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
Crystal Palace F.C. Stadium 2004 and New Wembley 2013). To celebrate Crystal Palace's centenary in 2005, the club asked Palace fans to vote for a "Centenary XI" from a shortlist of ten players per position, provided by the club. In the 1999 Michael Winterbottom film "Wonderland" the scenes of the character Dan and his son at a football match were filmed at Selhurst Park, the ground of Crystal Palace, in a 1–1 draw against Birmingham City on 6 February 1999. In the Mike Leigh play "Abigail's Party", the character Tony mentions that he used to play professionally for Crystal Palace but it "didn't