How And Why People Get Involved With Footbal Lhooligan Firms

[lindseyjames10]

i am asking out of curiosity why people get involve in football hooligans as most of them are your typical teenage scally wags, most of em are old men in there 40s 50s and even 60s (well most of the old ones are mainly leaders and organizers)

[THECORBYLOON]

I know who you meant.

[Baldric]

Lol!!

[Baldric]

Gosh TCL, you must be old!

;o)

[lindseyjames10]

40s, 50s and 60s are old to me and most of yous need to grow the flump up

[lindseyjames10]

#flump up

[tamborine]

Lindsey, have you bought football tkts? Which team do you support & who is your fav player ?

[doctordb]

To be fair to lindsey firms do still exist but are much smaller than in previous generations. They tend to fight away from grounds and have very little to do with football. The 'quilts' who spend there time watching premier league from the armchair don't really have a good understanding of football crowds in england today. The recent stories about racism show that contrary to popular belief not everything is rosy in the garden. Though nowhere near as bad as the 70's, 80's and 90's football hooliganism does exist but mostly at a lower level, many of the old names have dropped to non-league where it is easier to evade the police. Most of the old hooligans i used to know are family men now who go to ikea and the zoo with the kids on saturday's. Some i knew did have good jobs such as a naval officer and a mate who was high up at allied dunbar but the majority were working class trouble makers by proffession.

Things are a whole lot better but the police are still having to work hard to keep on top of it.

[ummmm]

Of course it still goes on. The fights are just arranged now.

[Booldawg]

it all starts on the playground.

[Svejk]

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/newbury-erupts-in-chaos-as-football-fans-run-riot/1072547/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews

[paddywak]

These firms still exist, a guy I know very well, now in his fifties, was a member of the Naughty Forty the Stoke City Firm. He still follows Stoke but is not involved in the firm actively though he is still "in the know" and will often tell us something is going to happen at certain games and he usually is right. The "action" is usually arranged to take place well away from the ground. He tells us the firm has a hard core of around 20-30 who do all the organising, most of them about his age, and up to 300 "soldiers who turn up for the fun. When I asked him how he got involved he said it was like a lot of things he just drifted into because his mates were involved and he didn't want to be left out.

[Booldawg]

someone I know saw a couple of members of pompeys '657 crew' being chased through Portsmouth by a load of policeman. Both in their 40s one shouted at as his past my mate 'We're getting too old for this!'

[lindseyjames10]

yess from what i heard some football thugs are even in there 60s but those ageing football thugs are mainly the bosses

[cazzz1975]

if you remember things well in the 80s you must be knocking on yourself..

[lindseyjames10]

hmm in what sentence did i say i remember the 80s? also i am talking about the modern day football firms, it seems to me its a bunch of old men who get a buzz out beating the stuffing out of one of another lol

[mccfluff]

i went out with a guy who was a member the 'yids' back in the 80's. he would often wax lyrical about the good old days and the joy was in going out to fight.

[ummmm]

That's it. Some people like fighting.

[cazzz1975]

they will all die soon of old age so no worries xx

[lindseyjames10]

yeah they compare it to heroin, i heard the old leaders even masturbate to videos of the fights, weird s.h.i.t

[Baldric]

cazzz, lindsey is 19 by the look of it!

///when i created my ebay, i changed the year of when iwas born because am not 18 (but am nearly 18, 4 months to go)
11:05 Sat 19th Feb 2011///