7 MOST DANGEROUS BRITISH ‘HOOLIGAN FIRMS’ (2024)

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Who was Britain's most notorious football hooligans? ›

Book overview. Bobby the Wolf was arguably the most infamous football hooligan of his era, as well as being a henchman for a gangland boss. This book details his story right up to and including his untimely death at the tender age of twenty eight.

Two of the best known hooligan firms are Torcida (Hajduk Split) and Bad Blue Boys (Dinamo Zagreb). On 13 May 1990 (before the breakup of Yugoslavia), Serbian club Red Star Belgrade was in Zagreb to play Dinamo Zagreb at the Maksimir Stadium. Red Star was accompanied by 3000 Delije, the organised supporters of the club.

Millwall F.C.

Two of their most famous incidents include the 1985 Kenilworth Road Riot and the 2009 Upton Park Riot, which involved hated local rivals West Ham United. The Bushwackers are the most famous of their hooligan and thug supporter groups.

Jason Marriner was one of Britain's most feared football hooligans. Known as 'The General' he was a key member of the notorious Chelsea Head Hunters and was jailed for 6 years after the BBC's Donal MacIntyre infiltrated his Firm. Now Jason tells the story of his brutal life on the Terraces.

Firms were groups of people that came together through their love of a specific team, with the intent to intimidate and physically attack opposing supporters (Brewin). Although hooliganism is said to be declining in England, it is still very much alive all across the globe.

It appears that hooliganism is everywhere when it comes to soccer, even within the borders of the United States. Few incidents of fan trouble can be noted in the US, but you can now add a tally to the number of incidents that have occurred.

THE HARDEST FIRM IN ENGLAND

From 2010 to 2015, the Bushwackers were responsible for 248 arrests with 152 being for violent and public disorder offences. 64 Bushwackers are currently banned from attending Millwall games.

What are Everton hooligans called? ›

There are two Arsenal hooligan firms, The Gooners (a mutation of the club's nickname, The Gunners) and The Herd.

: a usually young man who engages in rowdy or violent behavior especially as part of a group or gang : ruffian, hoodlum. We had four great beefy hooligans on to us when Linton got his tooth knocked out. P. G. Wodehouse. "At school I ran with the hooligans and tried to act tough." John Keen.

Aston Villa Hardcore (often shortened to Villa Hardcore or known as Villa Youth when referring to the younger element of the group) is a football hooligan firm associated with the Premier League club Aston Villa, based in Birmingham, England.

The clubs with the most fans arrested for violent disorder are some of the clubs with the most active and infamous firms: Newcastle United, Chelsea, and both Manchester squads.

The match was historically known as the Dockers derby, as both sets of supporters were predominantly dockers at shipyards on the River Thames. Consequently, each set of fans worked for rival firms who were competing for the same business; this intensified the tension between the teams.

THE HOOLIGANS consists of their leader AUBREY, and the members KIM, VANCE, ANGEL, CHARLENE and THE MAVERICK. They usually tend to cause trouble around the streets of FARAWAY TOWN but all members are actually good-hearted people when getting to know them better, as noted by KEL himself.