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

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Smith, Stanley (2012). "Football Years 1983-2011". Dressers: Pt. 1. Greymatters Media. ISBN 9780957034006. Cosgrove, Stuart (2002). Hampden Babylon: Sex and Scandal in Scottish Football. Canongate Books. ISBN 9781841953335. Off it however, a certain section of the Easter Road support were busy transforming themselves from a small hooligan element to the most feared casual gang in the UK. BBC Scotland's investigative current affairs programme Frontline Scotland broadcast in 2004 its report Policing the casuals on the rise of football hooliganism in the country and the legislation proposed by Scottish police forces dealing with it. Included in the show was coverage of how the police dealt with a Category A match involving Hibernian away to Hearts in October of that year and the casual gangs associated with both clubs. [118] Lee Duffy, 42, from Musselburgh, and John McGeever. 40, from Edinburgh – 300 hours of unpaid community work and two-year football bans.

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CCS leaders downplayed links to drugs, stating that some members would have been involved in crime “regardless” of their association with the firm. Home Affairs Committee (1990). Policing Football Hooliganism: Memoranda of Evidence . London: HMSO. Home Affairs Committee (1991). Policing Football Hooliganism: Second Report. London: HMSO. Sharpe, Allan (Director) Bean, Sean (Narrator) (1994). Trouble on the Terraces (VHS Cassette). Castle Home Video.

Members were accused of grabbing part of the city’s market for Ecstasy pills as rave culture exploded in the 90s. McCall & Robb 2007, Edinburgh's Hibernian CCS, who were for a long time one of the most feared mobs in Europe

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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" One of the first members of the Hibs Capital City Service, he has been right at the heart of every CCS encounter for the last twenty-five years, apart of course from those he missed while in prison. The following is a list of elements of the CCS that are recognised internally by the gang as well as outside parties. Kevin Murray (27 June 2010). "Casuals planning Dutch violence?". Vital Football. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013 . Retrieved 15 May 2013. Scotlands most notorious firm They were one of the UK’s most notorious gangs of football casuals during the 80s and 90s – but some within the feared Capital City Service branched out from matchday brawling into serious organised crime.

Presenters: Andrew Glover (June 1989). "Forth File". Edinburgh. 30 minutes in. Independent Local Radio. Radio Forth Blaney, Colin (2013). Hotshot: The Story of a Little Red Devil: My Life as a Football Hooligan Leader. Milo Books. ISBN 9781908479419.

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

Mr Universe contender Sneddon collapsed at the wheel of his S-Type Jaguar car and died aged just 39 following a boxing bout in 2002. 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" Blance also blows away the myth that the CCS and other casuals were just boys out for a fight at the football or adherents of an innocent youth cult. In fact, as he explains, the CCS was a serious criminal gang heavily involved in drug dealing, extortion, shoplifting, punishment beatings and street robberies. Brimson 2003, Scotland p. 79 "The Hibs lads had gained a reputation for themselves in England after they ran riot at various friendlies in England"Douglas, Scott (5 August 1991). Edinburgh Evening News. {{ cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= ( help) During the latter part of the 1990s, a split in their ranks caused by the formation of a nationwide hooligan firm made up of casuals from different teams and a general decline in football hooliganism in Scotland saw activity of the gang diminish. [36] However, by the early part of the next decade an apparent resurgence in football hooliganism at various clubs in Scotland was being observed by authorities [37] and the CCS attached to Hibernian were involved [38] [39] [40] Formation [ edit ] Nearer to the stadium the CCS would frequent pubs such as the Thistle Bar, [50] Albion Bar and the Royal Nip, which was considered by many Hibs boys as their spiritual home. [2] Often though the CCS would head to the Ladbrokes bookmakers that was situated on Easter Road at the junction with Bothwell Street to hang around the premises and wait for their moment of opportunity to take on other firms. It was here that visiting fans were finally marshalled away from the accessible public area and either directed to or escorted to their allocated section of the ground. Blance claimed his gang plotted against the late Hearts chairman Wallace Mercer after he tried to take over Hibs in 1989. 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 ]

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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.Marshall, Chris (12 August 2009). "Hunt for Hibs hooligans after riot in Bolton shopping park". Edinburgh Evening News . Retrieved 12 June 2011. 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. But it was a petrol bomb. Aberdeen got the fright of their lives and ran into the train station, the first time they had ever run.