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It’s MK Dons fans. They deserve a lot worse than a ball in the face.
Don’t like Harry Pell, but I’m with him on this one. Fúck ‘em.
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He’s dead hard he is 😂😂😂 Last year I took my team out for a social, few drinks, dinner etc.. and we went to Swingers ( indoor crazy golf not the weekend pursuit for those who need a spark in their marriage) you put your team name on the TV screen when I did ours I saw the name Harry Pell, and yes the complete Pell end was there in all his lanky toss pot glory.
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He’s dead hard he is 😂😂😂
Last year I took my team out for a social, few drinks, dinner etc.. and we went to Swingers ( indoor crazy golf not the weekend pursuit for those who need a spark in their marriage) you put your team name on the TV screen when I did ours I saw the name Harry Pell, and yes the complete Pell end was there in all his lanky toss pot glory.
Was he with any 15 year olds?
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Was he with any 15 year olds?
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I think whatever you think of MK. We should back them up with what a tosser . Pell is.
It's not the fans that stole a football team just a Pillock. with too much money.
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It’s MK Dons fans. They deserve a lot worse than a ball in the face.
What exactly do they deserve then? And why?
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What exactly do they deserve then? And why?
I’d suggest they deserve to experience having their beloved so-called football club taken away from them for a start. The very concept of MK Dons is morally bankrupt, and I won’t be satisfied until they are financially so. Do I really need to explain the “why”? Do you know what, fúck it, you’ve triggered me (‘cos I really don’t like the cúnts), so I’ll give you an answer. Big deep breath… Let me start by giving some credit where it’s due; the whole Wimbledon to Milton Keynes strategy actually made complete sense. On a spreadsheet. With a population of over 250,000, MK was one of the largest urban areas in the UK without a league club, in part due to the fact it was a new town founded in the 1970s. Better yet, it was probably the largest urban area in the UK nowhere near a so-called “big club”. MK is some 70 miles from Villa Park, and over an hour on a train to central London. A massive, untapped audience, just waiting to be unlocked. There was just a tiny flaw in the plan. It was bóllocks. You see, when the so-called Dons played their first match in the town, some 20 years ago now, there were 2 types of people living in Milton Keynes: a) Non-football fans b) Football fans who already supported another club This observation is obvious to anyone who follows football, but apparently not to the likes of Charles Koppel and Pete Winkleman. Naturally, converting non-football fans into regular, match-going supporters is very difficult, and converting fans of one club to another, nigh-on impossible. The only people actually capable of supporting a club like MK are therefore, by definition, freaks. Unsurprising then, we regularly see 25,000 empty seats in MK’s fine, but tainted stadium. Here’s the thing though - it didn’t have to be this way. It’s often forgotten that Milton Keynes already had a football club - Milton Keynes City FC. They were tiny, operating in the very lower reaches of non-league. It would have taken years to have brought that club to the football league; time that could be saved by harvesting the organs of Wimbledon. But in doing so, they created a brand too toxic to touch. They created something almost impossible to rally behind. They have become the pantomime villain, and legitimately so. Ironically, it took AFC Wimbledon, with only fan powered resources, just 8 seasons to return to the football league, by which point MK Dons were only a league above them. As of right now of course they find themselves in League Two, separated from Wimbledon by just 10 points. For all their trials and tribulations, they have failed to make meaningful progress. Had they played the long game, rather than taking the sleazy shortcut, then maybe, just maybe, they might have created a story its community could have been proud of and, in time, grown a healthy five-figure fan base. A fan base perhaps that could have seen them sustain Championship football and, then, who knows what beyond that? And no one would have begrudged them their success. But they didn’t, and so in the world we actually live in, they are back where they started, little more than a small club rattling round in a big stadium, yo-yo-ing between league’s One and Two. At least for as long as the mouth breathers that follow them continue to turn up, and things aren’t looking to clever there as it happens. This season will be comfortably their lowest average attendance since moving to Stadium:MK. To be even clearer, this season’s average is down 25% on their next lowest average. The project has failed. It’s fúcked. Ultimately, it had to fail. No supporter in this country wants “franchise football”, and a successful MK Dons would have set a dangerous precedent. The only ones to blame are the bell ends behind this most moronic of experiments, and the mindless chumps that turn up to watch them. Look, I reckon I could have a pint with a regular, match-going fan of just about any club in this country, be it Man City, Man United, Mansfield, or even fúcking Scunny, and find loads in common with them. But not MK Dons; I just don’t understand the mindset. I don’t understand how you could back something like that, either as a football fan or just a human being in general. To borrow (tenuously) from the thread title; tossers, the lot of them.
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You got me thinking, Poojah.
I've just briefly looked into Milton Keynes City FC, which is a third incarnation club. The second incarnation folded in 2003 when Wimbledon relocated, and the third incarnation was established in 2005. Basically, there was already a vulnerable club with Milton Keynes in the name that could have been a success story like you said.
Obviously, the higher up the pyramid you are, the higher your income streams but I wonder what Winkleman and anyone else has actually put in over the last 21 years. They wouldn't have had the kind of numbers AFC Wimbledon had through the turnstiles at Kingstonian in the early days but it would have been a much more sustainable story for sure. I think Milton Keynes City were in the 11th tier around the time AFC Wimbledon began their first season in the 9th tier in 2002.
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I’d suggest they deserve to experience having their beloved so-called football club taken away from them for a start. The very concept of MK Dons is morally bankrupt, and I won’t be satisfied until they are financially so.
