Football Intelligence Unit fell so low, he says, he would often send them back dud information (“the biggest load of old bollocks”, as he puts it) simply to see if they’d fall for it – “which of course,” he smiles, “they always did.”. You can also support us by signing up to our Mailing List. I don’t miss it. “If you wanna take a load of drugs up North,” he points out, “it’s easier to drive them up in the middle of the day than use football as your cover.”. Smaller clubs will turn out more for the teams with bad reputations – “so that they can say ‘we ran Millwall ! Although the authorities are aiming their resources at preventing disorder, he’s convinced himself that if anyone is convicted, they could find themselves at the end of a substantial sentence. The cost of what they do, he says, means most of the firms are working. 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After a half-time cup of tea and a few minutes watching the game, the police start blocking the exits with 10 or 15 minutes to go, expecting people like Joe not to have started leaving because they are actually watching the game. Be anything but an architect" - Kurt Vonnegut. One of their biggest problems is that it is no longer possible to stereotype an ‘average’ football hooligan. But they’ll know when to leave.”. “Your personality changes completely,” Mick admits. Next year’s European Championship, they say, presents no problem – as long as the information and intelligence are good. He has been running with Chelsea, home and away, since he was 13 or 14. Exclusion orders do not worry them. “When Chelsea score, we jump all over him. Others from places like Wigan and Burnley (ludicrously) proclaim their opposition to the IRA and the Pope, whilst an alarming degree of prominence is given to Combat 18, the group recently branded by ‘World in Action’ as “a right-wing terror organisation forging links between fascism and football”, and in particular ‘the Chelsea Headhunters.”. In fact, if we turn up somewhere, for alot of them that’s a result because alot of them don’t really want to get involved in a punch-up anyway.”. “We’ve got to defend our country. That’s what happens at England games when he says “telephone numbers are exchanged” – like people do when they go on holiday. And then work our way in. “Oh yes. From Ukraine (but I've forgotten the club's name shahtar donezk if I'm not mistaken) They are always well organized at fight crowd on crowd But I must admit I can't judge many others cuz I didn't seen them in action except for the english they can't fight! Quite alot,” he grins. “Word will get round. Manchester United were banned from playing at home for the first two games of the season following hooliganism at Old Trafford the previous season.Date: 20/08/1971, A policeman gets a neck hold on a youth at Anfield, where hundreds of youngsters were invading the pitch just before the start of the First Division match between Manchester United and Arsenal. : Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival by Ando Hiroshige - 1857, Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. Inter Milan Ultras Pictures Inter Milan Ultras put on a display before the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 2010. Covent Garden on a Saturday night was always a good bet.”. A mounted policeman watches the situation closely as colleagues deal with crowd trouble at the Brisbane Road ground before the League Division Two match between Orient and Manchester United on the opening day of the 1974/75 season. All-seater stadia and close-circuit cameras have driven the violence out of the grounds and into the train stations, motorway service stations, pubs and city centres. It’s hard to see how the authorities can ever get the evidence necessary when even officers like Mick says he won’t wear a wire – “in case they get you to strip. Very well off financially. “How long did it take for me to recover ?” he asks himself “I don’t know if you ever do recover really. If you want to pinpoint the start of the foreign influx of players, it really started with Keith Burkinshaw’s ambitious move. “And what they say goes. Look at the way, for instance, they have adapted a policy of keeping visiting fans in the ground after the match. The 17-year-old hooligans, for instance, were known as the Under Fives. As for Combat 18’s links with the “Chelsea Headhunters” , Joe contends he has never seen anything to do with Combat 18 anywhere near Chelsea. About 200 people were reported to be injured in the violence. It’s horrible ! During one ruck (between West Ham and Chelsea – planned the week before in the pubs when they were all away at an England