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Comment | MK trip gives QPR a glimpse of what might have been — opposition focus
at 23:47:22
Just wanted to follow up Clive's comments in his last two paragraphs, about history, loyalty and belonging. You have to remember that Milton Keynes, the city (well, technically still a town), is very different from most other places. It is a New Town, built around a few small towns and villages in the 60s to the current population of over 200,000 - the vast majority of us immigrants from other parts of the UK (and a fair few from other parts of the world). Things have had to develop fast here, and we have had to create our own identity and a new sense of community. I've been here for more than 25 years and brought up two sons. I was born in Liverpool and though I still love that city, Milton Keynes is my home and the MK Dons is my club. For my sons, they don't have any other loyalties: they are Milton Keynes people through and through.
You make comparisons with Rushden and Diamonds and with Gretna, but there is a huge difference because they didn't have the New Town factor: they don't have 200,000 new residents trying to establish a new identity. It is still work-in-progress and so is the whole of Milton Keynes, but in the time I've been here I've seen trees along the streets (and on the roundabouts!) grow and mature, and that's what's happening to football here too.
We're here to stay, and I just hope that beating QPR tomorrow will be another memory to add to the growing store in the annuls the New City! |
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