MK Dons v AFC Wimbledon

[aaron1867]

Well it has finally got there after one or two close misses and it seems to have caused a stir.

The AFC fans are saying they won't turn up & some of the staff are of the same opinion. It's going to be interesting to see what happens during the coming days upto the fixture.

Simon Wheeler Chairman of Wimbledon Supporters Association said "I won't be going and I know lots of fans won't be going. Personally I would rather take my girlfriend's mother to the garden centre than go to that game"

Seems the stadium will more empty than usual & it is usually like a morgue most games!

[superwomble]

I think there will be quite a few who go, probably mainly younger fans and fans who have only been fans since we were reformed. I certainly will not be going, for a couple of reasons, a major one being just seeing their name makes my blood boil; to see a load of their morons in their half-built ground lording it over us as they revel in their stolen goods will make me more angry than I could take. And if we lost (massively likely) it would be even worse. Moreover, a win, while being fantastic, will not really be any sort of closure or evening things up - they will still have the league position they stole from us and 9 years of my football-league-team-supporting life.

One of the difficulties with fans deciding whether or not to go is the spin the scum will put on it - we take loads of fans and they spin it as showing how great it is that there are now two clubs, we take hardly any and they spin it as showing how right they were to steal our league place.

Positives from it all however are the footballing world is again reminded of the travesty of what happened, and the support we are seeing from fans of clubs all over the country, and indeed the world, does give me a happy feeling inside.

[TheChipPrince]

Happy to take a few bullets here but all a bit dramatic no? (the general situation, not the above post)

What happened happened, can't AFC just treat them as the tosser neighbour from down the road you'd love to stick one over by beating them?

BTW I would expect to feel different if I had an emotional attachement to them of course, maybe I'm being naive.

[superwomble]

Do you support a football team? How would you feel if you had supported a team all your life but then someone comes along and says you and your fellow supporters do not deserve your team any more, and a town 70 miles ago deserve it more, because they couldn't be bothered to go through non-league and work their way into the league? A route that Wimbledon have now had to do twice.

Then 10 years later they are still trying to re-write history and try to make out that what they did was right.

[superwomble]

Some links that may explain the feeling better than I can:

http://widerinterestsoffootball.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/why-i-will-not-be-going-to-milton-keynes/

http://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/sport/10045774.Dons_coach_and_life_long_fan_Bassey_considers_the_emotions_behind_MK_Dons_clash/

http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=21158

http://wise-men-say.com/articles/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/

http://www.sw19army.com/?p=7287

And another to add: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/nov/14/afc-wimbledon-fa-cup-mk-dons

[Ant040689]

More should have been done at the time to stop this from happeneing. I tis a travesty that a team can relocate and name change like this.

Has this ever happened before in the English game? There have been nae changed from teams that have gone bust but they haven't relocated a considerable distance away.

Was there nothing at the time that could stop this from happening?

[superwomble]

The fans did everything we could to stop it. We campaigned and protested and gave evidence at the FA Commission. Unfortunately money speaks and lies were believed.

[TightEnd]

this explains it all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocation_of_Wimbledon_F.C._to_Milton_Keynes

[Ant040689]

this explains it all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocation_of_Wimbledon_F.C._to_Milton_Keynes

Just read the introduction but this line is just sickening...

"Milton Keynes Dons initially claimed Wimbledon F.C.'s heritage and history as its own, but renounced this in 2007, soon after its new stadium opened."

That's 3 years. Urgh.

[AndrewT]

More should have been done at the time to stop this from happeneing. I tis a travesty that a team can relocate and name change like this.

Has this ever happened before in the English game? There have been nae changed from teams that have gone bust but they haven't relocated a considerable distance away.

Was there nothing at the time that could stop this from happening?

Whilst not here, there is the famous case of the Baltimore Colts NFL team, which moved to Indianapolis in the middle of the night so that it was out of the state by the time people woke up in the morning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Indianapolis_Colts#Relocation_to_Indianapolis

[superwomble]

Nice article from a former AFC Wimbledon player - http://www.four6zero.com/11/2012/a-fans-club-wimbledon-to-meet-mk-dons-in-fa-cup/

As an aside, Ursell is one of my favourite ever Wimbledon players - his skill was far beyond the level he played at for us. He scored the goal that clinched us the British record for longest unbeaten run, and during a 5-a-side game he did me up like a kipper. He is now a professional futsal player in Cyprus.

[horseplayer]

well put womble

[superwomble]

Jake Robinson, a Northampton Town player and nothing to do with Wimbledon, has just tweeted:

"Oh my, the level of condescension from the MK Dons fans they interviewed about their FA cup tie on sky sports news was awful."

[superwomble]

Cheers horsey.

[TheChipPrince]

Debate on Talksport now, I agree with Goughie mainly, good points all round though