The greyhound stadium is closing down anyway and Kingstonian's chairman was about to sell their ground for retail development before AFCW came in and bought it and allowed them to continue playing there as tenants.
I can understand why the love-in might grate on people - it's because the MK fiasco made them media darlings - but disregarding the MK thing entirely, what they've achieved is extremely impressive. To lose your club in any circumstances must be gut-wrenching, especially protracted over several years of decline, exile and failed attempts to fight FA rulings (the start of this season was unpleasant enough and that was a few months' trouble with a happy ending) - so to start again from scratch, and now be back in the third tier just 12 years later, and having done it all in a sustainable way as a fan-owned club, is worth every bit of the fuss that is being made about them. So many clubs have dropped out and not made it back, so for Wimbledon to do it in the way they've done it must be a beacon of hope for the likes of Hereford, Darlo and the other clubs starting out on the long road to recovery. There are very few fanbases that deserve a day like today more than Wimbledon do.
The real Wimbledon were a toe-rag little club, with barely any fans, and who battered their way to success on the pitch. Some of their topflight games they barely mustered 3000 home fans, if they had hung around in their original format they would have crashed and burned. I fail to understand the love in.