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The
Dons have confirmed that they have reached agreement with the National
Hockey Foundation to play at the Hockey Stadium in Central Milton
Keynes until their new stadium at Denbeigh North is ready. they
still hope to move before the end of this season.
At
the latest they will start the 2003/2004 season at the Hockey Stadium.
What's
the fuss? Where does it matter where the Dons play? Or is this the
end of the road for many loyal fans who will not be able to travel
to see their beloved team play? Will it be a boost for Milton Keynes?
You have your say here.
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| Paul,
Milton Keynes |
Wednesday
18 December, 2002 |
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| Proposed
size of new stadium: 12 000. Average gate at Wimbledon home
games: >700. How does that work then? All you Wimbledon fans
bleating about the team coming up here are welcome to them.
Couldn't care less about it. Come on you MK Rangers/Stony Stratford! |
| John,
The Wishing Well, Bletchley |
Tuesday
17
December, 2002 |
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| Much
as we would like a professional club in the area, embracing
Wimbledon FC is MORALLY & ETHICALLY VERY WRONG. The club are
attempting to rip themselves away from their fans and community
and effectively are selling themselves to the highest bidder,
in this case our town. This is not what football is about and
I will never support them . |
| Ian
Reynolds, Sutton, Surrey |
Fri
13 December, 2002 |
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| I
THINK THAT CHARLES KOPPEL HAS DESTROYED ENGLISH FOOTBALL. ONCE
FANS THOUGHT THAT SUPPORTING THEIR CLUB WOULD BE A LIFE LONG
COMITTMENT, BUT NOW, FANS ARE MORE APPREHENSIVE TO PLEDGE THEIR
ALLEGIANCE TO A CLUB WHEN THE CLUB COULD BE GRANTED PERMISSION
TO RELOCATE WELL OUTSIDE THEIR HOME BOROUGH, AS WIMBLEDON F.C
HAVE. THIS IS TOTALLY AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE FANS, THIS IS
THE F.A AND THE FOOTBALL LEAGUES BIGGEST EVER MISTAKE AND IT
WILL COME BACK TO BITE THEM. KOPPEL MUST RESIGN.. |
| Nick,
Raynes Park SW20 |
Fri
13 December, 2002 |
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| I
think that Wimbledon FC are being run by hopeless incompetants,
who have no idea what they are doing. The MK plan has been public
for 18 months, and probably a good deal longer in secret. Why
are they still no closer to playing there? Instead of a nice
shop in the MK Shopping Centre to show their committment to
their plan, all they can manage is a temporary stall! How pathetic.
It's disgraceful how they have dragged the name of this famous
little club through the mud. And any MK people who approve of
this should be ashamed. |
| Burt
Reynolds, Wimbledon |
Fri
13 December, 2002 |
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| The
manner in which I think that Charles Koppel has effortlessly
manipulated the very bodies who claim to have the nations' footballing
interests at heart - is laughable. Where is the justice? Where
was the support from Merton council? There's no point in asking
where the fans were, because were were renting a ground outside
Merton for 11 years and no club can maintain a strong supporter
base given those circumstances. |
| Nick,
Raynes Park SW20 |
Friday
13 December, 2002 |
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| The
owners of Wimbledon could have built a stadium on the old Plough
Lane site (professional architects were consulted and detailed
plans produced for an 18,000 seater stadium), or indeed several
south London locations. However, they simply didn't want to
pay towards it despite having a fortune of £600 million (yes
£600m!). Wimbledon moving to MK is a property deal, no more. |
| Martin,
Bletchley |
Friday
13
December, 2002 |
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Milton Keynes does not need a London football team. It needs
to develop the talent that already exists in and around the
area. We have enough hooligans of our own, without importing
Londoners of the same ilk. Also, lets hope that Three Counties
Radio is not going to become a soapbox for this team! |
| John,
London |
Friday
13
December, 2002 |
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| I
find myself wondering, if someone attempted to move the british
open tennis championship (Known as wimbledon because of where
it is played), would the government get involved to prevent
it. If someone attempted to move Man Utd to surrey, would the
govt get involved to prevent it? of course they would...for
all the reasons they should have stopped this move. well, its
gonna happen, and i applaud the ex wimbledon fans for the speed
with which AFCW was set up. let Wimbledon rot in Milton Keynes.
