Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Rotherham Advertiser, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. The chants drifted out of the away end and hung in the air on arguably the darkest day in the 13-year history of AESSEAL New York Stadium. Rotherham United were being dismantled by opponents who had arrived in S60 nine points below League One 's survival frame.
Advertisement Advertisement For Millers fans, it was the final straw in a sorry, spirit-sapping campaign. They left early in droves, prompting the taunts from the gaggle of Crawley Town supporters who had made the long trip from West Sussex. Those that remained turned on their manager and told him it should be him leaving and not the home die-hards who had suffered enough this season.
“We want Evans out," they sang. A day later, their wish would be granted. Steve Evans had done well to remain in the hot-seat for so long after his broken summer pledge of a promotion push.
But a woeful heavy home loss in which some of his players were plainly not playing for him ...
well, not even a man of his survival instincts could withstand that. New York was a bleak, horrible, hostile place to be, full of anger, empty of optimism. Advertisement Advertisement The official attendance was given as 8,000-plus, the actual figure more like 5,000, those left at the end numbered about 500.
To his credit, Evans, knowing that his employment was in all likelihood about to be terminated, still faced the media. �.
