Although Mick concedes that the standard of football intelligence in this country is improving, he is not exactly enamoured by the theories and strategies some of his superiors have formulated. “The biggest fights I’ve seen were between blokes from the same firm fighting about who’s run. It is mostly, he states emphatically, hand to hand and that’s how it should be. Ask him about the hairiest moments undercover, and he’ll say “the whole thing really.” Police clash with Tottenham Hotspur supporters during the second leg of the UEFA Cup final against Feyenoord in Rotterdam. He’s 44, a man mountain actually. The Chelsea-Man United Cup Final (the ultimate fans’ day out) was, he recalls “pretty quiet” last year. “Look…” he says, getting visibly irked by the accusations. Spoiling for fights has … The intelligence is then passed on to commanders in charge of forthcoming matches – “to help them evolve their strategy to counter criminality,” explains Chapman. “Just as the West Ham spotters was about to move in on everyone, one of the Fulham police came running over and said, ‘you’d better fuck off before you get nicked’. Very hard people. Rioting Tottenham Hotspur fans tear down a section of iron railings in a bid to reach the Chelsea supporters before a Division One game at London’s Stamford Bridge ground. Even on holiday, there’ll be someone there wearing an ‘England On Tour’ t-shirt.”. On match-days, other local officers act as “spotters”, identifying trouble-makers before, during and after the game, and monitoring their activities, reporting back on who they associate with, where they drink and what they get up to. “They are dedicated to the same objectives but nowadays they work in much smaller, more tightly-knit groups,” Chapman explains with an element of respect for his opponents. Quite alot,” he grins. “Chelsea Headhunters doesn’t really even EXIST – it’s just a few kids who’ve printed up some cards on those machines that do business cards. Someone will usually vouch for ‘em – probably other undercover police,” he chuckles. It might seem hard to believe sometimes, but football hooliganism is honour and reputation more than hatred. In fact, if we turn up somewhere, for alot of them that’s a result because alot of them don’t really want to get involved in a punch-up anyway.”. If you support Spurs, you can be baptized, read the Qur’an, worship Ganesha, or be an atheist. They’ll say: ‘I know who you are, and if you perform today, we’re gonna nick you. Then they’d start singing for Chelsea. All-seater stadia and close-circuit cameras have driven the violence out of the grounds and into the train stations, motorway service stations, pubs and city centres. “At Aston Villa,” he remembers with a gleam, “there were hundreds of them. Tottenham fans gather in and around White Hart Lane before the Champions League final screening 1st Jun 2019 • 1080p 02:58 Fans fire up PAOK with flares and chanting before Champions League clash with Krasnodar 30th Sep 2020 • 1080p Exclusion orders do not worry them. … “They have no interest in you or I,” Chapman declares bluntly. The ring-leaders will use a “close network of contacts” for criminal activity such as the distribution of drugs, stolen credit cards and counterfeit currency. I was too much into the operation to worry about it. The modern-day hooligan, he says, will use the anonymity of travelling in a large group of supporters “an ideal vehicle to commit a wide spectrum of crime” – such as burglary and armed robbery. Spotters: Kadrey, Lefty Limbo, BoingBoing, In 1971, the Troubles in Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland were in full cry. But over on the right, a fan consoles United star George Best, who was sent off in the match at Chelsea. Anyone with information is asked to call Hammersmith and Fulham police on … Inspector Norman admits that if the good guys know who the spotters are though, so too do the bad guys. But exclusion orders do not prevent fans from travelling to a game, only from seeing it, leaving offenders free to drift round the city centre with more time to drink and prepare for trouble. In the late 80s, even the ICF was run by Cass Pennant who was black. I don’t miss it. He dismisses police talk of decoy attacks and ambushes – “I’ve known it to happen a few times but never on purpose!” They want to reduce this county to rubble. So if Leeds are playing someone else, like Palace, they’ll try and hit them on their way back to Euston. Manchester United were banned from playing at home for the first two games of the season following hooliganism at Old Trafford the previous season.Date: 20/08/1971, UEFA Cup – Final Second Leg – Tottenham Hotspur v FeyenoordTottenham Hotspur fan Errol