and if they get crowds, it will just reinforce the view that
MK is a sterile city with sterile citizens |
| Trevor,
Hemel Hempstead |
Thursday
12
December, 2002 |
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| As
a Wimbledon supporter for the last 20 years or so that was born
and brought up in Hertfordshire I find the idea of this move
absolutely abhorrent. It is completely against everything that
football is meant to be about - the idea that a team that represents
a community can be bought and sold rather than earn its league
place on merit. They can move the club five junctions up the
M1, they can move it next door to me, but I will never again
go and watch that abomination, even if that means spending the
rest of my life watching the real Dons play in the deepest lower
leagues. The people of Wimbledon and the people of Milton Keynes
should join together because this is being done in both of our
names, and neither of us want anything to do with it. |
| Geraldine,
Sutton |
Thursday
12
December, 2002 |
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| I
find it hard to believe that Milton Keynes is welcoming WFC.
They will not support your community they are soley out to make
money. From the day they move it not just concrete cows the
MK will be famous for but for destroying the pyramid and introducing
Granchising into football. We now have AFC Wimbledon a club
run by the fans for the fans - I know who is richer |
| Amir,
Sheffield |
Thursday
12
December, 2002 |
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| This
is so funny. We have our own club AFC Wimbledon. We want this
club to move and activly support it now. You can have a club
with a maggot ridden name. It's so sad it won't even be called
Milton Keynes FC. As for the people who say drunkards. The only
people watching it will be the people of Milton Keynes. If any.
LOL You don't say that drunkards live amongst you. Milton Keynes
is the worst town I've travled through. It's all it is is swings
and roundabouts. Thats all WFC will be as well. |
| Pete,
Morden |
Thursday
12
December, 2002 |
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| Would
the good peeps of MK be wanting the tennis to go with that order.
Seriously tho', whether or not this 'move' happens, how will
you feel (should you be one of the so called 'expected thousands')
whilst watching a bunch of strangers who say they represent
you, about the others who had it ripped out of their hearts.
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| Martin
Allen-Smith, Huntingdon |
Thursday
12
December, 2002 |
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If I were a MK resident, I would be doing all I can to prevent
this move from happening. Sure, MK will gain a football club,
but the rest of the football world will forever associate the
town with the start of football franchising. I don't think Wimbledon's
fans blame MK residents for 'stealing' their club, but they
will blame you if you don't at least do something to try and
stop - for your own sakes. |
| Peter,
Leamington |
Thursday
12
December, 2002 |
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|
Why does Charles Koppel and his friend Peter Winkelman want
to keep the name Wimbledon FC? Especially as they have registered
domain names as MKDons.com and others similar to it? (Go check
it out, use easily.co.uk and try a few names) As for the Hockey
Stadium wasn't this 'poopooed' during the summer and rejected?
What has now changed? Should the people who actually paid for
the Stadium be asked? That would be fair, no? What happens in
five years this new Stadium doesn't get built in Denbigh North?
Will we have the strange situation of Wimbledon FC playing in
the National Hockey Stadium in Milton Keynes. Preposterous.
Then again so are the people behind it and the people who allowed
it and the people supporting it. |
| Tom
Gavin, London |
Thursday
12
December, 2002 |
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| Very
strange how only a few days ago the Bowl was Mr Koppels prefered
location, funny how he keeps changing his priorities, what happens
to the Hockey Foundations lottery funding now ??? |
| Tee,
Milton Keynes |
Thursday
12
December, 2002 |
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I am 15, support a 1st division team in London (not WFC) and
attend my teams home games when I can. I look forward to the
move of Wimbledon to the city so I can watch football when my
team is playing away from home, or I don't not have the money
for a train fare. I applaud Mr. Koppel for attepting to move
to the hockey stadium once more as the people of Milton Keynes
will loose interest if the club does not arrive until the new
ground is built. I look forward to watching my team play Wimbledon
in MK soon. |
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