John Walker

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The Milton Keynes Dons Herald

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Thomas Kaminski damages knee ligaments — 111 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 111 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Callum Paterson breaks a bone — 35 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

The wait goes on for Milton Keynes Dons

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Josh Laurent in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Milton Keynes Dons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Kane Wilson has improved at 28, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ben Wiles

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

One of those days for David Obou

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.85, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The terraces

Milton Keynes Dons supporters have found a favourite in David Obou

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. David Obou has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Honours even between Milton Keynes Dons and Rotherham United

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief