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Rangers and the Famous ICF: My Life with Scotland's Most-feared Football-hooligan Gang

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Who despite what some know nothing hand-wringers in society say that we are not REAL fans actually we ARE FANS that defend our club, faith, fellow fans and traditions through our activities. For example, Leicester City fans vandalised a train in 1934, and several trains were damaged in 1955 and 1956 by Liverpool and Everton fans. The pitch was invaded several times during the game by West Ham fans and rioting in the streets followed. A steward died after serious clashes between firms from Aston Villa and Queens Park Rangers after a League Cup game in September 2004.

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the CCS appeared outside the Haymarket Bar and fought with police and the CSF as they exited the public house. This scheme, set out in Part I of the Football Spectators Act 1989, was never implemented following criticism by the Taylor Report following the Hillsborough disaster. The Hibs boys made their way to Diggers a bar on Ardmillan Terrace and fought a running battle with the Hearts mob again. The same newspaper later described Everton supporters as the "roughest, rowdiest rabble who watches British soccer.According to Colin Blaney in Hotshot: The Story of a Little Red Devil, many of Manchester United's football hooligans turned to serious crime during this period. Incidences of fan violence have been reported from the late 19th and the early 20th century in England and Scotland. Hooliganism in the modern game of football in England dates back to its establishment in the 19th century. It covers my early childhood, notable scraps I’ve been involved in over the years both at home and in Europe. A riot on 15 February 1995, during an aborted England– Ireland friendly at Lansdowne Road in Dublin, resulting in 20 injuries and 40 arrests.

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The CCS were seated in the main grandstand and during the second half of the match one of them fired off a red ship flare that resulted in some seats being scorched. After the match the CCS clashed with Liege hooligans and there were 5 arrests, two of them were Hibs casuals. Local derby matches would usually have the worst trouble in an era when fans did not often travel to other towns and cities, and roughs sometimes attacked the referees and visiting team's players. Cops drew batons and used CS spray to try to stop trouble described by one fan as the “worst fighting” he had ever witnessed at football. Perhaps the most notable player to suffer this type of racial abuse during the 1970s was Viv Anderson, the Nottingham Forest full-back who became England's first black senior international player in 1978.At half time the Hibs boys made their way to the back of the stand and started a fight in full view of the police. The [Inter-City Firm], like the sub-groups from other clubs, specialises in infiltrating the terraces reserved at games for rival fans. It had been rumoured that Tottenham casuals had travelled up for the battle – but a source denied that. On 11 May 1985 (the same day as the Bradford City stadium fire) a 14-year-old boy died at St Andrew's stadium when fans were pushed by police onto a wall which subsequently collapsed following crowd violence at a match between Birmingham City and Leeds United. In a nearby public house containing Bolton thugs a car-load of Hibs boys entered the premises and after a brief skirmish one of them was hospitalised with a serious ankle injury.

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On 29 May 1985, 39 people, mostly Italian and Juventus fans, were crushed to death during the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels; an event that became known as the Heysel Stadium disaster. The CCS clashed with the Dunfermline casuals firstly on London Road and then in Bothwell Street before the game. Headhunters were involved in disturbances in Paris before a UEFA Champions League quarter final between Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea on 2 April 2014. Before and after this challenge match that was part of the Edinburgh Festival the CCS clashed with the CSF in Gorgie Road. Over 200 preventative arrests were made in Stuttgart, although only three people were charged with criminal offences.After some 20 years of improved behaviour among English football fans, extreme scenes of rioting and hooliganism took place at Upton Park on 25 August 2009 during a Football League Cup second round tie between London rivals West Ham United and Millwall. After the match the CCS ambushed the Celtic Soccer Crew outside the ground and then once again at Waverley station. On the afternoon of the match they clashed with a mob of Anderlecht boys on the Grand-Place in Brussels and smashed the windows of the Metro train they boarded. Racial abuse of black players was a common feature of hooliganism during the 1970s and even more so in the 1980s, when they were first prominent in the English leagues. Soon after his transfer to Liverpool in 1987, Barnes was racially abused by Everton fans in the Merseyside derby.

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The Hibs boys were armed with baseball bats, other hand held weapons and CS gas spray whilst the Dundee casuals made use of road signs that were to hand. Kevin Whitton, a high-profile member of the firm, was sentenced to life imprisonment on 8 November 1985 for violent assault after being found guilty of involvement in an attack on a pub on King's Road.Later on the Hibs casuals fought with an ice-hockey crowd exiting from an ice-rink during which a Hibs boys stabbed at last one person with a hypodermic needle. Worse violence took place in the aftermath of the 1980 Scottish Cup Final between Celtic and Rangers. C. Four Chelsea football fans were convicted of racist violence and given suspended prison sentences after a black citizen was pushed off a Paris Métro in Paris while fans chanted: "We're racist, we're racist, and that's the way we like it.

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