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Hello people please remember the football league/ fa allowed them to steal a club 70 miles away so the fa are a disgrace for letting it happen . That said they have a lovely ground and big budget and set up for progress and success in the future. However for us real football fans they are cunts with no history and do really deserve all the shit anyone can throw at them .And as for Pete winklepiss football is about the fans and their history ( good and bad ) and if you were a football fan you would understand that .franchise whatever the fuck you want but at the end of the day EVERY real football fan will remember what you did

Ooooopppps guys that's Franchise whoever they are / where

OK...

Do I have to do anything?

We're well known for hating them, as OST said, where do we hate more?

Never go full retard

Think Ekarot makes a good point....look at a decent club like Stockport County, currently plying their trade in the same norvern league as Oxford's original club...hopefully they'll get back. Had Milton Keynes City followed the proper path then fair play....bit like Newport who we played a few weeks back....all sorts of obstacles thrown in their way, you have to respect them. Dongs...no,... sadly a hollow fixture, we have to play it, but we don't have to like it.

There's actually a point in there somewhere? Yes we all know about how MKD came about and no one likes them but what is the point of the post exactly??

Exactly

There's been a few pieces by the mainstream press over the last few years (I can think of BBC and FourFourTwo) who have done 'is it okay to like MKD yet?' articles plus the occasional love they get when the pull off a cup upset.

I suppose the original post is a loving reminder that Winkelman is the DEVIL.

Well we're playing them this afternoon, so what's wrong with a timely reminder of an episode which is a shit stain on English football.

Ok so let's all just accept it then and move on after all if it was our club that's what we would do right ost?Oh and let's all forget 1990 etc that Spurs and Man U got away with similar (sugar and amstrad and all that )so let's go happy clappy and forget Oxford shitty and ruvers kicking off with little resistance . If more people kicked up enough verbally and made our gaff intimidating it would increase the cg atmosphere and improve the match day experience for anyone over 12 anyway .Just my opinion though and don't give a shit anyway .

There's more atmosphere on the moon than the CG

Yes, sad but true.  Can't see it changing in the foreseeable future - apart from the occasional local derby when there is a sizeable number of noisy opposition fans present. 

The only people that can change it is us guys.Answers on a postcard please or maybe the trust type loud and proud can help ?Surely there must be something we can all do ?

Half of the problem is that in the town end most people are just quite happy to chat away, no one joins in when people attempt to get something going. More booze and less chat

Do principles have a sell-by date? As long as they exist, they need to be treated as the disease that they are. The moment we stop reviling them is the moment grass-roots football accepts their model of ownership. I still can't compute how anyone can have so little self-respect as to be seen to associate with their revolting brand.

Spot on.  Franchise FC: English football's shame.  Never forget.  Franchise customers were in receipt of stolen goods back in 2002 and they still are today.  Passage of time will never change that.

Exactly this, and what Ardiles said. Passage of time doesn't make a wrong any more right.

The montage of their 'history' before the game was cringeworthy. I actually felt angry watching it. Everything about them irritates me. The boring fans who ironically cheer the ref EVERY time they get a decision, the dull drum, the big plastic stadium (which they built a concourse so you can watch the game while getting a drink, but then put sheets over it so you cant fucking see anything), the sky sports introduction they give all of their players and their greasy cunt of a chairman.

It's just a shame that they are actually a pretty decent side.

Thats cos us football fans are not deemed safe enough to drink AND watch a game.
No doubt that sheet is removed for other sports  :badmood:

At my local non league club, Dulwich Hamlet, you can drink where ever you want for League games, as the rules are made by the Isthmian rather than the FA/ Football league.

However on Saturday, because it was an FA Vase game, and therefore under FA rules, we were told by the stewards we couldn't take booze out of the bar as they had to follow FA rules. Yet, you could stay in the bar, with it's huge window that runs the length of the pitch and watch from there with your pint.

This confused me, because I always thought the FA rule was 'No drink in sight of the pitch', hence the sheet at Franchise?

Dulwich Hamlet....now there's a good name, back to the 50's and early 60's when the Amateur Cup Final was a big thing with massive crowds at Wembley.  From the start in English football, there had been a schism between Professionalism and Amateurism

They used to get 20,000 odd in the 50s. Now, that ground is a Sainsbury's and they occupy a much smaller stadium next door. On the up though, getting over a 1000 most home games in the 7th tier which is pretty impressive .

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/football-revolution-as-disillusioned-fans-head-for-the-nonleague-9810932.html