When the cameras started rolling, the seven men burst into chants of "CCS! CCS!" with Andy Blance and Bobby Lipscombe lifting their Hibs jerseys to reveal their CCS mottoes and other casual-related slogans - much to the horror of the show's execs, who finally realised who they had booked on. Cunningham, Jennifer (18 September 1990). "Same old behaviour: we simply see it in a more violent light". The Herald. Detectives estimate up to 70 people were involved in the battle but only 30 were identified and arrested. Less than half successfully argued they were innocently caught up in the fighting.

Giulianotti, Richard; Armstrong, Gary (2002). "Avenues of contestation. Football hooligans running and ruling urban spaces". Social Anthropology. 10 (2): 211–238. doi: 10.1017/S0964028202000149. ISSN 1469-8676.Sharpe, Allan (Director) Bean, Sean (Narrator) (1994). Trouble on the Terraces (VHS Cassette). Castle Home Video. Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is helping one of Scotland's worst football thugs cash in on his violent past - describing him as a "good pal".

As it was Bobby's idea, we got him to phone Sky and put our case. To his surprise he got through to Tim Lovejoy, the co-presenter." Politicians were stunned McCann had been let off so lightly, despite promises by the Scottish Government to get tough on football hooligans. Influenced by these music scenes a local Edinburgh band was formed called the Guitar Casuals, one of whom was a Hibs boy. Trouble frequently occurred wherever they played and they were ultimately banned from most of the live venues in the city. [45] Fashion [ edit ] The Capital City Service (CCS) is a Scottish football hooligan firm associated with Hibernian F.C. and active from 1984 when the casual hooligan subculture took off in Scotland. 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. 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. [3] [4] Finn, G. (1987). Casual Talk and Casual Observation: The Phenomenon of the "Soccer Casuals". Invited paper to the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, Glasgow.EVIL!; The rude the bad and the ugly... return of the scum that tried to shame all of Scotland. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. According to Blance, fellow CCS member Bobby Lipscombe managed to get through to Soccer AM's other co-presenter Tim Lovejoy and managed to persuade him that the Hibs fans would be worthy of making an appearance. MLA style: "AXEMAN BOSS OF HIBEES CASUALS; Notorious gang led by bouncer Blance.." The Free Library. 2003 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday 27 Nov. 2023 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/AXEMAN+BOSS+OF+HIBEES+CASUALS%3b+Notorious+gang+led+by+bouncer+Blance.-a0101168705

In the book Blance writes: "Bobby Lipscombe's suggestion for a group of us to apply on Sky Television's Saturday morning football show Soccer AM was a stroke of genius.If the hibs mob was a true hibs mob they would never had allowed hearts boys to join them, they just wanted to be a great mob and took all the casuals they could get to be number one, or two if you liked the ASC better.

CCS leaders downplayed links to drugs, stating that some members would have been involved in crime “regardless” of their association with the firm.McCann, of Edinburgh,was at the centre of last March’s pre-planned battle at Glasgow Central station involving Hibs and Rangers thugs and members of the notorious Chelsea Headhunters gang. Lowles & Nicholls 2005, Hibernian p. 255 "between 1988 and 1994 the CCS dominated Scottish hooliganism" For the Fans". Edinburgh Evening News. 15 February 1985. pp.CCS: For Raith Rovers meet at Waverley 1 p.m.