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

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Its offices were allegedly smashed up by casuals while its boss, body builder Chris Sneddon, was threatened and several bouncers assaulted.

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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] I was asked if I could ‘call-in’ the debt. We all know what that means. The player was facing a severe doing or even worse. But I refused point blank. McCall, Kenny; Robb, John (2007). After the Match the Game Begins: The True Story of the Dundee Utility. John Blake. ISBN 9781844544516.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" Poling, Samantha (Presenter) (2004). Policing the casuals (Television production). Scotland: BBC Scotland . Retrieved 8 September 2013. 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] a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/AXEMAN+BOSS+OF+HIBEES+CASUALS%3b+Notorious+gang+led+by+bouncer+Blance.-a0101168705 Finn, G. (1989). "Tae be there an' that": The Creation of Social Realities and Social Identities Among the Football "Casuals". Paper to the Annual Conference of the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, Glasgow, September.

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In 2006 the documentary series The Real Football Factories created by Zig Zag Productions was shown on the Bravo TV channel which looked at football hooligans and firms throughout the UK. The episode that focused on Scottish hooligans included a segment on the CCS and there were interviews with two of its former members as well as a journalist who had reported on them during the emergence of Scottish casuals in the mid 1980s. [119] Music [ edit ]

Membership wasn't even restricted to only Hibs fans. Over the years casuals from Hearts and sometimes Old Firm fans who lived in Edinburgh were integrated into the mob. These individuals usually had a more rigorous initiation than normal as asides from the reservations of some CCS members they also had to prove their worth against the team that they were originally associated with. [9] [41] Guilianotti, Richard (1994). Keep it in the family: An outline of the social ontology of Hibs Casuals, Game without Frontiers: Football, Identity and Modernity. ISBN 978-1-85742-219-1. King, Martin; Knight, Martin (1999). The Naughty Nineties: Football's Coming Home?. Mainstream. ISBN 9781840181913. Members were accused of grabbing part of the city’s market for Ecstasy pills as rave culture exploded in the 90s. Home Affairs Committee (1990). Policing Football Hooliganism: Memoranda of Evidence . London: HMSO. Home Affairs Committee (1991). Policing Football Hooliganism: Second Report. London: HMSO.

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Lowles & Nicholls 2005, Heart of Midlothian p. 253,254 "within Edinburgh was dominated by Hibs", "first time in memory Hibs got the better of the fighting at the derby game" The CCS has had clashes all across Scotland, England and Europe either when Hibernian or Scotland were playing or as invited guests of other English hooligan firms at various English league games. There have been instances of them making an appearance at Scottish or English club matches without the prior knowledge of the hooligan element of the teams playing each other that day. [61] [62] [63] [9] [64] [53] [65] [66] [67] [68] [45] [69] [70] The story of the Capital City Service, the Hibs casuals who became the most notorious gang in Scotland. CCS leaders downplayed links to drugs, stating that some members would have been involved in crime “regardless” of their association with the firm. 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 ]With carnage raging around them, it appeared the brawl had no end in sight, but what happened next changed the course of history for the CCS and solidified their status as the top boys in Scotland. If practicable, the venue for the brawl to take place had to be sufficiently far away from the anticipated area of police surveillance on the day. For example, during the 1994/95 season, for a visit of Dundee hooligans, it was a public house in a quiet white collar part of the New Town area [53] and against the Rangers mob it was at a suburban railway station in Slateford, which was regarded as deep within Hearts fans territory. For the 1996 Euro Championship game between England and Scotland a pub with a suitably sized car park for a mob fight was opted for in the London area of High Barnet, ten miles away from the usual battleground of Trafalgar Square. [41] This mode of confrontation was still evident in 2011 for a match against Celtic in Edinburgh but with the added twist of taking place while the game was being played three miles away from the fight. [60] Dykes, Derek (26 May 2008). These Colours Don't Run: Inside the Hibs Capital City Service. Fort Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-905769-12-4. By the late 1990s a leading Hibs casual had opened a clothes shop on South Clerk Street in Edinburgh called Original Casuals. [120] 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]

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Brimson 2003, Scotland p. 77 "some would claim that the Hibs firm did rule the roost in Scotland in the latter part of the 1980s" They were also the subject or included in several social anthropological studies by academia in the UK. [46] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [43] In popular culture [ edit ]Findlay, Russell (9 June 1996). "We're ready for Euro war". Sunday Mail . Retrieved 24 August 2011. EVIL!; The rude the bad and the ugly... return of the scum that tried to shame all of Scotland. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com.