A NOTABLE and compelling account of the characters who made Bradford City's hooligan firm one of the most notorious and feared in English football's lower divisions. --Tony Barrett, The Times --Tony Barret, The Times First memory of trouble was in 1975 at Lincoln City, there was a pitch invasion and both sets of fans proper tore into each other, a couple of Lincoln fans got stabbed on the pitch I remember it been in the local paper and the local news on the Monday night. I started getting involved with the lads in 1976 and used to go with the lads off the estate and from school. He faces a similar restriction on going to either of city’s railway stations when City are at home and if they have an away game he must not go within five miles of an opponent’s ground.

Another man Kye Revitt, 23, of Westgate Hill Street, Bradford, also admitted the affray charge arising out of the same disturbance last December. The judge said he intended to send out a message to others that the courts would not tolerate such offending.

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Wright’s barrister Nigel Hamilton conceded that the latest incident was a serious one, but he pointed out that it was short-lived and his client had only used his fists during the fighting. I started watching Bradford in 1973 with my brother in law and his pal who was a big city fan, my old fella was a big Leeds fan and never missed a match, the first game I went to was Arsenal away game in the fa cup, City lost 2 nil, but it was a great day out. Probably my favourite song what I used to listen to while I was ironing my clobber on a Friday night or Saturday morning has to be oasis supersonic. Firms I’ve never seen as much as a lad there as to be Wimbledon, Mk dons, Crawley, Orient and Cheltenham.

But Judge Durham Hall told Wright he was “a committed football hooligan’’ adding: “You clearly couldn’t care less. You revel in your notoriety even finding some satisfaction in being part of a group childishly named the Ointment – a choice which indicates the intellectual level of this activity.”

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Preston v carlisle 1993 - B&W footage of a massive off between almost 200 lads and only 3 police to seperate them, proper old school toe-to-toe While I accept that it is unpleasant and unlawful violence…for this type of violence it is at the lower end of the scale,’’ he submitted.

Wigan v Preston 03 - Shows the escort leaving the ground over a footbridge. Minor scuffles and police batton charges.