The combined Maccabi thread - now with are you going? poll

[amfy]

All great points Spartacus.

[Nunkin1965]

The game is going to go ahead with MTA  fans in attendance.
Ed Milliband says so.
He's a knob.

[Louzie0]

Thanks Spartacuss, you’ve written what I’ve been thinking.
I hope there’s a sensible outcome of the latest high level discussion and planning to support the match going ahead.

[john e]

One of the worst things about this whole affair is that the word conflate has been used a billion times already

[PeterWithesShin]

I had conflates for breakfast.

[Chris_Jephcott]

Wrong thread

[Mike Jeffries]

Can we all be Spartacuss? (Sorry I went there).  Very much agree with your post though and your right it's an added layer of shite the constant assertion that all Jews support the current Israeli Government.

Really feels like the Prime Minister & in some ways even more shamefully given she's a Birmingham MP, the Home Secretary are painting targets on our backs (But much more so the people living around Villa Park. Who national media seem utterly uninterested in, in their coverage).  Then too the surprise of no one who is actually awake, Tommy Robinson (Just how do you get to step out of a court case, go on a foreign jolly and advertise and encourage a race riot - With so few mainstream figures, seeming to notice, let alone say anything against it? But they have all the time to attack the Police, SAG & the Villa I can't help noticing) pokes his drug coated nostrils in and ramps it up some more. 

Like so much of the rest of life, we just don't count and politicians believe they can just use us for their own agenda's.  We'll see what happens in the next few days, but whilst I understand the feelings about no protests should be happening (God knows I'd much rather there was just a football match happening and none of this!) I don't feel I have the first beginnings of a right to tell people living around Villa Park what they can or can't do if a racist group of ultra's teams up with Tommy scumbag and march into their streets.                   

[Somniloquism]

For Yaxley-Lennon, I'm surprised none of his supporters have

a: Asked whose Bentley Bentayga it was?
b: How he had several thousand pounds in cash yo carry around?
c: How he can spend multiple days a year in Benidorm?

But of course it is the immigrants stealing all the money from their pockets.

[dave.woodhall]

Can we all be Spartacuss? (Sorry I went there).  Very much agree with your post though and your right it's an added layer of shite the constant assertion that all Jews support the current Israeli Government.

Really feels like the Prime Minister & in some ways even more shamefully given she's a Birmingham MP, the Home Secretary are painting targets on our backs (But much more so the people living around Villa Park. Who national media seem utterly uninterested in, in their coverage).  Then too the surprise of no one who is actually awake, Tommy Robinson (Just how do you get to step out of a court case, go on a foreign jolly and advertise and encourage a race riot - With so few mainstream figures, seeming to notice, let alone say anything against it? But they have all the time to attack the Police, SAG & the Villa I can't help noticing) pokes his drug coated nostrils in and ramps it up some more. 

Like so much of the rest of life, we just don't count and politicians believe they can just use us for their own agenda's.  We'll see what happens in the next few days, but whilst I understand the feelings about no protests should be happening (God knows I'd much rather there was just a football match happening and none of this!) I don't feel I have the first beginnings of a right to tell people living around Villa Park what they can or can't do if a racist group of ultra's teams up with Tommy scumbag and march into their streets.                   

If I could I'd be standingly ovating right now.

[trinityoap]

Well, I'm in my seventies but if Tommy two names and his mob turn up I'm ready for a replay of Cable Street.

[RamboandBruno]

Excellent posts from Spartacuss and Mike, agree with pretty everything said.
I mentioned earlier in the thread, but on Friday I was working at home and had various radio stations on throughout the day including R4. Not one of them mentioned the local community and potential impacts on them, let alone interview anyone from there.

[Dave P]

Apologies if this has been asked, but is there an option to get a refund on the tickets as I’m having doubts about taking my kids to this game

[TonyD]

MTA derby tonight cancelled due to rioting. 

[Somniloquism]

Starmer has already been in touch asking if the fans can attend and why they Israeli's can't gurantee the safety of the Jewish fans.

[Somniloquism]

Also in Basketball, the other day Valencia have decided their match against Harpoel will be BCD.