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

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As Hearts hooligans and members of the Union Jack Rangers supporters bus were drinking in bars in the Haymarket area a mob of Hibs casuals turned up. The Chelsea Headhunters are a notorious English football hooligan firm linked to the London football club Chelsea. At the west end of Princes Street after the match a group of Hibs casuals clashed with a mob of CSF that included hooligans from Darlington, Millwall and Newcastle. Near to the end of the match the Hibs mob successfully fought with the police to prevent them from locking the secure fencing that penned in the terracing and then smashed through a set of huge wooden gates and clashed with Oldhams mob outside the away end. A historical rivalry between Linfield and Glentoran has escalated somewhat [ quantify] in recent years - there were riots in 2005 [93] and on Boxing Day in 2008.

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Her minister for sport, Colin Moynihan, attempted to bring in an ID card scheme for football supporters. 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. Before the match the Polwarth Tavern, in Polwarth Crescent, a well-known Hearts pub was attacked by Hibs casuals as they threw bottles and smashed the windows. At the end of a fairly played match in front of a rumbunctious atmosphere described as "unbridled mayhem", hundreds of supporters from each team including their casual elements got onto the pitch.

Some of the Seaburn Casuals hooligans picked up in the raid were also involved with neo-Nazi groups like Combat 18.

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After the game ended the CCS clashed with the Utility near the council allotments close to the stadium, first on the junction of Arklay Street and Tannadice Street where a huge street battle was broken up by mounted police officers and then on a side street off Clepington Street. At a semi-final match of the 2012–13 FA Cup between Millwall and Wigan Athletic at the new Wembley Stadium on 13 April 2013, Millwall fans fought amongst themselves although it is believed that a group of Wigan supporters got into the Millwall end, 14 arrests were made.Five men were arrested at the scene and charged with offensive behaviour at a football match and possession of an offensive weapon. Before and after this challenge match that was part of the Edinburgh Festival the CCS clashed with the CSF in Gorgie Road. Around 300 hooligans were involved in pre-planned violence around the city, with hardcore hooligans having avoided police detection by entering France via Belgium.