Celtic Soccer Crew: What the Hell Do We Care?

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This back-street public house, and the convenience of a café and betting office below it, kept the Hibs boys out of the eyes of police in the days before adequate CCTV coverage of the city centre. Speaking before Wednesday's Premiership encounter with St Mirren, the Portugal Under-21 international said: "I am working hard to make my impact. There was a running battle that carried on into Mitchell Square where the police arrested fifty-five Hibs casuals. The CCS positioned themselves in the recreational area between Calton Terrace and London Road to affect an ambush when the ASC passed by. Following this, Airdrie fan Izak Cowie became the first person in Scotland banned from every football ground in the UK.

March 2022; The Daily Record, The Scottish Sun and The Press and Journal newspapers, along with a statement from the club itself, reported on several Cove Rangers fans being assaulted outside Excelsior Stadium immediately after a League One fixture. At this point the Dunfermline mob armed with pool cues, glasses and bottles appeared on the street and confronted the CCS who was carrying knives, iron bars, baseball bats, a sword and an axe. After the match the CCS and ASC clashed on London Road and there were skirmishes between the gangs until they reached the Playhouse theatre on Greenside Place.To get to the game the CSF walked from Haymarket along Princes Street scuffling with small mobs of Hibs casuals along the way. In the course of the afternoon there was various skirmishes outside a bar in Rose Street and in surrounding side-streets between Hibs boys and Dundee Utility. The CCS clashed several times with Sunderland hooligans before and after the match between London Road and Bothwell Street.

Shortly after this two smaller groups of Hibs and Celtic casuals were involved in street battles that took them into the Barras area of the city. They are more commonly known in the media and amongst the public as the Hibs Casuals, although within the hooligan network they may also be referred to as Hibs Boys.A massive away support of over 10,000 travelled to the capital, which meant that the crowd far exceeded the 23,500 attendance quoted, and kick off was delayed by 13 minutes. There were skirmishes between the Hibs mob and their Hearts counterparts and as a result of fighting after the game one Hibs boy is remanded in prison for a week. During the break, according to Celtic Soccer Crew leader (John O’Kane), there was discussion among some Celtic casuals about when they would deploy a weapon on the unsuspecting Hibs fans. Clubs and police in plea for calm at tonight's Halifax Town v Chester FA Cup match after trouble at first game".

May 2008; At the end of a home league game with Morton there was a fight on the pitch with the Morton Soccer Crew (MSC). This part of London was described as a riot-zone as police were kept busy keeping rival factions apart with dog handlers, police horses, batons and CS gas all being utilised, although there was only a relatively low amount of reported injuries and arrests. The police became aware of the presence of a large gang of Hibs casuals in the lower stand section of the stadium and escorted them into the front rows of seats for the match.

Some Hibs boys were ripping up wooden fences to use as weapons whilst others smashed windows of the pub or vandalised cars in the car park, one of which was overturned; at least two Hibs boys are arrested. The CCS, who were armed with coshes and knives, arranged to fight the ICF, who were armed with claw hammers, [14] at Slateford train station in the west of Edinburgh before the match.

However, the Celtic Soccer Crew did leave an indelible mark on the Scottish game in 1987 with one of the worst incidents in the decade. First things first, taking care of third-place St Mirren after the disappointment of dropping two points at Easter Road.The casuals scene never took off in the same way at Celtic Park and though there was a hooligan group named the Celtic Soccer Crew, they regularly found themselves marginalised on the terraces by the wider support and were often subject to chants of ‘Casuals get to feck, casuals, casuals get to feck’. April 2013; A policeman was seriously assaulted and nine fans were arrested as a total of 60 Section B and Ayr Utd's Ayr Service Crew (ASC) battled near Coatbridge town centre. Rozhovor so streetfighterom za, chuligánom zo Žiliny"[Interview with a streetfighter, hooligans from Zilina] (in Slovak). The remainder of the CCS were still in Manchester attacking Manchester City boys in a bar and as more local hooligans arrived this stramash spilled out onto the main road.