Fax4Life wrote:After reading todays Courier and seeing our Chairman saying that fans even after 'provocation' should not have caused trouble got me thinking.
Yes that has to be the line of a Chairman I understand that but having been next to the trouble as it was just by our exit point and trying to stop it which fell on deaf ears (both sides) and asking the stewards to get the Fev fans who were there for touble out of the ground which would have helped I could have got dragged into this, thankfully as I was not looking for a fight I didn't.
I just did not want another fan battered into a coma like we had at the GF and even pleaded with the morons that we did not want another Dave Singer incident, otherwise I would have just got out of the way but the odds were not good 30 or 40 Fev against about 6 Fax hotheads it was looking bad.
One flying fist in my direction and what do you do? Just walk away? Not that easy as getting hit for just being an opposing fan is not acceptable and 90% of men especially would react to getting punched or kicked, if you do react then you are then labelled a thug like them.

So my one view on this is that to avoid that happening as who knows we could be back there in a play off game this season it would be best just not to go to Post Office Road again until this settles down, when that will be who knows 2 or 3 years?
What I am peeved about is that I put £25 their way with entrance money, programme and two pints of beer (x two of us) and we get treat like this.
This has also brought the good reputation of Fax fans down and I plead for that alone lets just all not go there for the next 2 years at least. That way there can be no trouble and Fev as a club will have to act as they will lose out financially.

pinballwizzard wrote:That's the thing. Fev reps continually bleat on about the 'mindless minority' who have nothing to do with the club and are not real fans. But they are real Fev fans. Forgive me for generalising, but I have rarely met a nice Fev fan, with the odd exception. The nature of Fev as a town is unwelcoming, which is rooted in recent history and the decline the town has suffered economically. Fev fans intend to make it a horrible place to visit, they always have. From an early age watching fax there, it was always some where I hated going, just because how the people were, especially the women. Standing with the away fans just to abuse them and swear at them...why? The massive collective chip on their shoulder and laughable bitter working-class hero bravado gives rise to this behavior. Life is tough, get over it. But that's no excuse to think with your a-hole.

Hiding behind the minority party line means this will never be resolved. It's a shame Fev fans have taken a dislike to fax, purely because they are so hard done by they cannot accept defeat. But if that's the way they want to treat visiting fans, sodem, I along with many other fans will never put another penny into that shizzlehole of a dump, and they won't be welcomed to the shay either.

Rotherham Fev Fan wrote:Believe it not, myself and the crew I stand with are placid, well behaved, rarely swear at games, I can enjoy a drink without being offensive and above all - me dad taught me manners!! No bad thing - cost nowt, getS you loads!!
It may not be a your experience of Fev which yes, since the decline of the industry has suffered social decline/deprivation more than most towns, but I am more representitive of fev than what you describe and as such I can't let a sweeping generalization like that go unchallenged.

Mindless louts tend to be much louder than our lot!