Looking forward to if and when Wimbledon move back to the London borough of Merton. Will they leave Kingstonian football club without a bucket to pee in or will they let them play their at an affordable rent and not them rot like they rightly think MK Dons did.
Happy for Wimbledon with this result but it is a bit of an anti climax considering it took them three attempts, and by looking at the highlights nobody really bothered to show up for this one (ed - 4,400 attendance).
I remember the first time they played and how big a deal it was at the time. The sting seems to have gone from it now considering they've played each other 3 times in cup competition in the last year and a half in the most soulless stadium in the country.
If they meet at Wimbledon's ground it will be a whole different story.
Be interested to know how many AFC fans were in that crowd. I'm sure it meant a lot to them having bothered to go. Personally i wouldn't patronise anything to do with franchise football but point is it matters to those involved and we can only comment as bystanders as to what it means to those there or more closely connected. I have been in smaller crowds for Charlton games at the Valley. No less passion involved, perhaps more actually as you can feel you have a bigger stake in your club.
OK, so the attendance when they first met was 16,500 (for a televised game in December 2012) - around four times the size of what it was last night.
It doesn't make it any less meaningful to those there though does it. Less of them of course the will to beat them wouldn't be any less among those there.
Not to those there, no. But to the majority who really cared 2 years ago, they've clearly found ways of moving on from the initial importance of the first match between the two. Like I said before, the 'sting' isn't as prominent.
Am pretty sure that first game was a weekend, and last night was not so people would not want to travel 60 miles for a Tuesday night game
and one was FA Cup and the other JPT
Should things like that get in the way of what is supposedly such a huge grudge match? A 75% reduction in attendance?
We've done this before, but it really isn't like moving CAFC 70 miles away. It's like if Ebbsfleet, before they were formed, said "Why bother with the pyramid? Championship Portsmouth are in a bit of bother and heading for oblivion, let's buy them for peanuts and replace them with Ebbsfleet. We'll call them Ebbsfleet Pompey for now to keep a core fan base but long term we're only interested in starting our club as high in the league as we can get away with, and developing it for people in North Kent.
Think anyone would notice? Think the FA should stop it happening? Think Pompey fans would have a right to be angry?
That's exactly what happened to the Dons, and that's why they - and lots of us - take issue with Franchise FC and the gutless FA who let it happen.
AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002 (ish), yet they still claim the 1988 fa cup win as there own. When will they go the whole hog and claim the six fa cup wins by the Wanderers as there own?
AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002 (ish), yet they still claim the 1988 fa cup win as there own. When will they go the whole hog and claim the six fa cup wins by the Wanderers as there own?
I thought they'd returned the Cup to AFC and don't have 1988 on their honour roll anymore since a few years ago ?
AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002 (ish), yet they still claim the 1988 fa cup win as there own. When will they go the whole hog and claim the six fa cup wins by the Wanderers as there own?
Wimbledon + AFC Wimbledon = Same club. Wimbledon + Milton Keynes Dons = Nothing to do with each other
Is no different to Newton Heath becoming Manchester United
AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002 (ish), yet they still claim the 1988 fa cup win as there own. When will they go the whole hog and claim the six fa cup wins by the Wanderers as there own?
Wimbledon + AFC Wimbledon = Same club. Wimbledon + Milton Keynes Dons = Nothing to do with each other
Is no different to Newton Heath becoming Manchester United
Wimbledon and AFC are not the same club. The club who lifted the 1988 fa cup are sadly no more.
AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002 (ish), yet they still claim the 1988 fa cup win as there own. When will they go the whole hog and claim the six fa cup wins by the Wanderers as there own?
Wimbledon + AFC Wimbledon = Same club. Wimbledon + Milton Keynes Dons = Nothing to do with each other
Is no different to Newton Heath becoming Manchester United
Wimbledon and AFC are not the same club. The club who lifted the 1988 fa cup are sadly no more.
Same fans, same soul, same (almost) location when they return to Plough Lane, same district name in their club name... So what's different ? Different owner, different players.
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Think anyone would notice? Think the FA should stop it happening? Think Pompey fans would have a right to be angry?
That's exactly what happened to the Dons, and that's why they - and lots of us - take issue with Franchise FC and the gutless FA who let it happen.
Wimbledon + Milton Keynes Dons = Nothing to do with each other
Is no different to Newton Heath becoming Manchester United