I Visited Britains Most HATED Football Club
Summary
TLDRThe video script explores the contentious reputation of Milton Keynes Dons (MK Dons), often regarded as the UK's most hated football club. The narrative delves into the club's controversial origins, stemming from the relocation and rebranding of Wimbledon FC in the early 2000s, which led to the formation of AFC Wimbledon by disgruntled fans. The video attempts to provide a balanced view by including perspectives from MK Dons fans, who express a sense of pride and identity, despite the criticism their club often faces. The script also discusses the challenges of establishing a fan base for a relatively young club and the impact of the large stadium on the matchday atmosphere. The creator concludes that MK Dons may not be the most hated club, but rather, they are often met with indifference.
Takeaways
- 🏟️ The video discusses Milton Keynes Dons (MK Dons), a football club that is often considered the most hated in the UK.
- 🔍 The dislike stems from the club's controversial history, where it was formed after Wimbledon FC moved to Milton Keynes and was rebranded as MK Dons, causing a rift among fans.
- 🎨 The club's chairman, Pete Winkelman, renamed the team and changed its colors from the original Wimbledon FC's blue and yellow to white.
- 📉 Wimbledon FC's old club was left behind, leading to the formation of AFC Wimbledon by fans who wanted to preserve the original club's legacy.
- 👎 The video suggests that MK Dons is often labeled as the most hated club without people fully understanding the context of its formation.
- 👏 MK Dons fans are portrayed as being proud of their club, embracing the 'hated' label and thriving off it.
- 👴 The club has a young fan base, with the video mentioning a 39-year-old left-back, indicating a mix of young and older players.
- 🍿 The atmosphere at MK Dons' home games is described as lacking due to the large stadium size relative to the number of fans present.
- 📈 MK Dons has a relatively new fan base considering it has only been around for about 20 years.
- 🤝 The video features interviews with MK Dons fans who express their support for the club despite the criticism it receives.
- 🤔 The presenter concludes that MK Dons may not be the most hated club in the UK, suggesting that people are more indifferent to its existence.
Q & A
Which football club is considered the most hated in the UK according to the video?
-MK Dons is considered the most hated football club in the UK according to the video.
Why did Wimbledon FC relocate to Milton Keynes?
-Wimbledon FC relocated to Milton Keynes due to a financial crisis and was later renamed to MK Dons by the club's chairman, Pete Winkelman.
What is the controversy surrounding the move of Wimbledon FC to Milton Keynes?
-The controversy is that the move and the renaming of the club to MK Dons was seen as erasing the history and identity of the original Wimbledon FC, leading to the formation of a new club, AFC Wimbledon, by fans who wanted to preserve the old club's legacy.
How did the fans of MK Dons respond to the label of being one of the UK's most hated clubs?
-The fans interviewed in the video expressed that they don't care about the label and that they thrive off the hate. They believe they saved a dying club and provided jobs for people who would have lost them otherwise.
What is the average attendance for MK Dons' home games?
-The average attendance for MK Dons' home games is around 6,000 to 7,000 people.
How does the video presenter feel about the atmosphere during an MK Dons match?
-The presenter feels that the atmosphere during an MK Dons match feels like a charity match due to the stadium's size and the spacing of the fans. They also mention that the stadium is too large for the current fan base.
What is the presenter's opinion on the MK Dons stadium?
-The presenter considers the MK Dons stadium to be one of the best in the UK but acknowledges that its size is disproportionate to the current fan base, which affects the match atmosphere.
What is the age demographic of the MK Dons fan base according to the video?
-The video suggests that the MK Dons fan base is quite young, with many fans being under the age of 20.
Why do some people believe MK Dons is hated by many?
-Some people believe MK Dons is hated due to the club's controversial origins, the perceived theft of Wimbledon FC's identity, and the rivalry with AFC Wimbledon.
What is the presenter's conclusion about MK Dons being the UK's most hated football club?
-The presenter concludes that MK Dons may not be the most hated football club in the UK, but rather, they think people are indifferent to the club's existence.
How does the video address the issue of MK Dons' fans being attacked at games?
