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Article: Mr Milton Keynes: `Our door will be open to any club in trouble' Dons or no Dons, entrepreneur tells Alan Hubbard a sporting Mecca will be built
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 20, 2002
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Pete Winkelman is big league in the music industry. Big enough to
have Victoria Beckham doing a photo shoot at his country house
recording studio in Milton Keynes last week. Milton Keynes? The very
name still brings a sniff, mainly from those who whizz northwards on
the M1, never venturing into the largest satellite community in the
land.
It sounds as if it should belong to a jobbing thespian in a Radio
Four play ("The part of the butler was played by Milton Keynes"). But
if Winkelman has his way, Milton Keynes will soon have a much bigger
role to play - on the football stage.
This week the Football Association arbitration panel will hear
Wimbledon's appeal against the Football League ...