Milton Keynes Dons v Charlton Athletic
Tuesday 3rd November 2015 … 7:45pm Kick-Off
Referee: Andy Davies (Hampshire)
Introduction
Your team are in a horrible run of form, they’re at the bottom of the form table in the whole league, and they’ve lost their third game (3-0) on the trot, having lost by that very score-line on four occasions this season… Last season though it was a different matter, the Addicks were coming off a horrible run of form and went on to win 3-0 in ironically four occasions within a short space of time.
Prior to the change in those fortunes, many fans couldn’t see where a draw would come from (let alone a win), yet a 3-0 victory against Brentford proved the defining point in the season when Charlton would pull away from any relegation trouble and secure mid-table obscurity, this season and any type of victory would be much appreciated, and despite us only being in November, we approach a match this Tuesday night against a side where three points (even now) will be so important, for the first time in the English second tier, Charlton will be making the trip to Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Dons.
The Opposition
Name: Milton Keynes Dons | Manager: Karl Robinson
Ground: Stadium.MK | Nickname: The Dons
Do our opponents this Tuesday need much of an introduction…? Milton Keynes Dons are probably the most infamous side in English Football, they were formed in 2004 following the demise of Wimbledon (who were going out of business), the then Wimbledon chairman; Peter Winkelman decided that the clubs fortunes would be improved if they moved the club to another part of the country (American Franchise style), the fans, funnily didn’t agree and so the true (AFC) Wimbledon remained in South London…
Milton Keynes beginning in League One were forced to drop to the lowest tier of the Football League after being relegated within two years of moving, they bounced back to League One within another two years of that relegation and after finishing second last season, have climbed to the Championship for the first time in their history, many fans, I’m sure, feel that it should be AFC Wimbledon in their place, but MK Dons are here now, and it might not have been Wimbledon that were subject to the franchise.
As we all know, Milton Keynes was a town created in 1967 and until, Milton Keynes Dons came to stay, the area was one major town which lacked a Football club, many attempts were made though to make it happen sooner that 2004 though… Most recently; Luton Town almost became MK Hatters when they almost moved 20-miles up the road in search of a new site for their ground, protests were made by the fans and local support ensured that Luton stayed right where they were…
Wimbledon almost moved to the area in the mid-Seventies but there was a third side (and the first to explore the idea) that almost became a symbol for this new town, that club being from South East London and our very own Charlton Athletic, the Gilkstens (already known for elaborate schemes) thought that it would be a clever idea, thankfully once again due to fan protests, something our current owners should be well aware, the move was once again abandoned.
There will I’m sure, always be a Charlton Athletic in South East London, regardless the players, league and owners!!
Charlton Team News
Match fitness is very much on the cards for the players at the moment and with so many players coming back from injury, its no doubt that they’d be eased into 90-minutes of action, with a few games now under his belt; Simon Makienok should be expected to last longer matches, whilst there is a new Striker in town: Ademola Lookman (free-scoring for our youth sides) was finally included in the team that travelled to Middlesbrough on Saturday so now it much be a question of when (and not if) we’ll see this exciting youth player.
Henderson
Solly … Bauer … Sarr … Fox
Gudmundsson … Ba … Jackson … Cousins
Makienok … Ghoochanniejad
Substitutes Bench: Pope … Holmes-Dennis … Diarra … Moussa … Watt … Ahearne-Grant … Lookman
Prediction
Milton Keynes Dons 0-2 Charlton Athletic (Ghoochanniejad, Lookman)
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Comments
Charlie Fry will be confirmed as permanent manager as a result and a brave new world will dawn.
"Everybody's happy nowadays, pass the Soma"
Our fitness levels will only last 60 minutes however the midfield is still dog shit. Jackson is to slow, whoever is on the left will be pony, Cousins is poor and JBG will cut in from the right 50 times and have his shot blocked each and every time How about putting him on the left and let him cross the ball for once.
Simon Church will score and go running over the 400 fans with his finger to his lip. There will be a few on here who say we should have kept him and he wasn't a bad player and that he works really hard and we could do with a player like him now etc.
Sod it who gives a shit anyway.
Let's face it, MK will know exactly the shambles we currently are, and be after us from the start.
Our players will keep smiling the whole 90 minutes..
He will dominate the midfield and we will get beaten again.
we only had one shot on target at Boro - and that was Reza (keeper stopped it with his nose).
Fancy us to get a 0-0, they have Simon Church up front for goodness sake
Hopefully our exciting football and positive atmosphere will encourage them to come again...
No idea which team that will be though...
or the end of the beginning.
so hard to predict the score when you don't know if the team will turn up ?
3-3 goal fest with a church tap in and Lookman scoring after coming off the bench.
As much as I really cannot be bothered, now seems the right time to see this hoodoo broken. So I'll be going to this.
2-1 Charlton, Church scoring two minutes in and Jackson getting a winner in the 85th minute.
Currently 5 points worse off than we were at this stage in our last relegation season, and tomorrow evening looks like our easiest game of the month. Oh dear.
Less than 400 tickets sold in the away end, so there should be plenty of space to put your "Lying Bitch Get Out" and "We hate Roland" banners, as well as any Tin Tin effigies and defaced versions of the Belgian flag.