Am going to this one, as I live in MK. Dons stadium is 10 mins from my house. On paper its an easy game, and there will be a lot of Chelsea fans there, Stadium MK has a 30k capacity but average about 10-15k per game, it will be packed on Sunday though Its a lovely stadium too, better than many PL grounds. 1-3 to the Blues
Of all the new grounds it's probably my favourite for the stadium itself. The surrounding area is as soulless as you'd expect, as you'll well know. As a local, what do you think of the whole MK/Wimbledon thing? I don't think I can ever accept MK as a 'proper' club.
Yeah the Stadium, Gym, hotel, Cinema and restaurant complex is cool, but yeah, the Giant Asda and Ikea tacked on the side kinda ruin it. A great stadium though
As far as the MK/ Wimbledon thing goes, they are a proper club. They aren't Wimbledon now. They ceded all of Wimbledons history to AFC Wimbledon and are a club of their own now. They did the right thing at least. They dont claim to have won the FA Cup in 1988 etc. People just need to accept them as a new club which started in 2004
Would that be the year after we were founded Bod !!! Can't believe i got that in before Treb, Stan or Diego. Their computers must be down !!!
should be a good game. Hoping we take it seriously but also let 2-3 youngsters / fringe get a game. RLC and Kenedy at the very least, maybe Remy up front.
I think Guus is going to prioritise the FA Cup, since its our best shot at a trophy this season. Given Costa's injury scare though, I think he will be benched. So I hope Remy gets a run out.
What makes sense to me is that the club that was Wimbledon only has a right to a league spot if the team they became retains all the records and history of Wimbledon, for that is what essentially is your qualification. Cede all that away and call yourself new then how and who says your league place is legal? AFC don't need it, they won their league place in the usual way. If MK didn't win the FA cup then what right do they have over and above all those non-league clubs desperate for promotion? Wimbledon is a poor place for a club. The old team moved because of the small crowds. Premiership games with only 8 to 12 thousand were regular. Not the fault of those loyal fans, some for several decades, that others weren't attracted to support a club with so many successful neighbours, league and non-league. It made perfect sense to move to MK. Arsenal did the same thing. They left Woolwich for the same reason. The Artillery fields were remote, crowds were small but the team was successful. Money was always a problem. They had no consistent strip, players wearing a mish-mash of kits. Two players whom they signed from I think Notts Forest were aghast at the situation and got Forest to supply the poor Arse with a complete kit, hence why they play in the red and white now. Arse moved North of the river much to the chagrin of Spurs and West Ham who both resented it at the time, not wanting to lose their much larger fan bases. Arsenal though remained Arsenal.
Well it was Wimbledon, they essentially are the same club. But with the disgruntlement of the Wimbledon fans, who all defected to AFC Wimbledon, there was really no point fighting to keep their league record, so they ceded it to AFC Wimbledon. Bad enough that they felt they needed to do that, they should give up their place in the football league too?
I guess Winkleman could have bought a local non-league team and built them up to progress the right way. Given the whole move to MK was allowed it would have been wrong to just arbitrarily then put them in another division, but MK had a team that he just wasn't willing to take the time to make into a league club. IMO.
Do you really want to go there Blueman after you lost the plot and started throwing windmills? Anyway, I went to Milton Keynes for the first time last year. I've never been anywhere else like it. It's completely sterile and soulless, like a disused movie set that was originally built to replicate a medium sized mid western US town. Land is cheap though.
