Blance also claims in the book that his links with CCS put him in association with leading Edinburgh gangland figures. However, the congeniality was not a constant throughout the rest of the Hibs support who, in the main, still wore team colours at matches.

From the mid 1990s onwards police intelligence efforts and the effective use of closed-circuit television cameras impinged upon these methods of initiating gang fights so meetings via mobile phones became the preferred means to make arrangements with rival mobs. His book Hibs Boy – with a fawning foreword written by high-profile Hibs fan and friend, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, catalogues his life as a soccer casual, from February 1980 when, aged 15, he was arrested for the first time after scrapping with two Morton fans after a Hibs match, to the aftermath of that brutal axe attack which led to a five-year prison sentence.The Hibs boys travelled to London on the Friday and their evening was spent drinking, while some were smoking cannabis as well, as they recounted hooligan tales from the past which ran into the wee small hours.

The Capital City Service (CCS) held running battles with similar groups from Celtic, Hearts and Rangers before later branching out to fight across the UK and Europe, sparking mass police incidents in the process.In 2006 the documentary series The Real Football Factories created by Zig Zag Productions was shown on the Bravo TV channel which looked at football hooligans and firms throughout the UK.

Just weeks later, about 100 hooligans from the Capital City Service flew to Benidorm to celebrate 30 years of mayhem on the terraces. If the opposing gang were in a police escort then a group of Hibs boys made their way to the front of it while another group would hang around at the back.In June 1989 the Radio Forth documentary magazine Forth File aired its interviews with six members of the CCS, Jim Gray Managing Director of Hibernian F. This afforded the opportunity for bonds to be forged through the shared experiences of following the team and responding to the actions of opposing fans. Hooliganism was established at matches with many clubs in Scottish football before the advent of the casuals [5] [6] [7] [8] and violence from Hibernian supporters was recognised as likely to occur by other teams' hooligan supporters. There was definitely one well-known (but very talented) Hibs player back then who moved to "one of the big Glasgow clubs" (shall we politely say) and was supposed to be on pocket money wages there when his new club had to pay off some "colourful Glasgow business characters" (shall we also politely say) to prevent him getting malkied over unpaid gambling debts. During filming the director requested that the Hibs boys sing some CCS songs and chants and they complied much to his approval.