game) on Parsons Green, most of the Fulham police were working at a Presidential visit by George Bush. The five-minute long clip shows the Brits, who had travelled to France … That’s ridiculous. “They’re fanatical !” he complains. No way whatsoever.”, His assessment of the occasion as “a once-in-a-lifetime thing” turns out to be more literal than an indication of his excitement. They’re prepared to use them as well ! Sometimes even if your own team was playing at home, if something like West Ham-Chelsea was on, you’d go over to the East End anyway and create merry hell,” he laughs. A film like ‘i-d’, he jokes, will probably become a police training video. “The police equipment’s bound to be crap anyway,” he laughs. The National Football Intelligence Unit regarded the Chelsea-Millwall FA Cup clash as merely presenting “a problem in planning and reducing the opportunities for disorder” but only a line of police horses prevented the match ending in a full-scale pitch invasion despite the all-seater stadium and surveillance cameras. Date: 18/11/1978. The fight at the Three Kings, he remembers, went off at 11 in the morning, three miles from the ground. The hardcore have to organise something special cos they’ll know we’re watching them.”, “If they’re playing a team like, say, Coventry,” explains Inspector Barry Norman who is in charge of the force’s Public Order Intelligence Unit, “they won’t expect anything to happen.”, “But they’ll still go,” emphasises one of the spotters, “because although everyone says they’re not supporters, most of them go to every game.”. “You become much more aggressive. Further Viewing: External: Boys San – Inter Ultras […] He’s been running round with that bloke Frankie Fraser.” But it is no longer his problem. It doesn’t matter how good you are or what your cover story is – you can’t say ‘I’ve been coming here for years’ when you haven’t ! “You have to be the most convincing actor there’s ever been cos if you fuck up, you’re in the shit. We were each other’s best friends. He dismisses police talk of decoy attacks and ambushes – “I’ve known it to happen a few times but never on purpose!” Apart from anything else, merely the fact that Joe kept mistakenly calling them “Combat 19”, convinced me, Combat 18 haven’t exactly got a high profile round there. The ICF boys in1988 all knew there were police about and Joe know at least one person who “could well be from Interpol.” The effect is that of a blown-up version of a football hooligan’s scrapbook. “They can’t even stage an ordinary match. Officers at a special screening for ‘i-d’ remembered an undercover cop from Fulham CID who had gone undercover with Chelsea and never come back: the combination of the camaraderie, the violence and the fun being too good to resist. Tottenham fans gather in and around White Hart Lane before the Champions League final screening 1st Jun 2019 • 1080p 00:32 Fight breaks out after Tottenham fan discovered in home end at West Ham 31st Oct 2018 • 720p As for the rest of the measures, they just work round them. Teams like Millwall, West Ham and Chelsea “have done all they can possibly do. The same was true of Chelsea’s first run in European football for years. Invalid Date, THIS is the shocking moment a gang of footie thugs traded blows in the street after Chelsea's penalty win over Tottenham Hotspur. The name of the game is territory, defending your own or taking the enemy’s. It might seem hard to believe sometimes, but football hooliganism is honour and reputation more than hatred. “One of our boys is actually a Tottenham fan.” Joe laughs. She gassed the dog by mistake.”. Joe’s viewpoint isn’t necessarily based on any moral objections to the issue, just logic: “World In Action’s alleged Combat 18 mastermind,” he objects, “is an ARSENAL fan (say no more) and half of Chelsea’s team (the good half) are BLACK. They’ll know more about me than anyone else ever will.”. But they couldn’t do anything cos I wasn’t doing anything wrong.”. The intelligence is then passed on to commanders in charge of forthcoming matches – “to help them evolve their strategy to counter criminality,” explains Chapman. They don’t like other forces nicking people on their patch… It’s at times like that,” he says, pensively, “that the police come in handy.”