Stadium MK consortium offered this proposition to several Football League clubs, including Luton Town, Crystal Palace, Barnet, Queens Park Rangers, and Wimbledon F.C.. Wimbledon F.C., who had groundshared at Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park ground since 1991, adopted the Milton Keynes plan after the appointment of a new chairman, Charles Koppel, in January 2001. Koppel said that such action was necessary to prevent Wimbledon F.C.'s going out of business. He announced Wimbledon F.C.'s intent to move on 2 August 2001 with a letter to the Football League requesting approval, stating that Wimbledon had already signed an agreement to relocate and "subject to the
History of Crystal Palace F.C. new ground. Croydon Common failed to return to business after the war, and it was to their ground known as The Nest which was opposite Selhurst railway station, that the club now moved. Palace finished the season without a win in the last nine games, ending in seventh place, building on that position to finish third the following year. Crystal Palace became a league club in 1920 when the Football League accepted the entire Southern League "en bloc" as associate members in a newly formed Third Division. In their first season as a league club, Palace lost their opening game