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With the Manchester United - AFC Bournemouth match having concluded, we're now in the offseason and 88 days away from the first games on August 13, 2016. Will Leicester defend their miraculous championship? Many storylines ahead. A new name (no more Barclays sponsorship), a new logo, a new season!
 
Can't wait for all the transfers and new managers! It's going to be really interesting with all the storylines.
 
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The PL may not have many of the game's elite of the elite in terms of players but it is really becoming the league of the elite managers. It really only needs Simeone and maybe Emery/Ancelotti and you could basically say that all of the greatest managers in the world are based in one country.
 
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AFC Wimbledon promoted to league one today. Only two more promotions to live the dream of being back in the Premier league. Can't imagine too many people begrudge them it. Sorry if this is the wrong place but we don't have a separate thread for English lower leagues that I know of.
 
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Davo15 said:
AFC Wimbledon promoted to league one today. Only two more promotions to live the dream of being back in the Premier league. Can't imagine too many people begrudge them it. Sorry if this is the wrong place but we don't have a separate thread for English lower leagues that I know of.
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I sense a backstory ,.... Can you fill in the less informed (me!) ??
 
Davo15 said:
AFC Wimbledon promoted to league one today. Only two more promotions to live the dream of being back in the Premier league. Can't imagine too many people begrudge them it. Sorry if this is the wrong place but we don't have a separate thread for English lower leagues that I know of.
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Gosh... If everybody has a fit about the size of our field in Yankee Stadium, there must be nearly a pitch-fork revolt going on with the tiny field they can fit in Wimbledon's Center Court.... Where keepers are able to take a shot from a goal kick...
 
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Albany_NYCFC said:
I sense a backstory ,.... Can you fill in the less informed (me!) ??
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The concise version Wimbledon FC a fairly small London club but one that had been in the Premier league with such players as Vinnie Jones, was allowed to Move to Milton Keynes about 50 to 60 miles outside of London. The first and to my knowledge only time a team has relocated in England American style. The fans formed a new team AFC Wimbledon which had to start in that bottom rung of the Football pyramid or 9th tier. In 13 seasons they've now managed 6 promotions to reach league one AKA third division.
 
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Davo15 said:
The concise version Wimbledon FC a fairly small London club but one that had been in the Premier league with such players as Vinnie Jones, was allowed to Move to Milton Keynes about 50 to 60 miles outside of London. The first and to my knowledge only time a team has relocated in England American style. The fans formed a new team AFC Wimbledon which had to start in that bottom rung of the Football pyramid or 9th tier. In 13 seasons they've now managed 6 promotions to reach league one AKA third division.
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Ahhhh. Thanks! And Milton Keynes is the planned city correct? Something about moving people out from London?
 
I don't know where else to put this but is Nike seriously incompetent with making kits these days? Everything is the same design with different colors.

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LionNYC said:
I don't know where else to put this but is Nike seriously incompetent with making kits these days? Everything is the same design with different colors.

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Hahaha, that looks like a training jersey.

People can say what they want about Adidas, but they do spend time making individual designs for high-selling teams - who would've ever thought they'd create the Onion Kit for us???

Nike traditionally just regurgitates the same design with different colors. The absolute worst example was the 2004 jerseys with the circle/number on the front:

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The problem is that Nike offers so much money to clubs and countries, that it's hard for them to turn down. I wish Umbro & Kappa were still a major players because they always came up with original stuff.
 
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I think I'd take Under Armour or New Balance over Adidas and Nike. I wanna try something different
 
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Puma makes some tight (literally and figuratively) kits, too. Arsenal and Dortmund come immediately to mind.

In other news, the new Man City crest feels a little weaksauce to me.
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Agreed. They literally are trying to shove the square peg in a round hole with that shield inside of the circle.
 
Davo15 said:
The concise version Wimbledon FC a fairly small London club but one that had been in the Premier league with such players as Vinnie Jones, was allowed to Move to Milton Keynes about 50 to 60 miles outside of London. The first and to my knowledge only time a team has relocated in England American style. The fans formed a new team AFC Wimbledon which had to start in that bottom rung of the Football pyramid or 9th tier. In 13 seasons they've now managed 6 promotions to reach league one AKA third division.
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This is broadly it, although I'll add in case it wasn't obvious that the fans didn't just create their own team because it was too far to go to support the new one, they started it as a protest because they were furious that their team was moved at all. The UK (in fact, Europe as a whole) has no tradition of sports teams moving location, and it is held by common consensus that while clubs may be owned by one or several people, they are controlled in lieu of the fans and the local community.

Consequently, when Wimbledon F.C. moved to become MK Dons, the Wimbledon fans didn't just create a new team in protest, they also took MK Dons to court claiming they had no right to claim to be the same team - and indeed the court upheld their argument and stripped MK Dons of Wimbledon F.C.'s trophies, which the court declared to be the possession of the borough council of the area of London that Wimbledon were based in. In fact for some time before the club actually moved, there was talk that the government could deem the attempt to relocate a football club as illegal. I'm actually quite disappointed that they didn't, personally.

It's safe to say that AFC Wimbledon (the protest club) and MK Dons have quite a heated rivalry - not to mention that MK Don's are treated as scum by all other football fans because of what they represent. And now the two Wimbledons are in the same league. Tasty.

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...lub-mk-dons-must-give-name-back-a3260096.html
 
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