Rassin is helped off the platform at Liverpool Street Station upon the Spurs’ fans return from Rotterdam. There’s not much they can do about it – they’ve got the reputation.”, When he thinks about next year’s European Championship, he shudders. It’s not even that much to do with football. But it is no longer his problem. They really do. In a nutshell. They’re not worried about who gets caught up in it neither, whereas I’ve always believed that we’ve never been causing anyone any harm, except the people who wanted it.” Tagged 1970s, Aggro, Arsenal, Chelsea, Chris Lightbown, Eccles, football fans, Greenaway, Harry Redknapp, Hooligans, Johnny Hoy, North Bank, The Shed, Time Out, Tottenham, West Ham London riots and football hooliganism The fact that most members of the Yid Army aren’t even Jewish is irrelevant; what matters is that they are Tottenham fans. During one ruck (between West Ham and Chelsea – planned the week before in the pubs when they were all away at an England game) on Parsons Green, most of the Fulham police were working at a Presidential visit by George Bush. But they’ll know when to leave.”. And then work our way in. The National Football Intelligence Unit regarded the Chelsea-Millwall FA Cup clash as merely presenting “a problem in planning and reducing the opportunities for disorder” but only a line of police horses prevented the match ending in a full-scale pitch invasion despite the all-seater stadium and surveillance cameras. I was only 21 years old.”. Joe and the others – “a good mob of us, about 150” – had met up as early as 10am but the pub where they were meeting wouldn’t open. Russian hooligans 'ambushed' and goaded English football fans (Image: SWNS). ” he complains. There’s 35 of you and it’ll be “STAND !” There’s 500 people running at you, and they will stand. The Men In Black is just one name given to the factions of hooligans who support Manchester United — with the larger collective being known more broadly as the Red Army. We will be at Blackfriars at 3 and anyone who’s anyone will know about it. For a big game, far from being tightly-knit, “a good mob will be a case of I’ll bring my mate who’ll bring his mate who’ll bring his mate. I’ve only ever seen them in newspapers to be honest.”, To most people, it seems fairly plain that football hooliganism is all about fighting, nothing to do with politics. “That would take all the fun out of it, wouldnt it ?”. Since the late 1980s and the advent of all-seater stadia, close-circuit surveillance cameras and improved crowd control by the clubs, violence between rival gangs inside football grounds has certainly become unusual. Er…. It’s horrible ! Officers at a special screening for ‘i-d’ remembered an undercover cop from Fulham CID who had gone undercover with Chelsea and never come back: the combination of the camaraderie, the violence and the fun being too good to resist. “One of our boys is actually a Tottenham fan.” Joe laughs. “Got bombarded with ashtrays. “You ask alot of these hooligans why they support such-and-such a team and they’ll say ‘cos they’re hard’. “You become much more aggressive. So they could say they run us out, we could say we’d been in there. Please consider making a donation to our site. football hooligans: conclusion If you were to ask a politician if hooliganism is still a problem today, you would likely be reassured that the problems of the past bear no meaning today. Steve Vistaunet's photgraphs of cassette spine designs take us back to pressing 'play' and 'record' on to make compilation mixes. “It’s gonna go crazy. Not after that.”, With Chelsea or England, any objections to their approach is dismissed with the irrefutable logic, “They probably wouldn’t qualify anyway.”, Even talking about the Euro ’96 tournament gets the blood going. “Some are villains, some running their own business… ordinary people really.”, Gangs in tight-knit communities supporting the smaller clubs in the lower divisions might be based on local pride and partisan loyalty, but what most hardcore fans have in common, Mick explains, is: “they are people who like violence and making trouble. The head of the Football Intelligence Unit, D.I.Peter Chapman, appeared on the show confirming the Ireland-England disturbances had been a consequence of “a hardcore of 50 or more who wanted to use the game to make a political point” but the rest of their evidence looked decidedly tenuous. The ICF boys in1988 all knew there were police about and Joe know at least one person who “could well be from Interpol.” But you stand and you’ll be amazed how many of them won’t do anything. More than anything, he is probably most afraid of being fitted up the way the ICF were in the late 80’s (so maybe