In 1967, the people at ITN travelled to a small, agricultural village in North Buckinghamshire called Milton Keynes. Home to 200 residents, the village and its surrounding areas had been designated to house a new town, a place to accommodate a post-war overspill of people needing new homes and a new life. A reporter, taking the opinions of those already living there, found a settled community, suspicious of change. “It’s the Londoners,” one woman said with a smile. “We just don’t like them.”
Fast forward over half a century and within that new town, in a 30,500-capacity multipurpose stadium, you can hear a chant. “No-one likes us, no-one likes us, we don’t care.”
