AFC Wimbledon own the moral high ground over Milton Keynes’ for the theft of a football club, but what of the Dons’ treatment of Kingstonian ask some.

Ks were a successful club until those in yellow and blue came along, bought their ground, took away their support and now – as they chase their dream of a return to Plough Lane – their tenants will be left without a home.

Those slurs must have been laid to rest by the words of Ks co-chairman Mark Anderson last week.

“The Dons have started their ‘Back in Two Ticks’ campaign,” he said. “Well I want to start a campaign called ‘Hug a Womble’ when you see one.”

The fact is that Ks’ downturn in fortunes were caused by bitter splits and mismanagement – before AFC Wimbledon even existed – which saw the club fall into administration and get bought by Rajesh Khosla.

He proved anything but a custodian of the club, selling the ground at maximum profit to AFC Wimbledon.

Despite that, Ks could hardly have hoped for more benevolent landlords, being allowed to play at Kingsmeadow rent free for more than a decade.

It’s little wonder that, with Wimbledon now prepared to put up money to help Ks find a new ground, Anderson says the Dons have restored his faith in human nature.

There is a message here for those who have cynically just suggested a new school on the greyhound stadium site in what is becoming an increasingly unjustifiable campaign to stop the stadium.

AFC Wimbledon is virtually unique among football clubs in having a moral compass and a desire to do the right thing – even at their own expense.

It seems incredulous that some people would prefer to see Plough Lane clogged up with Range Rovers twice a day rather than a few thousand football fans a couple of times a month.

But no one should ever make the mistake in thinking that NIMBY’s – who should all know it was traditionally Wimbledon’s sporting centre – hold any moral high ground at all.