Pre-season friendly fixtures against English club sides provided opponents from further a field and included some who had a notorious hooligan following. A Motherwell boy who attended a Hibernian match in Glasgow that season was pulled up in the crowd by Hibs casuals, which lead to an accepted friendship regarding the casual scene as primarily both clubs were in separate leagues that season. Want advice on the best upgrades or new software? For the next meeting in July 2004 the day before the match was due to be played Hibs boys rendezvoused with a couple of Leeds hooligans and took them to a pub near Meadowbank stadium called the Hop, Step and Jump which was intended to be used by the Leeds mob and then showed them the nearby Loch Inn which was designated for the CCS. Near to the stadium the CCS clashed with some of Anderlechts mob outside a bar and then attempted to coax another bar full of Anderlecht boys onto the street. Hibs, Hibernian, Leith, Edinburgh, Harp T-shirts. Later in Grand Place there were a series of skirmishes between the CCS and mobs of Maghrebis which kept the police force busy most of the night. A public house that the English plotted in was soon discovered by Hibs boys and its windows were smashed forcing the tooled up English yobs to take to the streets. The Oldham-Hibs crew eventually made it back through to Bolton after pressganging a bus driver and after the game they clashed with Boltons mob. [45] Normal hostilities arose between the two gangs the following season, In the same season there was even a dalliance with arch-rivals Hearts fledgling crew the CSF on two occasions that Aberdeen were in town for Scottish cup games. All rights reserved. 7 February 2016 Hearts v Hibernian, Tynecastle After the match Hibs and Hearts hooligans were engaged in a mass brawl in Hope Street Lane. The first was against Hearts and as the ASC walked from Waverley station to Gorgie Road there were a few skirmishes between them and Hibs boys. The mêlée continued all the way onto the red-blaes pitches near Hampden Park and the red dust was soon swirling around getting into the mouths and covering the clothes of the combatants. An away match in November 1983 against Airdrie resulted in a clash with the well-known local hooligans, Section B, which further strengthened these connections and helped bolster the young Hibs boys confidence into forming a casual-style hooligan firm. In 1989 Hibernian played in a European football competition for the first time in eleven years and for the CCS it was their first foray into hooliganism on the continental stage.