Mikey Burrows presents live full-match commentary of MK Dons games every Saturday on Horizon Radio 103.3FM and every single game on Dons World.

Say what you like, it's never dull watching the Dons.

Maybe it's the drama, the disappointment, or maybe it's the four hours sleep I had between getting home last night and getting up for the day job, but you have to laugh.

In a bygone era Jim Gannon would have been put in the stocks for the people of MK to throw rotten fruit at for such daylight robbery. It reminded me of the time I found my first girlfriend Emma Checkley kissing another boy. I was heartbroken but then remembered I'd just been kissing Debbie Reynolds, and all seemed well again.

The point of that was not to show my prowess with the ladies as an 11-year-old, but to remind people that football has a funny way of righting its own wrongs.

Take Millwall away for example, for 15 minutes after half time the Dons didn't get out of their own half, we all feared the worst, then a freakish own goal provided the catalyst to a bizarrely brilliant win.

To surmise, sometimes Lady Luck and football combine in ways you adore like your first kiss, and then sometimes they don't.

I've always been a glass-half-full kind of guy, it's moments like these that make us stronger, and I think the players will be the better for it. They'll remember the taste of this medicine, and there'll be times they'll get to dish it out themselves.

They'll play far worse than they did on Tuesday night and win 4-0, that's the game and it's why we keep going back to watch it week in and week out. Sometimes you have to take the positives, and believe me there were many.

Ali Gerba had arguably his best game in a Dons shirt, for me Mark Wright was the best he's been this season. Instead of hitting a side on the break we absolutely dominated someone and forced them to defend their own penalty area for a consistent period of time.

Had it been the Dons who snatched a late winner I'd have used all of this column raving about how great we are, instead of trying to use my past failures with women to explain football results.

Still there are more important things than any one result, and this week is a week of action in support of Kick It Out's One Game, One Community campaign.

When I started thinking about this topic I realised I've never once heard an inkling of that sort of abuse at stadiummk. By its very nature as a club and a city I've always found Milton Keynes welcoming and inclusive.

One Game, One Community

For more information on the One Game, One Community campaign visit www.kickitout.org

But we should never forgive those who aren't as like-minded, racism has no part in the game and no part in life, it's up to all of us to stand together against bigotry of any form.

The work of Kick It Out is vitally important and I know everyone at the club is fully behind the campaign.

I would end by saying long may it continue but I sincerely hope one day in the not too distant future we don't need it.

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