Let them get on with it, why fill our overcrowded prisons with these when people commiting real crimes get a slap on the wrist and sent home. I have seen more riots caused by the police than I care to remember and this was the main reason I stopped going away. In 1985, when football hooliganism was rife in England, the BBC Six O'Clock News had a special report in which they listed the worst football hooligan gangs creating mayhem across England and Leeds United were listed amongst the worst five clubs. Last time we played over Chelsea we went through their mob on the kings road like a warm knife through butter. I was expecting some explaination or personal stories of those involved, but it is simply the details of 20 years of fights loosely linked together.

Brighton backed off and decided instead to bombard us and the pub with anything they could get their hands on – bottles, glasses and about fifty pub chairs. It's more likely that chavs wanting impress each other and possibly the old boys that are likely to be indiscriminate. Improvements to security in Elland Road as with all grounds in England have led to confrontations more usually taking place away from stadiums. Remember 85 after the game up there , thousands of em outside the side stand we were located in refusing to budge while we locked in, stuck on buses back to Leeds station with them trying to come in on an ambushing mission, our train emptied and they were sent packing with one or two getting clumped the rest on their toes , trappy Chelsea of the north oiks the lot of em. There was not much ten of us could do but at least it was more than the twenty inside who didn't come out.

By the late 80’s the clubs reputation for hooliganism was so bad that 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, instead it was hosted in a neutral venue being the stadium which West Brom play.

The apex of this hooligan army was the Service Crew, who adopted their name from the service trains they used instead of the heavily policed 'specials'. As I turned away, his fat, Boris Johnson lookalike mate came at me and stuck his fist in my face, with the weight of his twenty-two-stone body. While he spoke he put one hand in his inside jacket pocket – shitbag – and with the other he launched his full pint at me.Many of the most shocking incidents in British football history have involved the hooligan followers of one Leeds United. 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. By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.

But in contrast, it also mentions Leeds United hooligans attacking a busload of school children abroad because one is wearing a Manchester United shirt under their uniform. The City is for "the beautiful people" not a sniff of Burburry, Hackett, Stone Island and Henri Lloyd.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.