Do I really need to explain the “why”? Do you know what, fúck it, you’ve triggered me (‘cos I really don’t like the cúnts), so I’ll give you an answer. Big deep breath…
Let me start by giving some credit where it’s due; the whole Wimbledon to Milton Keynes strategy actually made complete sense. On a spreadsheet. With a population of over 250,000, MK was one of the largest urban areas in the UK without a league club, in part due to the fact it was a new town founded in the 1970s. Better yet, it was probably the largest urban area in the UK nowhere near a so-called “big club”. MK is some 70 miles from Villa Park, and over an hour on a train to central London. A massive, untapped audience, just waiting to be unlocked. There was just a tiny flaw in the plan.
It was bóllocks.
You see, when the so-called Dons played their first match in the town, some 20 years ago now, there were 2 types of people living in Milton Keynes:
a) Non-football fans b) Football fans who already supported another club
This observation is obvious to anyone who follows football, but apparently not to the likes of Charles Koppel and Pete Winkleman. Naturally, converting non-football fans into regular, match-going supporters is very difficult, and converting fans of one club to another, nigh-on impossible. The only people actually capable of supporting a club like MK are therefore, by definition, freaks.
Unsurprising then, we regularly see 25,000 empty seats in MK’s fine, but tainted stadium. Here’s the thing though - it didn’t have to be this way.
It’s often forgotten that Milton Keynes already had a football club - Milton Keynes City FC. They were tiny, operating in the very lower reaches of non-league. It would have taken years to have brought that club to the football league; time that could be saved by harvesting the organs of Wimbledon.
But in doing so, they created a brand too toxic to touch. They created something almost impossible to rally behind. They have become the pantomime villain, and legitimately so. Ironically, it took AFC Wimbledon, with only fan powered resources, just 8 seasons to return to the football league, by which point MK Dons were only a league above them. As of right now of course they find themselves in League Two, separated from Wimbledon by just 10 points. For all their trials and tribulations, they have failed to make meaningful progress.
Had they played the long game, rather than taking the sleazy shortcut, then maybe, just maybe, they might have created a story its community could have been proud of and, in time, grown a healthy five-figure fan base. A fan base perhaps that could have seen them sustain Championship football and, then, who knows what beyond that? And no one would have begrudged them their success.
But they didn’t, and so in the world we actually live in, they are back where they started, little more than a small club rattling round in a big stadium, yo-yo-ing between league’s One and Two. At least for as long as the mouth breathers that follow them continue to turn up, and things aren’t looking to clever there as it happens.
This season will be comfortably their lowest average attendance since moving to Stadium:MK. To be even clearer, this season’s average is down 25% on their next lowest average. The project has failed. It’s fúcked.
Ultimately, it had to fail. No supporter in this country wants “franchise football”, and a successful MK Dons would have set a dangerous precedent. The only ones to blame are the bell ends behind this most moronic of experiments, and mindless chumps that turn up to watch them.
Look, I reckon I could have a pint with a regular, match-going fan of just about any club in this country, be it Man City, Man United, Mansfield, even fúcking Scunny, and find loads in common with them. But not MK Dons; I just don’t understand the mindset. I don’t understand how you could back something like that, either as a football fan or just a human being in general.
To borrow (tenuously) from the thread title; tossers, the lot of them.
The only reason their crowds held up well was because they offered 7k tickets to Ipswich , Sheff Wed , Portsmouth etc and they obliged - there were games last season when there were more away fans than home at stadium MK - the place is crap full stop though , I couldn't even find a kebab or decent pub in the town after we played there - it was like a gridded ghost town .
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Look, I reckon I could have a pint with a regular, match-going fan of just about any club in this country, be it Man City, Man United, Mansfield, or even fúcking Scunny, and find loads in common with them. But not MK Dons; I just don’t understand the mindset. I don’t understand how you could back something like that, either as a football fan or just a human being in general.
To borrow (tenuously) from the thread title; tossers, the lot of them.
I cannot stand MK Dons, thing is, they were formed 20 years ago now. A whole generation has been brought up with this being their local team. I can understand you disliking the older fans but what have the younger fans done to urine you off, other than supporting their local club
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I’d suggest they deserve to experience having their beloved so-called football club taken away from them for a start. The very concept of MK Dons is morally bankrupt, and I won’t be satisfied until they are financially so.
Do I really need to explain the “why”? Do you know what, fúck it, you’ve triggered me (‘cos I really don’t like the cúnts), so I’ll give you an answer. Big deep breath…
Let me start by giving some credit where it’s due; the whole Wimbledon to Milton Keynes strategy actually made complete sense. On a spreadsheet. With a population of over 250,000, MK was one of the largest urban areas in the UK without a league club, in part due to the fact it was a new town founded in the 1970s. Better yet, it was probably the largest urban area in the UK nowhere near a so-called “big club”. MK is some 70 miles from Villa Park, and over an hour on a train to central London. A massive, untapped audience, just waiting to be unlocked. There was just a tiny flaw in the plan.
It was bóllocks.
You see, when the so-called Dons played their first match in the town, some 20 years ago now, there were 2 types of people living in Milton Keynes:
a) Non-football fans b) Football fans who already supported another club
This observation is obvious to anyone who follows football, but apparently not to the likes of Charles Koppel and Pete Winkleman. Naturally, converting non-football fans into regular, match-going supporters is very difficult, and converting fans of one club to another, nigh-on impossible. The only people actually capable of supporting a club like MK are therefore, by definition, freaks.
