The latest meeting of two clubs that shouldn't exist has been chosen by Sky to fill the gap opened up by the international break. It's the only TV EFL game of the weekend as the other game chosen was the utterly daft choice of Bolton v Bury.
The Hipster Dons have struggled in League One this year, with Wally Downes's side having failed to win a single game so far. The Corporate Dons have fared a little better as Paul Tisdale's men have won two matches. MK have avoided defeat in the last 3 meetings with AFCW.
Kick-off at 12:00pm with coverage on Sky Sports Football from 11:30am.
Tbf they kept Kingstonian FC on life support for a few years, it was a bit scabby selling the stadium to a Chelsea that wanted them out so they can use it for wimmen and kids, which is a waste of a decent little ground.
Juan Clark
But Stadium:MK is a soulless shithole.
Levi Fisher
Nonce
Have you even been to MK? It's like everyone had a collective lobotomy for the sake of living in a retail development.
Juan James
Still pure Yea Forums. You know it's true.
Did I touch a nerve? Maybe you could tell your subreddit all about it.
Asher Morales
>pure Yea Forums
Ah yes, postwar "new towns" and roundabouts, those old iconic Yea Forums memes aha.
Isaac Nelson
>it was a bit scabby selling the stadium to a Chelsea that wanted them out so they can use it for wimmen and kids, which is a waste of a decent little ground. That's what I meant. Not to mention killing stock car racing in the capital with the Plough Lane redevelopment (although said stadium was falling apart anyway).
>Still pure Yea Forums. You know it's true. How in fuck's name is this "pure Yea Forums", whatever the fuck that nonsense term means? It's a genericbowl. It's soulless as hell.
>plastic is Yea Forums never was an user on Yea Forums further from the truth. Hating plastic clubs is literally the one thing Yea Forums and reddit have in common
Jason Scott
Pretty sure he was just being a contrarian for the sake of it considering his follow-up has all the intelligence of a brick.
Nathan Thomas
milton keynes memes: roundabouts, shopping centre, evil capitalism, the meme of having no soul wimbledon memes: uhh... phoenix club? MK has the stronger memes
>never was an user on Yea Forums further from the truth. Hating plastic clubs is literally the one thing Yea Forums and reddit have in common literally you in the pic
>just being a contrarian for the sake of it Yea Forums as fuck.
have you ever thought that this is a dichotomy that keeps being utilised without ever asking if it's accurate or not trying to force this everywhere is getting quite pathetic
Jackson Hill
>hated by literally everyone Yeah, I'm thinking the Dons are definitely /ourguys/ virgin soi foreign le epic internet celeb vs CHAD british record label executive
Oh dear, what a shame. Not surprised, massive stadium and the local freaks don't give a fuck, if anything it's the thousands of away fans they get going, every club seems to take a big following there.
Alexander Moore
should move to london
Logan Sullivan
Dean Lewington, #3 for MK Dons, left back, and club captain since 2008 has the most appearances for one club for a player of any club in the world. He was one of the original MK Dons players, following the team from Wimbledon. He made 29 appearances for Wimbledon. Even about 10 years ago, all the other Wimbledon players had gone. He's been through 4 relegations and 3 promotions with the same club. He's 35 and has started this match.
He started this season #22 on the all-time list of players for a single club, which is only including his MK Dons appearances, equal to Francesco Totti for Roma. He's played 7 games this season, which puts him up to #21 all-time, tied with a Motherwell goalkeeper from the 1920s. If you include MK Dons and Wimbledon appearances together (with a big asterix), he's on 665 appearances, #13 all-time, one place ahead of Paolo Maldini for Milan and one place behind Ryan Giggs for Man Utd.
He's also the son of Ray Lewington - former Watford manager, former England assman, current Crystal Palace assman, and former Wimbledon player.
Seeing the huge empty stands at MK always kills me. Even at one of the most notorious derbies in the world, they can't fill a section. The wide sections are the family sections, basically none of them are MK Dons fans. MK is a city of migrants, everyone already has a club. Nobody is actually from Milton Keynes, even people who are born there don't claim to be from Milton Keynes.
The hardcore MK fans (sitting to the right of the camera) are the ones who like the idea of being despised by every football fan in England. The camera won't pan over there because even by lower league English football fan standards, they are absolutely hideous.
The away fans are always out in force and are far more entertaining. The only match I've seen where MK outsang the away support was when I went to see Wigan at MK Dons the season after they got relegated from the Premier League. Only like 30 showed up. I suppose MK wasn't worth the trip.
No.
Camden Gutierrez
Even Milton Keynes itself had a club before this joke rolled into town. But I suppose actually building a club from the ground up was too much effort for Wankerman.
Yep. It was maddening. I lived in Milton Keynes during the whole debacle. That was an amateur club. There was actually an even larger amateur club in the town (Newport Pagnell) but didn't have the Milton Keynes name.
Winkleman was a man with absolutely no knowledge of football. He made a deal for some land and as any man of ambition in Milton Keynes, he wanted to build a shopping centre. The football club was like a gimmick he used to get the corporations to build shops on his land. Still, if you ask a local how to get to the stadium, they'll tell you "it's next to Ikea". He probably promised "top division football" to Sven and Bjorn in a sales pitch, didn't know how to achieve that, had a 4-5 year timespan to get that done, panicked, and decided to buy Wimbledon. He could have built up an actual club based in Milton Keynes Gretna-style, which would have attracted real fans wanting to watch a million pound Milton Keynes team batter some 7th division shitters every week. But he took the brainless, short-term solution.
Really it's an allegory for the establishment of Milton Keynes itself; real estate speculation that just got out of hand.
Xavier Williams
>Newport Pagnell
Does everyone in MK just steal other people's identities?
