REAL !!!
FAKE !!!Milton Keynes Dons came to town on Saturday for a game between the two in-form sides of the Division. The poisoned chalice of ‘Manager of the Month’ almost certainly awaits Alan Pardew or Paul Ince, depending on the outcome of the game. Actually, I have an issue with that… it’s not a poisoned chalice at all… I imagine that Sir Alex has won it a few times in the Prem and then not gone on a ten match losing streak so all that poisoned chalice stuff is a load of balls really.
So what do we know about MK Dons ? I liked Wimbledon and I liked going to Plough Lane. I also liked the fact that they consistently got up the noses of the real big boys, culminating in Lawrie Sanchez heading the winner in the FA Cup Final v Liverpool. It’s also not exaggerating to say that the day Wimbledon were franchised off and moved to Milton Keynes, was a day when a part of my love affair with football ended.
MK Dons official history now starts in 2004 but let no one forget where they came from and the questions that are in my mind. Are any of their fans ex-Wimbledon fans ? Do they talk of that FA Cup win like we talk of 1976 ? Do they have the Crazy Gang spirit ? It irritated me immensely in the build up to see David Connolly referred to as an ‘ex-Don’ on one of their websites. Fuck off. He played for Wimbledon, the proper Dons. Fake Dons… I want us to beat you and beat you well.
Saints were unchanged for the match with Hammond and Lallana shrugging of minor knocks to keep Connolly on the bench. Saganowski’s career descent showed no signs of arresting as he was again missing from the bench. There are unconfirmed reports that he was directing traffic at Six Dials before the match.
The confident Saints pour forward from the off and it’s a procession towards the MK goal with Lallana twice going close, denied once by the keeper and one by a last ditch block. Papa Waigo nearly had dance frenzy but the goal was disallowed for a tight offside before out of nowhere, the fake Dons franchised the ball and moved it near our goal for the first time in the match and cracked home a direct free kick for 1-0. Half time.
I have no idea what the atmosphere was like at half time because I was in Florida at an Indiana Jones Stunt Demonstration in Disneyland so this report has been compiled courtesy of other peoples reports and Saints TV. I signed up for the free 14 Day trial before going on holiday and shall give you my verdict on the service soon…. Lets just say that the buffering of the video was Wotton-esque in pace. Anyway…Indy was kicking ‘bad guys butt’ and everyone was cheering whilst I was cursing the injustice of it all. Could Saints produce the Disney ending in the 2nd half?
Last week at Oldham, Pardew produced a substitution that produced a goal within two minutes and the man did it again introducing Michail Antonio and ex-Wimbledon-not-Milton-fucking-Keynes forward, David Connolly in place of Wotton and Waigo. A switch to a more orthodox 4-4-2 and after a six man move, the previously derided (by me) Lloyd James swung over a cross that Hammond attacked and neatly guided in on the volley for 1-1. There was at this point a lull in the Indiana Jones action so I got a few looks when I was the only person cheering when Lambert made it 2-1 with a neat goal from a free kick, again taken by my favourite Welshman, Lloyd James.
Indy had beaten all the bad guys and got the girl after it all looked a bit dodgy early on and Saints had done the same with the final action being a poachers goal from David Connolly, latching onto a hilarious back pass from the MK left back. Can you imagine a proper Wimbledon full back like Terry Phelan or Alan Kimble doing that ? No… it would have been a 70 yard hoof upto an elbows-flailing centre forward.
Things are looking very good and we have now climbed above Tranmere in the table. If Pards gets his manager of the month award then he deserves it and I have a feeling that it won’t be a poisoned chalice at all. We’re on the march and looking upwards. After 5 years of hell, it’s a nice feeling to have…. The fake Dons were the in-form side in the division (apart from us) and we beat them easily with their goal coming from their only on-target shot. Saints can easily deal with hoof ball tactics from opponents (which is all MK had apparently) and any team that thinks they can get change from hoofing it towards Jaidi and Trotman is quite frankly, deluding themselves. We also now seem to have personnel to play 4-3-3 and 4-4-2 which will give Pards more confidence that he can change things for different opponents. The last manager we had who had the guts to swap things about was George Burley but he only did it because he couldn’t remember who played the previous week, let alone their positions.
