A Team feud explodes again in Salford as gang 'foot soliders' jailed for blowing up car outside rival's homejoh

Two gang 'foot soldiers' were recruited to blow up a stolen car outside a rival's home as part of a new explosion of violence between two notorious Salford outfits, a court heard.

Steven Curry, 44, and Shakur Watson, 21, travelled from Liverpool to set off an improvised grenade outside a home in Ordsall in December 2019. They have now been jailed.

Today (Friday) it emerged the incident marked the another explosion of violence between the A Team and a rival faction dubbed the Anti A Team, a long-standing feud culminating in the fatal shooting of Salford 'Mr Big' Paul Massey on his doorstep in Clifton in 2015.

Now it can be revealed following the trial of Massey's killer, Mark Fellows, Salford was torn apart by yet another round of violence between the two gangs. The car bomb was one of a series of incidents in Salford, including shootings and violence, in a two-week period between December 14 and December 31, 2019, according to GMP. Fellows, a hitman for the Anti A Team dubbed 'The Iceman', was jailed for life that year for Massey's assassination.

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Two hired hands from Liverpool, Curry and Watson, travelled from Liverpool to Salford on December 30, 2019 in a stolen BMW. That evening they parked the car on Crowther Avenue, in Ordsall, and set off an improvised hand grenade stuffed with pyrotechnics normally found in fireworks.

The car exploded just 25 yards away from nearby homes. Curry and Watson fled before then taking a taxi home.

Residents were evacuated from their homes after the car