I have seen more riots caused by the police than I care to remember and this was the main reason I stopped going away.

I'll admit, there were a few hard core thugs involved with Leeds as there still are, but these lads got away. Unfortunately, there are victims of this, namely the poor lads who got stitched up in Operation 'Wild Boar' in 87. A typical mechanical account from a journalist who cannot engrain themselves into the mindset of these people. In all the years I've been watching Leicester I've never so much as been hit or anything simialr, despite walking through pitched battles on a number of occassions.Around 10pm, about thirty of us found ourselves in the area known as the Lanes when someone said Brighton were on the phone. On 11th May 1985 a 14 year old boy died at St Andrew’s Stadium when fans were pushed by police onto a wall which subsequently collapsed following crowd violence at a match between Birmingham City and Leeds United. Brighton was the last away match of the season and a few decided to go down on a minibus to London on the Friday before the match. The last game of the season at Brighton and Hove Albion saw the Sussex club relegated to the Third Division after Leeds beat them 1-0.

I don't think it was ever a gang, as such, withe members, heirarchy's etc, more a media cult , scenr type thing that the fans embraced. i always found sheff utd the most game in past years out of the yorkshire clubs only my personal opinion up at bramall lane. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). By January 1987, the club's reputation for hooliganism was so bad that when they were drawn with non-league Telford United in an FA Cup third round tie, the Shropshire club refused to host the game at their Bucks Head ground; it was instead played some 30 miles away at the stadium of West Bromwich Albion. On 5 May 1990, Leeds and their fans travelled to AFC Bournemouth on the South Coast for the final game of the 1989-90 Second Division season.The Leeds United Service Crew are a football hooligan firm linked to the English EFL Championship team, Leeds United F. They surprised the couple, who turned out to be two blokes who jumped up and ran away after being disturbed.

After reading so many similar books on hooligan culture I have to say that the Service Crew book comes out as a fantastic read. Some of the biggest rivals of Leeds United Service Crew are Red Army, Millwall Bushwackers, Hull City Psychos, Chelsea Headhunters and Birmingham Zulu Warriors. Leeds vastly outnumbered the home fans and police with dogs tried to keep them in check in the East Terrace but failed to stop some climbing over the fence and onto the pitch to carry Brendan Ormsby aloft. It is a darker part of secret goings on in Leeds, but it is a part of the history of the city non the less and should be talked about. This books is different from those mentioned above as it is written by Caroline Gall, a journalist, in a more documentary type style with newspaper extracts and interviews of some of the main perpetrators of the fighting and hooliganism that occurred at Leeds United matches throughout the last 50 years.They emerged as the casual era dawned and, against the violent backdrop of the Miners' Strike, quickly became feared by their terrace foes. This then caused scores of Leeds fans to begin ripping up the seats within the stadium and throw them onto the pitch and at fans within the ground, this then caused the fans to clash with the French Police as they then continued to invade the pitch. But as the book progresses you still elements of respect and at times remorse for actions especially when they affected fans not associated with the firms. Football hooligans in general only fight each other, they do not fight with passers by or the public going about their business.

The 2007 game with the buses at Leeds a mate I worked with said his son referred to the Millwall there that day as 'Dads Army' because the core of our mob were in their forties and fifties. This Leeds Service Crew hoodie features the words 'When you're good no-one remembers, when you're bad no-one forgets'. On 28 April 2007, during the Championship game at Elland Road with Ipswich Town, about 200 home fans spilled onto the pitch and forced a 30-minute delay after a late Ipswich equaliser all but sealed Leeds' relegation to League One. Around 100 of the Leeds fans then ran toward the South East stand where the away supporters were sat watching the game. It was cold and wet and only 600-odd tickets had been made available but a few headed south to watch Leeds play in front of the smallest crowd of the season.Leeds had two penalties turned down before Peter Lorimer’s disallowed goal led to rioting by the Service Crew as seats were ripped up and thrown onto pitch. Gall does a very thorough and detailed job in investigating Leeds United's hooligan element and produces a well written, in depth, more serious and less sensationalised account that varies from the usual 'run of the mill' hooligan (to doorman) autobiographies. When striker Peter Lorimer had a goal disallowed in a game which ended in a 2–0 defeat to the West German side, and having already seen their team have two penalty appeals rejected by French referee Michel Kitabdjian, scores of Leeds fans ripped seats from the stands and threw them onto the pitch.