Our system detected that your browser is blocking advertisements on our site. Please help support FoxesTalk by disabling any kind of ad blocker while browsing this site. Thank you.
Jump to content
DB11

MK Dons

By DB11, in General Chat

Recommended Posts

Kilworthfox

Kilworthfox

Posted
Posted
They were originally called Wimbledon and played in London (near the Wimbledon tennis place).

Wimbledon were in financial trouble, blah blah blah, and the entire club moved from London to Milton Keynes, which has never had a football team because the town itself is only 40 years old (this year in fact).

They were renamed MK Dons (The Dons was Wimbledon's old nickname) and thus MK Dons was born.

People hate them because it's similar to the American sports franchise business, where teams can up and move across the country, and because they see it as the destruction of an old established club to create a new team for a new town.

AFC Wimbledon sprung up in the Wimbledon area (although they play in Kingston), and that's the whole shebang in a nutshell.

That is it in a "nutshell". :thumbup:

I used to watch Wimbledon when I lived down saaf. I knew a few Wimbledon fans and to explain why you should hate MK Dons is not that they exist but

why they exist, and what the effect this had on not just any club but a club which was very successful for its size!

They exist because the F.A allowed an American idea to exist in our sport nothing short of a disgrace!

Milton Keynes could not wait to earn the right to play such established sides like the Northamptons & Brentford's of the world :rolleyes: They should have tried to be more successful and be like Crawley Town who I'm sure will make it into the established Professional 4 top leagues fairly soon.

Lastly how would you feel if they said Leicester, a club which had recently won cups, finished well in the Premiership, and was a very popular club with not just its own fans but to all football fans as they really were a symbol of what can be achieved by a smaller club! What they did would today be like a Yeading F.C going up consecutively through the divisions, then getting into the Premiership and then defeating Liverpool in the F.A cup Final, you just could not write that could you? Well it happened and it was Wimbledon who did it and got shafted because they were a smaller club..... DISGRACE :angry:

BartonFox

BartonFox

Posted
Posted
That is it in a "nutshell". :thumbup:

I used to watch Wimbledon when I lived down saaf. I knew a few Wimbledon fans and to explain why you should hate MK Dons is not that they exist but

why they exist, and what the effect this had on not just any club but a club which was very successful for its size!

They exist because the F.A allowed an American idea to exist in our sport nothing short of a disgrace!

Milton Keynes could not wait to earn the right to play such established sides like the Northamptons & Brentford's of the world :rolleyes: They should have tried to be more successful and be like Crawley Town who I'm sure will make it into the established Professional 4 top leagues fairly soon.

Lastly how would you feel if they said Leicester, a club which had recently won cups, finished well in the Premiership, and was a very popular club with not just its own fans but to all football fans as they really were a symbol of what can be achieved by a smaller club! What they did would today be like a Yeading F.C going up consecutively through the divisions, then getting into the Premiership and then defeating Liverpool in the F.A cup Final, you just could not write that could you? Well it happened and it was Wimbledon who did it and got shafted because they were a smaller club..... DISGRACE :angry:

The huge misconception is that Mlton Keynes shafted Wimbledon fans, they didn't the FA did. Say what you like byt the MK consortium saved that Club from going under, and no matter what happens over time, the Club that won the FA Cup in 1988 were kept alive MK.

The symbolic gesture of Pete Winkelman giving the Club's silverwear to the London Borough of Merton shows that they do not forget their roots. Also highlights that Merton Council did f'ck all to help Wimbledon after they went to Croydon, this is still bourne out by the fact AFC Wimbledon had to take over another Club's stadium to exist.

Nationwider

Nationwider

Posted
Posted

Did any of the 20 ways to make football better (above kicking out MK Dons) involve the live televised decapitation of Sepp Blatter just before the draw for the World Cup qualifiers?

Guest

Guest

Posted
Posted
Did any of the 20 ways to make football better (above kicking out MK Dons) involve the live televised decapitation of Sepp Blatter just before the draw for the World Cup qualifiers?

I'd pay good money to see that.

BartonFox

BartonFox

Posted
Posted
Did any of the 20 ways to make football better (above kicking out MK Dons) involve the live televised decapitation of Sepp Blatter just before the draw for the World Cup qualifiers?

Throw in Jack Warner and the rest of the FIFA Exec and you'd have TV ratings better than Live Aid.

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

Posted
Posted
Did any of the 20 ways to make football better (above kicking out MK Dons) involve the live televised decapitation of Sepp Blatter just before the draw for the World Cup qualifiers?

I'm afraid that'd be only the tip of the iceberg.

Kilworthfox

Kilworthfox

Posted
Posted
The huge misconception is that Mlton Keynes shafted Wimbledon fans, they didn't the FA did. Say what you like byt the MK consortium saved that Club from going under, and no matter what happens over time, the Club that won the FA Cup in 1988 were kept alive MK.

