NME: From The Bender Squad to The Gremlins; Inside Newcastle's Football Hooligan Firm

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NME: From The Bender Squad to The Gremlins; Inside Newcastle's Football Hooligan Firm

NME: From The Bender Squad to The Gremlins; Inside Newcastle's Football Hooligan Firm

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Young was pictured hiding his face with a Burberry scarf and the pair were then among a group who assembled at the Belle Vue pub, Durham Road, Gateshead, in the lead-up to trouble at the nearby Seven Stars. Watson and his associates had travelled to Teesside despite not planning to attend the match and the Cleveland Police chief inspector who led the operation on the day said this showed he was involved in planned organised violence. Leading a respectable life during the week, but indulging in violence on a weekend obviously required some duplicity. Those involved have argued that this was the worst of their crimes, as the violence was restricted to themselves, and never threatened to draw legitimate supporters in. But when fists and weapons were flying, how could they guarantee anyone's safety? And where did they set the limit on what they considered to be an acceptable degree of violence?

The court heard the messages were verbally abusive, with one reading: “You’re nothing but a w***e from the gutter.” Police camera operators followed the pair and officers seized them after quizzing them about their movements. Damage estimated at thousands of pounds had already been done to other pubs in the area while the thugs were gathering anything they could to use as weapons. The court heard how he was spotted at Gateshead International Stadium on Tuesday, January, 21, 2014 as his new favourite team took on Welling United. Hird, 42, of Burnhope Road, Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, was seen walking past Fleet Street, where officers were then called about reports of bottles being thrown. Hird, along with brother Stephen and other known hooligans, were seen following the Middlesbrough fans as they were escorted to St James’s Park.

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A statement from PC Steve Graham says: "A number of photographs were taken outside of Eclipse Bar in which Bryan Hird can be clearly seen among the crowd of Newcastle supporters." The group was the same group who had previously been seen at The Three Bulls Head and included Mark Suttle. The Sunderland fans were reacting and attempts were made by both sides to get together. Only swift police action prevented a potentially violent clash.” Ian Kapke has been hit with a five-year stadium ban after a court heard details of his connections to some of the Magpies’ most notorious hooligans. But having maintained a silence for decades members declined the first invitations, and it is only now that they felt the time was right to speak. Sunderland AFC used to be noted for football hooliganism. At the end of the 1999–2000 season, Sunderland topped the hooliganism table in the Premier League, with 223 fans arrested that season. [7] Altercations with the Newcastle Gremlins [ edit ]

During one scuffle, two officers were targeted by a group of Toon fans – sparking a major operation to quell fears of violence. A few lads had already started to make their way over to Shields when we got yet another call telling us that they were now in North Shields and if we wanted it to go there. She said: “The charge is based on Facebook messages. They’re quite lengthy and difficult to read out as the grammar isn’t particularly perfect.” Terrace Legends features soccer yobs from up and down the country and carries details of their "best" dust ups.

This sort of football hooliganism is something that is very much under reported. This type of meeting is something that still goes on and seems to be on the increase. Before the firm were known by there current name, the gremlins, Newcastle United’s firm were known as the Newcastle Mainline Express or NME due to their use of the rail network when travelling to away games. At the height of football hooliganism in England during the 1980s, the NME were an extremely active firm causing mayhem wherever they went. They famously threw a petrol bomb at West Ham fans housed in a corner of St. James’ Park leading to many fans commonly referring to that area of the ground as “fire-bomb corner”. April 2003 - Arrested again before a match between Sunderland and Newcastle at the Stadium of Light. No charge brought.

Speaking exclusively to the Chronicle, Mark Mennim has opened up for the first time about life at the centre of Newcastle’s notorious football ‘firms’. Rival soccer thugs used this network of mobile phone calls and text messaging to rally support for a vicious fight on Tyneside.He said: “It was my life. We were all mates together, all comrades fighting together and we have been all over England and Europe. But the local press are saying that two people are in hospital so I can only assume one of them got done as well.



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