the case did act as a deterrent after all). Three hours after the game, on neutral territory (Whitechapel High Street in Mile End) as many as 300-400 fans engaged in a pitched battle, running through the traffic, bottles and bricks flying. “Why the hell they are having it here, I do not know. “But if an incident doesn’t happen – because we turn up in advance,” Peter Chapman wonders philosophically, “does that mean the information was good ?” – which is the football equivalent of “if a tree falls in the woods and there’s no-one there, does it makes a noise.”, Intelligence these days is gathered through spotters whose preparations for a potentially troublesome away game will include quizzing local coach companies, watching the ticket queues to see who’s buying tickets in bulk, and gleaning gossip from “decent football supporters, pub landlords and stewards who might have heard a whisper.” The authorities under-estimate their opponents at their peril. “They’re fanatical !” he complains. You mean Mace, I say, thinking back to the weapons cabinet. They started using the Tottenham Hotspur Someone would usually arrange something. You can never be sure that someone’s not going to stick a blade in you, no. Others from places like Wigan and Burnley (ludicrously) proclaim their opposition to the IRA and the Pope, whilst an alarming degree of prominence is given to Combat 18, the group recently branded by ‘World in Action’ as “a right-wing terror organisation forging links between fascism and football”, and in particular ‘the Chelsea Headhunters.”. That whole programme was rubbish ! At that time the IFC was so regimented that each age group had a name. Like a ball and chain. Personally, he doesn’t think it would be at all difficult for the police to infiltrate them. It’s ridiculous !! They do not owe us anything. It will be massively contained in the grounds but on days when the football isn’t on ? Of course,” he admits, “we got kicked from the top of the Holte End to the bottom. You could meet up with him in any pub round West London (the Chelsea hardcore don’t really have one regular base), have a drink with him, and come away thinking what a genial, good-humoured bloke he was. But with hindsight, it is frightening. He has never asked anyone suspect for their i-d, although he knows “alot of the top boys are worried about getting their mobiles tapped”. “The real hardcore get their kicks by organising the confrontations and watching them take place. He remembers every game, every journey, every pub and every fight with amazingly vivid detail and yes, there have been alot of them. Tottenham’s relegation in 1976-77 gave them a chance to rebuild and in the summer of 1978, with promotion won, they signed Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricard Villa from Argentina’s triumphant World Cup squad. During the Depression people used cotton flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes, curtains, diapers, awnings and other household items. “We talk about it for weeks – ‘what are we going to do for Tottenham this year ?’” he explains, in the same way that most people talk about doing something special for Easter. Whereas Chelsea like distress flares, Liverpool used to be famous for darts – “Tungsten as well, not cheap ones. These are their special occasions. A Policeman escorts a young fan nursing an injured head at Stamford Bridge, where rioting spectators spilled over the barriers before the start of Chelsea’s League Division Two promotion battle against London rivals Millwall.Date: 12/02/1977, First aid for a young fan at White Hart Lane after crowd trouble broke out during the League Division One match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United.Date: 12/02/1977, Southampton stewards ‘handling’ a fan after fights broke out between rival supporters at the end of the FA Cup tie betwen Southampton and Manchester United at The Dell, Southampton.Date: 27/02/1977, West Ham Utd v Manchester UtdA terrified girl clings to one of the ambulance men working among fans on the pitch at Upton park, London, as fighting on the terraces and crowd invasion of the field caused a 19 minute stoppage of play in the match between West Ham and Manchester United.Date: 25/10/1975. West Ham HATE 1: Millwall 2: Tottenham 3: Chelsea (2 and 3 could be switched but I think due to proximity the Tottenham rivalry is slightly more heated – nowadays at least) 4: Arsenal. There will never be a World Cup in this country. That’s how you win respect from them. Every Saturday though, up and down the country, the two camps – the hooligans and the police – are busy planning in what has become a battle of wits, a game of cat-and-mouse. “Some of our spotters went down there and got rumbled immediately,” he chuckles. “Well,” he says, thinking about it for a moment. They know inside the ground is the safest place to put them.”