Service Crew: The Inside Story of Leeds United's Hooligan Gangs

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On 5 May 1990, Leeds travelled to AFC Bournemouth for the final game of the 1989-90 Second Division season. Nowadays however, the club very much distances itself from the service crew and anything that they carry out.

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. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Journalist Caroline Gall spent two years interviewing participants from several generations to piece together the first ever history of the gangs, from the Shipley Skins to the youths of the present day.The Leeds United Service Crew are a football hooligan firm linked to the English EFL Championship team, Leeds United F. The police eventually launched Operation Wild Boar to take down the ringleaders, only to convict a small number of relative fringe players. One Leeds fan entered the pitch after Michael Tonge’s equaliser and assaulted Wednesdays’ keeper Chris Kirkland. 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.

I have seen more riots caused by the police than I care to remember and this was the main reason I stopped going away.A rampaging mob of Service Crew members smashed up pubs, fought running battles with police and left a trail of destruction in there wake. 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. The fighting between Birmingham City and Leeds United fans was described by Justice Popplewell as more like "the Battle of Agincourt than a football match".