Everton Play SPORTKLUBBEN Brann inthe Also Ran's Cup again tonight. Yet, when you compare this to the glamour of Livepool vs Milan, or Celtic vs Barcelona, it kind of fades to Channel 5's normal level of irrelevance. It is perhaps of equal import as Swansea's loss to the MK Dons the other day. OK- maybe a little more important.
I like the MK Dons. They are the only team in league who abbreviate their name to avoid the stigma of being immediately associated with there home town. Sure QPR abbreviate too but that is because the name is a real mouthful. MK stands for Milton Keynes in case you missed it. The dreary suburban hell-hole of ill-repute with a pointy shaped shoppinng centre. I once saw Steve Martin's Father of the Bride in Milton Keynes. This is the most insteresting thing I can tell you about the place. The name is a marketing thing. They reckon they'll pick up more neutrals if they call themselves MK. If they went the whole hog and called themselves Milton Keynes Dons everyone would laugh a them on behalf of the town's dire reputation. The name also serves to induce a kind of amnesia in the Wimbeldon fans who carried on supporting the club after it was famously bought out, and moved, and had its name changed, to widespread derision.
This post feels badly written and insubstantial. Unfinished. Sorry. I have to go now though. Work to do. Coming later a brief history of Milton Keynes and Wimbeldon FC. Bate your breath NOW...
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Milton Keynes was derided usually by the right-wing for being a 'planned town' rather than the unplanned towns that dominate the UK. For some reason it was lumped in with Surbiton (clearly chosen for the Surb/Suburb correlation) and Chipping Norton (for the silliness) and Basingstoke (again, something gray in its sound) as 'everything that was wrong/trendy' etc. For the record, I have done a fair few jaunts to Milton Keynes - it has no traffic lights and they used the traffic islands to flag the addresses of the streets laying off in each direction (useful). And I think it had some concrete cows.
The town that exemplifies what is awful about UK towns is certainly Basingstoke, where the motorcar appears to have been crowned king early and often and the entirety is sections of dual carriageway on interminable ring roads, interconnected by a vast array of slip roads. And all this to peel off and go to one of the hi-tech gated industrial parks.
MK was an attempt to do better - Basingstoke was an attempt to have cars rule the world.
yeah- my moaning about MK was maybe unfounded. I've only been there twice. For an afternoon.
The concept of Utopia was developed in Brtain though- and how sad that that should have been diluted to the planning of Milton Keynes... this says stacks about the difference between idealism and practicality. A bit like Trotsky arguing with the architects after the revolution 'yes- I can see why the new Duma shoud be made enirely out of concrete AND revolve, but does it REALLY have to ACTUALLY revolve? To do so would be so expensive.'
There was probably similar vision in the planning of Milton Keynes, but all the ambition got sucked out by the council and all it became reduced to was a few concrete cows and traffic islands.
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