Walsall blogger Mark Jones’ posture will again experience comfort against a club he really has no time for – Milton Keynes Dons.

Who says us Walsall fans can’t get anything done by taking direct action?

Following on from my last blog, where I detailed three questions sent to the letters page in the programme, I can confirm that the club have moved with great urgency, so my seat will be fixed by Saturday. One down, two to go!

Many thanks to Dan Mole and Dave Storr at the club for their swift response.

Talking of Saturday, in my opinion a home fixture against the MK monstrosity is one which should not be taking place at all.

I know that the arguments against the franchise have been aired many times over the last five years but the fact that they are now a thriving, upwardly mobile League One club makes things worse in my eyes.

The unscrupulous owners of the old Wimbledon FC exploited a Football League loophole to enable the move to Milton Keynes, which effectively put an end to the real Dons.

That this particular loophole has now been closed tells me that those officials involved in sanctioning the appalling decision to allow the move in the first place know they were wrong to do so, but in true football administrator fashion they are too cowardly to reverse it.

Since then loads of money has been pumped into the MK project in order to make it work.

They have enough funds to outdo nearly all the competition at our level, a shiny new stadium (complete with its stupid ‘look how 21st.Century we are’ name) and lots of shiny new-born fans (I always wonder what they were doing 5 years ago).

The last time Walsall played there, in March 2007 at the old Hockey Stadium, at least half the home crowd seemed to have been plied with free tickets.

Whilst genuine football fans rightly continue to give MK the cold shoulder, certain sections of the media seem to think that their recent successes have given them some kind of legitimacy. Wrong, wrong, wrong, it hasn’t and it never will.

Clubs accelerating through the divisions thanks to the advantage gleaned from wealthy owner(s) is nothing new.

In many ways you can compare MK with Reading, clubs with large relatively affluent catchment areas, moving up into unchartered territory thanks to someone else’s generosity and a large slice of good fortune.

The difference is that Reading, like the rest of us, have a past full of ups and downs, highs and lows, with a history and tradition all of their own. Not one acquired in dubious circumstances.

Last year the MK management gained a lot of publicity for the cheap stunt of returning all of Wimbledon’s trophies, including the Crazy Gang’s 1988 FA Cup and the Amateur Cups from the Dons’ non-league days, to Merton Council.

Again this struck me as a recognition that it wasn’t theirs to give back anyway. More treacherously, it struck me as a tacit admission on MK’s part that they’d taken their unfair advantage to get what they wanted, used it up and tossed it out as soon as they’d got their thieving feet in the door.

So my solution is simple, if the people of MK are prepared to turn out to watch ‘their’ football club in Stadium Dot Dot MK, with Pete Winkleman and his cronies bankrolling it, fine.

But in recognition of the unsporting way they have got where they are today, they should be pay their dues and suffer demotion by three divisions to the Conference South (assuming the Conference boys actually want them).

Harsh, yes, but unprecedented, no. It has happened to other clubs. Boston have dropped three leagues in two years for financial shenanigans. Unfair maybe, but nowhere near as unfair as having your club given away.

If the MK club is as well-established as they’d like us to think then they’ll survive, prosper and maybe even earn themselves a bit of much-needed respect.

Will it ever happen? Well, as it would require a mix of imagination and backbone from those running the game, then never in a zillion years. We can dream though.

The only upside to the whole MK controversy has been the emergence of AFC Wimbledon, a club with spirit and integrity, established for and run by its own fans.

They’ve climbed through the lower reaches of non-league, ironically up to Conference South, over the past six years and created the blueprint for fans of other troubled clubs.

Proof, if it were ever needed, that whatever football club owners do, the heart and soul of a club is always with its fans.