So how did the supporters of the football team in Milton Keynes celebrate finally winning promotion to the Championship? 

“Are you watching AFC?”.

Largely, the answer was a little more than Wimbledon fans would care to admit with Preston’s televised defeat at Colchester – which allowed the Buckinghamshire team to win promotion to the Championship on Sunday – making such painful viewing.

At least Sky’s Jeff Stelling had the decency to refer to a team formed 11 years ago a couple of times amidst the MK celebrations – but if time is a great healer it has done little.

Anyone wondering why AFC Wimbledon fans – and other right-thinking pundits such as Stan Collymore – should still hold a grudge should remember the old Wimbledon FC were playing in football’s second tier when the club was ripped from its south London fan base.

Let’s be honest, we all knew this day was going to come. Since Paul Ince led them back into League One in 2008, they have been knocking on the door ever since.

And, in a purely footballing sense, it’s hard to begrudge a group of players and a talented manager in Karl Robinson, who have not only managed to accumulate 91 points this season, but have also totted up 101 goals with a style of play which, by all accounts, will help fill a void left in the Championship by Bournemouth’s promotion to the Premier League.

However, football fans everywhere have enjoyed the Cherries’ rise, a rags to riches tale – albeit aided thanks to a wealthy benefactor – and not dissimilar in scale of achievement to the old Wimbledon or at a lower level by the new Wimbledon.

There will be little rejoicing outside of Milton Keynes while their club continues to carry the Dons moniker that reminds the world their club was created from one of football’s most notorious thefts.

Any success Milton Keynes have will continue to be overshadowed until their owner rights a wrong.

Mr Winkelman, it’s now time for Milton Keynes to #DroptheDons.