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

[AV82EC]

I wasnt wondering, I know she’s a gormless right wing hack/grifter searching for relevance in clicks.

[Brazilian Villain]

Does anyone want to buy a box of 500 Israel/Palestine half and half scarves?

Should be an easy sell to proponents of a two-state solution.

[Dave]

If you're wondering what type of person Sophie is

Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc
15h

The FA forced us to take the knee over non existent racism in the UK

Yet are letting Aston Villa get away with actual racism

Oh dear.

I think she counts as one of the current Tory party's best and brightest.

[ian c.]

If you're wondering what type of person Sophie is

Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc
15h

The FA forced us to take the knee over non existent racism in the UK

Yet are letting Aston Villa get away with actual racism

Oh dear.

I think she counts as one of the current Tory party's best and brightest.

That could well be true.

[Rico]

Genuine question. Can someone please tell me why a team from the middle east are playing in a European tournament? I know that they have done so on the past, but it's always puzzled me.

[Dave]

Genuine question. Can someone please tell me why a team from the middle east are playing in a European tournament? I know that they have done so on the past, but it's always puzzled me.

Because lots of Asian teams refused to play them over a series of years and it was making their qualification path look silly by them winning groups as a result of half a dozen forfeited matches.

The spent the 80s playing New Zealand and Australia in the Oceania region, before it was decided that was even sillier, so they joined UEFA.

[Brazilian Villain]

Genuine question. Can someone please tell me why a team from the middle east are playing in a European tournament? I know that they have done so on the past, but it's always puzzled me.

Because other teams in the Asian football confederation refused to play them in the past.

[WarszaVillan]

Starmer seems to have an urivalled talent to hurl himself into one elephant trap after another. The government will now ally with violent, racist football fans, accompanied no doubt with Tommy Robinson's thugs and escort them through Aston. The PM of law and order is now protecting  violent, racist football hooligans. And then he'll feign shock and disgust when people resist these goons.

[cdbearsfan]

Would suggest a ban on links to hate-filled Tweeters, as there is, quite rightly, one on The Sun. They get paid based on how many people click on their link. I think screenshotting or copying and pasting might be better because I'm sure many of us don't like the thought of contributing to the financial well-being of arseholes like Corcoran or Gould. Even more so when they're going out of their way to post bollocks about The Villa.

Not criticising anyone who has submitted a link just a thought that might be worth considering in the future, maybe.

[Sexual Ealing]

Starmer seems to have an urivalled talent to hurl himself into one elephant trap after another. The government will now ally with violent, racist football fans, accompanied no doubt with Tommy Robinson's thugs and escort them through Aston. The PM of law and order is now protecting  violent, racist football hooligans. And then he'll feign shock and disgust when people resist these goons.

He's spectacular, isn't he?

[Somniloquism]

Genuine question. Can someone please tell me why a team from the middle east are playing in a European tournament? I know that they have done so on the past, but it's always puzzled me.

Because lots of Asian teams refused to play them over a series of years and it was making their qualification path look silly by them winning groups as a result of half a dozen forfeited matches.

The spent the 80s playing New Zealand and Australia in the Oceania region, before it was decided that was even sillier, so they joined UEFA.

As an aside and for the original OP, Australia National Team and their football teams now play under Asia Federation rather then Oceania on choice.

[Crown Hill]

Starmer seems to have an urivalled talent to hurl himself into one elephant trap after another. The government will now ally with violent, racist football fans, accompanied no doubt with Tommy Robinson's thugs and escort them through Aston. The PM of law and order is now protecting  violent, racist football hooligans. And then he'll feign shock and disgust when people resist these goons.

He's spectacular, isn't he?

Not sure he has much choice. the decision has been made on safety grounds not because their fans are violent. if that was the case UEFA would have banned them. To not be able to guarantee the safety of any group in modern Britain is a terrible reflection. So he has to act. And that's why there is a consensus and why it will be overturned this afternoon.

[cdbearsfan]

Why would UEFA have banned them? Do you think UEFA have a better understanding of the security issues in each host city and country than the authorities? UEFA don't get involved, nor should they.

[Somniloquism]

UEFA have banned violent fans in the past, home or away. But I suspect certain criteria has to be passed for that similar to how football hooligans arrested near a ground will be recorded as football violence, but the same fans fighting away from the ground aren't normally.

[PeterWithesShin]

It's not just about Maccabi fans being kept safe, which is what most of the hate peddlers on social media fail to realise. But it's easier for them to say Villa are racist and Jews aren't welcome in Birmingham.