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The Baby Squad is a football hooligan firm linked to the English Football League team, Leicester City.[1]

History

The Baby Squad have had a number of fights with the Chelsea Headhunters who follow Chelsea[2]. In August 2000, Leicester were listed as the second most violent football club in England and Wales.[3] In November 2001, the Baby Squad fought with hooligans from Luton Town at Leicester railway station before police split up the two groups.[1]

In February 2008, eleven men were arrested after up to 100 hooligans were involved in running battles between fans from Leicester City and Coventry City outside a pub in Coventry. Police confiscated knives and one man suffered minor head injuries.[4]

The week before the incident with Coventry fans, 13 men were arrested after clashes between fans from Leicester and Norwich in which some men sustained minor injuries.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Hooligans troublespots - Leicester City". BBC News. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
  2. ^ Lowles, Nick (2005). Hooligans: A-L of Britain's Football Gangs. Wrea Green: Milo Books. p. 25. ISBN 1903854415. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Hooligan league - Cardiff fans fifth". BBC News. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
  4. ^ "Eleven held in football violence". BBC News. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
  5. ^ "Arrests after football disorder". BBC News. Retrieved 2008-02-17.

Further reading

  • Nicholls, Andy (2005). Hooligans: A-L of Britain's Football Gangs, Milo Books, ISBN 1903854415