Showing some fight is often the minimum requirement football supporters want and expect to see from their team, particularly in times of adversity.
Usually in a metaphorical sense and meaning putting a proper shift in, running and tackling hard no matter how badly things are going and essentially not throwing in the towel even when it seems all is lost.
On the rare occasions that spills over into actual fighting between team-mates, a certain satisfaction can even be gleaned from the knowledge that the players are hurting like their fans are as evidenced by the bust-up between Jamie Carragher and Alvaro Arbeloa at West Brom the day after Liverpool’s 2009 Premier League title dream finally bit the dust.