Unsurprising then, we regularly see 25,000 empty seats in MK’s fine, but tainted stadium. Here’s the thing though - it didn’t have to be this way.
It’s often forgotten that Milton Keynes already had a football club - Milton Keynes City FC. They were tiny, operating in the very lower reaches of non-league. It would have taken years to have brought that club to the football league; time that could be saved by harvesting the organs of Wimbledon.
But in doing so, they created a brand too toxic to touch. They created something almost impossible to rally behind. They have become the pantomime villain, and legitimately so. Ironically, it took AFC Wimbledon, with only fan powered resources, just 8 seasons to return to the football league, by which point MK Dons were only a league above them. As of right now of course they find themselves in League Two, separated from Wimbledon by just 10 points. For all their trials and tribulations, they have failed to make meaningful progress.
Had they played the long game, rather than taking the sleazy shortcut, then maybe, just maybe, they might have created a story its community could have been proud of and, in time, grown a healthy five-figure fan base. A fan base perhaps that could have seen them sustain Championship football and, then, who knows what beyond that? And no one would have begrudged them their success.
But they didn’t, and so in the world we actually live in, they are back where they started, little more than a small club rattling round in a big stadium, yo-yo-ing between league’s One and Two. At least for as long as the mouth breathers that follow them continue to turn up, and things aren’t looking to clever there as it happens.
This season will be comfortably their lowest average attendance since moving to Stadium:MK. To be even clearer, this season’s average is down 25% on their next lowest average. The project has failed. It’s fúcked.
Ultimately, it had to fail. No supporter in this country wants “franchise football”, and a successful MK Dons would have set a dangerous precedent. The only ones to blame are the bell ends behind this most moronic of experiments, and the mindless chumps that turn up to watch them.
Look, I reckon I could have a pint with a regular, match-going fan of just about any club in this country, be it Man City, Man United, Mansfield, or even fúcking Scunny, and find loads in common with them. But not MK Dons; I just don’t understand the mindset. I don’t understand how you could back something like that, either as a football fan or just a human being in general.
To borrow (tenuously) from the thread title; tossers, the lot of them.
Aye, well said poojah, they can fook right off. The original plan was to buy Wimbledon and move it to Dublin (population 1 million+) by the way, MK was just a plan B when even the FA/EFL wouldn't allow an English club to be stolen and moved to a foreign country and continue to play in the English League. Not sure if this was only after he bought Wimbledon, can't be arsed to look, but presumably. So not only are those fans not wanted by other clubs, they weren't even wanted by winkelman himself! He just had wanted them more than he wanted proper Wimbledon fans, who he didn't want at all.
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I’d suggest they deserve to experience having their beloved so-called football club taken away from them for a start. The very concept of MK Dons is morally bankrupt, and I won’t be satisfied until they are financially so.
Do I really need to explain the “why”? Do you know what, fúck it, you’ve triggered me (‘cos I really don’t like the cúnts), so I’ll give you an answer. Big deep breath…
Let me start by giving some credit where it’s due; the whole Wimbledon to Milton Keynes strategy actually made complete sense. On a spreadsheet. With a population of over 250,000, MK was one of the largest urban areas in the UK without a league club, in part due to the fact it was a new town founded in the 1970s. Better yet, it was probably the largest urban area in the UK nowhere near a so-called “big club”. MK is some 70 miles from Villa Park, and over an hour on a train to central London. A massive, untapped audience, just waiting to be unlocked. There was just a tiny flaw in the plan.
It was bóllocks.
You see, when the so-called Dons played their first match in the town, some 20 years ago now, there were 2 types of people living in Milton Keynes:
a) Non-football fans b) Football fans who already supported another club
This observation is obvious to anyone who follows football, but apparently not to the likes of Charles Koppel and Pete Winkleman. Naturally, converting non-football fans into regular, match-going supporters is very difficult, and converting fans of one club to another, nigh-on impossible. The only people actually capable of supporting a club like MK are therefore, by definition, freaks.
Unsurprising then, we regularly see 25,000 empty seats in MK’s fine, but tainted stadium. Here’s the thing though - it didn’t have to be this way.
It’s often forgotten that Milton Keynes already had a football club - Milton Keynes City FC. They were tiny, operating in the very lower reaches of non-league. It would have taken years to have brought that club to the football league; time that could be saved by harvesting the organs of Wimbledon.
But in doing so, they created a brand too toxic to touch. They created something almost impossible to rally behind. They have become the pantomime villain, and legitimately so. Ironically, it took AFC Wimbledon, with only fan powered resources, just 8 seasons to return to the football league, by which point MK Dons were only a league above them. As of right now of course they find themselves in League Two, separated from Wimbledon by just 10 points. For all their trials and tribulations, they have failed to make meaningful progress.
Had they played the long game, rather than taking the sleazy shortcut, then maybe, just maybe, they might have created a story its community could have been proud of and, in time, grown a healthy five-figure fan base. A fan base perhaps that could have seen them sustain Championship football and, then, who knows what beyond that? And no one would have begrudged them their success.
But they didn’t, and so in the world we actually live in, they are back where they started, little more than a small club rattling round in a big stadium, yo-yo-ing between league’s One and Two. At least for as long as the mouth breathers that follow them continue to turn up, and things aren’t looking to clever there as it happens.
