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AFC Wimbledon vs MK Dons?


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Franchise FC bottled it. It is AFC Wimbledon vs. Stevenage in R2.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/fa_cup/fixtures/default.stm

Really too bad. It sounds like many AFC Wimbledon fans just wouldn't have gone to the game though, they refuse to even acknowledge MK Dons.

On the other side of the equation I'd love to see an FC United - Manchester United tie. Both sets of supporters would embrace it signing anti-Glazer songs together. For the Glazers it would be a PR disaster.

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AFC Wimbeldon supporters effectivly wrested control of Wimbeldon FC honours from MK Dons as noted below-from the Wikipedia entry on AFC wimbeldon.

"Following the move of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes and its rebranding as Milton Keynes Dons, there was much debate over the rightful home of all the honours won by Wimbledon F.C.. Former supporters argued that the trophies won by Wimbledon F.C. rightfully belong to the community of Wimbledon and should be returned to the local area. AFC Wimbledon believe that the honours of Wimbledon F.C. belong to the fans, as illustrated by the following statement on the club's official website:

“ The supporters of AFC Wimbledon believe that our club is a continuation of the spirit which formed Wimbledon Old Centrals in 1889 and kept Wimbledon Football Club alive until May 2002. We consider that a football club is not simply the legal entity which controls it, but that it is the community formed by the fans and players working towards a common goal. We therefore reproduce the honours won by what we believe was, and will always be, "our" club, in our community. ”

—AFC Wimbledon, statement on the club's official website[1]

In October 2006, an agreement was reached between Milton Keynes Dons F.C., the MK Dons Supporters Association, the Wimbledon Independent Supporters Association and the Football Supporters Federation. The replica of the FA Cup plus all club patrimony gathered under the name of Wimbledon F.C. would be returned to the London Borough of Merton. Ownership of trademarks and website domain names related to Wimbledon F.C. would also be transferred to the Borough. It was also agreed that any reference made to Milton Keynes Dons F.C. should refer only to events after 7 August 2004, the date of the first league match played as Milton Keynes Dons. As a result of this deal, the Football Supporters Federation announced that the supporters of Milton Keynes Dons would be permitted to become members of the federation, and that it would no longer appeal to the supporters of other clubs to boycott MK Dons matches.[16] The replica trophies and Wimbledon F.C. memorabilia were returned to Merton on 2 August 2007."

Merton is in London. Milton Keynes is not.

Intrestingly the Likes of John "Fash the Bash" Fashanu, John Scales, That 'orrible little man"...Denis Wise and the Irripressible Vinny Jones all concure that they played for Wimbeldon and NOT the MK Dons.

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AFC Wimbledon 0-0 Luton Town (4-3 on pens)

AFC WIMBLEDON are now (or once again-depending on your stance in the matter) a football league club. They now have the chance to be drawn against MK DONS not only in the FA-Cup but also in the League Cup and more likley the Johnstone paints Trophy (Played between the two lower divisions of the football league)

Commiserations to Luton Town and there imensly likable Chairman Nick Owen, who rescued the club from the miscreants who ran it into the ground, but as a Leeds United Fan*, I was cheering for the Wombels. We had Vinny Jones on our books for a year, what would you expect?

Nobody Likes either of us, and we dont care!

Strangley enough these two teams in the 1987/88 season won the FA Cup and the Football League Cup's respectivley.

"Oh, Underground Overground Wombelling Free,

The Wombels of wimbeldon Common are we"

*Leeds United were the first team to be served with a 15 point 'Superpenalty' for manipulating the Administaration regulations. Having been relegated before the end of the season Ken Bates, the Leeds Chairman placed the club in administration, assessing that the 10 point decuction could be served before the division concluded for the year. So, instead of been relegated on 35 points they would be relegated on 25 points. The football league took exception to this-( Heaven knows why? )and proceeded to deduct Leeds United the 10 points anyway and then a further 15 points for the start of the following year. All the clubs in the Football League ratified this descision in a requesite voting proceedure and LUTON TOWN voted for the fine against leeds to be upheld (actually all 71 FL clubs voted for the fine, the one exception been Leeds.)

Ironicly for Luton when they helped ratify the decission against Leeds they signed themselves into the situation they are in now. Subsequent mismanagement of their own finances led to a 40 point deduction and expulsion from the Football League.

"The club was handed a ten-point deduction for the 2008–09 season on 3 June 2008, along with a £50,000 fine. The Football League only offered to return the Football League Share to Luton on the condition that they play with a further twenty-point deduction, forcing Luton to start the season with a 30-point penalty.[110][111] Luton beat S****horpe United 3–2 in the Football League Trophy final in front of 40,000 Luton supporters at Wembley Stadium,[112] but lost their League status eight days later."

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AFC Wimbledon could face MK Dons in FA Cup

Reuters, Sunday November 4 2012

LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - AFC Wimbledon, formed when the original Wimbledon club were relocated to the city of Milton Keynes in 2004, could face Milton Keynes Dons for the first time in the second round of the FA Cup.

Both teams need to get through first-round replays but if third tier MK Dons beat minor league Cambridge City and fourth tier AFC Wimbledon overcome York City, the two will meet in Milton Keynes at the beginning of next month.

MK Dons, who retained the Wimbledon nickname 'Dons' when the team relocated, returned all the old replica trophies and other memorabilia in 2007 when they declared themselves a new club with no links to the 1988 FA Cup winners.

Coventry City, who won the FA Cup the year before Wimbledon and also now find themselves in the third tier, will face the winners of the replay between fourth tier rivals Morecambe and Rochdale after the second round draw was made on Sunday. (Reporting by Mike Collett; editing by Tony Jimenez)

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Having followed AFC Wimbledon and their rise from the bottom of the English Pyramid, there is lots of animosity from their support and staff to the thought of playing MK Dons or for their supporters even venturing up to Milton Keynes for the match and giving their owners even one Pound of their money. I'm sure they'll be cheering Cambridge City on even more...or may not mind losing the replay to York City to avoid facing "The Franchise".

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Having followed AFC Wimbledon and their rise from the bottom of the English Pyramid, there is lots of animosity from their support and staff to the thought of playing MK Dons or for their supporters even venturing up to Milton Keynes for the match and giving their owners even one Pound of their money. I'm sure they'll be cheering Cambridge City on even more...or may not mind losing the replay to York City to avoid facing "The Franchise".

And and AFC Wimbeldon -MK Dons match up is in every way a potential "shin kicking" of the highest order. Definatley one for the PVR, if you like your FA CUP with lashing of blood and guts that is.

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Having also followed this story from the beginning I thought this was the one that they have been waiting for. The day that the REAL Dons take on Franchise FC. A milestone to the ultimate goal of swapping places in the leagues as Wimbledon returns to the top flight.

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Having also followed this story from the beginning I thought this was the one that they have been waiting for. The day that the REAL Dons take on Franchise FC. A milestone to the ultimate goal of swapping places in the leagues as Wimbledon returns to the top flight.

You'd think so as well...but I heard an interview with the AFC Wimbledon chairman a couple of seasons ago when there was a similar prospect of the two meeting in the FA Cup and they thought of MK Dons as the coming of the Anti-Christ.

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So its on! MK Dons and AFC both win their replays! MK Dons doing so in impressive fashion -> 6-1. Wimbledon not so much. Conceded 3 goals and needed extra-time despite playing against 10-men for about 85 minutes.

Hope its on TV!

Hope it's on TV too...likely tape delayed on Sportsnet World if at all. I think 99% of supporters out there are hoping AFC Wimbledon goes through, including me.

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