I’ve seen the style Huntly want to play this season and it will suit my game a lot. They like to keep the ball on the floor and use the wingers, get in behind, get bodies in the box and that’s what I’m good at.” So when we were leaving, I went outside and we had a few words. Everything seemed alright, but obviously I didn’t know too much about the Scottish leagues and the standards. It added that the social worker did not take opportunities to retract her false statement, and she demonstrated no insight into her actions.

The publication of Rivers's book, compiled from the notes and diaries he kept at the time, supposedly marks the 25th anniversary of the gang's foundation in 1980, though that in itself is a hazy concept. I’m afraid that this is not an isolated incident. I am an agency social worker and have come across other agency and local authority social workers who have blatantly lied to avoid having to do the stressful work, or to simply get home on time. I know of one member of staff who registered that she had seen a child who was subject to a child protection plan, when in reality, all she had done was driven past the house and seen the child in the window! She was dismissed. After a few incidents at the Southside Snooker Centre, a Hearts v Aberdeen Scottish Cup tie, a few liberty takers from Leith and the reaction from "The Shed" at the emergance of this new brand of fan put the Hearts Casuals into a slight predicament. I know that a lot of the ASC followed the northwest's lead and adopted the dressed-down or "scruff" look during the mid 80's...while a dedicated sect continued to seek after more and more exclusive designer gear... Did these two branches overlap in any way?? Or was it strictly one-or-the-other?It's alarming to know that quite a lot of the Hibs faces were in actual fact Hearts fans or previous members of the CSF, this was they're safety in numbers clause. Wednesday night arrived and we went through to Morton. It was mental. Their boys were waiting for us on the High Street and we chased them down to the station. A few of our boys got into the away end but plod threw them out.

What I like about Green Street Hooligans 2: Stand Your Ground, is that pretty much everyone looks like a Mexicano Gang Member, straight outta Compton. And I DO remember that casuals at that time all looked like they came from South Side L.A, with the shaved heads and the prison muscles... that's what makes Green Street Hooligans 2: Stand Your Ground the go-to account of what I personally believe the casual movement was like. Exactly that. Bloody casuals was so good because it didn't stretch the truth like so many books in this genre, I was present at almost all the events in the book (outwith the prison chapter ) and can vouch for Jay, legend of his time, from the casuals through to his raves, everything was always done with a touch of class. West Ham and Man Utd both had hooligan gangs in Aberdeen for the weekend and fought at the ground and in the city centre over the weekend. Then there was period when the brand culture kind of died out, which remained through the late 80’s into the dance music / rave era, most were wearing trainers like adidas samba at this time. Which I think is the scruff look you mention.

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In the 2015 hearing, the HCPC said the social worker’s actions were “deplorable” and had caused “very real harm” to the mother and her family. Jay was a convicted football hooligan, jailed for three months for his part in a failed ambush of Motherwell Casuals. Fatjim hates it all yet has read all the books, I sense some jealousy. Me and my pastel jumper were there Jim, because of us you can now go to matches without the fear of trouble, no need for thanks, just buy me a beer some time. The panel also heard that the social worker had shared cigarettes and personal information with the mother, which it said breached professional boundaries as it “blurred” the relationship between the pair.

So I messaged the number, which was Allan – although I didn’t know that at the time – to say: ‘I’m at Aberdeen’s training ground right now, the connection’s bad, so I’ll call you when I leave’.In reply to Paul Atkinson: mob dynamics aside I think it is fundamentally wrong to ascribe it all to gang mentality and courage in numbers - the physical courage and indifference to personal risk of injury is a real phenomenon and possessed only by a minority - the available outlets in our society are restricted to joining the forces or getting in to hooliganism. I suspect in a different age many of these guys could have been decorated at Arnheim or have stood solid in the front of a square as a squadron of cuirassiers thundered towards them. I don't admire the violence and, despite having grown up in a very violent town and had my fair share of bovva as a teenager (punk in town full of mods) I cannot now identify at all with the desire or even ability to inflict pain and injury on another human being. Some of these people are intelligent and articulate and would argue that they are particpating in an extreme sport with other willing participants and should be left alone to do so without causing any problems for the rest of society. I haven't sorted out the rights and wrongs of it in my own mind, hence the request for edifying books on the subject Last month a panel concluded there was “no evidence” that the social worker had insight into her misconduct.