How many new towns have successful football clubs though? I can't think of any. People moving in will already have formed an allegiance with a club elsewhere.
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Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostI’ve got some observations...YOU ARE UTTERLY FUCKING ABSURD CLUELESS CUNTS;
"The failure to recognise MK D*** in the correct manner causes reputational issues for the EFL as well as creating the potential for unrest amongst MK D*** supporter and, as such, is of concern for the EFL."Last edited by Amor de Cosmos; 24-09-2017, 18:49.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View PostThis makes absolutely no sense. Plenty of clubs use truncated names for other teams (QPR and Hearts for instance.) Who even notices, never mind cares.
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View PostThis makes absolutely no sense. Plenty of clubs use truncated names for other teams (QPR and Hearts for instance.) Who even notices, never mind cares.
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- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
What Wimbledon should do is get on touch with other clubs and get them to shorten their opponents names on the scoreboards for the next game. Even if they only get 30 to actually do it, that will stop the EFL taking it any further. Indeed, there will be a fair few on top that would probably do it habitually anyway as well.
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I think you could write a programme referring to "our visitors tonight from Milton Keynes", "Meet the Opposition", do a club history piece about how they used to be called Wimbledon etc etc and that would be much worse than not referring to them at all.
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- Mar 2008
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
That is very good but a bit late now.
Originally posted by Kevin S View Post30 would be an 86% effective hit rate, given that there are 36 home teams each week in the EFL, and assuming they wouldn't ask MK Dons.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostThey put MK on the scoreboard. They could have just put Visitors
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Originally posted by Paul S View PostHow many new towns have successful football clubs though? I can't think of any. People moving in will already have formed an allegiance with a club elsewhere.
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And conning their players out of wages they were due. And creditors out of their cash. And abusing the transfer window rules by registering obviously-salaried players as amateurs.
They're actually worse than their repulsive MK cousins, but get an easier ride in the press because Meadowbank only had a few hundred fans rather than thousands like Wimbledon.
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Wimbledon should have just referred to them as 'the Dins' throughout the programme and then blamed a typo, if challenged.
Has anyone ever bothered (very publicly) doing a Freedom Of Information request against franchise, asking them to explain the origins of their name, thus luring them into implicitly breaching some kind of IP rights of Wimbledon. (I'm making this up as I go along, here - you can probably tell!) Might be worth a try, though.
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The FA should retrospectively make it illegal to appropriate another club's name and force MK to change it, even though franchising cannot be reversed at this stage.
As with appropriation of Native American names in sports, it's not just appropriating the name but also pissing on its cultural history and memory.
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Talking of American, seem to remember I read somewhere that when Indianapolis visit Baltimore in the NFL, the home team refuse to acknowledge them anywhere as the Colts and like Wimbledon did, just refer to them by their first name only. Doesn't appear to have caused issues or damaged reputations in the NFL at all.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostTelford (mentioned upthread) is of course a phoenix club and the original Telford United were a rebrand of Wellington Town. They still play at Wellington's ground, albeit in the rebuilt stadium linked to United going bust in 2004.
The point is it wasn't easy, there were no short cuts, and it's still a struggle. Support is low given the town's catchment area as most residents have footballing allegiances elsewhere. I'm not a supporter but I do admire the way the club's been built. The "free pass" MK Dons have been given is an insult to the considerable time and effort members of Stevenage — and I would guess Crawley FC — have expended building their clubs from scratch in difficult footballing environments.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostThe FA should retrospectively make it illegal to appropriate another club's name and force MK to change it, even though franchising cannot be reversed at this stage.
As with appropriation of Native American names in sports, it's not just appropriating the name but also pissing on its cultural history and memory.
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