On 5 January 1985, an FA Cup third-round tie between Burton Albion and Leicester City was replayed after Albion goalkeeper Paul Evans was wounded by a block of wood thrown from the City end of the neutral Baseball Ground. We had stewards, and police were waiting in two vans nearby and kept coming in and out every half-hour to check everything was all right. Five men were arrested at the scene and charged with offensive behaviour at a football match and possession of an offensive weapon. Shortly after this the CCS were ambushed by the SS in the Watsonville Park and the two crews fought a pitched battle.

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Certainly it is a long time since followers of the Scottish national team or [Scotland's] great club sides have caused the sickening mayhem which English fans have produced in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Spain and Switzerland in the past three years. Towards the end of the match fighting breaks out on the East Terrace between Hibs boys and Rangers fans as they both overcame the segregation fences to get at each other, the game is held up and the players are taken off the pitch until the police gain control of the crowd. Aberdeen casuals had travelled to Glasgow to fight against Rangers hooligans and have a party for one of their founding members. After the game as the Rangers Inter City Firm were in a police escort nearing Waverley Station a group of Hibs casuals wearing Rangers colours ambushed the ICF who defended themselves by spraying CS gas.They are more commonly known in the media and amongst the public as the Hibs Casuals though within the hooligan network they may also be referred to as Hibs boys. This quickly escalated into fighting between the casuals and police which resulted in seven arrests at the scene.

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After the match the CCS clashed with Liege hooligans and there were 5 arrests, two of them were Hibs casuals. After the match the CCS and the CSF, who had some Rangers ICF in tow, clashed in Lothian Road with bottles and traffic cones being used as missiles. Racial abuse of black players was a common feature of hooliganism during the 1970s and even more so in the 1980s, when they were first prominent in the English leagues. France 98 was marred by violence as English fans clashed with the North African locals of Marseille, leading to up to 100 fans being arrested.When the LSD arrived there was a brief skirmish on the terracing culminating in the police escorting the CCS into the adjacent Hibs end. The same newspaper later described Everton supporters as the "roughest, rowdiest rabble who watches British soccer. In the course of the afternoon there was various skirmishes outside a bar in Rose Street and in surrounding side-streets between Hibs boys and Dundee Utility. The two mobs had a brief skirmish before the police stepped in and ejected the Hibs mob from the stadium. On 15 August 1987, thousands of Wolverhampton Wanderers supporters invaded the seaside town of Scarborough for their opening game of their Fourth Division campaign.

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After the game the English mob resorted to ripping up fences to use as weapons as they clashed with the Scottish mob outside Mount Florida railway station and also on Jamaica Street Bridge. Fighting broke out in the street between the opposing mobs which led to two Celtic boys receiving head injuries. The remainder of the CCS were still in Manchester attacking Manchester City boys in a bar and as more local hooligans arrived this stramash spilled out onto the main road. A steward died after serious clashes between firms from Aston Villa and Queens Park Rangers after a League Cup game in September 2004. However, by 1997, it was said by Reuters that the English game had "virtually rid itself of the hooligan scourge".

After some 20 years of improved behaviour among English football fans, extreme scenes of rioting and hooliganism took place at Upton Park on 25 August 2009 during a Football League Cup second round tie between London rivals West Ham United and Millwall. In a scene described as resembling more of a mob fight than police crowd control, 1 Hibs boy was bitten by a police dog and twelve men were eventually arrested and charged with police assaults and breaches of the peace. These two events led to introduction of crowd segregation and the erection of fences at football grounds in England.

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Hibs and Aberdeen casuals fought each other in the standing enclosure section of the West Stand and then after the match there were further running battles between them around Waverley station.By the 1980s the Casual manifestation [ clarification needed] of football hooliganism was adopted by fans of many clubs in Scotland with Aberdeen being the first club with a "casual" following and the established skinhead/punk hooligan elements from Airdrieonians, Hearts and Rangers that had dominated prior to this were then challenged by casual firms (or 'mobs' as they were more popularly known as in Scotland). After the rearranged fixture was played a small gang of ASC and CCS clashed initially at the junction of Bothwell Street and Easter Road where also other Hibs supporters got involved in the rammy. He states that roughly half of the team's hooligans became involved in selling class A drugs, partly because of the wave of drugs that came with early 1990s rave culture, a scene that football hooligans were at the centre of.