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

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Ryan Low, 25, from Edinburgh – tagged for 100 days, 300 hours of unpaid work and a two-year football ban. This tended to make an easier job of splitting up the other mob and dispatching their less robust members quickly. Often Hibs boys would leave the ground before the match had finished while avoiding police attention to try to position themselves better to launch attacks on the opposition. By the late 1990s a split within the gang led to some members creating a Scottish National Firm (SNF), made up of hooligans from other clubs in the country and also included hooligans from traditionally hated clubs such as Hearts, Airdrie and Rangers.

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He first performed this at the Gilded Balloon during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe of 2012 and is currently adapting the stage script of it for a radio and film production. They were also the subject or included in several social anthropological studies by academia in the UK.

Then they took their revenge in the most spectacular way imaginable: they attacked Aberdeen with a petrol bomb, right in the heart of Edinburgh’s world-famous Princes Street. James Clark, 27, from West Linton, Mark Connerton, 32, from Inverkeithing, and Paul Donoghue, 28, Keith Manson, 42, and Craig Nisbet, 41, all Edinburgh – 300 hours of unpaid work and two-year bans. Warren Miller, 29, and Stuart Younger, 30, both from Alloa – one-year jail terms and five-year football bans. Rather than deter them, this near-tragedy emboldened the fledgling gang to continue with their efforts in being casual hooligans. Word of mouth was the usual method of relaying to gang members of the where and when to meet though in the 1984/85 season the section in the local evening paper put aside for football fans travelling into and out of Edinburgh was also used on occasion.

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In October 2006, a 2-2 derby between Hibs and Hearts was followed by brutal fighting in Lothian Road and Fountain Park.Unfortunately I havent read either of these but judging by the reviews they do seem to be good reads. 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. It was like how in the sixties there were mods and rockers, in the seventies there were skinheads and punks. Blance then becomes a casual and joins up with the CCS as they battle Celtic, Rangers, Hearts and Aberdeen, helping them to become the number-one mob in Scotland.