Laughing at the visit to the Tree pub and the fight with Hearts with the infamous 'black pudding' as I was there and I was the person who was

The Trouble on the Terraces documentary released in 1994 on VHS format looked at football hooliganism in the UK and on the European continent prior to the Euro 96 tournament. He said: “I am not saying we would have killed him but we had contingency plans to do him serious harm. By the late 1990s a split within the gang led to some members creating a Scottish National Firm (SNF), made up of hooligans from other clubs in the country and also included hooligans from traditionally hated clubs such as Hearts, Airdrie and Rangers. The SNF was unreservedly right wing in its political motivations, and there was media suggestions that it had been encouraged by groups such as the British National Party. Blance also claims his gang plotted against the late Hearts chairman Wallace Mercer after he tried to take over Hibs in 1989.The Hibs fans believed that the proposal was little more than a hostile takeover and they formed the Hands off Hibs group to campaign for the continued existence of the club. While in the dressing room as one of the production assistants was handing out the white Hibernian away jerseys provided by the club they noticed that the Hibs casuals were wearing t-shirts with hooligan slogans on them and instructed them that during the show not to make any noise until prompted and on no account should they reveal their CCS shirts while on air. The intoxicated casual then commandeered a microphone and while holding his Burberry scarf aloft he burst into a rendition of Move Any Mountain. Rather than deter them, this near-tragedy emboldened the fledgling gang to continue with their efforts in being casual hooligans.

But the Hibs-supporting hooligan says it would have been "madness" to try to attack the star player he had known for years.CCS members and hooligans associated with Leeds United fought on Edinburgh’s streets in 1993 before and after a game between the sides. Still heavily-intoxicated from the night before, the Edinburgh soccer casuals rocked up that following morning at the Soccer AM studios where they were about to embark on a live telly event reminiscent of the Sex Pistols on the Bill Grundy show. Its offices were allegedly smashed up by casuals while its boss, body builder Chris Sneddon, was threatened and several bouncers assaulted. Invited paper to the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, Glasgow.

However, the congeniality was not a constant throughout the rest of the Hibs support who, in the main, still wore team colours at matches. Members of the Baby Crew would be positioned with a line of sight on the exits from the station to enable them to determine what potential route visiting soccer crews would take and likely points where to confront the opposition. Trouble frequently occurred wherever they played and they were ultimately banned from most of the live venues in the city.Yet Blance is something of an enigma: to the police he is a serious criminal, to those who know him he is a loyal friend, to fellow Hibbys he is a dedicated supporter who never misses a game. But the violence wreaks havoc - a guy at school witnessed the Hibs-Aberdeen petrol bomb incident on Princes street and was paid house "visits" when the game came up. For obvious reasons, I can't name him, or even the clubs he has played for, but I hope he managed to make his peace with the gangster, who is not someone you would want to mess with. I followed Hearts from 83-89 and never ran into the CCS at Easter Rd, maybe they jumped Hearts fans in the city centre. Over the years accusations of a range of criminal activity not linked to football has been levelled towards the CCS as a whole as well as individuals within it.

There was also the need initially for hooligans younger than ones in the main mob to form their own identifiable group and could also be managed and trained by older more experienced hooligans. Their antics were picked up by the News of the World and the next day they ran a story highlighting that Scotland's most notorious hooligan gang had tricked their way onto the show. For the film adaptation of The Acid House in 1998 directed by Paul McGuigan a Hibs boy was involved in assisting on wardrobe and providing some bona fida Hibs casuals as extras for the final scene in the pub.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. There was definitely one well-known (but very talented) Hibs player back then who moved to "one of the big Glasgow clubs" (shall we politely say) and was supposed to be on pocket money wages there when his new club had to pay off some "colourful Glasgow business characters" (shall we also politely say) to prevent him getting malkied over unpaid gambling debts. And then there is the raid on the Kronk, by some distance the bloodiest and most daring attack ever perpetrated by a group of casuals. Hired coaches or transit vans would sometimes be used to avoid law enforcement and make their way to Aberdeen, Dundee or Glasgow. Crime Capital; The street gangs of the 1960s and 70s spawned a new generation of ruthless and violent criminals".