A couple of things:
Protest - I went to see what was going on but had to drive to London straight after the game so couldn't stay long. People do have reasons for not standing outside all night shouting at people.
undoubtedly so, but if you consider the estimates of people protesting were between 700-1,000, did the other 4,500-5,000 people really have better things to do? there are too many people who don't realise the graveness of the situation and i'm not sure what more can be done to inform them.
"Fan apathy" - I just think some people will always stick their heads in the sand, whatever club you look at. And the people who do demonstrate and make their feelings heard eventually have the fight drained out of them. It gets to the stage where you feel it just isn't going to make a difference anyway so why waste your energy, time and money - especially this close to Christmas - on getting angry?
not neccesarily so, as a club we have a very solid fanbase of hardcore fans - the problem is that despite this, a lot of these same hardcore fans either don't do anything or criticise others for not doing enough.
as soon as i saw the red cards being held up at kick-off yesterday, the life drained out of me. i'm not sure what i was expecting but it was such a disappointment. i protested after the game but i felt the whole time that it was an exercise in futility.
i've got protest fatigue. i won't give up but i can understand why others would but it upsets me when i see fans criticising each other for not doing enough, doing too much, not protesting, not being militant enough and so on and so forth.
