Service Crew: The Inside Story of Leeds United's Hooligan Gangs

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Service Crew: The Inside Story of Leeds United's Hooligan Gangs

Service Crew: The Inside Story of Leeds United's Hooligan Gangs

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With Millwall we start in our teens into our twenties, we meet and settle down with a sort, have kids but don't stop being active up until our late fifties/early sixties.

Same as Chelsea and Leeds to an extent - numbers game often wins the day when you swamp places and are accustomed to bully ups. Journalist Caroline Gall spent two years interviewing participants from several generations to piece together the first ever history of the gangs, from the Shipley Skins to the youths of the present day. During the height of the hooliganism, the Service Crew became one of the most notorious firms in European football, [2] and in doing so nearly brought the club to its knees. Another cause of the violence in the 80's and we are seeing this repeated now in Div 3, was the hopelessly inadequate stadiums and the incompetence and aggression of the local plod in dealing with what they perceived as 4-5 thousand drunken, plundering Yorkshiremen, onley too eager to rape and pillage, when the reality was just a bunch of lads wanting to watch their team and have a few beers and a laugh.The City is for "the beautiful people" not a sniff of Burburry, Hackett, Stone Island and Henri Lloyd. This incident occurred at the Parc des Princes stadium in France, Striker Peter Lorimer had a goal disallowed in a game which ultimately ended in a 2-0 defeat to the West German side,this came after two penalties were rejected by French referee Michel Kitabdjian.

They emerged as the casual era dawned and, against the violent backdrop of the Miners' Strike, quickly became feared by their terrace foes. We used to take 5,000 and dominate the town, so when someone said they had a spare ticket and do I fancy it for the weekend, I said yes. In that regard, the book is more serious and believable and doesn't glamorise the violence and behaviour of the hooligans in the way that some of the other autobiographical books can.In the 1982–83 season, the club has been relegated to the Second Division of English football, in the very first game of the season some of the Leeds fans went on what was described within The Sun newspaper as “an orgy of drinking, looting and fighting” within Cleethorpes, this is where 600 Leeds fans had stayed over the night before the match was due to be played.

Leeds united Service Crew are a football hooligan firm which are linked to the Championship team “Leeds United”. The police eventually launched Operation Wild Boar to take down the ringleaders, only to convict a small number of relative fringe players. They surprised the couple, who turned out to be two blokes who jumped up and ran away after being disturbed. A rampaging mob of Service Crew members smashed up pubs, fought running battles with police and left a trail of destruction in there wake. The violence from this match led to Leeds United being banned from Europe for 4 years, which was reduced to 2 years on appeal.On 5 May 1990, Leeds and their fans travelled to AFC Bournemouth on the South Coast for the final game of the 1989-90 Second Division season. It was cold and wet and only 600-odd tickets had been made available but a few headed south to watch Leeds play in front of the smallest crowd of the season. Brighton, a place for a weekend of sun and sea and, of course, homosexuals – so never any trouble in the Eighties! Anyone happen to know what dave talbots up to now, his name was mentioned on a clockwork corner discussion, someone said he has converted to Islam .



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