Oliphant, Roland (25 September 2016). " 'You won't want to hear this, but we hate the English' ". The Telegraph. One of Scotland's most infamous football thugs appears to have escaped an assassin's gun in Pattaya. Chelsea hooligan Jason Marriner has recalled how his first fight - away at Wolves - sparked his passion for mob clashes (Image: Daily Record) Read More Related Articles The close Headhunter association with following England has increased the nationalist and xenophobic attitudes of many Chelsea hooligans. Regular trips to Glasgow Rangers and Northern Ireland have only reinforced this relationship.

Ward, Colin; Henderson, Chris (5 October 2000). Who Wants It?. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 1-84018-325-X. Both young men have been involved in nazi politics. Payne, a close associate of Stuart Glass and his more political brother, Warren, has attended National Front (NF) activities in both Dover and London, while Walford has accompanied Frain to nazi concerts. Speaking on the Anything Goes with James English podcast, Jason explained that he and a mate went on an away trip to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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He strutted like a little tinpot leader whose vanity and arrogance knew no bounds, glorifying and reveling in violence,' the judge said. a b Gimmers, Mof (18 February 2015). "Chelsea FC Has a Nationwide Following of Racist Hooligans". Vice. Police said Last kept a diary of his exploits, which revealed he had a series of bank accounts containing thousands of dollars to fund the gang members travels throughout Europe and as far as Chile to whip up fan violence. We all support a different team, but we’re all the f***ing same. We’re like-minded, we wear the same sort of clothes, we go to the same sort of bars but on different sides of town, we’re all up for the same thing, we’ve got the same sort of personality…

The tribal nature of football will always make some involved in hooliganism susceptible to the overtures of the far right. While only a minority will actually become active in nazi groups, the violent nationalism that accompanies English hooliganism abroad and the strong loyalism that is dominant within the scene combines to produce a breeding ground for xenophobia and racism. The Chelsea Headhunters is one example of how the culture of racism and nazism becomes entrenched in a gang of hooligans. They were finally arrested and their subsequent trial was meant to be the crowning glory of Thatcher’s campaign to vanquish hooliganism. Violence in Paris as Chelsea fans clash with PSG fans before Champions League clash - Metro News". Metro. 3 April 2014 . Retrieved 4 November 2014. As he’s gone to the toilet, I’m holding this flag and a mob of Wolves fans turned out and asked: ‘What’s on that flag?’" he recalled. The Headhunters’ links to the far right stem from the mid-1970s, as the skinhead youth culture became increasingly politicised and associated with football hooliganism. The Kings Road, very close to the Chelsea ground, became a focal point for west and south London skinheads. It was during this period that Stuart Glass and many of the older hooligans became active with both the Headhunters and the NF.McLeod is understood to have made several enemies in the foreign and Thai communities in Pattaya and has reportedly insulted members of both. He rides a chopper motorcycle, is believed to have invested in property in Thailand. He once ran a clothing business called Original Casuals in South Clerk Street, Edinburgh.

Before sentencing, Last trembled in front of the judge. But when his 10-year sentence was handed down, he showed no emotion. Fifield, Dominic (16 December 2018). "Chelsea fans took flag with Nazi symbol to Budapest for Vidi game". The Observer.A right-wing culture soon developed at Chelsea, with both the NF and British Movement targeting the fans and hooligans for recruitment. As the culture became dominant, so Chelsea attracted more right wingers from a far greater area. During much of C18’s existence, it has been the Chelsea Headhunters who have formed the largest single group within it, to the point where the political group was widely seen as a Chelsea "firm". Buglioni, Gaetano; King, Martin (1 August 2008). Bully C.F.C.: The Life and Crimes of a Chelsea Head-hunter. Head Hunter Books. ISBN 978-1-906085-08-7. To get stories from Daily Star delivered straight to your inbox sign up to one of our free newsletters here . Read More Related Articles Lasky, Melvyn (20 June 2006). On the Barricades, and Off. United States: Transaction Publishers. p.156. ISBN 978-0-88738-726-5.

McIntyre, and several other BBC journalists, secretly filmed football violence, the organising of fights and the boasting afterwards. More importantly perhaps, the programme gave the viewers an insight into the minds and mentally of English hooligans. The Chelsea Headhunters are a notorious English football hooligan firm linked to the London football club Chelsea.

The following October, however, he was among 18 hooligans jailed by a month by a Dutch court for his actions during the "Battle of Eindhoven". One policemen who watched him during soccer violence testified that Last became 'like a completely different person -- he completely changed, his lips came over his teeth, he was completely distorted in anger.' Told in Henderson's exact words, this is the dramatic story of an era of music and football, when how you looked counted as much as how you performed. With its depiction of events surrounding South Korea/Japan 2002, Who Wants It? also shows how the scourge of hooliganism continues to blight the beautiful game today. Read more Details He was singled out by Dutch police as "one of the most vicious of the Rangers' group" - even though he is a Hibs fan. Glascow Rangers were playing PSV Eindhoven when the violence broke out. Rangers' fans charged after someone shouted at the Dutch fans: "come on, you know we are here for a fight." Police have also linked McLeod and a fellow hooligan Warren Bennett, to neo-nazi groups including the racist British National Party. Trips to Auschwitz have become a regular occurrence for Chelsea supporters on their trips into the East. C18 magazines reproduce photographs of their activities there, including some where the hooligans are lying on concrete slabs and stealing artefacts.