This season will be comfortably their lowest average attendance since moving to Stadium:MK. To be even clearer, this season’s average is down 25% on their next lowest average. The project has failed. It’s fúcked.
Ultimately, it had to fail. No supporter in this country wants “franchise football”, and a successful MK Dons would have set a dangerous precedent. The only ones to blame are the bell ends behind this most moronic of experiments, and the mindless chumps that turn up to watch them.
Look, I reckon I could have a pint with a regular, match-going fan of just about any club in this country, be it Man City, Man United, Mansfield, or even fúcking Scunny, and find loads in common with them. But not MK Dons; I just don’t understand the mindset. I don’t understand how you could back something like that, either as a football fan or just a human being in general.
To borrow (tenuously) from the thread title; tossers, the lot of them.
It's funny isn't it, I literally hate MK dons and I have no attachment to Wimbledon at all. If I had a choice out of scunny and MK to get relegated and dissappear it'd be MK. 100%. Not even a thought would go 'actually no Scunthorpe.'
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I’d suggest they deserve to experience having their beloved so-called football club taken away from them for a start. The very concept of MK Dons is morally bankrupt, and I won’t be satisfied until they are financially so.
Do I really need to explain the “why”? Do you know what, fúck it, you’ve triggered me (‘cos I really don’t like the cúnts), so I’ll give you an answer. Big deep breath…
Let me start by giving some credit where it’s due; the whole Wimbledon to Milton Keynes strategy actually made complete sense. On a spreadsheet. With a population of over 250,000, MK was one of the largest urban areas in the UK without a league club, in part due to the fact it was a new town founded in the 1970s. Better yet, it was probably the largest urban area in the UK nowhere near a so-called “big club”. MK is some 70 miles from Villa Park, and over an hour on a train to central London. A massive, untapped audience, just waiting to be unlocked. There was just a tiny flaw in the plan.
It was bóllocks.
You see, when the so-called Dons played their first match in the town, some 20 years ago now, there were 2 types of people living in Milton Keynes:
a) Non-football fans b) Football fans who already supported another club
This observation is obvious to anyone who follows football, but apparently not to the likes of Charles Koppel and Pete Winkleman. Naturally, converting non-football fans into regular, match-going supporters is very difficult, and converting fans of one club to another, nigh-on impossible. The only people actually capable of supporting a club like MK are therefore, by definition, freaks.
Unsurprising then, we regularly see 25,000 empty seats in MK’s fine, but tainted stadium. Here’s the thing though - it didn’t have to be this way.
It’s often forgotten that Milton Keynes already had a football club - Milton Keynes City FC. They were tiny, operating in the very lower reaches of non-league. It would have taken years to have brought that club to the football league; time that could be saved by harvesting the organs of Wimbledon.
But in doing so, they created a brand too toxic to touch. They created something almost impossible to rally behind. They have become the pantomime villain, and legitimately so. Ironically, it took AFC Wimbledon, with only fan powered resources, just 8 seasons to return to the football league, by which point MK Dons were only a league above them. As of right now of course they find themselves in League Two, separated from Wimbledon by just 10 points. For all their trials and tribulations, they have failed to make meaningful progress.
Had they played the long game, rather than taking the sleazy shortcut, then maybe, just maybe, they might have created a story its community could have been proud of and, in time, grown a healthy five-figure fan base. A fan base perhaps that could have seen them sustain Championship football and, then, who knows what beyond that? And no one would have begrudged them their success.
But they didn’t, and so in the world we actually live in, they are back where they started, little more than a small club rattling round in a big stadium, yo-yo-ing between league’s One and Two. At least for as long as the mouth breathers that follow them continue to turn up, and things aren’t looking to clever there as it happens.
This season will be comfortably their lowest average attendance since moving to Stadium:MK. To be even clearer, this season’s average is down 25% on their next lowest average. The project has failed. It’s fúcked.
Ultimately, it had to fail. No supporter in this country wants “franchise football”, and a successful MK Dons would have set a dangerous precedent. The only ones to blame are the bell ends behind this most moronic of experiments, and the mindless chumps that turn up to watch them.
Look, I reckon I could have a pint with a regular, match-going fan of just about any club in this country, be it Man City, Man United, Mansfield, or even fúcking Scunny, and find loads in common with them. But not MK Dons; I just don’t understand the mindset. I don’t understand how you could back something like that, either as a football fan or just a human being in general.
To borrow (tenuously) from the thread title; tossers, the lot of them.
