Keep your focus, says boss

They take on Fulham tomorrow tonight having been charged by the Football League with fielding an ineligible player.

The charge, which relates to Farrend Rawson's appearance against Brighton on Easter Monday, will be heard by a Football Disciplinary Commission “at the earliest opportunity”.

Rotherham won the match 1-0 with the help of the player who had been on loan from Derby County. Previous similar cases, though not all, have involved a three-point deduction.

It comes as the Millers try to gather enough points to ensure Championship survival, with a four-match run-in starting at Craven Cottage.

Evans said: “When I was told (of the charge) I was 100 per cent gobsmacked and I think the players were too but we can't do anything about it because it's administration, we don't get involved in that side. We get involved purely in trying to win football matches and we just have to just get on with it.

“We're together as a football club from the chairman down and we can only effect results as best we can. We have to keep our focus on Fulham and the four matches we've got left and let that process take place behind the scenes.We have 43 points on the board until someone tells me any different. There's a lot of football to be played between now and the end of the season that has more to do with us remaining a Championship club than the process the Football League is involved in. We've 12 points to play for, not three.

“What I do know is that when it goes to the Football League, it will be a full and fair hearing for Rotherham United.”

Evans saw his side beaten 2-0 at Middlesbrough on Saturday, a result which still left them seven points clear of the relegation zone ahead of tonight's matches.