Tae be there an' that": The Creation of Social Realities and Social Identities Among the Football "Casuals". This afforded the opportunity for bonds to be forged through the shared experiences of following the team and responding to the actions of opposing fans. He was a frontline participant of the CCS and the story relays confrontations between them and other mobs as well as Roy's personal discourse on what it was like to be a Hibs casual.

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This gang existed for only a short time and when it was disbanded the CCS members of it went on to become a significant part of the Manchester United superfirm the Men in Black. The railway network provided convenient access to the requisite city or town centre and from there the CCS would walk to the football stadium regardless of distance. An illustration of this occurred prior to a pre-season friendly at Easter Road Stadium against Leeds United in 2004. The intention of this new mob was to cause trouble at any game they appeared at, regardless of who was playing, either in Scotland, England or abroad, such as during the 1998 World Cup in France. He claims to be a passionate Hibs fan, but it appears what happened off the pitch was often more exciting for him than events on.This new friendship of youths from different areas of the city was a contrast to the existing area gang ethos that had been a feature of the capital since the 1950s. One of the first members of the Hibs Capital City Service, he has been right at the heart of every CCS encounter for the last twenty-five years, apart of course from those he missed while in prison.

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Over the years accusations of a range of criminal activity not linked to football has been levelled towards the CCS as a whole as well as individuals within it. Blance also claims in the book that his links with CCS put him in association with leading Edinburgh gangland figures. For example, during the 1994/95 season, for a visit of Dundee hooligans, it was a public house in a quiet white collar part of the New Town area [53] and against the Rangers mob it was at a suburban railway station in Slateford, which was regarded as deep within Hearts fans territory. In 1990, a pre-season friendly was organised between Hibs and Millwall, whose casuals were among the largest and most vicious in Britain. The scene had been set in March 1985 when Aberdeen casuals pounced on their rivals in the shadow of Easter Road.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. The story of the Capital City Service, the Hibs casuals who became the most notorious gang in Scotland. This led to their inclusion in a Home Office Affairs Committee investigation into football hooligan gangs activity in the UK in the early 1990s. Their roots were in the previous incarnations of hooligan groups attached to the club and also the wider Edinburgh and surrounding area's gang culture.