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Post by peterdevo on Jan 13, 2011 14:55:26 GMT
From what I can recall Wimbledon tried to buy land occupied in Merton at Sainsburys but the council said no.
The fans are the ones I feel for as their club has been taken away from them and presented to Milton Keynes.
In Essex John Bairstow one of the original owners of Bairstow Eves managed to buy and sell Brentwood and Chelmsford City. His sole purpose was to make a killing on the land. These types of people are the worst thing in the world to happen to football. Profit first and club last.
I hope Wimbledon find their way back to league football and leave Luton languishing in BSP.
Seven home games on the trot..how can that happen?
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Post by Ricky Otto on Jan 13, 2011 15:04:52 GMT
Dennis Strudwick and Brian Lee.
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Post by ConcreteBob on Jan 13, 2011 21:44:04 GMT
Luton have already had two instances of three away home in a row.
What a truly shambolic league.
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Post by Yellowbrains on Jan 14, 2011 4:29:39 GMT
They then did a Kassam like act on the fans of Kingstonian, another small club struggling to make ends meet. Except that that isn't really true is it? Kingstonian had already had their ground stolen from them by a former owner and were being hamstrung by the rent payments but lacked the money to buy their ground back. AFC Wimbledon purchased the ground and charge a much fairer rate of rent to Kingstonian - they've even left the ground in Kingstonian's colours haven't they? |
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Post by southstandyellow on Jan 14, 2011 10:28:48 GMT
Otto is a wind up merchant
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Post by slappy on Jan 14, 2011 16:35:16 GMT
see this on Daggers
Ilford sold their ground in 1977, moved to Leytonstone, at Granleigh Road, to groundshare. They failed to build a new ground, clobbered by some sort od tax from the sale I think, & they merged to become Leytonstone Ilford. They then sold the old Leytonstone ground & moved to Walthamstow Avenue. They then merged to form Redbridge Forest. (Or 'Redbridge Forest incorporating Walthamstow Avenue's socks', as a few of us Hamlet fans liked to call them!)
Then they sold that ground & moved on to Dagenham FC, at Victoria Road. There they merged again to form the current Dagenham & Redbridge.
Redbridge were not liked, for the way the traditional east London clubs were swallowed up, and many knew them as the 'Pacman' club of east London. |
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Post by witneyellow on Jan 16, 2011 19:28:17 GMT
The particular irony of the tie this thread started being about is that Luton investigated moving to MK quite a few years previously (which would have made sense geographically and allowed them to avoid a lot of their financial mess. MK council were willing to back them to build a stadium to tap into the new population growth.
The football league shot it down in flames saying they had to stay in their locality and if MK wanted their own team they should start at the bottom and play their way through the leagues!
I long to see MK consigned to the CONference and AFC Wimbledon in the league.
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