There are two Arsenal firms, The Gooners (a mutation of the club's nickname, The Gunners) and The Herd.
[citation needed] Dainton Connell (aka Dainton "The Bear" Cornnell) was considered a folk hero by many Arsenal fans, but died in a car crash in 2007, with 3,000 mourners attending his funeral including several ex players.
[2] During the 1980s, Connell was highly active in an Arsenal FC's hooligan "firm" and was a "main face" amongst the ranks.
At the same time, he was influential in ensuring that the BNP, and other far-right white-supremacist – then trying to infiltrate football firms – failed to gain any foothold at Arsenal.
[3][4] The Herd's most notorious clashes were with West Ham at Upton Park in 1983, Millwall fans at Highbury in 1988, PSG's ultras Boulogne Boys in Paris in 1994 before the Cup Winners Cup semi-final and with Galatasaray fans in City Hall Square, Copenhagen in 2000.