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May 2023: During a pitch invasion at the end of a Championship play-off final against Hamilton Academical at New Douglas Park, police stopped Section B from confronting fans of the home support. Brief footage of this was captured on BBC Alba and online (YouTube:- Matt the Ground Hopper). Nearer to the stadium the CCS would frequent pubs such as the Thistle Bar, [50] Albion Bar and the Royal Nip, which was considered by many Hibs boys as their spiritual home. [2] Often though the CCS would head to the Ladbrokes bookmakers that was situated on Easter Road at the junction with Bothwell Street to hang around the premises and wait for their moment of opportunity to take on other firms. It was here that visiting fans were finally marshalled away from the accessible public area and either directed to or escorted to their allocated section of the ground.

There was also the need initially for hooligans younger than ones in the main mob to form their own identifiable group and could also be managed and trained by older more experienced hooligans. [41] In later times a type of apprenticeship scheme was used to enable the veterans in the CCS to select and mentor prospective younger hooligans. [37] Cameron, Courtney (16 February 2017). "Video: Hearts/Hibs 'casuals' in mass brawl outside bar". Edinburgh Evening News . Retrieved 19 February 2017. The Hibs casuals were involved in running battles near to Tynecastle Stadium before the match. A police investigation led to four men being arrested at a later date. [86] Lowles & Nicholls 2005, Heart of Midlothian p. 253,254 "within Edinburgh was dominated by Hibs", "first time in memory Hibs got the better of the fighting at the derby game" At 1 a.m. vanloads of police including dog handlers broke up a party in a pub that was being held to celebrate a Hibs boys release from prison. After some antagonism between the officers and casuals the CCS clashed with the police in the nearby Edinburgh University car park next to Bristo Square. 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. [3]Dykes, Derek (26 May 2008). These Colours Don't Run: Inside the Hibs Capital City Service. Fort Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-905769-12-4. Rave music, Madchester and baggy scenes were all touched upon by CCS in some way. In Edinburgh Hibs boys ran dance clubs like Bubble Funk or organised other musical promotion events in venues such as the Calton Studios. The night before the match the CCS fought pitched battles at various city centre locations with Anderlecht boys, bikers, mods and finally with a gang of Maghrebis. This last fight involved the use of bottles, tables, chairs and knives as weapons resulting in injuries to members of each mob. Armed police arrived on the scene and arrested 50 Hibs boys. After the match the CCS clashed with Liege hooligans and there were 5 arrests, two of them were Hibs casuals. The train from Dover to London that contained the returning Hibs hooligans had one carriage completely smashed up. When the train arrived the British Transport Police arrested 16 Hibs boys in connection with this vandalism. [3] [28] Membership wasn't even restricted to only Hibs fans. Over the years casuals from Hearts and sometimes Old Firm fans who lived in Edinburgh were integrated into the mob. These individuals usually had a more rigorous initiation than normal as asides from the reservations of some CCS members they also had to prove their worth against the team that they were originally associated with. [9] [41]

CCTV may lead to arrests of football hooligans". Motherwell Times. 10 January 2007 . Retrieved 2 December 2011. Thornton, Phil (2003). Casuals: Football, Fighting and Fashion: the Story of a Terrace Cult. Milo Books. ISBN 978-1-903854-14-3. Violence, carnival and reformation: Scottish Fan Identities, Richard GIULIANOTTI Department of Sociology University of Aberdeen Johnstone, Matt; Bell, Callum (2012). Saturday Is Service Day. Unknown Publisher. ISBN 9780957476905. March 2022; The Daily Record, The Scottish Sun and The Press and Journal newspapers, along with a statement from the club itself, reported on several Cove Rangers fans being assaulted outside Excelsior Stadium immediately after a League One fixture.November 1994; Between 60 and 70 faced the Dundee Utility Crew outside McDiarmid Park in Perth after the 1994 Scottish Challenge Cup Final (B&Q Cup Final). In the City Square before the match a mob of Hibs boys ambushed some Dundee casuals and there was a few arrests. After the game the two mobs clashed outside the entrance to the Overgate shopping centre where the police broke up the fighting and made a couple of arrests. [15] After the match Hibs and Hearts hooligans were engaged in a mass brawl in Hope Street Lane. Police Scotlands Operation Rebound resulted in 32 men being arrested and charged with football related offences that included possession of offensive weapons and vandalism. [94]

September 1992; 150 fans travelled to the Czech Republic and clashed with Sparta hooligans before and after the game. May 2012; Some Section B came on to the field and challenged the celebrating Dumbarton fans at the end of the play-off final in Airdrie. They were escorted off the park by stewards. Cosgrove, Stuart (2002). Hampden Babylon: Sex and Scandal in Scottish Football. Canongate Books. ISBN 9781841953335. Lowles & Nicholls 2005, Hibernian p. 260 "Hibs casuals the most feared crew in Scottish Football and one of the most notorious mobs in British football"January 2007; There was a major clash with Motherwell's Saturday Service (SS) in Airdrie town centre. [20]

Hamilton, Jane (29 August 2002). "Police smash Capital football riot gangs". The Scotsman . Retrieved 9 July 2011.McGuigan, Paul (Director) (1 January 1999). The Acid House (Film Production). Zeitgeist Films . Retrieved 8 September 2013. Returning from the match the Hibs casuals clashed with a mob of punks who were in Princes Street Gardens around 6 p.m. Running battles disrupted traffic and scattered shoppers, there were six arrests. [21] [22]