Three teams have now called themselves Milton Keynes City – but we only knew the first incarnation that folded back in 1985. Like Milton Keynes Borough and Wolverton Town, it seems City struggled to make football a going concern in MK at the time. Now, the club’s third incarnation are 15 years in existence; outlasting the two that went before.
This first version formed as Bletchley & WIPAC in 1956; changing their name to Bletchley Town in 1957 and then adopting MKC in 1974. It wasn’t long after this that talk of moving Wimbledon to MK started to emerge. No fooling. The idea of merging the Gladiators with the Dons fell away soon enough; the financial impact of which led to its demise in 1985.
