Removing Israeli teams from UEFA competitions/Boycotting the Maccabi TA game

[Martyn Smith]

Should UEFA remove Israeli teams from their competitions?

Well, if we're going to ban a country for invading another country. And if we once banned a nation globally from pretty much all sporting competitions, because is practised an apartheid system, then to me there is only one answer to the question for a country that is occupying the lands of and committing genocide against a neighbour

If that doesn't happen, should Villa as a club refuse to play Macabbi Tel Aviv. I agree with the article; they should

Whether or not fans should individually choose not to attend the game is of course a matter for individual consciences. All I know is that for the first time in my life I will be fully and freely able to watch a Villa game in some way and will be actively choosing not to. TNT won't be able to add me to their viewing figures...

https://news.sky.com/story/high-level-talks-in-european-football-about-whether-to-ban-israel-from-international-competitions-13437606

[cdbearsfan]

Of course the murdering, genocidal, bastards shouldn't be allowed to play competitive sport. Calling them an Apartheid state used to be considered a stick to beat them with, but now they're actually much worse than the South Africans ever were.

I would probably have chosen not to attend but as I am away at the time it has saved me a decision to make. Assuming game goes ahead I hope everyone stays safe.

[Sexual Ealing]

UEFA/FIFA?IOC etc should ban them. If they don't, we should play the game. I won't be going, but then I rarely do.

[cdbearsfan]

Yes I wasn't suggesting that Villa cut our nose off to spite our faces and hand the twats three points for free.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

Should football teams be made to play against teams representing genocidal states? No, absolutely not. 

[TheToffnar]

Yes I wasn't suggesting that Villa cut our nose off to spite our faces and hand the twats three points for free.

Don't see why this shouldn't be considered in all honesty. If it's as important an issue as we all apparently seem to think it is, the club should boycott the game entirely and damn the points.

[Dave]

Yes I wasn't suggesting that Villa cut our nose off to spite our faces and hand the twats three points for free.

Don't see why this shouldn't be considered in all honesty. If it's as important an issue as we all apparently seem to think it is, the club should boycott the game entirely and damn the points.

I'd say that this is overreaching quite a bit.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

Not everybody is concerned by the genocide enough for a football game not to happen. Villa shouldn’t be in this position.

[eamonn]

15-pages ? Depends how many posts per page user have on their Haitch and Vee settings.

[TheToffnar]

You'd be hard pressed to find a more pro Palestinian area of the UK then Aston, or even Birmingham as a whole. Personally, the club taking a stand on behalf of many of it's supporters would be an incredibly proud moment for many of us, especially in an era where 'principle' is a word rarely backed up by action.
 

[TaxDodger]

Villa should absolutely not refuse to play this fixture. If UEFA decide they're qualified enough to assess the situation in the middle east and conclude that the Israeli government's actions merit their teams being thrown out of UEFA based competitions then fine, but we should very much leave this decision to them.

[Dave]

15-pages ? Depends how many posts per page user have on their Haitch and Vee settings.

I think most of us have covered our thoughts across the last hundred or so posts in the Europa League thread.

[kippaxvilla2]

Fcuk that I want to win and get three points.

[dr.chekov]

From The Times:

Uefa members in favour of banning Israel from European football next week…

The Times revealed last month that several European clubs had asked Uefa if there was any way they could avoid playing Israeli opponents…

https://www.thetimes.com/article/11e9dd43-da58-47d5-84e8-23cefe184dd9?shareToken=017972e0589e3345c946970471a493b3

[Dave]

You'd be hard pressed to find a more pro Palestinian area of the UK then Aston, or even Birmingham as a whole. Personally, the club taking a stand on behalf of many of it's supporters would be an incredibly proud moment for many of us, especially in an era where 'principle' is a word rarely backed up by action.

I'd wager that for every supporter feeling pride at our forfeiture of the march and possible removal from the competition, there would be many, many more who would be furious with that course of action.