Europa League 2025-26

[Brazilian Villain]

The players will have strong opinions on this too.

Will they?

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The players will have strong opinions on this too.

Will they?

Some massive wish fulfilment going on in this thread. Just bore off with it, ban them if you must and let the rest of us watch some nobodies get a good hiding at Villa Park.

[ChicagoLion]

Uninspiring away fixtures - Bologna away would have been lovely as would Salzburg.
Go Ahead Eagles garden shed, Boring Basle, Fenerbahçe not for the faint hearted, Rotterdam- despite the historic link a pretty hum drum town thanks to the Luftwaffe 
After last seasons CL thrills its a bit after The Lord Mayors show.

[olaftab]

As been said this can be done as policing Villa Park to keep out ProPals and Fascists/Patriots is fairly easy. Residents to the north and west of Villa Park are really pleasant people who will not congregate/march towards the ground. Their homes to them are more important. So ban demos anywhere within 1/2 mile of VP. And yes UEFA banning their away idiots (so I am told and I am not being anti-Semitic) would be good news.

[not3bad]

If I buy the bundle, will I still get points towards the season ticket waiting list if I don’t attend v Tel Aviv?

I don’t mind going but there’s no way my kids will be in the same postcode as their sub-human filth fans. I think I’d rather we’d drawn Rangers!

Plenty of Israelis don’t support what is happening.

Also words like sub-human really don’t do much to dispel the anti semitic defence either.

A large majority of Israelis support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. This has been shown in polls.

As for sub human, wait until you hear what the Tel Aviv fans chant.

[olaftab]

Uninspiring away fixtures - Bologna away would have been lovely as would Salzburg.
Go Ahead Eagles garden shed, Boring Basle, Fenerbahçe not for the faint hearted, Rotterdam- despite the historic link a pretty hum drum town thanks to the Luftwaffe 
After last seasons CL thrills its a bit after The Lord Mayors show.

I know CL is just different but in terms of cities we travelled to last season in the League phase were not that inspiring. Brugge, Berne. Leipzig and awful Monaco.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

The players will have strong opinions on this too.

Will they?

My sentiments exactly, some may have feelings on the subject but I’d guess most just want to play football.

[not3bad]

Their homes to them are more important. So ban demos anywhere within 1/2 mile of VP. And yes UEFA banning their away idiots (so I am told and I am not being anti-Semitic) would be good news.

Hardly antisemitic to say Tel Aviv fans are hooligan and racists. It's a plain fact.

[cdbearsfan]

Maccabi clubs tend to be on the right of Israeli politics (Hapoel clubs tend to be more centrist/lefty). MTA seem to be to the right of all the other already quite right wing Maccabi teams. They're overwhelmingly pro-genocide and there is not the slightest doubt they will look to harass and attack Muslims and anyone they deem as being "pro-Palestine" if they come to Birmingham.

There is also not the slightest doubt that Brummies and other Villa fans who stand up to them will be castigated as antisemitic.

[Percy McCarthy]

If I buy the bundle, will I still get points towards the season ticket waiting list if I don’t attend v Tel Aviv?

I don’t mind going but there’s no way my kids will be in the same postcode as their sub-human filth fans. I think I’d rather we’d drawn Rangers!

Plenty of Israelis don’t support what is happening.

Also words like sub-human really don’t do much to dispel the anti semitic defence either.

I should clarify. I don’t give a toss which imaginary sky fairy they support. I’m just talking about people who celebrate the slaughter of innocent children.

[spartacuss]

Since when have Maccabi Tel Aviv or Israel been part of Europe?

 The members of my extended family and friends who are Jewish (including 2 who are descended from Holocaust survivors) are in an almost permanent state of incandescent rage over the way Israel is given the kid-gloves treatment by a significant part of Western media. While they are routinely called 'antisemitic' or 'self-hating Jews' for daring to challenge Israel's conduct in Gaza. (The last spat was over: 'snipers killing kids & health-workers'...)

 Up to about 5 or 6 years ago, I truly believed that a country that was partially founded in opposition to the horrors of the Holocaust was socially and politically 'vaccinated' against the possibility of fascism succeeding. How wrong I was.  I subscribe to the Israeli newspaper 'Haaretz' and on a daily basis now, it is full of articles which confirm the ever-intensiying right-wing, apartheid-embracing,  authoritarian nature of the government.  To be fair, they do report about the way many more Israelis are waking up to the fact that the corrupt crew who rule them with their 'permanent war' economy are turning Israel into a pariah state and impinging on their own safety and security and fomenting anti-semitism across the globe. 

My friend, David Mond, active in Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), reminded me that history didn't begin on the 7th October 2023 and to have a look at the letter written by Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt (famous chronicler of totalitarianism) and 20 other leading Jewish people in Israel, to the New York Times in December 1948. The letter refers to the terror tactics being used to subdue the Arab population produced a real danger that  fascism was being planted and could thrive in a future Israel as a result of these tactics.

I've always been proud of the way Villa didn't kow-tow to the Nazis by refusing to perform the 'Hitler-gruss'.  It would be good if Villa could make some gesture that what's happening in Palestine/Israel is not'normal' and 'sportswashing' it without comment isn't acceptable. Symbolic it may be, but however pathetic it might seem to some, it would give some hope to Palestinians and many Israelis that the whole world's watching and not ignoring the predatory, land-grabbing violence of the current rulers of Israel.

Oh, and the answer to the first question is: Unlike other countries in the Middle East, they are 'white' so are regarded as honorary Europeans. That is the blunt truth of the matter. 

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JVL and untermensch lolol. Lets play them first so this circus can be over and done with. And also that they're likely shite as well.

[Dave]

Oh, and the answer to the first question is: Unlike other countries in the Middle East, they are 'white' so are regarded as honorary Europeans. That is the blunt truth of the matter. 

I think the blunter truth is that is if they were part of the Asian Football Confederation then a large number of countries would refuse to play them.

So in less genocidal times it's politically easier to have them competing with teams who would play them.

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Oh, and the answer to the first question is: Unlike other countries in the Middle East, they are 'white' so are regarded as honorary Europeans. That is the blunt truth of the matter. 

I think the blunter truth is that is if they were part of the Asian Football Confederation then a large number of countries would refuse to play them.

So in less genocidal times it's politically easier to have them competing with teams who would play them.

No no, its much more interesting to have a discussion about the whiteness of the Jewry from somebody pally with JVL types. Go on*.


*Im going to caveat this with how historically stupid it is for pinko-commies to have Spartacus as some left wing ideal, when his forces for made up of conservative reactionaries who couldn't farm for shit.

[kippaxvilla2]

“Hang on, I thought we were Beitar Jerusalem”
“No, we’re the Jerusalem Beitars”

Fack orf.