Well said Poojah 👏👏👏👏 They could have also backed Wolverton FC or Stony Stratford Town if they'd wanted to bring through a non league team. I only live 15 miles from the stadium, but have never visited it and never will..I don't go n watch Town there, and I wont even run the MK half because it finishes in the stadium Never forgive, never forget. I hate to say it but we have a cabal of bfS fans in my local, several of whom I've known for many years. I have to keep things very light in order to avoid disputes! And to make things even worse , Winkelmans daughter and her husband, a director, are also regular visitors! ( they're actually nice people). My hatred will end once theyve been relegated into non league, which I hope I will see in my lifetime
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Tweet 1763903828842164656 will appear here... Y'know I'm generally against everything MK Dons stand for. The whole thing is just scummy. It's well pointed out how the money put into MK Dons could have organically gone into the 'natural' clubs in that area. I suspect had MK City reached these levels they would be viewed with the same disdain that Salford, FGR, to an extent Fleetwood all get. But rather be labelled as a vanity project than what they are. Equally so with a growing population of a quarter of a million upwards you would think that tapping into those early generations would quite easily lead to a bit of an organic growth that no vanity project has yet achieved. I also remember going to watch Town v Wimbledon at Selhurst Park in the last season before the move occurred, 02/03. The home game saw more journalists in the away end than actual fans, such was the level of the protest. Whilst my views on the situation were already rooted in my mind, the physical accosting of Town fans trying to get in the game by protesting Wimbledon fans would have easily swayed me. Older and potentially (but probably not) wiser, I would just boycott the game now. But I was late teens/early 20's and just wanted to watch my club. Regardless, I put it down and still do to emotion. I think I would be more than upset at the prospect of having my club ripped away from the community. The thing that really irritates me about Pell booting balls into the stand is more from a personal stance than anything. Fair few years ago I was doing some work with an organisation in Milton Keynes that provided services to people with learning disabilities, within this organisation they also had an employability scheme to help people into the working environment. There was one lad on the working group who had Down's syndrome, Stephen. He immediately clocked the GTFC keyring I had at the time and within seconds he told me how rubbish Grimsby were. Obviously I've no counter-argument to this so came back with the usual "well, someone's got to support them!", then asked who he followed. His response was the longest list of clubs from every country in the world. "Spurs, Real Madrid, PSG, Juve...." and couldn't wait to show me pictures of his phone of him sporting the colours of all these clubs. And then he came out with "And of course...MK!", to which he unzipped his top to show me the home shirt of MK Dons and arched at an impossible angle to show me Agard 14 on the back of his shirt. Turning round again to show me the biggest smile I've ever seen. His support worker told me later during the day that the amount of community work that MK Dons do (or did, I don't know if it's still the case) was unbelievable with all the players and staff so engaged in everything that happens locally. That's how it should be but it sort of took me aback that they're not completely this snarling monster. Anyway, Stephen sadly passed away a few years later but for me it's not Pell firing the balls into the away end as a protest at the clubs existence. It's more the fact that those balls could have hit Stephen.
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Exactly. Don’t want to come across like one of the Mary Whitehouse brigade, and ignoring all the MK-meta analysis, if that ball hits a kid or some old codger it could do some proper damage. The bloke’s obviously just a div.
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Tweet 1763903828842164656 will appear here... Y'know I'm generally against everything MK Dons stand for. The whole thing is just scummy. It's well pointed out how the money put into MK Dons could have organically gone into the 'natural' clubs in that area. I suspect had MK City reached these levels they would be viewed with the same disdain that Salford, FGR, to an extent Fleetwood all get. But rather be labelled as a vanity project than what they are. Equally so with a growing population of a quarter of a million upwards you would think that tapping into those early generations would quite easily lead to a bit of an organic growth that no vanity project has yet achieved. I also remember going to watch Town v Wimbledon at Selhurst Park in the last season before the move occurred, 02/03. The home game saw more journalists in the away end than actual fans, such was the level of the protest. Whilst my views on the situation were already rooted in my mind, the physical accosting of Town fans trying to get in the game by protesting Wimbledon fans would have easily swayed me. Older and potentially (but probably not) wiser, I would just boycott the game now. But I was late teens/early 20's and just wanted to watch my club. Regardless, I put it down and still do to emotion. I think I would be more than upset at the prospect of having my club ripped away from the community. The thing that really irritates me about Pell booting balls into the stand is more from a personal stance than anything. Fair few years ago I was doing some work with an organisation in Milton Keynes that provided services to people with learning disabilities, within this organisation they also had an employability scheme to help people into the working environment. There was one lad on the working group who had Down's syndrome, Stephen. He immediately clocked the GTFC keyring I had at the time and within seconds he told me how rubbish Grimsby were. Obviously I've no counter-argument to this so came back with the usual "well, someone's got to support them!", then asked who he followed. His response was the longest list of clubs from every country in the world. "Spurs, Real Madrid, PSG, Juve...." and couldn't wait to show me pictures of his phone of him sporting the colours of all these clubs. And then he came out with "And of course...MK!", to which he unzipped his top to show me the home shirt of MK Dons and arched at an impossible angle to show me Agard 14 on the back of his shirt. Turning round again to show me the biggest smile I've ever seen. His support worker told me later during the day that the amount of community work that MK Dons do (or did, I don't know if it's still the case) was unbelievable with all the players and staff so engaged in everything that happens locally. That's how it should be but it sort of took me aback that they're not completely this snarling monster. Anyway, Stephen sadly passed away a few years later but for me it's not Pell firing the balls into the away end as a protest at the clubs existence. It's more the fact that those balls could have hit Stephen.
What a lovely post- My brother has downs, big town fan, football is a joy to him
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I’d suggest they deserve to experience having their beloved so-called football club taken away from them for a start. The very concept of MK Dons is morally bankrupt, and I won’t be satisfied until they are financially so.
Do I really need to explain the “why”? Do you know what, fúck it, you’ve triggered me (‘cos I really don’t like the cúnts), so I’ll give you an answer. Big deep breath…
Let me start by giving some credit where it’s due; the whole Wimbledon to Milton Keynes strategy actually made complete sense. On a spreadsheet. With a population of over 250,000, MK was one of the largest urban areas in the UK without a league club, in part due to the fact it was a new town founded in the 1970s. Better yet, it was probably the largest urban area in the UK nowhere near a so-called “big club”. MK is some 70 miles from Villa Park, and over an hour on a train to central London. A massive, untapped audience, just waiting to be unlocked. There was just a tiny flaw in the plan.
