Europa League 2025-26

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Frankfurt were banned from Napoli 2 or 3 years ago and still ended up going and trashing the place.

[Percy McCarthy]

What's annoying is that "Jews aren't safe in Birmingham" or "Jews aren't welcome in Birmingham" are the lines being peddled by so many unpleasant dimwits.

It’s so anti-Semitic to conflate violent racists with ‘Jews’.

[Nev]

Woke up to see this as the main headline on the BBC. Fucking hell, it the realms of wrong end of the stick, this beats it all. It comes to something when I'll informed and ignorant comments are identical from right wing loons with an agenda to the PM of the country. So depressing.

Football fans across Europe have been banned and treated like shit for decades, games moved to stupid ko off times but it's only when there is political gain that suddenly their rights matter.

We're fucked either way 'cos it reads as Aston Villa = anti semite and there is no voice louder than the PM of the country.

[ChicagoLion]

This was always going to end badly.
It’s UEFA s fault, starting with Israel isn’t in Europe.
There will be trouble whatever happens.
30% of-the population of Bham is Muslim apparently.

[Dave]

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.

Still in UKIP are you?

I’d imagine he’s fucked off to Reform by now.

Nope. Never been a member of Reform. I'm politically neutral now, in as much as a plague on all their houses covers it.

"Turns out the ashes of this house I helped burn to the ground are really shit"

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Very few commentators or politicians of note are saying anything about us. Its the mouthbreathers on Xin the comments who are probably Bots any road.

[Pete3206]

I'm relieved at the decision because there was a real risk of serious disorder. I still think they'll be protest groups accompanied and opposed by a few nutjobs but, it will surely be more manageable by Plod with no away fans to kettle around the city.

[Dave]

A few other "disgraces":

Away fans being banned from Serbia vs Albania literally a week ago
Celtic and Rangers matches being played with no away fans for most of the last three years.
West Ham fans being banned from travelling to Freiburg in 2023 and Rapid Vienna in 2021 because of earlier trouble they had caused

[paul_e]

A few other "disgraces":

Away fans being banned from Serbia vs Albania literally a week ago
Celtic and Rangers matches being played with no away fans for most of the last three years.
West Ham fans being banned from travelling to Freiburg in 2023 and Rapid Vienna in 2021 because of earlier trouble they had caused

Exactly. The frustrating thing with this is that MTV fans are either being portrayed as poor little victims or being conflated with all Jews, completely ignoring the actions of those fans which clearly led to this decision.

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I wouldn't like it if we were banned from Mordor, although they're doing their best to keep the ban going.

I suppose the difference here is you have secterian MPs in Perry Barr and Dewsbury whipping up angst against "zios", in a backdrop of Tarquins workshopping songs to "put them in the ground" and away support with a strong (at present anyway) nationalist element, some racists amongst them, a good chunk of thugs and then in the middle a local populous who want to eat their dinner and watch TV and Villa fans wanting 3 points. So the equivalence made are not really relevant.

[Drummond]

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.

Who will still get blamed for stoking the fire and then not controlling what happened.

[andyh]

How long before we hear ‘Aston Villa, owned by Arab Nasim Sawaris……………..?’

As I said last night, the clubs name is being dragged through the dirt for something it didn’t ask for and most certainly, doesn’t deserve.

[kippaxvilla2]

The sucking up to Israel by politicians in all this is repellant.  Only khan who I usually despise seems to have got what it’s about.

[PeterWithesShin]

Andrew Fox
@Mr_Andrew_Fox
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Statement from the Aston Villa Jewish Villans supporters’ club, of which I’m proud to be honorary president:

“In the summer of 1938, on a tour of Germany, the name Aston Villa became famous around the world, as the only visiting team who refused an official request to perform the Nazi salute prior to kickoff. Today, the same club have been forced by the local authorities to salute modern day Nazism.

We lay no blame on Villa - it would absolutely not be safe to allow thousands of Jews to walk around Aston and its surroundings. Why that may be so should trouble the entire country.

It must also be said that following the announcement, we have been inundated with Villa fans happy to give up their seats to travelling Tel Aviv supporters.”

[cdbearsfan]

I hope any Villa fan stupid enough to give up their seat to a banned away fan gets banned for life.