-The video dismisses the idea that MK Dons fans or the presenter would be attacked at games, stating it as a misconception based on past Twitter comments.
What is the significance of AFC Wimbledon's formation in relation to MK Dons?
-AFC Wimbledon was formed as a phoenix club by fans who felt that the original Wimbledon FC's history and identity were disrespected by the move and rebranding to MK Dons. This has created a deep-seated rivalry and strong emotions on both sides.
Outlines
🏟️ Introduction to MK Dons and Their Reputation
The video begins with a discussion of the UK's most disliked football club, which is revealed to be MK Dons. The host expresses a personal dislike for the club, comparing it to other contenders like Leeds, Millwall, Chelsea, and Manchester City. The video promises to delve into the reasons behind this animosity and explore whether the tide is changing. The host, Ben, arrives in Milton Keynes and humorously interacts with the cameraman, Ellis, before they discuss the club's history, including its controversial move from Wimbledon and rebranding as MK Dons. The video also highlights the club's disregard for its past, including its historic FA Cup win, and the formation of AFC Wimbledon as a phoenix club.
🤝 Fan Perspectives on MK Dons' Image
The video moves on to discuss the current state of MK Dons, with the host expressing that it has been over 20 years since the club's controversial inception. The host interviews MK Dons fans to get their perspective on the club's reputation and the 'hate' they receive. Fans are shown to be largely indifferent to the hate, with some even thriving off it. The video also touches on the rivalry with AFC Wimbledon and the differing views on who 'saved' the club. The host and Ben visit a local Asda and humorously interact with the environment before heading to the stadium, Stadium MK, discussing their open-minded approach to the day.
🎥 Matchday Experience and Atmosphere
The video captures the matchday experience at MK Dons, with the host and Ben exploring the stadium and its facilities. They comment on the stadium's size, which is considered too large for the club's current fan base, and discuss the atmosphere during the match. The host notes that the atmosphere feels more like a charity match due to the stadium's open design and the sparse distribution of fans. Despite the lack of atmosphere, the host appreciates the stadium's concourse and the match experience. They also interact with a fan named Simon, who is passionate about the game, and discuss the team's performance and the quality of the football played.
🤔 Reconsidering MK Dons' 'Most Hated' Status
Towards the end of the video, the host reflects on MK Dons' status as the UK's most hated football club. He concludes that he doesn't believe the title is accurate, suggesting that people are more indifferent to MK Dons than actively hating them. The host also considers the experiences of fans who transitioned from supporting Wimbledon to MK Dons, acknowledging that there may be different perspectives on the club's history. The video ends with the host expressing that, for young people in Milton Keynes, MK Dons is their local team and that the club is still building its fan base.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡MK Dons
💡Wimbledon FC
💡Relocation
💡Rivalry
💡Phoenix Club
💡Administration
💡Fan Base
💡Roundabouts
💡Stadium MK
💡Atmosphere
💡Indifferent
Highlights
The UK's most hated football club is Milton Keynes Dons (MK Dons).
The video explores why MK Dons are hated and whether they deserve this label.
MK Dons were formed in 2004 after Wimbledon FC moved 60 miles to Milton Keynes and changed their name and colors.
The move and rebranding completely changed the club's identity, leading to distaste among fans.
AFC Wimbledon was formed as a phoenix club by fans who wanted to preserve the history of the original Wimbledon FC.
MK Dons are seen as a soulless club that dishonored the history of one of Britain's historic clubs.
However, some argue that MK Dons saved the club and the jobs of its employees when it was on the brink of collapse.
After 20 years, a new fan base has grown for MK Dons, particularly among younger generations in Milton Keynes.
MK Dons fans embrace the club's identity as the most hated team and thrive off the hate they receive.
The MK Dons stadium is one of the best in the UK but is currently too big for the club's average attendance.
The stadium's size and design make it difficult to create a good atmosphere with the current number of fans.
The video explores the atmosphere and fan experience at an MK Dons home match.
The video concludes that MK Dons are not the most hated club, but rather are indifferent to their existence.
The MK Dons story is an interesting case study of football club relocation and the resulting fan dynamics.