The symbolic gesture of Pete Winkelman giving the Club's silverwear to the London Borough of Merton shows that they do not forget their roots. Also highlights that Merton Council did f'ck all to help Wimbledon after they went to Croydon, this is still bourne out by the fact AFC Wimbledon had to take over another Club's stadium to exist.

I really don't blame MK just think the way the F.A allowed things to unfold was an utter disgrace and should NEVER happen to any club again. Think about it, it could have been or could be Leicester next time! Hopefully no one tho hey!

Nationwider

Nationwider

Posted
Posted
Throw in Jack Warner and the rest of the FIFA Exec and you'd have TV ratings better than Live Aid.

That's the name I couldn't remember. He's the President of Football in the Easter Islands, or Didcot or some other footballing superpower? Nice to know the game our Isles invented is in capable hands. :rolleyes:

DB11

DB11

Posted
  • Author
Posted
Did any of the 20 ways to make football better (above kicking out MK Dons) involve the live televised decapitation of Sepp Blatter just before the draw for the World Cup qualifiers?

Off by heart, some other reasons were make players go back to wearing black boots, teach players to have proper goal celebrations, summat about some reason that would effect Chelsea (something to do with players diving - a punishment) some crap about 1966 or summat and some other old stuff, a wage cap, a maximum allowed to be spent on transfers and must field so many players of your country (so Arsenal must play English players)

I can't remember the other reasons

lildave3

lildave3

Posted
Posted
Off by heart, some other reasons were make players go back to wearing black boots, teach players to have proper goal celebrations, summat about some reason that would effect Chelsea (something to do with players diving - a punishment) some crap about 1966 or summat and some other old stuff, a wage cap, a maximum allowed to be spent on transfers and must field so many players of your country (so Arsenal must play English players)

I can't remember the other reasons

:cry:

Nationwider

Nationwider

Posted
Posted
Off by heart, some other reasons were make players go back to wearing black boots, teach players to have proper goal celebrations, summat about some reason that would effect Chelsea (something to do with players diving - a punishment) some crap about 1966 or summat and some other old stuff, a wage cap, a maximum allowed to be spent on transfers and must field so many players of your country (so Arsenal must play English players)

I can't remember the other reasons

Yeah, I like that.

I'd like to see a disciplinary committee set up for shit celebrations. I hate all these ridiculous communal dance routines that no-one can understand. And I hate "rock the baby", "Emile Heskey DJ" and "Shhhhhhhh fingers" as well. Knobends.

I'd like to see more:

  • Mick Channon-style arm whirling
  • The good old leap-and-punch-the-air routine
  • 30-foot dives through muddy puddles
  • Confused "**** me, I've not scored in 13 years" looks
  • Ruffling of shaggy mullets by team-mates
  • Clenched fists raised aloft
  • Dead-pan "Yeah I do 40-yarders every day in training, piece of piss" looks
  • Actual kissing (no tongues)
  • Hugging an ugly fan standing next to a bemused policeman at the corner of the away end

Guest

Guest

Posted
Posted
make players go back to wearing black boots

How about making players wear boots that don't mean they'll break their feet?

For a start.

Sod the colour.

Geo V

Geo V

Posted
Posted

I hated Wimbledon in the bad old days as they were all that was wrong about football with their hoofball and team of nutters like Sanchez, Jones, Fashanu and the rest of the "crazy gang". However, the team being franchised off and leaving their actual supporters who were loyal enough to sit through that shite football god knows how many miles away was a disgrace. Its not disgraceful that they moved to Milton Keynes, shut disgusting that they didn't at least make football on these islands even more fun by moving to Dublin as rumoured lol

Alexikokopops

Alexikokopops

Posted
Posted
Yeah, I like that.

I'd like to see a disciplinary committee set up for shit celebrations. I hate all these ridiculous communal dance routines that no-one can understand. And I hate "rock the baby", "Emile Heskey DJ" and "Shhhhhhhh fingers" as well. Knobends.

I'd like to see more:

  • Mick Channon-style arm whirling
  • The good old leap-and-punch-the-air routine
  • 30-foot dives through muddy puddles
  • Confused "**** me, I've not scored in 13 years" looks
  • Ruffling of shaggy mullets by team-mates
  • Clenched fists raised aloft
  • Dead-pan "Yeah I do 40-yarders every day in training, piece of piss" looks
  • Actual kissing (no tongues)
  • Hugging an ugly fan standing next to a bemused policeman at the corner of the away end

There's nothing wrong with the "Emile Heskey DJ", especially when used in the nightclubs of Warwickshire :angry:

Raj

Raj

Posted
Posted

You cant beat the triple sumersault !!!

Love to see MdV do that on saturday after he bags his hat trick!!! :D

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...