It was bóllocks.
You see, when the so-called Dons played their first match in the town, some 20 years ago now, there were 2 types of people living in Milton Keynes:
a) Non-football fans b) Football fans who already supported another club
This observation is obvious to anyone who follows football, but apparently not to the likes of Charles Koppel and Pete Winkleman. Naturally, converting non-football fans into regular, match-going supporters is very difficult, and converting fans of one club to another, nigh-on impossible. The only people actually capable of supporting a club like MK are therefore, by definition, freaks.
Unsurprising then, we regularly see 25,000 empty seats in MK’s fine, but tainted stadium. Here’s the thing though - it didn’t have to be this way.
It’s often forgotten that Milton Keynes already had a football club - Milton Keynes City FC. They were tiny, operating in the very lower reaches of non-league. It would have taken years to have brought that club to the football league; time that could be saved by harvesting the organs of Wimbledon.
But in doing so, they created a brand too toxic to touch. They created something almost impossible to rally behind. They have become the pantomime villain, and legitimately so. Ironically, it took AFC Wimbledon, with only fan powered resources, just 8 seasons to return to the football league, by which point MK Dons were only a league above them. As of right now of course they find themselves in League Two, separated from Wimbledon by just 10 points. For all their trials and tribulations, they have failed to make meaningful progress.
Had they played the long game, rather than taking the sleazy shortcut, then maybe, just maybe, they might have created a story its community could have been proud of and, in time, grown a healthy five-figure fan base. A fan base perhaps that could have seen them sustain Championship football and, then, who knows what beyond that? And no one would have begrudged them their success.
But they didn’t, and so in the world we actually live in, they are back where they started, little more than a small club rattling round in a big stadium, yo-yo-ing between league’s One and Two. At least for as long as the mouth breathers that follow them continue to turn up, and things aren’t looking to clever there as it happens.
This season will be comfortably their lowest average attendance since moving to Stadium:MK. To be even clearer, this season’s average is down 25% on their next lowest average. The project has failed. It’s fúcked.
Ultimately, it had to fail. No supporter in this country wants “franchise football”, and a successful MK Dons would have set a dangerous precedent. The only ones to blame are the bell ends behind this most moronic of experiments, and the mindless chumps that turn up to watch them.
Look, I reckon I could have a pint with a regular, match-going fan of just about any club in this country, be it Man City, Man United, Mansfield, or even fúcking Scunny, and find loads in common with them. But not MK Dons; I just don’t understand the mindset. I don’t understand how you could back something like that, either as a football fan or just a human being in general.
To borrow (tenuously) from the thread title; tossers, the lot of them.
Classic rant...............but can't disagree with any of it. Mk Dons fans are vile filth who represent everything wrong with modern day football. Any genuine fan who can't see this needs to reavalute why they follow a team.
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What a lovely post- My brother has downs, big town fan, football is a joy to him
Three doors down from mine is Rob who is my age and has Downs so lives with his mum. Football is his life. He gets involved at our local club where he helps the groundsman and puts the flags out. He's also a huge Lincoln fan as we're in Woodhall and it makes his day if he's on his drive and he can rush to the end of the drive as I walk past to tell me Grimsby lost at the weekend. Which he's got to do quite a lot this last year! He's a good lad.
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I admire the stance of When Saturday Comes. When doing the season reviews, the only club they don't speak to is BFS.
I was based in South London at the time AFC Wimbledon came into being and I'm glad they got themselves back into the EFL.
I have a real library of football books and several deal with defunct clubs. It was clear that the populace of Milton Keynes couldn't be bothered to support a local side from the histories I read.
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I’d suggest they deserve to experience having their beloved so-called football club taken away from them for a start. The very concept of MK Dons is morally bankrupt, and I won’t be satisfied until they are financially so.
Do I really need to explain the “why”? Do you know what, fúck it, you’ve triggered me (‘cos I really don’t like the cúnts), so I’ll give you an answer. Big deep breath…
Let me start by giving some credit where it’s due; the whole Wimbledon to Milton Keynes strategy actually made complete sense. On a spreadsheet. With a population of over 250,000, MK was one of the largest urban areas in the UK without a league club, in part due to the fact it was a new town founded in the 1970s. Better yet, it was probably the largest urban area in the UK nowhere near a so-called “big club”. MK is some 70 miles from Villa Park, and over an hour on a train to central London. A massive, untapped audience, just waiting to be unlocked. There was just a tiny flaw in the plan.
It was bóllocks. Well Po You see, when the so-called Dons played their first match in the town, some 20 years ago now, there were 2 types of people living in Milton Keynes:
a) Non-football fans b) Football fans who already supported another club
This observation is obvious to anyone who follows football, but apparently not to the likes of Charles Koppel and Pete Winkleman. Naturally, converting non-football fans into regular, match-going supporters is very difficult, and converting fans of one club to another, nigh-on impossible. The only people actually capable of supporting a club like MK are therefore, by definition, freaks.
Unsurprising then, we regularly see 25,000 empty seats in MK’s fine, but tainted stadium. Here’s the thing though - it didn’t have to be this way.
It’s often forgotten that Milton Keynes already had a football club - Milton Keynes City FC. They were tiny, operating in the very lower reaches of non-league. It would have taken years to have brought that club to the football league; time that could be saved by harvesting the organs of Wimbledon.
