Season 05/06 - October

England: Blitz on soccer yobs who flout bans - 11/10/2005

Source: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk

A third of football thugs have ignored banning orders handed to them by the courts.
Police have arrested about 25 yobs – including eight children – in just a week in a massive crackdown ahead of the World Cup.
Officers warn they are getting tough and taking to the streets to round-up football thugs who believe they are above the law.
They are determined to stamp out violence among fans at the international championship in Germany next summer.
A total of 48 people, including 10 aged under 18, are wanted for breaching football banning orders handed out by the courts following violence and disorder at football games.
That's more than 35 per cent of 134 people in Portsmouth who are banned from football matches.
The majority were taken to court after violence broke out following Portsmouth and Southampton's Premiership match at Fratton Park in March 2003.

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Source : Mail

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Source : Press

Football casuals are jailed for cup day riot Sheriff says five men arrived in Glasgow with a plan for trouble - 14/10/2005

Source : http://www.heraldscotland.com

FIVE football hooligans who rioted on the day of last season's Scottish Cup final were jailed at Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday.

The Dundee United casuals were found guilty last month of throwing bricks and bottles on a Glasgow street before the match between the club and Celtic.

Dundee United officials have since banned the men from their Tannadice ground.

John Hepburn, 40, of Glamis Court, Dundee, twins Stewart and Steven MacKie, 24, of Albert Street, Dundee, Ian Carson, 40, of Adam Avenue, Airdrie, and James Gallagher, 34, whose address was given as Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, were spotted fighting by undercover police on May 28.

Appearing from custody at Glasgow Sheriff Court, they were given jail sentences for their part in the disturbance in Bedford Street, Glasgow, which involved about 100 fans and forced pedestrians to flee.

Hepburn and Gallagher were each sentenced to two years, Carson and Steven MacKie were given 18 months, and Stewart MacKie 15 months.

The fighting occurred before the game at Hampden Park, where Celtic beat Dundee United 1-0 to win the trophy.

The trial was told a group of 30 fans arrived at Queen Street train station before meeting others in a nearby pub and walking to the city's south side, where there were violent clashes.

Constable James Henderson, of Strathclyde Police, said:

"They were running along Bedford Street, shouting and swearing towards another group.

"There were bottles thrown, bricks, and then they just clashed in the middle of the road, punching and kicking each other."

The officerwas part of a specialist football casual "spotting" team which was lying in wait for the men when they left the train. He had been informed by a colleague at Tayside Police that members of a group calling themselves the Dundee Utility were travelling to the city.

The fighting only broke up when the gangs heard police sirens, but 29 men were caught in Eglinton Street as they tried to flee.

Hepburn, Steven Mackie, Carson and Gallagher have previous convictions, while Stewart MacKie's offence was committed while on bail for a breach of the peace charge.

Steven MacKie was convicted in 1999 of assault to serious injury.

Sheriff Deirdre MacNeill said yesterday that Gallacher, in particular, had an "appalling" record, adding that the evidence had shown the men went to Glasgow "with a specific plan" to cause trouble.

A spokesman for Dundee United said after the convictions on September 22: "True Dundee United supporters on that day would already have been inside Hampden.

"We have checked to see if they are affiliated to any supporters' club or are season ticket-holders and they are neither of these.

"If they were, their tickets would have been taken away from them.

"These men are not welcome inside Tannadice under any circumstances."