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April 2003 - Arrested again before a match between Sunderland and Newcastle at the Stadium of Light. No charge brought.
According to Mr Dennis, the breakdown of the family structure has left men without vital restraints on their behaviour - their traditional roles as husbands and fathers. The result, he says, is a heady sense of freedom that manifests itself in thrill-seeking.
He said: “It was my life. We were all mates together, all comrades fighting together and we have been all over England and Europe. I am not sure how the train pulled out of the station with all the weight it was carrying but it managed to get us to Sunderland, were their Old Bill struggled badly to protect the locals. It took them all of an hour to get us the 10-minute walk to the ground. But little did they know, as they walked through North Shields town centre, that they were being monitored by police on CCTV.
There's been an enormous change from a society where self-restraint was highly valued," he says. "The expression of excessive emotion, including violence, has become more and more valued as a good thing. If you look specifically at hooliganism, all bases of solidarity have been removed - young English people are not allowed to be patriotic and neighbourhood solidarity has been destroyed. About the only thing left to be loyal to and passionate about is football."Groups of Toon followers left the stadium in twos and threes before the second half started and gathered in a home fans’ pub, where they were asked to leave for fear trouble would flare. The court heard the messages were verbally abusive, with one reading: “You’re nothing but a w**** from the gutter.”
She said: “The charge is based on Facebook messages. They’re quite lengthy and difficult to read out as the grammar isn’t particularly perfect.” Before the firm were known by there current name, the gremlins, Newcastle United’s firm were known as the Newcastle Mainline Express or NME due to their use of the rail network when travelling to away games. At the height of football hooliganism in England during the 1980s, the NME were an extremely active firm causing mayhem wherever they went. They famously threw a petrol bomb at West Ham fans housed in a corner of St. James’ Park leading to many fans commonly referring to that area of the ground as “fire-bomb corner”. Terrace Legends is described on the cover as "The most terrifying and frightening book ever written about soccer violence". The men were asked to leave, with Wade forced out and Wakenshaw punched and having a bar stool thrown at him before he left.Watson was seen at Hogan’s pub, in Darlington, with other risk fans before the game and was seen again in Middlesbrough, where the Toon louts approached a pub where their rivals were. He was also involved in a night of violence in Berlin during a England World Cup qualifying match with Poland and had emergency surgery after he was knifed in the stomach by one of the Germans. Then a further breach occurred when, on May 18, Hutchison travelled to Wembley to see Gateshead in the Conference Premier Play Off final against Cambridge United. Jeanette Smith, prosecuting, said the Facebook messages had been sent between July 3 and August 29 this year.
Dr Geoff Pearson, lecturer at the University of Liverpool's Football Research Unit, writes for the Chronicle. In December, a Magpies mob clashed with Stoke City hooligans in an organised brawl in Wrekenton, Gateshead. And when Sunderland played at St James’s in February, he was again at the centre of crowds that gathered at the station.But when rumours that he had a perverted interest in young boys began rife he switched his allegiances from Newcastle United to Gateshead FC. At 4.25pm, around half an hour before the game was due to end, two Newcastle United fans, Peter Wakenshaw, 51 and Darren Wade, 49, entered the establishment and began singing songs related to their club, chanting and raising their arms in the air. In March 2002, the Gremlins, led by head 'Gremlin' "General" John Robson of Birtley fought with hooligans from Sunderland's Seaburn Casuals in a pre-arranged clash near the North Shields Ferry terminal, in what was described as "some of the worst football related fighting ever witnessed in the United Kingdom". [3] with 28 others jailed for various terms, based on evidence gained after police examined the messages sent by mobile phone between the gang members on the day. [4] In 2011, bans from football games, community service hours, and fines were given to a bunch of Seaburn Casuals ringleaders, instigators, and participants who took part in 2009 clash between the Seaburn Casuals and Newcastle fans. While the police managed to detain Newcastle fans who were ambushing the arriving trains of Sunderland fans at the Central Station, they struggled to contain the Sunderland fans who arrived later. [8] See also [ edit ]
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