The video provides an open-minded perspective on MK Dons, speaking to fans and exploring the club's atmosphere and identity.
The rivalry between MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon is intense, with neither club acknowledging the other's existence.
Transcripts
today we're visiting the UK's most hated
football club hate it sits beside loving
our brains and Consciousness and leads
us to disgust and disdain much like me
for literally anything in the world
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there's a lot of contenders for the UK's
most hated football club Leeds mil wall
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because IV sport him and I hate him
currently however one Club has always
and still always tops the list for this
Milton King d the story behind this and
the reasons are interesting and the tide
May beginning to event and turn actually
going to cover the facts in more detail
throughout the video as to why they
hated before we get into that 10,000
likes and we'll do this at the Europe's
most hated football club but for now
let's get off to the place which is just
it's just loads of roundabouts welcome
to Milton keing and welcome to a
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days morning Ben morning I was in
Jamaica 27 hours ago now you're going to
C with me after Milton Kings and it isus
two
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sign in the distance Stadium MK I do
like the videos more and we have like a
oh we're
not you missed the Turning didn't you
Ben
yeah come on here we are those who have
been a fan of the channel for a while
will know we've been here a few times
before we never sat in the home end and
we're here today to colover and find out
more about the club from a home
perspective well we might be in MK it
was a joke also the word joke is used
very Loosely here look at us putting the
Don in MK
Don can we get a coffee please I'm so
tired don't let it be overstated the
size of that asra is very
impressive I'll give you some facts
about milon King we get inside the
coffee
shop what was the point about HDA before
we go any further into this we have sat
and just getting a coffee what has going
on in this sofa unspeakable things have
happened on there haven't know it's not
a great start to so obviously we we'll
cover why people hate mkd in a minute
once I've woken up a bit but you want
some fun facts about Milton keing as a
place it's home to over 120 roundabouts
there's 20,000 parking spaces in central
Milton
keing oh do you want more there's an
odan outside the
stadium really good that is that is all
I have noted D this is my job I do read
all the comments in the most recent way
days a few people have noted about my
skin just to very quickly jump in I know
like I also know I went to the GP the
other day he looked you and went I'm
going to level of you it's bad I was
like I've got people on internet telling
me you're supposed to do something about
it but let's discuss why mkd are haed so
obviously today we're coming at this
from the angle of like do people really
hate MK Don in my opinion I'm a Le's fan
you're a Liverpool fan I think G clubs
are more hated Chelsea are more hated
manual are more hated and actually now
I'm trying to see what they younger
generation of fans have it cuz people
always say support your local team well
if you're a young person in M ke
obviously this is your local team now so
and teams have existed less time than
them and I still like like Chelsea and
Man City you get it it's a it's football
B and we have fun here anyway Alfie
animations on screen right now this is
why MK Don are supposedly the most hated
Club in England it's going to be this is
a long one I'm so sorry Alfie it's going
to be a to edit that's what you get for
the Bradford video it goes back to the
1990s Wimbledon FC a historic UK
football club hit a financial crisis and
moved from their home FL Lane to Crystal
Palace and played their games at sellur
Park they stayed there until 2001 Then
Pete wman the club's current chairman
decided to meet the club in wimon 60 M
away to here in Molton keing quick
sidebar for American viewers here just
to jump in here it's not normal for our
sports teams to move I know it's more
common place in North America I know
it's people don't like it necessarily
over there but that's weird we don't
move sports teams here we hate them from
where we live or you Rel Le fan lives in
Northfolk eventually the club entered
Administration and winman stepped in and
bought the club out of administration
and renamed the team to MK Dons changing
the club's name and also changed the
club's iconic blue and yellow colors to
White that just completely just changed
the club completely it's easy to see why
there is a distaste and by 2007 they
completely dropped any reference to the
old club like even dropping the fact
they won in a historic FA Cup like one
of the most iconic FA Cup wins of all
time was technically won by this club
it's really weird gray area but they
don't mention that they did it anymore
they completely forgot the existence of
the old Club in the meantime throughout
all of this AFC wien a Phoenix Club of