But in doing so, they created a brand too toxic to touch. They created something almost impossible to rally behind. They have become the pantomime villain, and legitimately so. Ironically, it took AFC Wimbledon, with only fan powered resources, just 8 seasons to return to the football league, by which point MK Dons were only a league above them. As of right now of course they find themselves in League Two, separated from Wimbledon by just 10 points. For all their trials and tribulations, they have failed to make meaningful progress.
Had they played the long game, rather than taking the sleazy shortcut, then maybe, just maybe, they might have created a story its community could have been proud of and, in time, grown a healthy five-figure fan base. A fan base perhaps that could have seen them sustain Championship football and, then, who knows what beyond that? And no one would have begrudged them their success.
But they didn’t, and so in the world we actually live in, they are back where they started, little more than a small club rattling round in a big stadium, yo-yo-ing between league’s One and Two. At least for as long as the mouth breathers that follow them continue to turn up, and things aren’t looking to clever there as it happens.
This season will be comfortably their lowest average attendance since moving to Stadium:MK. To be even clearer, this season’s average is down 25% on their next lowest average. The project has failed. It’s fúcked.
Ultimately, it had to fail. No supporter in this country wants “franchise football”, and a successful MK Dons would have set a dangerous precedent. The only ones to blame are the bell ends behind this most moronic of experiments, and the mindless chumps that turn up to watch them.
Look, I reckon I could have a pint with a regular, match-going fan of just about any club in this country, be it Man City, Man United, Mansfield, or even fúcking Scunny, and find loads in common with them. But not MK Dons; I just don’t understand the mindset. I don’t understand how you could back something like that, either as a football fan or just a human being in general.
To borrow (tenuously) from the thread title; tossers, the lot of them.
Well Poojah, some weeks ago you lectured me and others about B Corp spreading Kindness and Inclusion and Equity. Very cuddly. Seems there's a ring around Milton Keynes whose inhabitants can perish and burn hell as far as you are concerned. Ah well.
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Well Poojah, some weeks ago you lectured me and others about B Corp spreading Kindness and Inclusion and Equity. Very cuddly. Seems there's a ring around Milton Keynes whose inhabitants can perish and burn hell as far as you are concerned. Ah well.
No, only around MK stadium, but yeah they can
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This isn't Pell being anti-Franchise FC though, it's just Pell being a nob and unpleasant to someone, anyone who will get irritated by him. One day he'll move on from Wimbledon and end up playing them and being a nob towards them, because it's what he does.
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Well Poojah, some weeks ago you lectured me and others about B Corp spreading Kindness and Inclusion and Equity. Very cuddly. Seems there's a ring around Milton Keynes whose inhabitants can perish and burn hell as far as you are concerned. Ah well.
You’ve highlighted two instances where I’ve called people out for what I consider to be a lack of moral decency and emotional intelligence. I’m not sure where you think the contradiction is.
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Classic rant...............but can't disagree with any of it. Mk Dons fans are vile filth who represent everything wrong with modern day football. Any genuine fan who can't see this needs to reavalute why they follow a team.
Except possibly Stephen the lad referred to in DieHard’s post above?
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You’ve highlighted two instances where I’ve called people out for what I consider to be a lack of moral decency and emotional intelligence. I’m not sure where you think the contradiction is.
MK Dons started up 20 years ago, anybody under 38 is "innocent" if indeed following MK Dons is such a heinous crime. Taking the rip about them is one thing, and why not? Your rant (it is a rant you know) is quite another thing, as "moral decency" cuts both ways. Your piece reveals more about you, I'm afraid than about MK Don fans.
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Unambiguously labelling a whole fanbase “vile filth” or “hating” a whole fanbase is utter nonsense. I sincerely doubt that anyone would say they “hate” the lad in DieHard’s excellent post, for example. It’s just lazy labelling and is exactly the kind of thing why football fans, generally, are given a hard time. It feeds into that stupid stereotype that we’re all highly partisan and incapable of seeing anything beyond a simplistic good/bad binary.
The Wimbledon/MK Dons saga is really interesting, but people seem to have boiled it down to Winkelman coming along and buying the original club, deciding there was a better opportunity for a larger fanbase in MK and moving the club there, like some evil overlord. People were wetting themselves over “franchise football”, which has never transpired. It was a weird, one-off instance which will probably never happen again.
Like it or not, MK Dons now have more FL history behind them than the original Wimbledon did when they reached the top tier. What I find funny, and completely hypocritical, is that Wimbledon has absolutely no claim to be a “traditional” footballing club/community. The original team was amateur until the mid-60s, and only got into the FL in 1977 after being bankrolled. They were essentially an early Fleetwood/Salford/Crawley – the kind of club people love to moan about in the present day. They obviously had amazing success, but ultimately their size caught up with them.
FWIW, my own opinion is that the original Wimbledon was as good as dead. Millions in debt, no stadium, not played in their own town for over a decade, a local populace which wasn’t even particularly engaged with the club (one report showed that only 340 season ticket holders lived in Wimbledon!)… if they hadn’t moved to MK then the club would have been liquidated and AFC formed anyway. In fact, it could be argued that the move to MK has done more to help the new AFC than if the original club was just left to die. Had it just disappeared it would have just been another club overexerting and then liquidating itself, but with MK in the picture there’s always been that sense of injustice which seems to have driven the club.