. For great art and culture delivered to your door, visit our shop. It’s because of the spotters and undercover boys, he says, that 9 times out of 10, a big game like Chelsea-Leeds passes off without incident. A film like ‘i-d’, he jokes, will probably become a police training video. That is their adrenalin buzz. Football Hooligans GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS When 35 year-old Crystal Palace fan Paul Nixon was killed on his way to an FA Cup semi-final with Manchester United after a pitched battle involving coach-loads of opposing fans erupted outside a pub six miles from the ground, John Stalker, the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, speculated that the fight could have been pre-arranged. Gareth Bale to Tottenham Hotspur is a rumour that never really goes away. 9 times out of 10, they don’t expect you to get off the train 30 miles away.”, If a game is being played near somewhere nice (like Blackpool) or somewhere tasty (like Portsmouth), they’ll go up the day before and “have it on the Friday night – make a weekend of it.”. “Five years ago the idea of us hosting a major international tournament would have been unthinkable,” Chapman smiles confidently. From Monday, he was to be put back on the beat – in the same area where he’d been working undercover. Joe, though, is the sort of person who gives the football authorities nightmares. Though Joe himself has been bottled a couple of times, had a few cracked ribs and coinings, and one or two of his mates have been cut up fairly badly, they have always pulled through in the end. Joe can have a drink with anyone, if it’s not a match day or a fight day, no trouble. “It wrecks what personal life you have,” he says. Not with all the random searches they do. Most of the modern-day measures police use to combat the problem are invariably the result of the police applying their own minds to the problem. I miss the other four officers. !” he complains, sounding like an irate tax-payer. Sometimes, he admits, they will get someone to pass something on to the spotters or even give the Hooligan Hotline a ring with some false info. Connell pre-empted Tottenham’s verbal insult by adopting it for As for the rest of the measures, they just work round them. Although it transpired that the fighting was probably the result of a spontaneous, drunken, flare-up over United’s wayward French forward Eric Cantona, the prospect that the confrontation had been organised in advance would have shocked those members of the public who thought ‘football hooliganism’ referred to groups of right-wing extremists and mindless young yobbos following England abroad. “As for that bloke from the Football Intelligence Unit on ‘World In Action’… “WHAT intelligence ? A mounted policeman watches the situation closely as colleagues deal with crowd trouble at the Brisbane Road ground before the League Division Two match between Orient and Manchester United on the opening day of the 1974/75 season. If we’re playing Birmingham, we’ll go to Wolverhampton. His biggest problem was other policemen – saying ‘hello’ to him when he went to the ground ! You can also support us by signing up to our Mailing List. Within days of an inspector at the Met telling me: “it’s very difficult to cause trouble if you’re sitting down at a football match”, fans at both the Ireland-England and Zaragoza-Chelsea games were using the seats they had been sitting on as ammunition to throw at rival fans and the police. That was his exact words. The court heard that on October 14, 2000, a group of Tottenham Hotspur fans were making their way along Sky Blue Way following a match at Highfield Road when a confrontation erupted. Against only 20 or 30 of us. Back in 1985, when an FA Cup game between Luton and Millwall ended with some of the worst scenes ever seen on television, Millwall predictably got the blame. Arresting, prosecuting and convicting the perpetrators is not a priority. The violence will be pre-arranged but not necessarily well-organised. “Teams like Portsmouth, Bolton, Bristol, have got a good hardcore cos they all know each other.”, Those of us with different priorities than Joe’s expect people like him to care about his team being penalised because of the trouble they commit. Once, in the old days, he says, after a bit of homework about the opponents’ team, in case the police checked you on the way in, a group of them would go in and stand right in the middle of the home end until the game started. Football hooligan, 31, made infamous by BBC documentary Football Fight Club is caught in VIP section of Tottenham's new stadium despite being banned from every ground in the country. Chelsea’s game in Bruges was another example. Covent Garden on a Saturday night was always a good bet.”