Baby Squad

(est.)90-110Criminal activitiesFootball hooliganism, riots and fighting

The Baby Squad is a football hooligan firm linked to English professional football club 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 2nd most violent football club in England and Wales.[3] In November 2001, the Baby Squad were ambushed by hooligans from Luton Town, called the MiGs, 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]

References

  1. ^ a b "Hooligans troublespots - Leicester City". BBC News. Retrieved 18 April 2008.
  2. ^ Lowles, Nick; Andy Nicholls (2005). Hooligans: A-L of Britain's Football Gangs. Wrea Green: Milo Books. p. 25. ISBN 1-903854-41-5.
  3. ^ "Hooligan league - Cardiff fans fifth". BBC News. 14 August 2000. Retrieved 18 April 2008.
  4. ^ "Eleven held in football violence". BBC News. 24 February 2008. Retrieved 18 April 2008.
  5. ^ "Arrests after football disorder". BBC News. 17 February 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2008.

Further reading

  • Nicholls, Andy (2005). Hooligans: A-L of Britain's Football Gangs, Milo Books, ISBN 1-903854-41-5