Glasgow

[Eazey]

Glasgow is split into 2 types of gangs:

The "wee mob" the young people from the ages of 5 or 6 to 16 or 17. Their is NO REAL STRUCTURE. Nope no leaders no nothing. there is just a bunch of kids who fight with the rival gang or gangs (gangs in most cases) to see "who is the maddest". Its simply a measuremant of bravado to see who can hurt the other one or dominate them by walking through enemy territory being untouchable.

The Players. These are no ordinary cats. there is no real affiliation with areas or territories its about who you know, what your know. They generally have contacts from all over the UK and tend to be illegitimate business men. IE Trafficking guns, drugs and in a lot of cases women. The big time players often try to associate with someone further up the "ladder" than themselves. The ladder is basically gaged by pulling power (how many people work for them), the amount of money they have (in both legitmate enterprises and illegitmate ones).

Big time players. These are the top men. the guys that pick and choose who lives who dies. usually their is one for all the main areas. Southside (usually only 1 player), Eastside (can be a good few.. the east side of Glasgow is one of the most notorious places in the world for gang crime). West (very quiet neighborhoods), The North. can be some right bad yins from here.

There you have it: GLASGOW

[Jinky08]

When yer younger (early teens) its about just passin the time n takin out as many as the rival as possible by stabbing slashing chopping whatever, but when u get older to late teens early 20's some of your main rivalries still carry on.

Were abouts in Glasgow are you from ? Your from Cali + Glasgow and your a crip ? lol

[cliffard]

jinky how did real calton tongs get their name? tong is chinese, have you got any linkage to china or is it just a name, sorry if you explained this elsewhere...

[Jinky08]

Back in the day a movie came out called Terror of the Tongs, came from that started in the 60's, the REAL part came around start of 80's a think as a sort of registered trademark cause people started copying the name, calton is the original tongs.

[cliffard]

cheers jinky, so your not the only glasgow crew called a tong, but you are the originals. your crew has been around since the sixties, thats absolutely raving...there must be old heads in your crew that can remember ronnie & reggie, the train robbers, the richardsons etc.,im sure i read somewhere that quite a few on the krays firm were from glasgow.

[Jinky08]

calton (as a gang) was around before the 60's, jst the name tongs started round about then.

[dinky]

were they no originally called the Calton entry.

[Jinky08]

back in the day the calton was alot bigger so they were different names for different places, n yes one was called Calton Entry Mob i dont know the excact year but i did found this from a site about the calton....

The Calton 'Entry'........ another Calton Gang .......who hailed from where else but 'Calton Entry'......If you wish to trace this location......The surviving stretch of the 'Entry' can be found between Stevenson Street West.... and Moncur Street.............near the Squirrel Bar and St. Alphonsus Chapel house residence..

[Jinky08]

Thats round about the Barras part were all the Celtic pubs are.

[dinky]

Thats a rough part of town.

[Jinky08]

Thats were i live, jst up from the hoops, not called that nymore, some irish name or summin.

[Eazey]

I stay between Glasgow and Cali.

Born to an american father/ british mother in Glasgow. Stayed in Glasgow till i was around 8 or 9 then went back to Cali. Been here ever since but i visit ma moms every so often.
I stayed in Pollok. Pollok Young Team (not far from the Old Bundy).

[Jinky08]

Sound, over the southside, im from the east end.

BTW wasnt tryin to say you were a lier just never met anyone from California and Glasgow :p, you like it out there?

[l3awjawz]

calton (as a gang) was around before the 60's, jst the name tongs started round about then.

were they no originally called the Calton entry.

They were called the Toi, or the 'San Toi', before they became the Tongs in the early 1960's and are the original Toi that other teams around Glasgow like Easterhouse, Blackhill, Toryglen, Yoker etc are named after. I'm not exactly sure where the Calton Entry Boys were fae, but I got telt they were fae Tollcross. Might be wrong on that but.