What is Young Team?
1.
Term originally used by the East End razor gangs of interwar Glasgow. Sectarian and fiercely territorial, groups from different areas would engage in everything from casual one-upmanship to open street warfare. Best-known and most feared were the Tongs, the Toi and the Cumbies.
Smaller groups from other parts of the city identified themselves as the Anderston Young Team, Drumoyne Young Team and so on.
This latter form - or, more specifically, the
Occasional variations include Young (Scotstoun) Fleet, Young (Ruchill) Boys and (Whiteinch) Mental Team. Note that neds using tla identifiers are neither scary nor imaginitive.
(sprayed on a wall)
AYT
on tour 2k3
Gaz -T-
Davie -Mc-
Burns
Jamesey
Darren -B-
F.T.Polis
(crudely drawn cannabis leaf)