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culloty82
28/12/2023, 2:06 PM
Obviously, the story of how Dunphy and various Irish businessmen planned to relocate Wimbledon to Dublin is widely known, as was a similar scheme involving Cardiff, but hadn't heard before about Belfast entering the picture - the club would have been labelled "Belfast United", with the idea of attracting support across the sectarian sporting divide, much as the Belfast Giants ice hockey team currently fill said role:

https://www.the42.ie/tony-blair-wimbledon-fc-belfast-move-6259779-Dec2023/
Martinho II
28/12/2023, 3:19 PM
Obviously, the story of how Dunphy and various Irish businessmen planned to relocate Wimbledon to Dublin is widely known, as was a similar scheme involving Cardiff, but hadn't heard before about Belfast entering the picture - the club would have been labelled "Belfast United", with the idea of attracting support across the sectarian sporting divide, much as the Belfast Giants ice hockey team currently fill said role:

https://www.the42.ie/tony-blair-wimbledon-fc-belfast-move-6259779-Dec2023/

Yeah only read this in the sun today knew about Dublin bit but not Belfast!
seanfhear
28/12/2023, 4:10 PM
Belfast Knee-cappers might have been more apt if you remember some of the way Wimbledon used to play ! !
EalingGreen
28/12/2023, 10:38 PM
Total and utter w@nk - as endorsed by that total and utter w@nker, Blair.
seanfhear
29/12/2023, 3:32 AM
Total and utter w@nk - as endorsed by that total and utter w@nker, Blair.
You do have to laugh !

The " Hope " that people have that the Labour Party will come in now and " save " them from the Tories while conveniently forgetting that it was the British Labour party that produced the Vile Blair !
EalingGreen
04/01/2024, 12:47 PM
Well at least he had the humility to admit that "Belfast United" wasn't even the stupidest idea that HMG had at the time...

"I don't think it got off the ground, it got further off the ground than the other ludicrous idea that I had of Rangers playing Celtic in Belfast, swapping their shirts before the game. That was definitely one of my crazier ideas." - Alastair Campbell
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2024/0104/1424761-crazy-gang-in-belfast-not-the-craziest-idea-campbell/