(2) League places are awarded on the basis of footballing performance. That is points accrued, games won, goals scored. Not transport links, not number of people, not number of existing clubs nearby. Wimbledon deserved a 1st division club because the club representing Wimbledon won sufficient games to get there. Milton Keynes doesn't because its team hasn't. It's quite simple.
(3) There is no evidence to support the view that a community cannot sustain a football club with our average attendance - in fact quite the reverse, as we had a top division team for 15 years and for the first 5-10 of those we actually got smaller crowds than last year. And the way football works is that if you cannot afford to pay premier league standard players' wages because of your low gates then you get 1st division standard players instead, or 2nd division players or park players. What you don't do is sell your league place to another community.
(4) As Graham Kelly pointed out in yesterday's Independent, Koppel and his paymasters lied about the club's financial status to the FA Commission and in actual fact made a reasonable profit last year because of transfer income. They also lied about the problems they have had in finding a site for a ground - Plough Lane is perfectly feasible, is for sale, has no insurmountable planning restrictions and a 20,800 stadium could be built there, complete with enabling development, for a relatively small financial outlay, just as Arsenal, Millwall, Huddersfield, Scarborough, Wealdstone and others at all levels of the game have done in recent years, in built up areas of London and elsewhere. It wasn't because Koppel and co want a free stadium to be provided, and feel that they can't make a big enough profit out of a football club based in Wimbledon - this despite the fact that they bought the club knowing that relegation was a possibility in the future, that the club did not own its own ground, and that the club has a small fanbase. Are you really saying that major decisions about our national sport should be based on how much money the major shareholders can make? Follow your logic and Man Utd will be joining the Chinese National League shortly.
So, are you going to answer these points, or does your argument rely on vague cliches about how that's how the world is these days, we should wake up and smell the coffee etc etc etc?
Thank you to No_Ground_No_Fans, for allowing me to have this.