. Less surveillance, less segregation: “more of a laugh.” “Chelsea Headhunters doesn’t really even EXIST – it’s just a few kids who’ve printed up some cards on those machines that do business cards. “We talk about it for weeks – ‘what are we going to do for Tottenham this year ?’” he explains, in the same way that most people talk about doing something special for Easter. First of all, they have to fully understand it. Domestic football hooliganism, he agrees, will never go away – although fights like those at the Whitechapel Road might not be so widely reported as those involving the England team. “Look…” he says, getting visibly irked by the accusations. The head of the Football Intelligence Unit, D.I.Peter Chapman, appeared on the show confirming the Ireland-England disturbances had been a consequence of “a hardcore of 50 or more who wanted to use the game to make a political point” but the rest of their evidence looked decidedly tenuous. At the end of the day, you’re a still a Yid. A new British film about football hooliganism, ‘i-d’, is released on Friday. That was his exact words. Since the late 1980s and the advent of all-seater stadia, close-circuit surveillance cameras and improved crowd control by the clubs, violence between rival gangs inside football grounds has certainly become unusual. They had tried to sort something out for the morning but no-one turned up. But exclusion orders do not prevent fans from travelling to a game, only from seeing it, leaving offenders free to drift round the city centre with more time to drink and prepare for trouble. Then they’d start singing for Chelsea. It will be massively contained in the grounds but on days when the football isn’t on ? With Chapman and his colleagues regarding the legislation at their command as “probably sufficient”, the police have reached a kind of stalemate in their attempt to combat their opponents. That’s how you win respect from them. “If it does go off in a ground,” explains PC Derek Lister, a football intelligence officer at the Met, “it’s probably normal supporters in a spontaneous flare-up. On April 27, 2013, we went to see Julie take questions at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo at McCormick Place, in Chicago. Just as, for most foreign police forces, the priority is simply to get visiting English football hooligans back to England (without charge), local forces in England will not devote valuable resources to arresting or convicting offenders who do not come from their patch and will not be in circulation again, thus leaving the field of play open. Tottenham fans gather in and around White Hart Lane before the Champions League final screening 1st Jun 2019 • 1080p 02:58 Fans fire up PAOK with flares and chanting before Champions League clash with Krasnodar 30th Sep 2020 • 1080p Football hooliganism is unruly, violent, and destructive behaviour by overzealous supporters of association football clubs, including brawling, vandalism and intimidation. Tottenham's women's team was founded in 1985 as Broxbourne Ladies. There’s not much the FA, or any No prosecutions, nothing. “If chummy has an exclusion order against him at home games,” one of the Met’s Inspectors told me, “he’ll then go to the away games, hoping to get in there instead – only to be foiled by the spotters.” The legacy of the ICF mis-trial and the fear of bad publicity had taken its toll. “Well,” he says, thinking about it for a moment. Whereas Chelsea like distress flares, Liverpool used to be famous for darts – “Tungsten as well, not cheap ones. The Chelsea-Man United Cup Final (the ultimate fans’ day out) was, he recalls “pretty quiet” last year. The top two people I was after were 28 and 32 years old. At a big club, inside an inner circle of 30-40, there will be two or three “top dogs.” Julie was the first Catwoman to TV's Batman. Whilst he “went in blind and learnt on the job”, nowadays there are courses, training programmes, and lectures from the Football Intelligence. But their policy these days, in contrast to the undercover investigations of the 80s, is “to be very up-front about things. Of course,” he admits, “we got kicked from the top of the Holte End to the bottom. This has been the case since the collapse in 1988 of three cases based on the evidence of undercover officers who had infiltrated firms at Chelsea, Millwall, and most famously, the West Ham ICF, after the officers’ evidence was found to have been fabricated. These are the days, he says, when an exclusion order would come in HANDY. Don’t stick anything in your ears. That is their adrenalin buzz. Tottenham Hotspur may have been denied a win in the final, but they have at least been granted some Champions League justice. The fact that most members of the Yid Army aren’t even Jewish is irrelevant; what matters is that they are Tottenham fans. They wanna smash it up. Date: 30/05/1974, English First Division – Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United – White Hart LaneA touchline tussle, as police deal with unruly spectators.Date: 