Unfortunately, there are victims of this, namely the poor lads who got stitched up in Operation 'Wild Boar' in 87. Last time we played over Chelsea we went through their mob on the kings road like a warm knife through butter.

I'll admit, there were a few hard core thugs involved with Leeds as there still are, but these lads got away. After that game we started to attract a lot of fans just there for the aggro and by 80/81 we were taking thousands even to places like OT and Goodison. Just read last years comments ,hard to believe ,I just remember him as an out and out loonatic ,he would fit in well with this fuckin Isis crowd in Iraq, but on 2nd thoughts he is probably too violent even for them.

Many of the most shocking incidents in British football history have involved the hooligan followers of one club: Leeds United. One Leeds fan entered the pitch after Michael Tonge’s equaliser and assaulted Wednesdays’ keeper Chris Kirkland. C. [1] The Service Crew were formed in 1974 and are named after the ordinary public service trains that the hooligans would travel on to away matches, rather than the heavily policed, organised football special trains. I was expecting some explaination or personal stories of those involved, but it is simply the details of 20 years of fights loosely linked together.

A rampaging mob of Service Crew members smashed up pubs, fought running battles with police and left a trail of destruction in there wake. Gall does a very thorough and detailed job in investigating Leeds United's hooligan element and produces a well written, in depth, more serious and less sensationalised account that varies from the usual 'run of the mill' hooligan (to doorman) autobiographies. Remember 85 after the game up there , thousands of em outside the side stand we were located in refusing to budge while we locked in, stuck on buses back to Leeds station with them trying to come in on an ambushing mission, our train emptied and they were sent packing with one or two getting clumped the rest on their toes , trappy Chelsea of the north oiks the lot of em.Leeds Service Crew Beer Mat Football Casuals Awaydays T Shirt | Original Dandy Lads Club Artwork And Direct To Garment Printed. However, I had a look at the link posted above and there was some talk about Leeds being a bit indiscriminate. On bank holiday weekend May 1990 Leeds United traveled to Bournemouth for the last game of the season. I read it myself a few months back, and having followed the mighty Whites home and away from 1965 to 84, I reckon I'm well qualified to comment.

They backed the ten of us into the pub and went on to destroy the outside of it until the Old Bill turned up. I told a couple of lads and went outside to be faced by two ugly twats, one a skinny wanker, who said, ‘I’m Hibs, who are you? During the height of the hooliganism, the Service Crew became one of the most notorious firms in European football, [2] and in doing so nearly brought the club to its knees. Anyone happen to know what dave talbots up to now, his name was mentioned on a clockwork corner discussion, someone said he has converted to Islam .As a result of this incident, Leeds were banned from European competitions for four years - although this was later reduced to two years on appeal.

As I turned away, his fat, Boris Johnson lookalike mate came at me and stuck his fist in my face, with the weight of his twenty-two-stone body. The violence from this match led to Leeds United being banned from Europe for 4 years, which was reduced to 2 years on appeal. Victory in the game would give them the Second Division title and promotion back to the top flight after eight years away. The Service Crew were first brought to the forefront within 1974 and were named after the public service which brought the fans to the away games, instead of the heavily policed special football trains which were organised for such instances.When striker Peter Lorimer had a goal disallowed in a game which ended in a 2–0 defeat to the West German side, and having already seen their team have two penalty appeals rejected by French referee Michel Kitabdjian, scores of Leeds fans ripped seats from the stands and threw them onto the pitch. And despite the constant barrage of violence there are parts that can be quite thought provoking, such as a Falklands veteran (an ex-para who was involved at the battle of Goose Green and would nowadays probably have been diagnosed with PTSD) getting 4 years imprisonment for football related violence compared to the same judge giving someone from Barnsley a 3 year sentence for the robbery and rape of an 80 year old women. In January 1987, the club’s reputation for hooliganism had become that when Leeds were drawn against non-league Telford United in an FA Cup third round tie, the Shropshire club outright refused to host the game at their ground, this games was then played some 30 miles away at the stadium of West Bromwich Albion. I do believe, though, that football violence is very much a part of our social history, and reasons for it need to be looked at closer than the treatment it gets in the press and courts.