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Article: Football: From Plough Lane to a green field of nightmares The nomadic fans of Wimbledon are faced with another odyssey. Julie Welch joins them
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 5, 2001
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"Milton Keynes? It's full of Tottenham and Arsenal wideboys and
it's got more roundabouts than anywhere in the world, more even than
Swindon," says Tony the Dons fan gloomily. He is alluding to yet
another surreal sounding move that has been proposed to supporters of
Wimbledon, football's best-known nomads. There was Dublin, there was
Cardiff, and now it might be the Buckinghamshire new town famed for
its concrete cows. "You don't find many of them on the South
Circular," says Tony.
MK, as its citizens call it, is 70 miles from Selhurst Park, for
10 years the reluctantly accepted home of displaced Dons. It's
reached pretty quickly by train from Clapham Junction, but once
beyond the ...