12/02/1977, FA Cup – Sixth Round – Newcastle United v Nottingham ForestA policeman with an Alsatian herds the Newcastle United fans back onto the terraces after they invaded the pitch, hoping to get the match abandoned with their team 3-1 down and a man short Date: 09/03/1974, Soccer – Football League Division Two – Orient v Manchester UnitedA Manchester United fan is chased by a policemanDate: 17/08/1974, Football League Division Two – Orient v Manchester UnitedA Manchester United fan is arrested by policeman after the riotDate: 17/08/1974, Football League Division Two – Cardiff City v Manchester United – Ninian ParkA fan is arrested during scuffles between rival fans outside Ninian ParkDate: 31/08/1974, Football League Division Two – Sheffield Wednesday v Manchester United – HillsboroughMounted policemen help to deal with trouble making fans after fighting broke out in the crowd.Date: 07/12/1974, Football League Division One – Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea – White Hart LaneAn unruly fan is pinned down by a policeman after trouble erupted before the matchDate: 19/04/1975, Football League Division One – Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea – White Hart LaneA young fan is carried away by a policeman after trouble erupted before the matchDate: 19/04/1975, Football League Division One – Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea – White Hart LaneA policeman’s helmet goes flying as he wades into the crowd to quell an outbreak of fightingDate: 19/04/1975, League Division One – Arsenal v Manchester United – HighburyPolice try to control the crowd at Highbury before Arsenal’s match against Manchester United.Date: 22/11/1975. I miss the other four officers. “We’re in our own country this time, the Dutch, the Germans and the Italians are going to want to come over here and show us who’s best,” he says, sounding not unlike a manager giving a team-talk. Millwall HATE 1: West Ham 2: Chelsea They’re as British as Page 3 girls or fish and chips – but they’re far from tasty, except when it comes to a brutal scrap. Inspector Norman admits that if the good guys know who the spotters are though, so too do the bad guys. I was only 21 years old.”. But the other 5000 there were Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham, Arsenal… Everyone knew it was going down cos all week Luton had been telling everyone they were going to take Millwall, and saying anyone who came down was gonna get a battering. https://colgadosporelfutbol.com/en/the-most-hooligans-England Rioting Tottenham Hotspur fans tear down a section of iron railings in a bid to reach the Chelsea supporters before a Division One game at London’s Stamford Bridge ground. TIMELINE 10 January 1971 - Members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) carried out an early form of 'punishment attack' by tarring and feathering four men who were accused of criminal activities in, Julie Newmar was Catgirl. Combatants are divided into those who run and those who don’t. If we’re playing Birmingham, we’ll go to Wolverhampton. Spotters: Kadrey, Lefty Limbo, BoingBoing, In 1971, the Troubles in Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland were in full cry. For great art and culture delivered to your door, visit our shop. A Football firm is often the term given to a group of football hooligans who are travelling together often to engage in violence with the other teams firm. They want to reduce this county to rubble. Reputation is all in football hooliganism. 1: Tottenham 2: Arsenal 3: West Ham (Could argue this as 2nd due to off-pitch rivalry) 4: Millwall (off-pitch reasons) 5: QPR . Tottenham’s relegation in 1976-77 gave them a chance to rebuild and in the summer of 1978, with promotion won, they signed Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricard Villa from Argentina’s triumphant World Cup squad. Having long regarded investigations “into two-bit firms like the Grimsby Cod Squad” a “total joke”, the final straw was a tip-off about a Combat 18-style unit which came from Special Branch after a group of Brighton fans had been heard chanting “Seig-heil !” An 8 months’ investigation concluded they had actually been chanting ‘Sea-gulls’” (Brighton FC’s nickname). Echoing a number of investigations in the late ’80s, the film follows the fate of an undercover cop who infiltrates a ‘firm’ of hooligans and finds himself becoming caught up by the gang’s “He’ll even fight with us against Tottenham and then stand with us supporting them in the game.”, This is even too much for Joe to come to grips with, let alone the Football Intelligence. 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