go back less than 20 years before this in a derby game. fans actually expected and required their players to litrally put the boot in. talked to the ex rotherham centre half years ago about this. he said that when they played their local rivals doncaster if he didn,t whack their centre forward and he wasn,t whacked by him early in the game then his own fans were on his back. he then went on to say, remember i had to live in the same street as they did.