Celtic Soccer Crew: What the Hell Do We Care?

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Shortly after this two smaller groups of Hibs and Celtic casuals were involved in street battles that took them into the Barras area of the city.

A cloud of panic hung over the stadium as supporters were treated on the field and 46 fans were taken to hospital.

As members of the Livingston Hearts Supporters Club, were stepping off their coach parked in Regent Road before the match the Hibs casuals attacked them. At the west end of Princes Street after the match a group of Hibs casuals clashed with a mob of CSF that included hooligans from Darlington, Millwall and Newcastle. A confrontation at the makeshift segregation barrier required police using batons to keep the hooligans apart but the violence then flared again between the Hibs boys and the Forest contingent as the barrier was broken down and used as weaponry. Half a dozen people were arrested over the incident, with one man being held in prison on remand for 16 weeks prior to a high court appearance.

Section B have attended the more important and significant games (and clashes with rivals where the football clubs are not meeting) where numbers can still attain 50-80 plus, and on occasion as high as 100 or more. At a nearby pub the English mob exited armed with knives, knuckledusters, hammers and iron bars in response to the Scottish mob that had smashed all the windows.A cloud of panic hung over the stadium as supporters were treated on the field and 45 fans were taken to hospital. The Hibs casuals mobbed up in Rose Street with the intention to go to the Hearts game but the police were alerted to this and they dispersed the gang. The gangs clashed again and two Hibs boys were stabbed in the melee that progressed into running battles and missiles being thrown the rest of the way along the road. They are more commonly known in the media and amongst the public as the Hibs Casuals though within the hooligan network they may also be referred to as Hibs boys. After the match the ASC broke through the police escort at McLeod Street and fought a mixed mob of CCS, Hearts Casual Soccer Firm and Gorgie Aggro.

LOSC: un leader " extrémiste " en prison – Actualité Métropole – Nord – La Voix du Nord"[LOSC: "extremist" leader in prison] (in French). The Hibs boys were armed with baseball bats, other hand held weapons and CS gas spray whilst the Dundee casuals made use of road signs that were to hand.

Their phenomenal start to the game was rewarded in the 21 st minute as Paul McStay and Frank McAvennie combined brilliantly, with the latter shooting past Andy Goram from 12 yards.

Once everybody had taken to their spot on the terraces, Celtic turned on the style with a sublime performance. In a scene described as resembling more of a mob fight than police crowd control, 1 Hibs boy was bitten by a police dog and twelve men were eventually arrested and charged with police assaults and breaches of the peace.

The following is a list of elements of the CCS that are recognised internally by the gang as well as outside parties. A pivotal moment in this formative season was when the CCS encountered the leading casual gang at the time in Scotland - the Aberdeen Soccer Casuals - before a Hibernian v. Hailing from an Irish background, I grew up on the English south coast with the good fortune to begin watching Celtic during the Martin O'Neill era. Their roots were in the previous incarnations of hooligan groups attached to the club and also the wider Edinburgh and surrounding area's gang culture. As Hearts hooligans and members of the Union Jack Rangers supporters bus were drinking in bars in the Haymarket area a mob of Hibs casuals turned up.