. But the other 5000 there were Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham, Arsenal… Everyone knew it was going down cos all week Luton had been telling everyone they were going to take Millwall, and saying anyone who came down was gonna get a battering. The name of the game is territory, defending your own or taking the enemy’s. After every game, the Unit receives a spotters’ report and a post-match summary from officers attached to both clubs. Date: 18/11/1978. He was never to go near the ground or the pubs he had been frequenting ever again. They’ll know more about me than anyone else ever will.”. TIMELINE 10 January 1971 - Members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) carried out an early form of 'punishment attack' by tarring and feathering four men who were accused of criminal activities in, Julie Newmar was Catgirl. It’s hard to see how the authorities can ever get the evidence necessary when even officers like Mick says he won’t wear a wire – “in case they get you to strip. ONE OF THE ironies about people like Joe – one that I couldn’t say whether the Football Intelligence Unit will appreciate or not – is the reason why they’ve not been going so much lately. Each match represents another challenge to foil and frustrate the hooligans’ plans. Linked with Portsmouth F.C., and named after the 6.57am train they would take to London’s Waterloo Station on a Saturday, the 6.57 Crew were one of the major firms during the 1980s, causing mayhem across the country. Most of the police that know them, especially the ones that travel with them, are usually OK, he says. When 35 year-old Crystal Palace fan Paul Nixon was killed on his way to an FA Cup semi-final with Manchester United after a pitched battle involving coach-loads of opposing fans erupted outside a pub six miles from the ground, John Stalker, the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, speculated that the fight could have been pre-arranged. I dread to think what’s going to go on… it’s frightening.”. You don’t wanna carry calling cards around with you ! This has less to do with the chance of getting injured than getting nicked. Date: 30/05/1974. This is not a good thing. They wanna smash it up. When they chased them out, we were waiting for them.”, The second part of the action was organised after the game when Joe joined in a mob of Spurs fans actually being escorted by the police. Even when Chelsea’s cup-run was going well, the prospect of a ban for crowd trouble was not hardly a disincentive.. But they couldn’t do anything cos I wasn’t doing anything wrong.”. “We’re in our own country this time, the Dutch, the Germans and the Italians are going to want to come over here and show us who’s best,” he says, sounding not unlike a manager giving a team-talk. More serious charges, such as conspiracy or intent, are now prohibitively difficult to prove unless offenders are identified by independent witnesses or clearly caught on video. “Know your enemy” is one of the keys to planning any strategy, or playing any game, and at times men like Chapman, a shrewd, idealistic Yorkshireman, who lives and breathes football and football hooligans, talks the problems of his work with a passion you could almost mistake for enthusiasm. The other minor detail in the theory is that alot of the top boys behind organised football violence are BLACK, always have been.” The name of the game though for most hooligans is fighting – organised battles between gangs, who can be “fanatically partisan”, where the rules of engagement are mutually understood and observed. He ended up living a full-time false identity for two a half years in an operation that was originally intended to be 3 or 4 months. The European Championships ! A Football firm is often the term given to a group of football hooligans who are travelling together often to engage in violence with the other teams firm. Smaller clubs will turn out more for the teams with bad reputations – “so that they can say ‘we ran Millwall ! Despite incidents like this, D.I. They’re as British as Page 3 girls or fish and chips – but they’re far from tasty, except when it comes to a brutal scrap. Knives, you might think, are positively quaint compared to some of the weaponry he’s seen used. The cost of what they do, he says, means most of the firms are working. Inter Milan Ultras Pictures Inter Milan Ultras put on a display before the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 2010. “We’ve got to defend