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

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A source said: “It was essentially a jolly. Although there were current CCS members among them, most were older men with families. 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.

Ex-football thug has no regrets for trouble on the terraces

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. Andy Blance, another member of the CCS elite who later wrote about his experiences in the 2009 book ‘Hibs Boy,’ described the incident as “madness,” admitting the group’s behaviour overstepped the mark. Members were accused of grabbing part of the city’s market for Ecstasy pills as rave culture exploded in the 90s. CCS yobs took on rivals associated with other Scottish clubs and clashed with “firms” from down south such as Millwall, Leeds and Chelsea.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. Its offices were allegedly smashed up by casuals while its boss, body builder Chris Sneddon, was threatened and several bouncers assaulted. Although football-related violence waned from its worst days, Hibs casuals continued to be involved into the 21st century. In 1990, a pre-season friendly was organised between Hibs and Millwall, whose casuals were among the largest and most vicious in Britain. Michael Imrie, 24, and Gerald McCann, 46, both from Edinburgh – nine-month jail terms and two-year football bans.

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He said: “I am not saying we would have killed him but we had contingency plans to do him serious harm.”

APA style: AXEMAN BOSS OF HIBEES CASUALS; Notorious gang led by bouncer Blance.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). Retrieved Oct 31 2023 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/AXEMAN+BOSS+OF+HIBEES+CASUALS%3b+Notorious+gang+led+by+bouncer+Blance.-a0101168705 We didn’t become Scotland’s top mob overnight, in the beginning, we took some right beatings,” Dykes recalled in 2008. Ryan Low, 25, from Edinburgh – tagged for 100 days, 300 hours of unpaid work and a two-year football ban. 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.