Thread: Hooligan-West Ham Utd 1980's (rare)

Following West Ham Utd's infamous I.C.F. firm during the early 1980's

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance...-united-1-of-4

Thats Cass. He's like a legend where im from

Top man Smash, keep them coming cc

No worries people.
I actually haven't see this for ages and my mate has it on VHS from years ago (they were selling copies signed by Cass pennant outside Upton Park a few years ago).
The clothes and haircuts just crack me up

Top Quality Smash!

Have you noticed the many Northern pooftas getting a good beating
I really do f*cking miss the terraces you know Wembley (although amazing etc) just isn't the same if im honest.
Used to love watching England, standing behind the goal with my older Brother then ending up 200 meters across the stadium after we'd scored

I cant help but have a little giggle any time I hear football hooligans talk on documentaries. The last one I watched was about Chelsea, fuck knows what they are called but they were down at Bristol City and had a bit of handbags with the City mob, fuck knows what they are called either. One of the Chelsea boys was right on one because he had beaten up City's 'top boy' Shannon

Memphis knew Shannon, he was a right Muppet who couldnt fight for toffee

Since the football factory came out there has definately been a rise in little 'firms' but they are just drunk kids trying to do what was going on 20-30 years ago.
So sad imo when you see it going on now and almost laughable.
Back in the day though it was like a national sport and highly organised,a good few of those ICF chaps are minted now.
They were such a known firm that they ended up doing the security at Mark Kaylors fight with Gumms in the 80's.
After it all come on top Andy Swallow (one of the very naughty ones) went into the rave promoting business.....
My missus who is 34 this year used to go clubbing way back in the day and the big London parties were Energy and Raindance and on a few occasions the ICF would go up to the entrance and simply say 'we run the door now so f*ck off' to the security team then take over basically and at £25 a ticket and 20,000 punters in attendance you can see the appeal,not to mention the fact that they could control the flow of ecstacy and other drugs that everyone was taking SERIOUS £££. (pills were £15 a go in those days)
Basically the rave scene killed footy hooliganism stone dead in the late 80's absolutely no question about it.

There always be violence in football but any chance of organised hooligans getting away with shit was gone when CCTV was introduced. If you see any bother during a game these days the stewards will just spread out between the fans and point video cameras at the troublemakers. If you go to any local derby all the away fans are escourted to the train station sharpish. You just can't get away with shit anymore. England are light years ahead of other countries with security though you still get chaos all over europe, the Italians are fuckin nuts and yet we still have the hooligan reputation

Our reputation definately proceeds us when abroad.
Found this classic from a few years back
MUST SEE (who remembers this?)
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...arch&plindex=0

Hooliganism was on full display when the BBC broadcast a documentary about the notorious Chelsea Headhunters football hooligans. Over the whole of the last football season, BBC journalist Donal McIntyre spent time in the company of some of Britain's most violent hooligans.

McIntyre, and several other BBC journalists, secretly filmed football violence, the organising of fights and the boasting afterwards. More importantly perhaps, the programme gave the viewers an insight into the minds and mentally of English hooligans.

McIntyre befriended Jason Marriner, 32, a long-time hooligan and loyalist. Through Marriner, he was to meet some of the most violent hooligans around: Andy Frain, nickmaned Nightmare, who boasted while on the way up to Scotland of cutting up an off-duty policeman; the twins, David and Ian Sim, who were later to be sent to prison for attacking Spurs fans; Stuart Glass, who was filmed on camera snorting cocaine off a pub table; and Tony Covele, one of the country's best known hooligans.

While most of the Chelsea hooligans McIntyre met were in their thirties, he also crossed paths with the Reading Youth Firm, a younger group of hooligans in their late teens and early twenties who follow Reading. They too were involved in drug-dealing, violence and nazi politics.

It was, therefore, unsurprising that his journey brought him into contact with some of Britain's most extreme nazis.

"some of Britain's most extreme nazis"

I thought all Nazis were pretty fucking extreme!

Donal Mcintyre recieved constant death threats after this was aired around 6 years ago and still gets them today.
Forgot how good this was.
Brave man.

Ah! fwocken hooligans....

I'd love to see them try that shit! while playing in Mexico City, Colombia or El Salvador see if they even wake up alive the next day in their hotel rooms.
Hooligans, players, coaches and all would be on the go.

How the fwock do you fight off a country/people who kill their own for loosing a game?

read cass pennants book and he seems like a nice guy and apparently once saved big frank bruno from a kickin off a loada skinheads. I saw Carlton leach in the vid 2 he turned out to be a very naughty man, in the criminal world.

Carltons a MONSTER