The hibs mob were able to swagger into the hibs shed no problem and didn't get grief at all, if they had tried that in the Hearts shed that would've been torn to pieces. So all the young lads who wanted a mob in Edinburgh went to Hibs including a lot of Hearts casuals and other boys who either supported other teams or supported no teams at all and just wanted to be part of a huge mob. I knew plenty of Hibs casuals who couldn't even name two hibs players at that time. As the CCS evolved an informal hierarchy appeared but there was no singular leader or 'top boy' as was usual for other crews. Instead, a committee of five individuals who had garnered enough respect amongst their peers took to the task of planning and organising for the gang's activities at football. [41] By the early to mid-1990s this system had expired and was replaced mainly by two protagonists who arranged most battles and who were also striving for control of the mob. [2] Sharpe, Allan (Director) Bean, Sean (Narrator) (1994). Trouble on the Terraces (VHS Cassette). Castle Home Video.

The hibs support themselves at that time had no spine and were just grateful that they had a hooligan mob that stopped them from getting grief from Hearts, Rangers and Celtic fans. I followed Hearts from 83-89 and never ran into the CCS at Easter Rd, maybe they jumped Hearts fans in the city centre. But Hearts used to take over 10,000 fans to easter Rd, Hibs support at Tynescastle was a disgrace, to the point where in 89 I think Hearts split the gorgie rd end to allow more Hearts fans in. Blance, 42, gained infamy as part of the violent Hibs gang the Capital City Service, or CCS. In a new book, he tells how he turned into a fully-fledged criminal. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Capital City Service (CCS), who aligned themselves with Edinburgh team Hibs, were among the most violent football hooligan groups in British football. McCall, Kenny; Robb, John (2007). After the Match the Game Begins: The True Story of the Dundee Utility. John Blake. ISBN 9781844544516.For the Fans". Edinburgh Evening News. 15 February 1985. pp.CCS: For Raith Rovers meet at Waverley 1 p.m.

King, Martin; Knight, Martin (1999). The Naughty Nineties: Football's Coming Home?. Mainstream. ISBN 9781840181913. Lowles & Nicholls 2005, Hibernian p. 255 "between 1988 and 1994 the CCS dominated Scottish hooliganism" A pivotal moment in this formative season was when the CCS encountered the leading casual gang at the time in Scotland - the Aberdeen Soccer Casuals - before a Hibernian v. Aberdeen game in Edinburgh. The two mobs clashed on Easter Road and after some fighting the CCS ran away, but one Hibs boy got severely beaten and was in a coma for a week. Rather than deter them, this near-tragedy emboldened the fledgling gang to continue with their efforts in being casual hooligans. At the next Hibs match, against local rivals Hearts at Tynecastle, the CCS fared a lot better when they came up against the notorious Gorgie Aggro. This also proved to be a turning point in the Edinburgh football hooligan scene. [9] [41] Structure within the gang [ edit ]

SCOTTISH football thugs went to Spain for their anniversary bash – and ended up getting battered by a rival gang. By the late 1990s a leading Hibs casual had opened a clothes shop on South Clerk Street in Edinburgh called Original Casuals. [120] Rivers, Dan (2007). Congratulations, You Have Just Met the Casuals: The True Story of Aberdeen's Staunchest Fans. John Blake Publishing, Limited. ISBN 9781844543076.

Brimson, Dougie (2003). Eurotrashed: The Rise and Rise of Europe's Football Hooligans. Headline. ISBN 9780755311101. When Lovejoy asked why Soccer AM should put Hibs fans on the show, Lipscombe replied matter-of-factly that the club was top of the Scottish Premier League. It was enough for Lovejoy and the Soccer AM team to acquiesce.Marshall, Chris (12 August 2009). "Hunt for Hibs hooligans after riot in Bolton shopping park". Edinburgh Evening News . Retrieved 12 June 2011. The concept of going to the football to fight and enjoy the fighting is an alien one to me. Andy Blance was a member of the CCS the Hibernian casuals who go to follow their football team but feel the need to have a brawl with casuals of other Scottish, English and European like minded people who want to fight.

He joined the CCS at the age of 17 and helped organise a Scottish supermob in 1998 to take on English hooligans. He added: "I was asked if I could 'call-in' the debt. Obviously, we all know what that means. The player was facing a severe doing or even worse. But I refused point blank. Hibs Baby Crew (HBC) - Circa 1987 the popularity of football hooliganism and of the CCS activities had attracted another set of young and eager recruits in much the same way as the previous baby crew. The dissolution of this group followed the same pattern as the BBC. [41] By the early part of the 21st century there was a further wave of casual styled hooligans attached to Hibernian who had resurrected the moniker of the Hibs Baby Crew. This consisted of youths attracted to football hooliganism for similar reasons as their predecessors and quite often enough they could have been sons or nephews of older hooligans. [47] Strategies and tactics [ edit ] The CCS enters Waverley Station in 1984 Finn, G. (1989). "Tae be there an' that": The Creation of Social Realities and Social Identities Among the Football "Casuals". Paper to the Annual Conference of the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, Glasgow, September.Guilianotti, Richard (1994). Keep it in the family: An outline of the social ontology of Hibs Casuals, Game without Frontiers: Football, Identity and Modernity. ISBN 978-1-85742-219-1. I was asked if I could ‘call-in’ the debt. We all know what that means. The player was facing a severe doing or even worse. But I refused point blank.