NME: From The Bender Squad to The Gremlins; Inside Newcastle's Football Hooligan Firm

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In March 2002, the Seaburn Casuals fought with hooligans from the Newcastle Gremlins 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". [2] The leaders of the Gremlins and Casuals were both jailed for four years for conspiracy, 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. [3] It was later referred to as "one of the region’s most notorious moments of football madness." [8] He’d be posting invites to people to come around and ‘play on his x-box and have a drink with him’.

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. Police received information to the effect that between 80 and 100 Newcastle Gremlins were due to attend York on September 4, 2010, to celebrate 25 years of the Gremlins. He said: “It was my life. We were all mates together, all comrades fighting together and we have been all over England and Europe. There were 79 arrests at Newcastle home games last season, compared with 38 the year before, with 78 away from home, which was up from 49 in 2007/08.He got his first in March 2005, which expired on March 1 2007 and just two days later, he was involved in bother again. Russell, of Eleanor Street, Cullercoats, was still clutching his mobile phone which was used to help arrange the clash between suspected members of the Gremlins and Casuals when he was spotted. I have known him for a lot of years through going to football games,” he said. “He just seemed like one of the lads, he was as normal as you get. He wasn’t a football hooligan, but he was a regular. He went to home and away games, so most people knew him.”

The two gangs – thought to be the Seaburn Casuals and Newcastle Gremlins – never met, but that did not stop violence breaking out on the station platform. One police officer later described the scene as ‘carnage’ and another said it was the worst violence they had seen in 17 years of service Today, the Chronicle can reveal the extent of the planning by the ringleaders of the Newcastle Gremlins and Seaburn Casuals to arrange the clash on North Shields New Quay ferry landing which terrorised a community.Among those in the celebration was the convicted football hooligan Noel Renton and other banned supporters, including Darren Fryer, Bryan Heron and Simon Chollerton. But the pull was too strong. And when he returned to violence, his partner of 12 years left him, taking his three-year-old girl with her. Young is known to have a tattoo on his left leg which has both The Stone Island badge and the words ‘Newcastle Gremlins’ on it.

Det Con Nigel Dunwoodie, was Operation Crusade's exhibits officer, responsible for gathering vital evidence. Newcastle Gremlins are a football hooligan firm associated with the English football club, Newcastle United F.C. [1] [2] Altercations with the Seaburn Casuals [ edit ]

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Police camera operators followed the pair and officers seized them after quizzing them about their movements. Strolling home without an apparent care in the world, these two thugs had just taken part in a bloody clash of rival soccer factions. Police had to step in to keep the rivals apart, at which point one officer heard a home thug say: "You lads are running late . . . 3.15pm, is that the best you can do?" Short was then heard saying: "Haway, let’s ****ing do them," later adding: "Come on, ****ing hell, we can do them."

This DVD is about the evolution of football hooliganism,” he said. “It’s a factual account of the Newcastle hooligan firms. In Dusseldorf in 2006, Hird, travelling to Frankfurt, was one of six arrested after an assault and criminal damage at The Auberge pub, where beer and chairs were thrown at locals.The man, who the Chronicle has agreed not to name, said: “He said he was a football hooligan to groom and intimidate people when he never was. He used the Gremlins name to impress some young people and to threaten others. It worked both ways. But he was never a member of the Gremlins.” But the soccer yob also confessed he never wanted to leave behind the violence which leaves Newcastle United fans across the globe hanging their heads in shame. On September 13, 2008, he was among a group, many of whom are known louts, gathered by Newcastle’s Union Rooms pub after United played Hull City. Steven Jary was one of 35 charged after rival hooligan gangs from Newcastle and Sunderland clashed in an organised brawl at the North Shields ferry terminal in 2000.