87 - before the game stood at a burger van - I was verbally abuused in a threatening, provocative and unnecessary manner by a 40+ year old man wearing a fax shirt.
Another mate of mine had a similar story to tell - a different part of the ground, a different aggressor.
How do you equate that??? The provocative nature of the abuse I took is not printable on this forum. I react simply by taking the rise out of the aggressor - BUT, there are people who, if spoken to like that may well react in another manner!
A young man from Halifax has been arrested for assaulting a police officer.
I saw with my own eyes a few fax fans behving in an aggressive and violent manner.
Without arguing over semantics, I will repeat - I know where the greater problem lies. What I just can't process is the denial that some fax fans were guilty of provocation and threatening intimidating behaviour when it happened to me!!
I know we have a real problem. So do the club.
All I am asking is that work is unilateral. We ALL need to work on this. If the head is in the bucket "it was them gov", then the problem remains!