I'm not quite sure exactly what is known and what isn't. Hang on.

Seems not much is public anyway. I think we would have been very badly advised to have come this far without at least seeking discussions with those owning or in control of the site, though.

I'd have to agree that there's no obvious way that football could be combined with any other sport,

Rugby? Screws up the pitch of course, but good grounds-keeping and frequent relaying can mitigate that somewhat. There always seems to be a Londonish based team looking for a home too.

Rugby would be fine, for me. Eventually we'll all be playing on plastic anyway.

Dog track round the pitch, got to be.

In a football stadium there are people round the pitch, though. Could get very messy.

Would provide an innovative form of half-time entertainment.

Release the hounds!

The screwing up of pitches by rugby is negligible nowadays.

In only very slightly related news;

What goes around, comes around.

This is the final nail in the coffin of London greyhound racing. used to be 33 tracks.

Gutted.

Hang on, the way I read it the Plough Lane dog track is on the way out which gives AFCW the opportunity to bid to build their own. It's not the case that the football club are causing the demise of greyhound racing there, is it?

Walthamstow - gone
Catford - gone
White City - gone
Harringay - gone
Slough - gone
Wembley - gone
Wimbledon.....going

This leaves just Romford and Crayford which are both well run operations - the track and stadium at Romford are one of the best in country. The problem with greyhound racing is that you need modern restaurants and bars that you would want to go to regardless of whether there was racing on. Unfotunately a lot of tracks haven't invested and this is the consequence.

Harry Grindell Matthews wrote:


In what way? The only people it has hurt are presumably a few basketball fans, who like the vast majority of the wider Milton Keynes public are indifferent to the Dons.

It was a light-hearted comment on the irony of the basketball side going in the opposite direction to the football club, that's all.

Although Winkleman seems upset about it so that's a bonus.

Why would Milton Keynes people be interested in the Dons? We're many, many miles away.

It's good that most of them are entirely uninterested in their Franchise football "club", though.

I'll start crying for the last dogracing track right after they close the last bullfighting ring.

Paul S wrote:


There's an excellent essay by Patrick Collins in his book Among The Fans about Crayford. It's indeed well run.

Walthamstow could make a comeback, I suppose. I think Wimbledon has been dying for ages and AFC Wimbledon taking over the site would be the best possible result.

The others (excepting Wembley) who've gone recently seem to have suffered from being hard to get to. (White City went quite a while ago, I think).

TonTon wrote:


Yes, in Aberdeen. Slip of the keyboard.

Walthamstow dog track was well run and profitable. The spineless dunderheads at the council should have made clear that no planning permission would be given for a housing scheme.

L&Q are currently sitting on the scheme and tinkering with the amount of "affordable" houisng that will go into it and considering whether the market will sustain a load more shitty private sale flats.

To equate bullfighting to dog racing is just silly.

Kettle wrote:


Good luck with your move,I hope thinks are looking up for you.