News

28th May 2002

John Bowis MEP: 'Dons done down by FA'

John Bowis – Conservative Euro MP for London and a Wimbledon supporter - has condemned the FA decision to allow the owner of Wimbledon Football Club to export the Club to Milton Keynes.

“Football Clubs belong to their local supporters” he said today. “Yet the FA has made them assets to be stripped and removed. It was bad enough when Merton Council refused the Plough Lane development and forced the Club to go to Selhurst, but at least they stayed in South London.”

John Bowis continued, “Now the final betrayal has come from the very football authorities that should have protected the historic link between a local community and a local team.”