Congratulations AFC Wimbledon

[upsidedownwalrus]

Jesus, balders, you're still ploughing this rather lonely furrow.

 

[Juice Terry]

The thing is when AFCW started they played in a league where most clubs attracted crowds of 50 or so. They could have played at a ground built preety much from scratch. But they wanted a ready made stadium so did the deal with khosla.And that meant that a dodgy property speculator made a huge profit out of non league football.

Juice Terry has a policy of not replying to tbaldwin on account of him being a clueless cunt.

 

[aylee]

Merton council are arseholes aren't they? They seem to be doing all that they can to prevent the local community's football club playing locally.

 

[tbaldwin]

Where, land is very expensive, we could have purchased Wimbledon Stadium, but the owners wanted something like £16m and that was before you add on the cost of construction. Also the land would have had to been "zoned" for a sporting stadium and residents would want that on their door step. Yes Khosla is a dodgy property speculator and at £3m we paid too much (IMO) for the Kingsmeadow, as we now have had to purchase the perimeter lease as we need to extend the Kingston Road and John Smiths terracing. We, should we progress into the football league hit our "glass ceiling" as the ground capacity can only be increased by, at a guess, to a max of about 6500 and that would mainly be terracing. Should we get into the league we would need to increase the seating capacity and should we progress up the leagues we would require an all seating stadium of 15,000 plus capacity.

Wasnt there a Beddington plan Andy? Hopefully with Land prices likely to crumble now AFCW will plan a move to Merton and build their own ground...

I think your wrong about the need to increase the seating capacity at KM if you get in the league, already more seats than some league clubs like Dagenham etc.....but the terraces at KM are very small for a club with your regular support.

 

[T & P]

Sorry, could not resist to post yet another article on the issue, but this one says it even better. Particularly interesting (if thoroughly depressing) is the very last bit, regarding the FA commission that authorised the move to MK.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blo...bledon-blue-square-conference-south-champions

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Oh, I didn't realise Douglas Craig had managed to play a role.

 

[tbaldwin]

Sorry, could not resist to post yet another article on the issue, but this one says it even better. Particularly interesting (if thoroughly depressing) is the very last bit, regarding the FA commission that authorised the move to MK.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blo...bledon-blue-square-conference-south-champions

Hopeless article. Really typical that Kingstonian and Khosla are not mentioned anywhere....

 

[T & P]

That'd be because the move to Kingstonians and the purchase of the ground were:

- a consequence of WFC being sold down the river and its league place bought by another city

- a rather minor footnote within the story of the destruction of WFC, subsequent creation of AFCW by supporters and rise through the football pyramid to the doorstep of the football league

- far, far, far a lesser offence (if an offence at all) than a city buying their way into a professional football place by securing the shameful relocation of a football club owned by corrupt, speculating bastards that had been established in another city 70 miles away for nearly a century, producing the first case of football franchising in this country

So yeah, no surprise about it not getting a mention. It's rather irrelevant in the bigger picture.

 

[JTG]

Oh, I didn't realise Douglas Craig had managed to play a role.

for those who don't know: this is the guy who sold York City but kept their ground, effectively profiteering from the distress of a city's football team by endangering their very existence.

Yes, he was judged fit to adjudicate on whether Wimbledon FC should be fucked over by the MK lot

 

[pk]

a city buying their way into a professional football place by securing the shameful relocation of a football club owned by corrupt, speculating bastards that had been established in another city 70 miles away for nearly a century

I hate just typing "this" when I wholeheartedly believe I cannot say it any better. It's a shit cyber-habit. But it sums it up perfectly, thank-you T&P.

All I can add to any of that is, once again with feeling: Fuck MK Dons.

 

[tbaldwin]

That'd be because the move to Kingstonians and the purchase of the ground were:

- a consequence of WFC being sold down the river and its league place bought by another city

- a rather minor footnote within the story of the destruction of WFC, subsequent creation of AFCW by supporters and rise through the football pyramid to the doorstep of the football league

- far, far, far a lesser offence (if an offence at all) than a city buying their way into a professional football place by securing the shameful relocation of a football club owned by corrupt, speculating bastards that had been established in another city 70 miles away for nearly a century, producing the first case of football franchising in this country

So yeah, no surprise about it not getting a mention. It's rather irrelevant in the bigger picture.

erm let me see......
Where a football club plays is a "rather minor footnote"


oh dear....oh dear....oh dear.......

 

[pk]

 

[T & P]

erm let me see......
Where a football club plays is a "rather minor footnote"


oh dear....oh dear....oh dear.......

Normally it is, yeah, unless there is something fundamentally wrong with it.

Such as the club formerly known as Wimbledon FC being shipped out 70 miles away solely to provide a back door way to professional footbal to a fucking shithole of a town that somehow thinks it's above the rules and such trivialities as having to climb up the football pyramid through the team's successes, like every other club in the world has done.

When you can prove or show AFCW has done something that is even 1% as wrong as the abomination that is Franchise FC, come back and kindly let us know.

Until then, kindly fuck off baldwin