The one thing which was totally wrong, imo, was MK trying to “own” Wimbledon’s (limited) history. They have at least backtracked on that and now make no claim to have existed pre-2004. As a few have nodded to, the club’s been around 20 years now. There are younger generations of fans for whom this is their local club, it generally tries to produce local players, has dished up mostly League 1/League 2 football and, as we have seen, does a lot of good in the community through its charitable arms. Maybe we could just… not let some football club in Milton Keynes bother us so much?
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It’s not the actual fans that I see as the problem necessarily. But more so the way that they ‘evolved’. The ready made stadium that was there I would say was more than adequate, but they then got mega bucks from, I seem to recall, Asda and ikea. I was working at the Nando’s there training staff when they were formed in the mid 2000’s and there was a lot of genuine excitement by some locals of having their own football team. Which I suppose is great as it takes money away from the Tottenham and arsenals that they probably would have supported.
My disgust is essentially with the fa (for allowing it) and the owners for wanting to replace the club. They should’ve started at grass roots as they were essentially a new club and pick up at the level where Wimbledon did and had to climb through the leagues as teams like aldershot, Maidstone and dorking have had to do.
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It’s not the actual fans that I see as the problem necessarily. But more so the way that they ‘evolved’. The ready made stadium that was there I would say was more than adequate, but they then got mega bucks from, I seem to recall, Asda and ikea. I was working at the Nando’s there training staff when they were formed in the mid 2000’s and there was a lot of genuine excitement by some locals of having their own football team. Which I suppose is great as it takes money away from the Tottenham and arsenals that they probably would have supported.
My disgust is essentially with the fa (for allowing it) and the owners for wanting to replace the club. They should’ve started at grass roots as they were essentially a new club and pick up at the level where Wimbledon did and had to climb through the leagues as teams like aldershot, Maidstone and dorking have had to do.
The FA and the League were initially against the move but two scenarios played out at the same time. Wimbledon needed to upgrade their stadium, so decided to sell their sell Plough Lane and groundshare with Crystal Palace whilst looking for a place to build a stadium. It proved difficult to find anywhere to build. At one stage even the government got into the picture and wanted Wimbledon to move to Belfast as Belfast Utd. In the meantime, In Milton Keynes, a certain Pete Winkleman proposed a retail park and Football Stadium in one package, then went around Luton Crystal Palace QPR Barnet and Wimbledon touting its stadium. In the end the FA and League set up a committee of 3 to make a decision about Wimbledon moving and whilst adjudicating, Wimbledon went bust. The committee voted 2 :1 for a move, money was injected into the MK Dons and the rest is history. Classic case a too hot to handle hot potato, dumped onto some sub-committee which then is disbanded job done. BTW AFC Wimbledon built a new stadium not 400 yds away from the old stadium and seems to have a bright future. Average gates this season MK Dons 5100, AFC Wimbledon 7100
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It’s MK Dons fans. They deserve a lot worse than a ball in the face.
Don’t like Harry Pell, but I’m with him on this one. Fúck ‘em.
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I cannot stand MK Dons, thing is, they were formed 20 years ago now. A whole generation has been brought up with this being their local team. I can understand you disliking the older fans but what have the younger fans done to urine you off, other than supporting their local club?
No answer yet from Poojah.
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Unambiguously labelling a whole fanbase “vile filth” or “hating” a whole fanbase is utter nonsense. I sincerely doubt that anyone would say they “hate” the lad in DieHard’s excellent post, for example. It’s just lazy labelling and is exactly the kind of thing why football fans, generally, are given a hard time. It feeds into that stupid stereotype that we’re all highly partisan and incapable of seeing anything beyond a simplistic good/bad binary.
The Wimbledon/MK Dons saga is really interesting, but people seem to have boiled it down to Winkelman coming along and buying the original club, deciding there was a better opportunity for a larger fanbase in MK and moving the club there, like some evil overlord. People were wetting themselves over “franchise football”, which has never transpired. It was a weird, one-off instance which will probably never happen again.
Like it or not, MK Dons now have more FL history behind them than the original Wimbledon did when they reached the top tier. What I find funny, and completely hypocritical, is that Wimbledon has absolutely no claim to be a “traditional” footballing club/community. The original team was amateur until the mid-60s, and only got into the FL in 1977 after being bankrolled. They were essentially an early Fleetwood/Salford/Crawley – the kind of club people love to moan about in the present day. They obviously had amazing success, but ultimately their size caught up with them.
FWIW, my own opinion is that the original Wimbledon was as good as dead. Millions in debt, no stadium, not played in their own town for over a decade, a local populace which wasn’t even particularly engaged with the club (one report showed that only 340 season ticket holders lived in Wimbledon!)… if they hadn’t moved to MK then the club would have been liquidated and AFC formed anyway. In fact, it could be argued that the move to MK has done more to help the new AFC than if the original club was just left to die. Had it just disappeared it would have just been another club overexerting and then liquidating itself, but with MK in the picture there’s always been that sense of injustice which seems to have driven the club.
The one thing which was totally wrong, imo, was MK trying to “own” Wimbledon’s (limited) history. They have at least backtracked on that and now make no claim to have existed pre-2004. As a few have nodded to, the club’s been around 20 years now. There are younger generations of fans for whom this is their local club, it generally tries to produce local players, has dished up mostly League 1/League 2 football and, as we have seen, does a lot of good in the community through its charitable arms. Maybe we could just… not let some football club in Milton Keynes bother us so much?
I'd give that a platinum star if I could. It's far too sensible and intelligent for the militants on this board.
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