{"id":292813,"date":"2023-09-17T08:19:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T08:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=292813"},"modified":"2023-09-17T08:19:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T08:19:50","slug":"hooligan-firm-came-at-us-with-chains-and-sticks-for-60-vs-60-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/hooligan-firm-came-at-us-with-chains-and-sticks-for-60-vs-60-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hooligan firm came at us with chains and sticks for 60 vs 60 fight’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hibs Casuals were once one of the most feared hooligan football gangs in Britain – but Rangers were up for a scrap.<\/p>\n

Among the most well-known faces in the Hibernian firm, also known as the Capital City Service or CSS, was Bobby Lipscombe – who relished the harrowing violence that would follow.<\/p>\n

The recalled event between gangs of 60 men took place back in 1994 according to the account of Lipscombe, who once admitted to kicking a rival fan unconscious – described as cabbaging.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Scottish Herald back in 2000, he said: "One mass battle I remember well is when we arranged to fight Rangers casuals in Slateford Road around 1994.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Fans glassed and 30-man hooligan mobs \u2013 unruly chaos of England's last match in Scotland<\/b><\/p>\n

"It is miles from the Hibs ground at Easter Road. Actually, it's far closer to Hearts' ground. When we saw them they were carrying chains and sticks and all that stuff.<\/p>\n

"We just had our fists and boots. Occasionally, you would get some guy with us who slashed somebody. But as a rule, it was strictly toe-to-toe.<\/p>\n

"I remember that day well. There was about 60 on each side and it was nasty. Real, bloody nasty. One guy, a Rangers bloke got caught, and cabbaged. Absolutely cabbaged.<\/p>\n

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"Head hanging all bloody. By the time we had finished with him, he was barely conscious.<\/p>\n

"One of the CCS boys said that he'd had enough. I disagreed and kicked the guy's head again. He went out cold. He would have done the same to me."<\/p>\n

Lipscombe spoke of the violence he saw at Euro 2000, saying it was expected with hooliganism on the rise across Europe.<\/p>\n

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\u00a322 a month<\/p>\n

Although group meet-ups are far less common more than two decades later, violence still leads to weekly arrests around Europe.<\/p>\n

In October of 2022, seven Rangers fans were arrested by Merseyside Police for affray as well as being drunk and disorderly.<\/p>\n

After the 2019\/20 Premier League season, figures released by the Home Office showed Leeds fans had the mosts arrests, including 10 for violent disorder.<\/p>\n

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