A FORMER West Ham hooligan claims he beat up the Babes in the Wood killer in a prison toilet after other lags egged him on. Hammers fan Bill Gardner - who inspired the cult film Rise of the ...

West Ham players dived into the crowd to protect their families after they were ambushed by Dutch hooligans. As substitute Pablo Fornals' stoppage time winner booked the Hammers' place in the ...

A West Ham United academy coach and one-time Arsenal youth coach who once made ends meet as a London cabbie has spoken on his past life as an Inter City Firm (ICF) hooligan. Back in the rough-and ...

A former West Ham United hooligan has opened up about his days of terrace terror, boasting a tally of over 400 scraps with rival fans. Bill Gardner, now 70 and well out of the game, was once a ...

A former West Ham hooligan named a firm that made him run for his life during an unexpectedly dangerous away day. Mark Phillips has been a coach in the academy for his beloved West Ham United ...

A former West Ham hooligan has recalled the fear-inducing encounters he experienced back in his days with a notorious football firm. Mark Phillips, who currently holds a 15-year tenure coaching at ...

“In 1987 we got nicked for the ICF and Cass Pennant did the film ‘Hooligan’,” Swallow himself admitted. “Then we got into acid house. I came back [to West Ham] in around 91/92 and we ...

“West Ham and Millwall don’t play each other often ... French — except Americans because they don’t do that stuff — but in terms of hooligan firms, they all have the same mentality.

West Ham's infamous Inter City Firm was one of the most feared football hooligan gangs throughout the 1980s. Immortalised in films such as Green Street, The Firm and Rise of the Footsoldier ...

AMSTERDAM, May 23 (Reuters) - Dutch police will use a television programme on Tuesday to try and identify hooligans who attempted to attack family and friends of West Ham United players in Alkmaar ...

The shocking scenes, a throwback to the hooligan dark ages, took the gloss off West Ham's first passage to a major final since 2006 and a first in Europe for 47 years. More than 100 Hammers fans ...