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

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This is admittedly a violent and often brutal book but it is also a moving one. One that everyone with an interest in football and its darker side will want to read. Above all it is an honest book, stripped of artifice and exaggeration. It is the truth. Ryan Low, 25, from Edinburgh – tagged for 100 days, 300 hours of unpaid work and a two-year football ban. A source said: “It was essentially a jolly. Although there were current CCS members among them, most were older men with families.

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

News Football thugs banned from matches for 43 years over battle at Glasgow Central Station in front of horrified families It happened on Bothwell Street. There was nothing we could do. We were totally outnumbered. It was a day I’ve never forgotten. Baby Crew members would watch the station for the arrival of firms from visiting clubs and note what direction they took. 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.

Mr Universe contender Sneddon collapsed at the wheel of his S-Type Jaguar car and died aged just 39 following a boxing bout in 2002. In 1990, a pre-season friendly was organised between Hibs and Millwall, whose casuals were among the largest and most vicious in Britain. They were one of the UK’s most notorious gangs of football casuals during the 80s and 90s – but some within the feared Capital City Service branched out from matchday brawling into serious organised crime. He reveals his friendships with many of Scotland’s leading footballers, some of them internationalists, who were no doubt attracted by his notoreity.

Blance AXEMAN BOSS OF HIBEES CASUALS; Notorious gang led by bouncer

We followed Aberdeen on a march to Waverley Station. It was mental. There was just bodies scattered all over Princes Street. Tourists and shoppers were running for cover at 6pm on a Saturday night. 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.

Blance claimed his gang plotted against the late Hearts chairman Wallace Mercer after he tried to take over Hibs in 1989. By the 2010s, cops noticed casuals involved with the CCS in the 80s had returned to the fore, teaming up with a younger element. Blance has paid a heavy price for his activities over the years. It is not just the fines, prison sentences and the savage beatings in police custody but also the devastation that has been wreaked on his family and personal relationships.