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

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One, from Sunderland fan `Casual' states: "We all take the chance nowadays but the sentences are harsh on lads from both sides. We will look after our own and the Geordies will as well. Kapke, 50, of Norham Terrace, Jarrow, was spotted there, along with Paul Peet, identified as a core member of the Toon’s hooligan faction, dubbed the Gremlins. Det Sgt George Duff, one of the Operation Crusade team, said: "A witness overheard one telephone conversation in the Porthole pub in which one of the accused said: `It's on'." I first got into football at nine when I went with a few of my mates. The game didn’t really interest me. I tried a few times to get into it but I found it boring and just wanted to be somewhere else.

He got his first in March 2005, which expired on March 1 2007 and just two days later, he was involved in bother again. He was also spotted by police celebrating the Gremlins’ 25th anniversary during a day in York with some of the gang’s most notorious members.Seaburn Casuals are a football hooligan firm associated with the English football club, Sunderland A.F.C. [1] The group's activity was prominent in the 90s and the early 00s, with the club being involved in some of the most violent incidents in British hooligan history, in what was described as "some of the worst football related fighting ever witnessed in the United Kingdom," [1] [2] [3] [4] and sometimes topping the football arrests table. [5] [6] [7] Origins [ edit ]

was a toe to toe battle with them over the old carpet place the (Justin oxman cars now) they had forest and Shrewsbury in toe. was loads of mobs out that day for the game. It is very difficult to police because it happens away from the grounds. There is a lot of organisation and planning that goes into these meetings.Dozens of calls and text messages then went to and from the Casuals contingent until a posse were rounded up and headed by ferry from South Shields to the North Shields quay.

Mennim is one of around 40 hooligans past and present who tell their stories in a new book charting the history of football violence in Newcastle over the last 45 years. Norman Dennis, a visiting fellow of Newcastle University and director of community studies at the London think-tank, the Institute for the Study of Civil Society (Civitas), believes the problem of hooliganism is a by-product of modern society. A statement released by Newcastle United said: "The club is very disappointed and will be looking into this. The occasional risk supporter will give themselves away by their actions. James Young for example, has a tattoo on his leg which states ‘Newcastle Gremlins’ and Norman Short upon arrest once shouted: ‘Is it because you know I’m a Gremlin?’April 2001 - One of 79 Newcastle supporters arrested before match with Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. This would confirm that he is a member of the Newcastle risk group. The Newcastle risk group has, over the last 12 months, become increasingly active." In March 2002, the Gremlins 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”. 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. NME, From the Bender Squad to the Gremlins, attempts to cover every major event in the world of Newcastle football violence over the last five decades.