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

[markeeeebeeee2005]

They play their home games in Serbia as Netanyahu is twinned with Milošević.

Very good!

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

They play their home games in Serbia as Netanyahu is twinned with Milošević.

Very good!



And thanks for the info all!

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Beat me to it markeeee!

[Clampy]

It's not the Mayonaise lot I'm worried out, what if those anti-semitic bake sellers turn up?

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It's not the Mayonaise lot I'm worried out, what if those anti-semitic bake sellers turn up?

I don't think Martyn Smith goes to games so his Victoria Sponges will have to find fresh targets.

[Hookeysmith]

God, I hate it when politics gets dragged into sport. Enough of this shit. Roll on kick off.

You'll hate it when the IDF deliberately targets and murders players from the Palestine national team, then, yes?

My understanding - the people that currently run Palestine (suggested to be Hamas) want all the jews dead - not just the football team?

This part of the world is dominated by religious bollocks - maybe it should just be turned into a car park and people start to live their lives accordingly.

In this media driven world we live in you would not bet against some stupid twat to try and make a name for themselves and cause an issue in the ground - on that basis if i were the Police i would insist on it being played behind closed doors with both clubs being compensated by UEFA

When you say 'this part of the world' do you mean Gaza? Israel? The Middle East?

All of it. Then make religion illegal.

[RamboandBruno]

How about we play the game of football, with us fans inside who have already purchased tickets because we want to go and let WMP handle 400-500 idiots that want to play up (if that is indeed their intention) how they do best.

Fuck me they handle the derby, they handled the 700 mayonnaise lot the other year, they stopped Celtic getting too big of a hiding; WMP have always been bang up for this sort of baton waving. I'm sure they'll be fine.

"Ring of steel" and "behind closed doors". Fuck me listen to yourselves.

Watching 15 polish ultras throwing plastic bottles of mayo, from the safety of the holte, was the scariest thing I’d seen since watching Bugsy Malone. Not exactly Leeds or Millwall coming to town in the 80s.

As an aside I was driving through Lozells the other day as I do quite often and there are Palestine flags everywhere, makes a change from the flag of St George being force fed.
lots of people feeling strongly enough to have their flags waving, are pretty obviously going to walk a mile down the road, to confront the Tel Aviv supporters and their rep as well as protesting in general about the genocide. Because of the political context and emotiveness, it won’t be like your average football ruck. I think it has the potential to go off in Birmingham that day as well
I’ll probably go to watch villa if its on as thats what i do. I sense UEFA probably will make a decision though.

[paul_e]

How about we play the game of football, with us fans inside who have already purchased tickets because we want to go and let WMP handle 400-500 idiots that want to play up (if that is indeed their intention) how they do best.

Fuck me they handle the derby, they handled the 700 mayonnaise lot the other year, they stopped Celtic getting too big of a hiding; WMP have always been bang up for this sort of baton waving. I'm sure they'll be fine.

"Ring of steel" and "behind closed doors". Fuck me listen to yourselves.

Watching 15 polish ultras throwing plastic bottles of mayo, from the safety of the holte, was the scariest thing I’d seen since watching Bugsy Malone. Not exactly Leeds or Millwall coming to town in the 80s.

As an aside I was driving through Lozells the other day as I do quite often and there are Palestine flags everywhere, makes a change from the flag of St George being force fed.
lots of people feeling strongly enough to have their flags waving, are pretty obviously going to walk a mile down the road, to confront the Tel Aviv supporters and their rep as well as protesting in general about the genocide. Because of the political context and emotiveness, it won’t be like your average football ruck. I think it has the potential to go off in Birmingham that day as well
I’ll probably go to watch villa if its on as thats what i do. I sense UEFA probably will make a decision though.

I agree with all of this, I think comparing the risk of violence for this specific game to any other in the last 30 years is to seriously underestimate how strongly people in the area around the ground feels about what's happening in Gaza. By best estimates there are around 10x as many Muslims living in Birmingham as there are in Amsterdam and there were riots there last year.

[cdbearsfan]

Also take into account that Maccabi fans will be looking to attack Muslims, as they did in Amsterdam.

[paul_e]

Also take into account that Maccabi fans will be looking to attack Muslims, as they did in Amsterdam.

Of course, and I worry that they'll know they need far more people than will have tickets for that so we'd get a lot of extra visitors here just for the shit-stirring.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

Also take into account that Maccabi fans will be looking to attack Muslims, as they did in Amsterdam.

Of course, and I worry that they'll know they need far more people than will have tickets for that so we'd get a lot of extra visitors here just for the shit-stirring.

Some people are just super chill about the risk of violence to the local Muslim population and anybody else though, just want to watch a bit of footy and don’t want tofu knitting libtards ruining a night on the beers.

[KingstandingVilla]

In this media driven world we live in you would not bet against some stupid twat to try and make a name for themselves and cause an issue in the ground - on that basis if i were the Police i would insist on it being played behind closed doors with both clubs being compensated by UEFA

I imagine it’s going to be an absolute nightmare to police. Having the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans there I imagine would near guarantee trouble.

Even without them, the game will be a dickhead magnet. Think the only sensible way to deal with it is to either strictly segregate (bus them in) or outright ban away supporters, and put up police cordons around the ground to check that you can’t even get in the vicinity of the ground without a ticket. At that stage it’s maybe easier just to play it behind closed doors, mind.

Can’t see it plays in our favour to not play the game if UEFA aren’t taking a stand, however much we think they should (and they absolutely should take a stand IMO)

It'll be carnage if it's played with away fans allowed

[astonvilla82]

How about we play the game of football, with us fans inside who have already purchased tickets because we want to go and let WMP handle 400-500 idiots that want to play up (if that is indeed their intention) how they do best.

Fuck me they handle the derby, they handled the 700 mayonnaise lot the other year, they stopped Celtic getting too big of a hiding; WMP have always been bang up for this sort of baton waving. I'm sure they'll be fine.

"Ring of steel" and "behind closed doors". Fuck me listen to yourselves.

Watching 15 polish ultras throwing plastic bottles of mayo, from the safety of the holte, was the scariest thing I’d seen since watching Bugsy Malone. Not exactly Leeds or Millwall coming to town in the 80s.

As an aside I was driving through Lozells the other day as I do quite often and there are Palestine flags everywhere, makes a change from the flag of St George being force fed.
lots of people feeling strongly enough to have their flags waving, are pretty obviously going to walk a mile down the road, to confront the Tel Aviv supporters and their rep as well as protesting in general about the genocide. Because of the political context and emotiveness, it won’t be like your average football ruck. I think it has the potential to go off in Birmingham that day as well
I’ll probably go to watch villa if its on as thats what i do. I sense UEFA probably will make a decision though.

The people I know don't mind the flags of England being displayed on lamp posts

[cdbearsfan]

I'm incredibly shocked.

[Legion]

No surprise there.