After years of expansion in my town trying to upgrade it into a city, the top dogs in charge of this project have finally desided on a multi-million pound deal to transfrom Doncaster's, Finningly Airstrip into an international Airport. Don't get me wrong i'm all for having an international airport in my home town, having an International Airpost a stones throw away from home is a very handy thing to have. The thing thats really getting on my nerve's is the rediculas long and meaningless name the creators have given it (Deep Breath). Doncaster/Sheffield Robin Hood International Airport.

Not only does it take its name after Sheffield a city about 25 miles away from where this Airport is located, it's also named after Robin Hood a character neither from Doncaster or Sheffield but from Nottingham.

Lets face it Nottingham hasn't been the most popular of location's in England since all the mines shut down. It's a long story so i'll give you a quick breifing if your not familiar with the scenario.

In 1984 almost every minor in Britian went on strike without pay for over a year, which in the day was about 80% of all men in Northern England. While all these minors went on strike Nottingham minors proceeded to work, this just provided enough coal to supply Britain if they'd have stook out the strike they'd have run out of coal and maybe have sent the minors back to work. Now because of Nottingham scabs still working through-out this hard period it probably cost almost every minor in Britian to loose there jobs. Coming from a small mining village where majority of my family were minors not earning a penny for over a year, thats why I disapprove of them naming it after a character from Nottingham, especially a make believe character from Notitingham.

Liverpool's Airport gets named after the musical supreme and ex-Beatle John Lennon, New York takes its name from the US president ledgand John F. Kennedy and what does Doncaster get? A Disney animated, bow slinging fox who stole riches for a living. They name it after someone who stole money for a living. Whats that supposed to be saying about the people of my home town, I think its basically giving us a subliminal message that we ain't ever gonna amount to nothing but theif's. After spending all that money on it you'd have thought they'd give it a name worthy of the money, they may aswell have named it after the Peter Sutcliff the Yorkshire Ripper atleast he wasn't a fictional character unlike Robin Hood.

Seriously though I wish they would have atleast put as much thought into naming this airport as I have. I know almost everyone reading this has probably never even heard of Doncaster in there lives and thats probably because theres only a few famous people that have made it big from this little mining town here's some people they could have atleast considered for naming this Airport after. (oh,yeah i've done my research)

Here's the Top 3 famous people from Doncaster.

Lesley Garrett - This Doncater born celebrity comes from Thorne in Doncater and got famous for her superb voice. Lesley has starred in a variety of musical productions on the west-end thoughtout her years as an opera singer and has also been on TV's shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, Ready, Steady Cook and ITV's Queen mania.

Tony Christie - Originally from Coninsbrough in Doncaster he toured the working men's club scene in the 70's and gained quite a following of fans. He then moved over to the states and cracked the USA with song's such as "Amerillo" and "Las Vegas". Also 30 years later comedian Peter Kay re-launched his career after performing his songs on his live UK tour and TV comedy series "Phoenix Nights". The duo took the song to number 1 in the UK charts for Comic Relief in March 2005.

Jeremy Clarkson - Born in North Doncaster's Burghwallis. Jeremy's mother used to own and run the Paddington Bear factory in Woodlands (my village), she then sold the franchise for millions and moved away. Favorite petrol head Jeremy Clarkson took to fame reviewing car's for magazines, he now co-host's long running TV series Top Gear which he started way back in 1989.

Thats why we at Phoenixlords.com are trying to get are readers behind us and get rid of the god awful Doncaster/Sheffield Robin Hood International Airport and make way for the exellent, new and improved Jeremy Clarkson Airport.

Special Thanks: We would also like to say that since I wrote this article 100's of Doncaster residents have swamped the people incharge with complaint's about this pathetic pointless name, local papers have slammed it and even the massive global travel company British Airways have already ditched the Sheffield Robin Hood section of it's crap name and are only refferering to it as Doncaster Airport.

Keep on fighting