The bastards at the FA...

This is a somewhat unusual post for me, because as my regular reader will tell you, I don't have a lot of time for sport and have even less time for football. Basically, I reckon it's just surrogate tribal warefare acted out by a load of overpaid, egotistical nancy boys kicking a ball round a patch of grass...

So why am I writing this?

Well, the last football match I went to was when Leeds United played Wimbledon in the semi-final of the FA cup. And that was a long time ago. Before I grew up. In those days I used to be a Leeds supporter and I lived in Wimbledon and my wife worked for the chairman of Crystal Palace so we got tickets to Selhurst Park to watch the game. But I digress...

When Wimbledon built on their success and got into the league, and then worked their way up the divisions, it was all very exciting. Then - as often happens in football - their balls went to their heads, so to speak.

Now I am the first to admit that the old Plough Lane ground was, frankly, a bit of a shit hole and far to small for the club as it grew more successful. So what did the arseholes in the Wimbledon boardroom do to rewards all their loyal fans? They relocated the club to Milton Keynes and renamed it MK Dons. A fucking stupid thing to do if there ever was one.

This understandably pissed the real Wimbledon fans off no end, so they they thought 'Bugger them . We'll start another club and do it all again." Good for them!

Now enter the aforementioned bastards at the FA. "Resurrecting the club from its ashes as, say, Wimbledon Town, is not in the wider interests of football" according to the FA commission. It was a blooody silly thing to say, but it did the new club a world of good because it pissed them off so much that they got promoted 6 times in 9 seasons.

At the end of last month, Wimbledon AFC were promoted again and this time it was into the football league. Their manager, Terry Brown, summed it all up beautifully when he said "As much as anything it's good to give the FA a bloody nose."

Too bloody true, Terry, but then I always reckoned FA stood for Fucking Arseholes...