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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1260 on: October 16, 2025, 10:47:24 PM »
Villa up first on Newsnight. Must be a different producer to MOTD.

Ha!

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1261 on: October 16, 2025, 10:47:46 PM »
The saddest thing is that Aston Villa, our club, will be tarnished and denigrated by something the club has absolutely no control over.
The thickest of the thick will hear ‘Aston Villa………ban……..Tel Aviv……..Isreal…….jews…………’ and the club will be cast as the bad apple.


Didn't you conflate Jews with Israel the other week, saying they were going to "get it" or something like that?

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1263 on: October 16, 2025, 10:57:43 PM »
Politicians should never be allowed to comment on anything to do with football. The twats haven't a clue what they're talking about.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1264 on: October 16, 2025, 10:59:32 PM »
Villa up first on Newsnight. Must be a different producer to MOTD.

Interesting to see the badge they used was two badges out of date.

Although TBF, 'two badges' in the context of Villa could cover as little as three or four weeks.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1265 on: October 16, 2025, 11:00:18 PM »
I don't think our political leaders are helping the situation. What a shitshow.

What's going to happen now is, it'll be reversed, there will be loads of unpleasant scenes - and I don't care who is causing it - and there will be a lot of 'told you so' from WMP.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1266 on: October 16, 2025, 11:01:35 PM »
However, this is the EL thread, so I'll stop derailing.

Done the post count some good, mind.

Hang on, the post count is aspirational, and other people can see it?! I assumed it was there to measure my shame. 

You haven't even reached 25k, so I refuse to engage with you.

Come back when you've done 50k and then we can talk.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1267 on: October 16, 2025, 11:05:13 PM »
The saddest thing is that Aston Villa, our club, will be tarnished and denigrated by something the club has absolutely no control over.
The thickest of the thick will hear ‘Aston Villa………ban……..Tel Aviv……..Isreal…….jews…………’ and the club will be cast as the bad apple.

Aston Villa didn’t ask to play against them.
Aston Villa haven’t banned their fans
Aston Villa is not culpable in any way, shape or form, but our name will be dragged into the dirt because of outside influences and parties.

We can’t win.

Yep.  Think the club need to get on the front foot and make this point loud and clear. 

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1268 on: October 16, 2025, 11:08:26 PM »
However, this is the EL thread, so I'll stop derailing.

Done the post count some good, mind.

Hang on, the post count is aspirational, and other people can see it?! I assumed it was there to measure my shame.

My post count is on my CV and my Tinder profile.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1269 on: October 16, 2025, 11:09:20 PM »
The saddest thing is that Aston Villa, our club, will be tarnished and denigrated by something the club has absolutely no control over.
The thickest of the thick will hear ‘Aston Villa………ban……..Tel Aviv……..Isreal…….jews…………’ and the club will be cast as the bad apple.

Aston Villa didn’t ask to play against them.
Aston Villa haven’t banned their fans
Aston Villa is not culpable in any way, shape or form, but our name will be dragged into the dirt because of outside influences and parties.

We can’t win.

Yep.  Think the club need to get on the front foot and make this point loud and clear.

Probably best to just keep quiet, the press will have moved onto something else by the weekend. Any statement the club makes will piss some people off one way or the other.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1270 on: October 16, 2025, 11:15:48 PM »
The saddest thing is that Aston Villa, our club, will be tarnished and denigrated by something the club has absolutely no control over.
The thickest of the thick will hear ‘Aston Villa………ban……..Tel Aviv……..Isreal…….jews…………’ and the club will be cast as the bad apple.

Aston Villa didn’t ask to play against them.
Aston Villa haven’t banned their fans
Aston Villa is not culpable in any way, shape or form, but our name will be dragged into the dirt because of outside influences and parties.

We can’t win.

Yep.  Think the club need to get on the front foot and make this point loud and clear.

Probably best to just keep quiet, the press will have moved onto something else by the weekend. Any statement the club makes will piss some people off one way or the other.

Perhaps, though I do think a statement by the club reiterating that it was not their decision might be required. 
« Last Edit: October 16, 2025, 11:46:08 PM by tomd2103 »

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1271 on: October 16, 2025, 11:16:53 PM »
I don't think our political leaders are helping the situation. What a shitshow.

What's going to happen now is, it'll be reversed, there will be loads of unpleasant scenes - and I don't care who is causing it - and there will be a lot of 'told you so' from WMP.

UEFA will step in and order it to be played elsewhere behind closed doors.
You just know this will end up with all those of us who just want to turn up, have a pint and watch a match being the ones who get punished.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1272 on: October 16, 2025, 11:21:29 PM »
I don't think our political leaders are helping the situation. What a shitshow.

What's going to happen now is, it'll be reversed, there will be loads of unpleasant scenes - and I don't care who is causing it - and there will be a lot of 'told you so' from WMP.

UEFA will step in and order it to be played elsewhere behind closed doors.
You just know this will end up with all those of us who just want to turn up, have a pint and watch a match being the ones who get punished.

Hopefully not. Still not convinced Israeli teams should be involved anyway. So there's a ceasefire. A week from now that ceasefire might be gone.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1273 on: October 16, 2025, 11:31:06 PM »
Couple of articles covering Amsterdam for anyone wanting them

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/13/wednesday-briefing-how-fan-violence-became-a-political-football

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/11/what-happened-amsterdam-israeli-football-fans

Even if this were 100% true, it still doesn't justify the ruling today. Maccabi are not under UEFA sanction and there is no intelligence to suggest their fans are planning to instigate anything. This is a purely domestic issue and UEFA will have to respond, even though the club has done nothing wrong.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1274 on: October 16, 2025, 11:31:26 PM »
Ajax fans were banned from attending their game in Marseille last week, but I didn't see anyone accusing OM or the French police of anti-Dutch intolerance.

 


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