Hibs Boy: The Life and Violent Times of Scotland's Most Notorious Football Hooligan

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Gangs of Edinburgh: Feared Hibs casuals who moved up to the big league Gangs of Edinburgh: Feared Hibs casuals who moved up to the big

To try to overcome the hurdle of effective policing of football match days in other cities the idea came about of arriving early enough to avoid detection and the subsequent police escort. Within the space of a fortnight in December 1986 the Hibs casuals twice met and took early trains to their destination enabling them to arrive well before noon. This was early enough to catch the police off-guard in Aberdeen when they arrived at 10.30 a.m. [45] but in Dundee two weeks later the police were soon alerted to their mid-morning arrival. [2] [53] NAZI SCUM TEAMING UP WITH THE CASUALS; CURSE OF THE CASUALS DAY THREE Racist and drug links to hooligans. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. By 2005 the Scottish Football Museum at Hampden Park had in its popular culture section a display case that contained a pair of Adidas training shoes and a sweater worn by a Hibs casual in the 1980s. [103] Literature [ edit ] Murray, Kevin (27 June 2010). "Casuals planning Dutch violence?". Vital Football.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012 . Retrieved 11 August 2011.Rivers, Dan (2007). Congratulations, You Have Just Met the Casuals: The True Story of Aberdeen's Staunchest Fans. John Blake Publishing, Limited. ISBN 9781844543076.

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The Capital City Service (CCS) is a Scottish football hooligan firm associated with Hibernian F.C. and active from 1984 when the casual hooligan subculture took off in Scotland. Their roots were in the previous incarnations of hooligan groups attached to the club and also the wider Edinburgh and surrounding area's gang culture. They are more commonly known in the media and amongst the public as the Hibs Casuals, although within the hooligan network they may also be referred to as Hibs Boys. [3] [4]Pennant, Cass; King, Martin (2003). Terrace Legends. John Blake Publishing, Limited. ISBN 9781844540921. A pivotal moment in this formative season was when the CCS encountered the leading casual gang at the time in Scotland - the Aberdeen Soccer Casuals - before a Hibernian v. Aberdeen game in Edinburgh. The two mobs clashed on Easter Road and after some fighting the CCS ran away, but one Hibs boy got severely beaten and was in a coma for a week. Rather than deter them, this near-tragedy emboldened the fledgling gang to continue with their efforts in being casual hooligans. At the next Hibs match, against local rivals Hearts at Tynecastle, the CCS fared a lot better when they came up against the notorious Gorgie Aggro. This also proved to be a turning point in the Edinburgh football hooligan scene. [9] [41] Structure within the gang [ edit ] McCall, Kenny; Robb, John (2007). After the Match the Game Begins: The True Story of the Dundee Utility. John Blake. ISBN 9781844544516. As the CCS evolved an informal hierarchy appeared but there was no singular leader or 'top boy' as was usual for other crews. Instead, a committee of five individuals who had garnered enough respect amongst their peers took to the task of planning and organising for the gang's activities at football. [41] By the early to mid-1990s this system had expired and was replaced mainly by two protagonists who arranged most battles and who were also striving for control of the mob. [2] However, the congeniality was not a constant throughout the rest of the Hibs support who, in the main, still wore team colours at matches. Referred to as scarfers, or more playfully as cavemen by the Hibs boys, a popular chant at the time that was adopted by some Hibs scarfers was Oh it's magic, you know, Hi-bees and casuals don't go and this dislike between the CCS and other sections of the Hibs crowd was tangible at home matches. [2]

Blance AXEMAN BOSS OF HIBEES CASUALS; Notorious gang led by bouncer

Warren Miller, 29, and Stuart Younger, 30, both from Alloa – one-year jail terms and five-year football bans. Scott Lawson, 28, from Doncaster, was also jailed for two years for assault to severe injury after he bit off part of Hibs fan Ian Taylor’s ear. The Capital City Service (CCS) held running battles with similar groups from Celtic, Hearts and Rangers before later branching out to fight across the UK and Europe, sparking mass police incidents in the process. Blance claimed his gang plotted against the late Hearts chairman Wallace Mercer after he tried to take over Hibs in 1989.Frain, from Essex, was jailed last year but it has not been possible, for legal reasons, to report full details of the riot until now. About 30 members of the CCS were said to work as doormen – and control of Edinburgh’s doors meant control of the city’s booming rave scene and drug culture. Rave music, Madchester and baggy scenes were all touched upon by CCS in some way. In Edinburgh Hibs boys ran dance clubs like Bubble Funk or organised other musical promotion events in venues such as the Calton Studios. Pennant 2006, Jim 'Jinks' Mctaggot, Glasgow Rangers pp. 134, 137 "Craziest set of fans in Scotland late 80s early 90s" "In Scotland one of the top five firms of importance today"