our country. “I used to have some, but I had to get rid of it cos my daughter found it at home. Date: 30/05/1974, English First Division – Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United – White Hart LaneA touchline tussle, as police deal with unruly spectators.Date: 12/02/1977, FA Cup – Sixth Round – Newcastle United v Nottingham ForestA policeman with an Alsatian herds the Newcastle United fans back onto the terraces after they invaded the pitch, hoping to get the match abandoned with their team 3-1 down and a man short Date: 09/03/1974, Soccer – Football League Division Two – Orient v Manchester UnitedA Manchester United fan is chased by a policemanDate: 17/08/1974, Football League Division Two – Orient v Manchester UnitedA Manchester United fan is arrested by policeman after the riotDate: 17/08/1974, Football League Division Two – Cardiff City v Manchester United – Ninian ParkA fan is arrested during scuffles between rival fans outside Ninian ParkDate: 31/08/1974, Football League Division Two – Sheffield Wednesday v Manchester United – HillsboroughMounted policemen help to deal with trouble making fans after fighting broke out in the crowd.Date: 07/12/1974, Football League Division One – Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea – White Hart LaneAn unruly fan is pinned down by a policeman after trouble erupted before the matchDate: 19/04/1975, Football League Division One – Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea – White Hart LaneA young fan is carried away by a policeman after trouble erupted before the matchDate: 19/04/1975, Football League Division One – Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea – White Hart LaneA policeman’s helmet goes flying as he wades into the crowd to quell an outbreak of fightingDate: 19/04/1975, League Division One – Arsenal v Manchester United – HighburyPolice try to control the crowd at Highbury before Arsenal’s match against Manchester United.Date: 22/11/1975. Sometimes even if your own team was playing at home, if something like West Ham-Chelsea was on, you’d go over to the East End anyway and create merry hell,” he laughs. In fact, gangs of vicious soccer thugs leave a … Just as, for most foreign police forces, the priority is simply to get visiting English football hooligans back to England (without charge), local forces in England will not devote valuable resources to arresting or convicting offenders who do not come from their patch and will not be in circulation again, thus leaving the field of play open. “No, maces,” he says cheerfully. Echoing a number of investigations in the late ’80s, the film follows the fate of an undercover cop who infiltrates a ‘firm’ of hooligans and finds himself becoming caught up by the gang’s "We will also be checking whether any of them were known hooligans." Joe’s viewpoint isn’t necessarily based on any moral objections to the issue, just logic: “World In Action’s alleged Combat 18 mastermind,” he objects, “is an ARSENAL fan (say no more) and half of Chelsea’s team (the good half) are BLACK. Thousands. When Joe and a few mates went down to Margate one summer (nothing to do with football), the spotters were there waiting when they got there. How, for example, are the Football Intelligence Unit supposed to counter-act someone who complains about the number of times he’s been rounded up in some godforsaken Northern town where Chelsea have been playing, escorted to the stadium in time for kick-off and ended up “stuck in the ground for the whole game” when he hadn’t even bought a ticket ?! Look at the way, for instance, they have adapted a policy of keeping visiting fans in the ground after the match. About 200 people were reported to be injured in the violence. That’s ridiculous. Or teenagers running riot, smashing up cars all over the place, beating up anyone in sight.” That, and Newcastle United fans. Most of the incidents are prevented. Many’s the time, he’s gone to England away game and sent postcards to the Football Association detailing what he’s got up to. Less surveillance, less segregation: “more of a laugh.” Football firms often have 'firm' within their name for example 'West ham ICF' the 'Inter City Firm' The Story Of Hooligan Britain. And you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Neither does making games all-ticket, and admitting the club’s Official Supporters coach parties only. He recalls one FA Cup game, away to Wigan, when he and 3 of his mates parked in the players’ car park (“in a Mark 3 Cortina”), having told everyone he was Chelsea winger, Peter Rhodes-Brown. Ads to bring you the Best of visual culture against Bayern Munich in 2010 because... 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