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

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

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

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In a match between Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United on 19 October 2012, Leeds United hooligan Aaron Cawley attacked Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Chris Kirkland during a pitch invasion to celebrate a goal. Certainly it is a long time since followers of the Scottish national team or [Scotland's] great club sides have caused the sickening mayhem which English fans have produced in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Spain and Switzerland in the past three years. Northern Irish football suffered a major set-back in 1948, when supporters of Linfield invaded the pitch after a match against Belfast Celtic, attacking and seriously injuring three Celtic players.

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Mirren (Love Street Division), Clyde (Shawfield Shed End Boys), Aberdeen (Aberdeen Soccer Casuals), Dundee and Dundee United (Dundee Utility), Hibernian ( Capital City Service), Morton (Morton Soccer Crew), Motherwell (Saturday Service), Partick Thistle (North Glasgow Express), Falkirk (Fear) and Dunfermline Athletic (Carnegie Soccer Service). Around 300 hooligans were involved in pre-planned violence around the city, with hardcore hooligans having avoided police detection by entering France via Belgium. Upon exiting Queen Street station the CCS were prevented from clashing with the CSC in George Square as the police stepped in and sent the gangs off in different directions. While the Scotland national team's travelling supporters, the Tartan Army, are generally not violent these days, hooliganism does occur in other areas of Scottish football. A riot on 15 February 1995, during an aborted England– Ireland friendly at Lansdowne Road in Dublin, resulting in 20 injuries and 40 arrests.

The News of the World 's Bob Pennington spoke of the "lunatic fringe of support that fastens onto them (Everton), seeking identification in a multi-national port where roots are hard to establish. Today's incidents are usual when the teams meet and police always try to keep their respective factions apart on the terraces segregated in stadiums.

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Violence erupted before the band appeared on stage when the CCS fought with ICF, SS, skinheads and security staff in running battles using scaffolding poles, chains, hammers, golf clubs, baseball bats and bottles whilst the bands due to perform were locked into their dressing rooms. Notorious Hibs casuals are battered in battle of Benidorm after clashing with rival 'firm' in Spain". This quickly escalated into fighting between the casuals and police which resulted in seven arrests at the scene. 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.On 28 January 2007 Wolverhampton Wanderers hooligans rioted after their sides 3–0 home loss to local rivals West Bromwich Albion. Tensions rose sufficiently enough that some police officers were forced to use their truncheons on the mob. The same newspaper later described Everton supporters as the "roughest, rowdiest rabble who watches British soccer.



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