the old wien Club formed which gained
National and worldwide press and ended
up getting people on board for them and
to be honest my preference in regards to
wimon and MK Dons will be always wimon
because it's the historic club that has
gone through the ashes started at the
bottom and then they now play they've
played each other in the league system
now it's an amazing like Underdog fairy
tale story in the English football
pyramid and it's it's a really cool
story this club has usually been seen as
a shell of a club that's ripped and
Dishonored the history of one of
Britain's historic clubs it uprooted a
fan base and divided them entirely and
took the soul out of that club something
which we just do not do here which is
why you'll never see an example of like
say a Red Bull sponsor team in England
however after all of that it has now
been over 20 years since all of that
happened and a new fan base has came
through the club we're going to speak to
a few fans today and see what their
perspective is on the club whether they
agree whether they should be considered
hated or not whether they embrace it and
just what matx experience is like in the
home end of an MK Don's game we're going
with an open mind today let's look
around
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video sponsored should
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I I'm joked they have no idea who we are
but I'll be honest we're we're in ASDA
once again I know Ben always says it
sometimes that why do people watch these
we walk around Asda and then he just
turned to me and G this is quality in
it we are the most I this what I want
once again I understand why people find
us tragic no one's ever called anoun a
quality I never been to Ikea before how
you feeling we'll do a
pre-match feeling shocked if anyone's
still watching the football
video go on B and take a seat in that
sofa okay
why so why you looking to get
into test it out give it a lie down I
don't know if we'll both fit on that all
these units around here but there's only
one I've got my eyes
on cuz you go to the gym and you're yeah
that's just of all the countries in the
world I just cannot hope with feeling
that the UK does not need ninja
classes goost to the pound once a mon
shut up about it car let's go to wag
look at me I went to Japan people are
going to use this as a stick to beat
against this club having a wag M and her
nandos next to your stadium is a win in
my eyes cheers to the UK's most hated
football club
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cheers same amount of staff as they have
people in the stands B no we're not
doing that we're on their side today
morning hi can we just grab two tickets
please
cheers for a prettyat pint the thing is
after that stone Island we needed to
calm down so
much drinking
milkshake we've been to Blackpool I did
eat some ganja rock yeah that was Terri
hopefully the police aren't watching
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this so I'm joined by Jamie my name's
Adam what is it like being an MK Dons
fan you get some stick quite a lot of
the time especially going away from
these big clubs cuz apparently we don't
have any fans but you got people coming
here week in week out still it's it's
good obviously there's been some some
ups and downs obviously it's a a lot of
hate but we deal with it well we put up
with the stick put up with the hate it's
part of being a Don fan I guess we love
it but being an mkon fan in particular I
love it what do you make I was going to
say what do you make of the label of one
of the UK's most hated clubs I don't
care none of us none of us care about it
none of us care about any of the height
we Thrive off it I I understand
obviously where it comes from with how
we came about and everything and I I see
why people say I think people label us
as the most hated Club just without
really looking into it when you see
clubs like Man City Chelsea like Premier
League fans getting involved in League 2
when most of them don't even go to games
like and I guess a lot of people set
aside with AFC wimon on the whole on the
whole rivalry stuff without really
looking into what actually happened AFC
Wimbledon and all of their fans come
abandons their club before we'd even
taken it effectively AFC wimon as you
may know in the buildup all they talk
about is how much they hate us and how
much they need to how Don's fans a lot
of times see is that we saved the club
we saved all all the people who worked
for that club would have gone bus they
would have lost their jobs so we saved a
dying Club a lot of people don't see it
that way they see it that we stole a
club that we've ripped out the heart of
the community who in the end didn't
really want it anymore so welcome to the
MK Arena again Watch Out Ben behind you
stop being so ignorant it's a
Suzuki good put some Gillingham fans way
but they were going to H one and a half
thousand fans and I do stand by it this
is an unbelievable away away day like as
an away fan I've been beds comry
Portsmouth it is unbelievable in that
away so obviously the attendance is it's
a 30,000 seat then actually said off
camera what did you say off camera it's
one of the best
