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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1395 on: October 17, 2025, 12:32:56 PM »
Punjabi Villans have been around a while and have won awards.

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1396 on: October 17, 2025, 12:34:35 PM »
I love those lads.

Offline AV82EC

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1397 on: October 17, 2025, 12:34:45 PM »
Yes I was aware of those guys, is Punjabi a cultural or religious thing, apologies for my ignorance in these matters.

Offline paul_e

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1398 on: October 17, 2025, 12:52:18 PM »
Yes I was aware of those guys, is Punjabi a cultural or religious thing, apologies for my ignorance in these matters.

Heritage/Culture really, a lot like a scottish or welsh fan club would be, but obviously with deep ties to Islam as the primary religion for the region.

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1399 on: October 17, 2025, 12:55:39 PM »
Yes I was aware of those guys, is Punjabi a cultural or religious thing, apologies for my ignorance in these matters.

Heritage/Culture really, a lot like a scottish or welsh fan club would be, but obviously with deep ties to Islam as the primary religion for the region.

Sikhism is the majority religion in Punjab, isn't it?

Edit: it is. Islam less than 2%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Punjab,_India

Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1400 on: October 17, 2025, 12:57:29 PM »
Sikhism is the majority religion in the bit of Punjab that's in India. Most of the Punjab is in Pakistan and mostly Muslim.

Offline paul_e

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1401 on: October 17, 2025, 12:58:39 PM »
Yes I was aware of those guys, is Punjabi a cultural or religious thing, apologies for my ignorance in these matters.

Heritage/Culture really, a lot like a scottish or welsh fan club would be, but obviously with deep ties to Islam as the primary religion for the region.

Sikhism is the majority religion in Punjab, isn't it?

Edit: it is. Islam less than 2%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Punjab,_India

Of course it is and is what I intended to write but I was half reading a something about the Maccabi thing and my brain went into auto-pilot.

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1402 on: October 17, 2025, 12:59:05 PM »
Ah, I'm still getting used to partition.

Offline paul_e

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1403 on: October 17, 2025, 01:00:06 PM »
Oh, I was with you and thought that applied both sides of the border, so I guess I was right by accident the first time?

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1404 on: October 17, 2025, 01:00:17 PM »
Yes I was aware of those guys, is Punjabi a cultural or religious thing, apologies for my ignorance in these matters.

Heritage/Culture really, a lot like a scottish or welsh fan club would be, but obviously with deep ties to Islam as the primary religion for the region.

Sikhism is the majority religion in Punjab, isn't it?

Edit: it is. Islam less than 2%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Punjab,_India

That's the demographics of the Punjab state in India. 53.2% Muslim throughout the whole area known as Punjab.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1405 on: October 17, 2025, 01:02:57 PM »
I'm thinking of setting up the Zoroastrian Lions (aka Avesta Villans). Anyone interested?

Offline john2710

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1406 on: October 17, 2025, 01:03:04 PM »
The problem here isn't necessarily the Maccabi fans, that should, with the right level of policing & restrictions on movements be something they could control.

it's the potential for thousands of far right pro-Israeli and pro-Palistinian to use this game as an opportunity to clash in the streets around Aston. Some of whom will be intent on getting at the Maccabi fans.

I've seen or read some absolute nonsense today, ranging from why doesn't Prince William intervene to questioning whether we should now be allowed to host European tournament games in 2028.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1407 on: October 17, 2025, 01:03:52 PM »
I think the Punjabi Villains are mostly from/descended from people from the Indian side or Sikhs who lived on the other side pre-partition and are therefore mostly Sikh, though. I may be wrong.

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1408 on: October 17, 2025, 01:07:16 PM »
Where was Starmer, Badenoch, Farage and the rest when the same SAG didn't allow the Divali festival last week?

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Europa League 2025-26
« Reply #1409 on: October 17, 2025, 01:09:24 PM »
From everything i've seen, both Punjabi Villa and Punjabi Wolves are mainly Sikh. I use both as they are the well known local ones.

 


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