AFC Wimbledon. We do play football as well you know.

It's not often in my life that I've had the opportunity to use the word tumultuous. That's not a complaint by the way. To be honest I'm a bit of a fan of everyone kind of getting along with each other, stuff being fairly boring. I'm not one for walking around punching walls or slamming doors, it's just not really me. This week at AFC Wimbledon though has been tumultuous by any definition, door slamming is just the start of it.

It started with the immediate and sudden departure of Danny Macklin. The club sent out a statement which was slightly longer than "he's gone" but not by much. Danny (bless him) sent out a statement saying he wanted more time to play with his train set or something, but it was obviously bollocks and everyone knew it (he probably hasn't even got a train set). The rumour mill ground into action and by now Danny has allegedly taken pictures of his arse on the office photocopier before sending them to one of the barstaff, been a Russian spy all along, had undeclared shares in a bottle top company, had his office bugged and God knows what else. Everyone has heard the rumours, some people have started them, most are obviously nonsense but probably one or two of the five hundred that are out there have a grain of truth in them.

I was surprised by Danny's departure I must admit. What shocked me more though if I'm honest was how obsessed people were with finding out all the gory details. I personally aren't really interested, but I'm firmly in the minority on this one. Apparently the club should have released a statement spelling out the rationale (in clear contravention of employment law by the way) as well as setting out who was going to replace him, straight away, and when it was going to happen. Social media went into meltdown over the lack of information that by all accounts we are all entitled to, as owners.

Then when a statement about what was happening in the short term DID come out, IT was horrific too. I'm pretty sure I've never met this Kris Stewart bloke. I have no opinion on him other than a dislike for the way his name is spelt (it's a bit Northern town "Nite Club" for my taste), but I've no doubt he is a nice enough fella. Don't hate me for saying that, I truly believe pretty much everyone is quite nice given the chance. Whether or not he is the best person to be temporary CEO I have absolutely no idea. Equally, whether or not it's the right thing for him to step down from the DTB and leave Michelle in charge (never met her) and bring in this other bloke as a floating/just for a bit board member (never met him) I have no opinion on either. Whatever though, I'm pretty sure they've done it because they think it's the right thing to do, You can't go too far wrong in life when you do things that way.

Anyways by all accounts along with a couple of other people Kris was involved in setting the club up. Despite that he is properly disliked by some very vocal people for a reason of which I am not aware. Talking of founding fathers incidentally, so is Jonesy (really good lad who I do know. He designs the shirts and is bloody good at it too). He apparently said that even if we lose we can still have a beer in our new ground. This was an incredible statement as it turns out, blasphemous. As we speak, I think they are making a Worzel Gummidge type dummy of Jonesy so we can all stab it with plastic forks from MyPie before setting it on fire. I'm not sure WHY his statement was quite so controversial, I'm just going with the crowd here.

"The Comms are tragic" they screamed. The Dons Trust need to appoint a "Comms expert!". They must have listened as they advertised for one, but this was ridiculous too. Apparently, "you couldn't make it up" and everything has gone to pot.

All the while a bloke calling himself "Trigger finger" or something is saying everyone is a c***. I'm not going to argue with him (I've no idea who he is in any case), in my experience everyone has the capability to be a c*** within their character. Even the best of us lapse sometimes, and this by all accounts has been one of those weeks. Fair play to old Triggs for pointing it out.

For my part, I'm well aware that all of this angst and arguing is no doubt fuelled by long felt mistrust, soundtracked by the stomach churning crunch of noses being put out of joint. There'll be those who think THEY should be on the board but aren't, those who think there shouldn't be a board at all. Some who think we should sell out to a rich Russian or a petroleum fuelled Arab, others that we should bin off the volunteers and get "the Professionals" in. Not Bodie & Doyle, the actual folks who do this kind of thing for a living (although there maybe someone somewhere who yearns for the calming hand of George Cowley on the tiller, gawd knows).

My opinion for what it's worth (and I know it's not much) is that the people in charge DO do this kind of thing for a living, except they normally charge hefty fees for their time. I'm not really into selling out to anyone, I quite like stuff the way it is. I don't agree with everything, nowhere near it, but broadly speaking stuff could be a lot worse.

My hopes, perhaps we should go there? Well, I wish people online were a bit nicer to each other, a bit more respectful. I wish they could accept that not everyone agrees with their point of view all of the time. It's OK. Try and remember we're supposed to be on the same side, there would a thing.

Lastly I hope people remember that it's actually the football that we're here for. We're playing Crewe on Saturday and it really would be quite handy if we got the win. I'm personally more interested in THAT than the other stuff.