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Further to The Duke’s article about the AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons game, I questioned an MK Dons fan over on RLFANS and his response was as follows:
We support exactly the same clubs now as we supported 10 years ago, plus we now support the Dons as well. Most of us (myself included) are lifelong supporters of big Premier League clubs who can either no longer afford or are simply no longer inclined to want to watch the increasingly ever more shameful money-grubbing farago that that league has become. Some of us are supporters of smaller clubs who can no longer go to them regularly due to geographical/work commitments and so, being real fans who want to actively support a real club, go to our local club instead of sitting in front of a Sky Subscription Channel (an alien concept to your average big club glory-hunter I know). A large number of us are actually ex-Wimbledon (the real one) fans (contrary to what all the propoganda would have you believe) who wanted no part of the two-faced club-abandoners from Kingston.
Anyway: usual biased, one-eyed **** aside, the simple fact is this: 10 years ago nobody wanted Wimbledon FC. Their fans didn’t want it, the local councils didn’t want it, local businesses didn’t want it, potential investors didn’t want it, other clubs and their fans didn’t want it. Nobody wanted it. But MK did. What is any business (which is all any sports club is these days and let noone delude themselves otherwise) going to do in their situation? Struggle to keep on surviving futilely without investment or a home in an area where they are simply not wanted and have no future, or move 60 miles to where they will have money and facilities and a much larger supporter base lavished on them and will be very much wanted? Answer that question yourself without recourse to some piece of pre-packaged stock propoganda from the embittered pen of some club-abandoning self-loather I dare you.
In 10 years the Dons have gone from derided nomads living a hand-to-mouth existence with no support, to a financially stable club with the best stadium outside the Premiership, with 3 times their old support and the highest number of under-18 year old season ticket holders in the country set to bolster that support massively further in years to come. Could anyone tell me in all honesty if that was a bad move?
AFC Kingston fans abandoned their club to die, but someone else decided they wanted it instead, applied CPR and made it thrive and prosper. On what planet do their plastic fans have any basis to complain about that fact?
And discuss: is there anything more ironic and down right 2 faced on the face of the good, clean earth than being called a “Franchise” and “not a real club” by the likes of Chelski and Scum Utd. and Man. City and Arsenal consumers? I think not…
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Unbelievable egg mon that mons from Northampton I presume supports Saints an allegience to Liverpool and is defending MK Dons the mon is dazed and confused :lol:
Unbelievable egg mon that mons from Northampton I presume supports Saints an allegience to Liverpool and is defending MK Dons the mon is dazed and confused :lol:though it w very moving to see all those Wimbledon supporters celebrating the goal with real passion on Sunday.Proves to all these clubs (ours excluded) ripping supporters off that without us there won’t be a game and few overpaid cr@p players need to realise this also.
Personally, I love the comment that changing our shirt from blue and white stripes to blue and back again is the same as them changing the colours of Wimbledon from blue to white. Incredible.
MK Dons are a boil on the @r$e of English football & deserve to be lanced.
That MK Dons/Rushden & Diamonds/Liverpool fan is also very selective with his “facts” but even ignoring that, if Winkleman & his buddies wanted a football league club in Milton Keynes then he should have either bought the existing non-league club in that city or started his own club up from scratch & done it the hard way like every other club has to.
The fella on rlfans.com quite clearly has no understanding of the word franchise if he thinks that what happened in that whole saga was not franchising, or if there is no difference between that being a franchise & a club selling the naming rights to their ground
Loved the dig at our increased attendances since rising up the leagues.
Yeah we have took on some extra fans and yeah we f*cking earnt them the correct way!!!
And whats all that pap about everyone in PL’s season tickets costing over £1000.00.
Does not know his arse from his elbow.
You got that right. I wonder what colour the sky is on his planet.
Whatever… I have better things to do with my life than squabble with a clueless child of a Wigan fan over pointless minutiae. You ain’t worth the banging of head on wall frankly. You support a club that has abandoned it’s identity for a quick buck many, many times in the past and has 20,000 “lifelong”, “dedicated”, “passionate” “fans” that have mysteriously and magically all somehow appeared out of the woodwork in just the last 10 years. Your club has no history, no soul and is a manufactured, money-making, franchise entity with a plastic, Johnny-Come-Lately, Glory-hunting supporter base. And you think you’re in a position to condemn MK for the same?
You got that right. I wonder what colour the sky is on his planet.Whatever… I have better things to do with my life than squabble with a clueless child of a Wigan fan over pointless minutiae. You ain’t worth the banging of head on wall frankly. You support a club that has abandoned it’s identity for a quick buck many, many times in the past and has 20,000 “lifelong”, “dedicated”, “passionate” “fans” that have mysteriously and magically all somehow appeared out of the woodwork in just the last 10 years. Your club has no history, no soul and is a manufactured, money-making, franchise entity with a plastic, Johnny-Come-Lately, Glory-hunting supporter base. And you think you’re in a position to condemn MK for the same?
Money making? 20,000 fans? Dave Whelan wishes… :lol:
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