Armed for the Match: The Troubles and Trial of the Chelsea Headhunters

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THE self-styled king of Scottish football casuals James าFatsำ McLeod has been shot in the face in a seedy Thai sex resort. me/0vcr2">canada goose jackets cheapcanada goose outlet 92230 hotels in new york canada goose outlet 92230 hotels in myrtle beach sc [ http://url. Jason acknowledged that this event sparked his passion for football violence, as he found an identity with his fellow Chelsea supporters. Sentenced to ten years for organising violence (later overturned after police evidence was questioned), Hickmott was replaced with Chris "Chubby" Henderson, a long-time nazi activist and singer with the Oi band Combat 84.

When we got off at Putney my mate said that was Hicky even as a 14 year old I'd heard of him and told everyone at school about it on the Monday morning.

The violence reached its worst in a May 1985 riot in Brussels, which led to the death of 39 people, most of them Italians. LONDON -- A judge Monday sentenced five 'of the nastiest, most ruthless and most vicious' soccer fans to up to 10 years in prison for organizing six years of violence that frequently turned English and European stadiums into battlefields. The chance to rekindle the tribal camaraderie and blood-fuelled adrenaline the Headhunters had once lived for presented itself when Championship side Cardiff City were drawn away to Chelsea in the fifth round of the FA Cup on February 13 2010.

But with the arrival of all-seater stadiums in the early Nineties, football hooliganism was all but stamped out.On Thursday, 13 other Chelsea fans were jailed for offences of violence after the Cardiff game and received sentences of up to two years in jail. Well it seems the Dr and thaiflyer and myself all lived within 100meters of each other although over differant time periods. The following year McLeod was among 17 hooligans jailed for a month after a pitched battle with Dutch thugs in Eindhoven. He was seen kicking and punching a man lying on the ground and given 14 months and banned from football grounds for six years.