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Depends whether you think the passage of time diminishes the original crime or not. I don't. When Franchise FC stole Wimbledon's identity and league place, there was a strong consensus by fans that they should be regarded as a pariah club. I don't see any reason why that should change. If the people of Milton Keynes wanted "an established league club", equal to all the others, then they could have got behind either of the two non-league outfits they had in the 90s, both of whom were put out of business by Pete W*nkleman transplanting Wimbledon to their town, and got behind them so they worked their way up the pyramid like the rest of us.
1. None of us committed a 'crime' and nor did PW. The crime (using the term loosely) was that WFC was run into the ground by its then owners, abandoned by its fans and the local community, by the FA running out of patience with them failing to find a new local ground of their own and ultimately by the bizarre decision of the FA to allow relocation to MK.
2. Ignoring the Accord with the FSF which was supposed to end this 'pariah' status which agreed to move forwards from the move.
3. Bringing up yet again the Shudda Cudda Wudda of why didn't 'we' start from scratch etc etc - in an ideal world yes obvs but it didn't happen that way. What are we supposed to have done - got into a Time Machine?
Seriously since I moved from London to MK in the 1980s (as did a fair number of MK residents) Wimbledon is not my circus and not my monkeys and never has been.