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

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The close outside his front door is framed, ceiling to floor, with green and white images and knick-knacks. A friendly fixture against the south London side Millwall in 1990 threw up a completely new challenge of getting to know the lay-out of the area where the game was to be played, transport links and crucially, where the opposition mob's favoured pubs would be.

I've never understood why knuckle-draggers are given the platform to, firstly, air and glorify their antics and then profit from them!I loved the derby in the 80s and 90s and as Chad said, there was nowt better than walking up ER after a win with 9,000 other Hearts fans. So all the young lads who wanted a mob in Edinburgh went to Hibs including a lot of Hearts casuals and other boys who either supported other teams or supported no teams at all and just wanted to be part of a huge mob. the CCS were just about to take Aberdeen's title as top dogs in the country for the rest of the 1980s", "the CCS were in the mid to late 1980s the team to beat no doubt about it. Their lead singer Warren "Dermo" Dermody pleased a section of the audience by wearing a These Colours Don't Run t-shirt during their show.

If practicable, the venue for the brawl to take place had to be sufficiently far away from the anticipated area of police surveillance on the day. The Hands off Hibs committee quickly disassociated themselves from the vandalism and threatening behaviour. We are also running an auction and raffle and we are appealing to the wider football community to lend us a hand. The rowdy Hibs mob got blinding drunk, chanted 'CCS' and even convinced Soccer AM co-presenter Helen Chamberlain to show off her rather intimate tattoo.

This afforded the opportunity for bonds to be forged through the shared experiences of following the team and responding to the actions of opposing fans.

One friendly at home that had been arranged with Chelsea in the early 1990s had potentially serious trouble averted by police action against a travelling group of well known Chelsea hooligans. For example, during the 1994/95 season, for a visit of Dundee hooligans, it was a public house in a quiet white collar part of the New Town area [53] and against the Rangers mob it was at a suburban railway station in Slateford, which was regarded as deep within Hearts fans territory.

In the early 1980s, Hibs away fixtures were regularly attended by fans travelling on supporters' buses from amongst areas in Edinburgh such as Leith, Niddrie, Tollcross and Granton.

All he got was a burst nose and swollen lip after getting attacked by 50 Hearts fans on one occassion. Although football-related violence waned from its worst days, Hibs casuals continued to be involved into the 21st century.

Michael Imrie, 24, and Gerald McCann, 46, both from Edinburgh – nine-month jail terms and two-year football bans.