The fact is Wimbledon woud have been a long distant memory either way by now. They would have simply ceased to exist or, as has happened, they moved on.
It is all well and good saying you had 7000 season ticket holders but you had no ground to put them in and the rent for Selhurst etc was crippling you. All of your valuable assets had been sold and there was a mad Norwegian in charge.
I am not saying what happened was right but I am saying that the MK Dons as they are were not to blame for your clubs demise.
Sure there are certain people that deserve your wrath but you surely can't hold a grudge against people who have supported what is to them their local team for the last decade?
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Being that a new club was set up, and ground built, I guess that money invested could have been used to keep Wimbledon closer to their fan base as Wimbledon FC.
That the money wasn't used in that way suggests that the motive of moving the club to one of the largest towns/cities without a professional football club was the major factor, to take advantage of large potential future revenues.
Thus, I can sympathise that it is hard for those left behind to find anything positve with this "new set-up", including those that support and fund it.
That the money wasn't used in that way suggests that the motive of moving the club to one of the largest towns/cities without a professional football club was the major factor, to take advantage of large potential future revenues.
Thus, I can sympathise that it is hard for those left behind to find anything positve with this "new set-up", including those that support and fund it.