stadiums in the UK and you mean that
yeah obviously they it's say 30,000 seat
they average run 6 to 7,000 pounds which
what I will say about that is when leads
were in League one when I was growing up
we were doing around 18
20,000 in Ellen Road and we're known for
have we're a very old Club but six times
older I'm obviously sitting on the fence
and I've said things about this club's
existence in the past that my I think it
hasn't really changed on it's
interesting getting the expected of fans
here I can see why their fans be bit
like well hang on him it we're only 20
years old like we're building a fan base
and we're in League 2 so I can sort of
see both sides there so we spoke to more
MK on fans and want get been really
interesting they said it's pretty
interesting with the arrival with
Wimbledon but Wimbledon won't ever ever
acknowledge the club's existence this
this rival wimbl MK will never be on TV
um you can never really hear coms for it
because Wimbledon will never agree to do
it out of principle of MK Don's taking
the club for example the MK Don fans
we've all spoken get it as well but
they're all saying like we lean into it
now they hate us what you want like
that's the club's identity and like me
and Ben are like fair play like if
that's what you want to be if you want
to be the hated Club then just be that
own it what got a 39y old left back
so I like old men like playing football
this lines when met we met me andman
outside the ground his name is Simon and
he said he want he knows of away days
because of his children watching the
videos so Ben is so excited and he said
don't give a stick throughout the game
so apologies for the 90 minutes of hell
you're about to get Simon
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simonon that is mentally you've just
done that just scream Simon that's the
the thing of our Simon as soon as he
steps on that Hollow Turf he's all
business there's no time for friendship
outside this a full time I come and
shake your hand but you're in the game
he's all business thank you I'm
convinced no one has ever scored a goal
in one of these shooting drills in a war
for sake go again I'm convinced no
one has ever scored a goal in one of
these shooting drills in a warm-up so
it's a very young fan base but also
Cub's 22 years old or something like
that so
what that what you'd expect right for
those invested we have moved closer to
try and get hello from Simon so that is
our the next 2 hours of our lives are
going to be
spent I mean it is when you turn around
you do
see the stadium that is absolutely far
too big for this club at the moment the
reason I'm not really touching on the
negative too much I've done that all
previously everyone's done that so it's
more like trying to show what positives
are to with the club as well so don't go
to the other end don't go to the other
end Simon you're better than that now
get ready toap Simon over
here Simon watches there by the way um
we've already won we can't spend a whole
night we we can we we definitely can
we've paid money 52 quid by the
way also this is a good example for how
Twitter is just all Tau in the past I've
had a few people tweet me saying if I
ever came to MK Don's game in the home
end I'd be attacked I don't know why I
think people think I'm someone else
obviously happened I think people see us
and they're like oh wow never mess with
them imagine being one of the lucky
people the in the the red circle what a
privilege that would
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be Get invol There He
Is We supposed to be covering up the
most ha we just ending up only our
Channel only we could make a video about
hater Club about a
linman I don't want to alarm you but I
think uh defenders in our stand have'
got catch up on a state pie going to go
Steward then we're 10 minutes in the
atmosphere admittedly the fans that you
started recording this Jing on fans have
just started charting football in a
library and In fairness do you think it
would be better if they restricted the
amount of fans they've got into one area
everyone two yeah everyone if it's weird
having people so spaced out if anything
to me it looks worse having just people
scouted there I don't know the best way
to do it but he's just quite Eerie with
the atmosphere but I also guess it's the
problem with having such a soulless like
soulless bow Stadium you know what I
mean like this is one of the first
examples of it in England really and any
comments about any atmosphere either
good or bad in this video people might
say you need to be in I don't ever
believe you need to be directly in
atmosphere for it to be good we are sat
close enough to it to have an objective
opinion on it and also we never go in
the atmosphere anyway nowadays we like
to see it from afar so this is our usual
location tell you guys not put a foot
wrong on this pitch it's the man in
Black right there not one foot been put
wrong like you ready there's a corner
but two whipped in and whatever happens
he won just won't miss it he won't miss
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it that's a goal kick that is well see
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