Faceless cowards should be ashamed of themselves

And here was me thinking the day of the old fashioned letter, envelope and stamp was dead and gone, but it appears the ,f@*king animals', as the late Paidi O Se described them, of the GAA are almost single-handedly keeping An Post afloat. 
Revelations this week from several intercounty managers and players that they have boxes of hate mail from so called supporters is beyond sickening.
In this day and age the keyboard warriors, who hide behind faceless Twitter avatars and the most ridiculous, pathetic made-up names, were believed to be the the main aggressors of such bile and filth, but it seems that the old method of paper and ink is still favoured by many.
Who gives these imbeciles the idea that they have the right to personally abuse people?
And before anyone comes at me with 'people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones', I put my name to everything I write and every comment I make. If anyone has any issue with any of my opinions, which are NEVER personal, my email and phone number are easily accessible.
That's not the case with the 'heroes' who think it is alright to send letters to people suggesting they take their own life, or wishing them and their family ill-health all because of a football game that didn't go the way they might have liked.
This week Eamonn Fitzmaurice revealed, after he stepped down as Kerry manager after leading them to one All-Ireland title, six Munster SFC titles and a National League crown, that he has a box of hate mail at home - sickening.
Fitzmaurice's revelations have prompted other former managers and players to reveal that they too have been the victim of such intimidation from bullies who hide behind the lick of a stamp and a made up name.
Rest assured not one of those chancers would have the balls to stand face-to-face with any of those men and repeat what they wrote - cowards.
There is a sense that highlighting these incidents of hate mail just adds fuel to the culprits fire, but they shouldn't be allowed get away with either. It is not right that any person is subjected to abuse for doing the best they can in a job.
I don't subscribe to this 'I'm only a volunteer' attitude and the easy way out it offers. If you agree to take on a job, volunteer or not, then you should always aim to do it to the best of your ability.
However, if that best isn't good enough for some armchair critics then they don't deserve to be personally vilified and have threats made to their person or to their families.
Some, certainly not all, former managers in Meath at both club and county level have revealed that they too have been the victims of hate mail and aggressive behaviour from 'supporters' that left them fearing for their safety, so it's not just in Kerry where the 'f@*king animals' prey - it's on our doorstep too.

Former Meath player Joe Sheridan went on record revealing the level of abuse he, and his family, received over the goal he scored against Louth to win the Leinster SFC title in 2010.
“I remember my mother got a letter in the post one day and she actually started crying. It didn’t bother me, that stuff doesn’t bother me. I just get on with things but to think somebody could do that over a football game. It is a bit much,” recalled Sheridan in an interview he gave in 2016.
“I probably took the brunt of the abuse being the person that was involved. I got letters sent to the house and messages sent to me on the phone. It was pretty dire stuff for people to write down.
“To actually think that someone could sit down and write that kind of stuff on a letter and send it across anonymously as well. They didn’t even sign it off which was the annoying thing.
“People are quite emotional about the GAA. A lot of people are involved in it their whole lives and are brought up in it.
“Their whole family are involved and we are exactly the same, but you have got to have a point where you have got to draw a line and say this can’t happen, that is stepping over the line as well.
“Emotions I think bring the worst out in people sometimes and that’s probably what happened but lucky enough nothing bad came of it.
“It probably wasn’t the nicest of things for people to be doing at the time but that’s life. There was no harm that came of it,” said the pragmatic Seneschalstown man.
I've heard the abuse fired at players and managers from the terraces and it is totally unacceptable. 
Some of those perpetrators were unknowingly sitting beside scared relatives of the people they were abusing, small children having to listen to their father being called every name under the sun is disgusting.
For those who hurl abuse from the stands and terraces it is all about attention seeking. Who can shout the loudest, who can make the most outrageous comment, who can draw the biggest laugh from the people around them?
I've seen some 'fans' being removed from the terraces and stands by Gardai to loud cheers with their fists raised in the air as if they are some sort of hero.
There is no place for people like that in life, never mind sport.
People who fuel their fire are worse, don't play to the fools, if you see or hear someone being abusive at a game report it to your nearest steward or Garda, something has to be done before these incidents of hate mail are taken to the next level and then what?