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But in September 2000, the team behind the iconic soccer show landed themselves in a spot of bother when they unwittingly made TV stars of one of Scotland's most notorious hooligan firms.
In 2006 the documentary series The Real Football Factories created by Zig Zag Productions was shown on the Bravo TV channel which looked at football hooligans and firms throughout the UK. The episode that focused on Scottish hooligans included a segment on the CCS and there were interviews with two of its former members as well as a journalist who had reported on them during the emergence of Scottish casuals in the mid 1980s. [119] Music [ edit ]When the cameras started rolling, the seven men burst into chants of "CCS! CCS!" with Andy Blance and Bobby Lipscombe lifting their Hibs jerseys to reveal their CCS mottoes and other casual-related slogans - much to the horror of the show's execs, who finally realised who they had booked on. Blance, 42, gained infamy as part of the violent Hibs gang the Capital City Service, or CCS. In a new book, he tells how he turned into a fully-fledged criminal. Guilianotti, Richard (1994). Keep it in the family: An outline of the social ontology of Hibs Casuals, Game without Frontiers: Football, Identity and Modernity. ISBN 978-1-85742-219-1.
The book is about my time with the Hibs casuals and everything that went on - but I have to say that is all in the past now." Dykes, Derek (26 May 2008). These Colours Don't Run: Inside the Hibs Capital City Service. Fort Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-905769-12-4. Sign up to our Edinburgh Live nostalgia newsletters for more local history and heritage content straight to your inbox Pearson’s Tory counterpart Margaret Mitchell pointed out that the SNP pledged in their 2007 and 2011 election manifestos to abolish automatic early release.Pennant 2006, Jim 'Jinks' Mctaggot, Glasgow Rangers pp. 134, 137 "Craziest set of fans in Scotland late 80s early 90s" "In Scotland one of the top five firms of importance today" Brimson 2003, Scotland p. 79 "The Hibs lads had gained a reputation for themselves in England after they ran riot at various friendlies in England"
They were also the subject or included in several social anthropological studies by academia in the UK. [46] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [43] In popular culture [ edit ] Finn, G. (1989). "Tae be there an' that": The Creation of Social Realities and Social Identities Among the Football "Casuals". Paper to the Annual Conference of the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, Glasgow, September. Wilson claims he travelled to the Spanish resort with his own friends and was persuaded to put on the T-shirt after bumping into Hibs fans he knew.Marshall, Chris (12 August 2009). "Hunt for Hibs hooligans after riot in Bolton shopping park". Edinburgh Evening News . Retrieved 12 June 2011. But he refused because the player was a pal. Blance, jailed for five years for smashing an axe through the head of a rival, had been asked to call in the debt earlier this year. Presenters: Andrew Glover (June 1989). "Forth File". Edinburgh. 30 minutes in. Independent Local Radio. Radio Forth Gerald McCann, 46, was out on an electronic tag in time for Christmas despite only being sentenced in September. We photographed him walking a dog near his home. Frain, from Essex, was jailed last year but it has not been possible, for legal reasons, to report full details of the riot until now.
Clearly none of this was on the mind of Soccer AM showrunners when they accepted a request from seven CCS members, including Bobby Lipscombe, Andy Blance and Derek Dykes to appear on the show.
The Hibs Baby Crew (HBC) were youngsters who, in 1987, were involved in hooliganism and seeking full membership. About 100 CCS members travelled to London, where they fought Millwall thugs near the Old Kent Road and reputedly got the better of their opponents. The Daily Record would like to point out that the brawl involving Leeds and Hibs casuals was in no way linked to the nearby Ibrox Bar. Our report yesterday said trouble flared at the Ibrox Bar - but it was actually in the next street. We are happy to set the record straight. CAPITAL CITY SERVICE Brimson, Dougie (2003). Eurotrashed: The Rise and Rise of Europe's Football Hooligans. Headline. ISBN 9780755311101.
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