The two mobs had a brief skirmish before the police stepped in and ejected the Hibs mob from the stadium. After the match the CCS and the CSF, who had some Rangers ICF in tow, clashed in Lothian Road with bottles and traffic cones being used as missiles. Seven arrests were made on the day but through the use of CCTV footage and manpower of three police forces in Scotland dawn raids were carried out that garnered another 16 arrests. On Saturday, the yobs boarded a subway train in the west end of Glasgow to avoid being split up by police monitoring stations in the city centre.

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There was a running battle that carried on into Mitchell Square where the police arrested fifty-five Hibs casuals. The mounted police had to baton charge the bottle wielding battling fans repeatedly to quell the trouble. As Aberdeen walked along on London Road in their escort the two mobs clashed and one Aberdeen boy was stabbed. In Edinburgh Hibs casuals were involved in disturbances with English supporters near to Waverley station. The CCS and ASC clashed before the game outside the Premier Bar, a public house adjacent to the Beach End section of the ground.However, since the 1980s and well into the 1990s the UK government has led a widescale crackdown on football related violence.

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The firm was involved in numerous incidents of violence through the United Kingdom and Europe during the 1980s. 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.Fifty-six people were arrested and thousands of pounds' worth of damage was caused in some of the worst violence the town has ever seen. The CCS clashed with the Sunderland mob outside the Balmoral Hotel on North Bridge before the match. Anyone identified as being an organiser will have a file with the cops and they might well have their phone tapped, too. However, by 1997, it was said by Reuters that the English game had "virtually rid itself of the hooligan scourge".

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But in 1990 he was jailed for three years at Glasgow Sheriff Court for dealing in LSD and temazepam.During the encounter with Chelsea Headhunters in Leicester Square a Hibs boy attempted to stab a Chelsea hooligan.

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After the game the Hibs boys, armed with clubs and items taken from a skip, clashed with the ICF in The Bridges area of the city near to the St James Centre. On the way walking to the League Cup tie the ICF appeared from within a housing scheme throwing stones, bottles and firing flares at the CCS and the two mobs then clashed.

From the 1980s onwards Aberdeen's ASC and Hibernian's CCS became the most feared casuals in Scotland, the CCS gaining particular notoriety. Before the match CCS and ASC clashed on Easter Road with bottles, bricks and roadwork equipment being thrown or used as weapons and resulting in one Hibs boy being seriously assaulted and taken to hospital in a comatose state.