'I had 1,000-man brawls as West Ham hooligan – but one sight made me regret violence'

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A former ringleader of a notorious West Ham hooligan firm holds little regrets over his time fighting – apart from one thing he noticed in the stands. Carlton Leach was a key figure in the notorious “Inter-City Firm” of Hammers fans who would travel to the team’s away fixtures with the express purpose of scrapping with followers of rival teams. Carlton told the Daily Express’s On The Edge podcast , that, for him, the football violence that dominated his late teens and early twenties was a war,

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