FC fans' banter helps me focus

MIKEY Lewis believes he has learned to deal with vitriolic fans winding him up - and Hull KR's derby win proved the point.

- By DAVID CRAVEN

The brilliant scrum-half often cops abuse aplenty from opposition supporters. That was no more obvious than in Rovers' Good Friday clash at Hull FC when the home support regularly taunted him with acerbic chants.

But Lewis equally loves playing the pantomime villain, and he turned to orchestrate the Hull fans at various points - before helping deliver the killer punches in another win for the Super League leaders. On responding like that to the home supporters' aimed barbs, the reigning Man of Steel insisted: "It's part of it. It's part and parcel of the game.