4 league wins in a row, +11 points. Win v Orient next week and we could be out of the relegation zone.
As for the MK Dons…. Fake Dons, Fake Cows, Fake Position in the League, Fake Off…
So what do we know about MK Dons ? I liked Wimbledon and I liked going to Plough Lane. I also liked the fact that they consistently got up the noses of the real big boys, culminating in Lawrie Sanchez heading the winner in the FA Cup Final v Liverpool. It’s also not exaggerating to say that the day Wimbledon were franchised off and moved to Milton Keynes, was a day when a part of my love affair with football ended.
MK Dons official history now starts in 2004 but let no one forget where they came from and the questions that are in my mind. Are any of their fans ex-Wimbledon fans ? Do they talk of that FA Cup win like we talk of 1976 ? Do they have the Crazy Gang spirit ? It irritated me immensely in the build up to see David Connolly referred to as an ‘ex-Don’ on one of their websites. Fuck off. He played for Wimbledon, the proper Dons. Fake Dons… I want us to beat you and beat you well.
Saints were unchanged for the match with Hammond and Lallana shrugging of minor knocks to keep Connolly on the bench. Saganowski’s career descent showed no signs of arresting as he was again missing from the bench. There are unconfirmed reports that he was directing traffic at Six Dials before the match.
The confident Saints pour forward from the off and it’s a procession towards the MK goal with Lallana twice going close, denied once by the keeper and one by a last ditch block. Papa Waigo nearly had dance frenzy but the goal was disallowed for a tight offside before out of nowhere, the fake Dons franchised the ball and moved it near our goal for the first time in the match and cracked home a direct free kick for 1-0. Half time.
I have no idea what the atmosphere was like at half time because I was in Florida at an Indiana Jones Stunt Demonstration in Disneyland so this report has been compiled courtesy of other peoples reports and Saints TV. I signed up for the free 14 Day trial before going on holiday and shall give you my verdict on the service soon…. Lets just say that the buffering of the video was Wotton-esque in pace. Anyway…Indy was kicking ‘bad guys butt’ and everyone was cheering whilst I was cursing the injustice of it all. Could Saints produce the Disney ending in the 2nd half?
Last week at Oldham, Pardew produced a substitution that produced a goal within two minutes and the man did it again introducing Michail Antonio and ex-Wimbledon-not-Milton-fucking-Keynes forward, David Connolly in place of Wotton and Waigo. A switch to a more orthodox 4-4-2 and after a six man move, the previously derided (by me) Lloyd James swung over a cross that Hammond attacked and neatly guided in on the volley for 1-1. There was at this point a lull in the Indiana Jones action so I got a few looks when I was the only person cheering when Lambert made it 2-1 with a neat goal from a free kick, again taken by my favourite Welshman, Lloyd James.
Indy had beaten all the bad guys and got the girl after it all looked a bit dodgy early on and Saints had done the same with the final action being a poachers goal from David Connolly, latching onto a hilarious back pass from the MK left back. Can you imagine a proper Wimbledon full back like Terry Phelan or Alan Kimble doing that ? No… it would have been a 70 yard hoof upto an elbows-flailing centre forward.
Things are looking very good and we have now climbed above Tranmere in the table. If Pards gets his manager of the month award then he deserves it and I have a feeling that it won’t be a poisoned chalice at all. We’re on the march and looking upwards. After 5 years of hell, it’s a nice feeling to have…. The fake Dons were the in-form side in the division (apart from us) and we beat them easily with their goal coming from their only on-target shot. Saints can easily deal with hoof ball tactics from opponents (which is all MK had apparently) and any team that thinks they can get change from hoofing it towards Jaidi and Trotman is quite frankly, deluding themselves. We also now seem to have personnel to play 4-3-3 and 4-4-2 which will give Pards more confidence that he can change things for different opponents. The last manager we had who had the guts to swap things about was George Burley but he only did it because he couldn’t remember who played the previous week, let alone their positions.
4 league wins in a row, +11 points. Win v Orient next week and we could be out of the relegation zone.
As for the MK Dons…. Fake Dons, Fake Cows, Fake Position in the League, Fake Off…
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