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

[Somniloquism]

This little bundle of love and inclusivity has spoken. There's also a video but bollocks to watching it

Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins

Things are speeding up fast in the U.K.

I have long known about @WMPolice …

The U.K. has banned Jews from attending football  … what next? Public transport?

I wonder what she has "long known about WMPolice". Did she remember when they beat confessions out of Irish people? When they covered up wrongdoing by South Yorks Police following Hillsborough?

[brontebilly]

Us canceling the game would be dumb as fuck. At best we'd receive a massive fine, at worst be kicked out and receive a ban. Meanwhile Maccabi pick up the win, the win money, and the points that may see them progress to play more matches.

Very unlikely....an AVFC pro humanity/anti genocide stance would generate huge support across the world. UEFA wouldn't have bottle to kick us out, every other club in the group would be under pressure to do likewise, and we will qualify anyway.

[rob_bridge]

Obviously Villa aren't going to forfeit the game and it would be utterly, utterly ridiculous if they did.

Of course we aren't going to give 3 points to MTA and lose a couple of million pounds in income and look like we have given in when the decision to play them at Villa Park in the first place was not our decision.

Totally fucking foolish idea.

[PeterWithesShin]

A bunch of clubs have already played European games against them this season.

[rob_bridge]

Us canceling the game would be dumb as fuck. At best we'd receive a massive fine, at worst be kicked out and receive a ban. Meanwhile Maccabi pick up the win, the win money, and the points that may see them progress to play more matches.

Very unlikely....an AVFC pro humanity/anti genocide stance would generate huge support across the world. UEFA wouldn't have bottle to kick us out, every other club in the group would be under pressure to do likewise, and we will qualify anyway.

We may not get kicked but everything else would happen. Everything

I think t is somewhat delusional to think anything much on your wish list would happen. Villa are a mid ranking European Club who everyone forgot about for 25 years until this time last year. We have little influence. 

[Somniloquism]

I could see us being kicked out, especially when our own government and FA are leading the charge to UEFA to get that done.

[Dave]

Us canceling the game would be dumb as fuck. At best we'd receive a massive fine, at worst be kicked out and receive a ban. Meanwhile Maccabi pick up the win, the win money, and the points that may see them progress to play more matches.

Very unlikely....an AVFC pro humanity/anti genocide stance would generate huge support across the world. UEFA wouldn't have bottle to kick us out, every other club in the group would be under pressure to do likewise, and we will qualify anyway.

We may not get kicked but everything else would happen. Everything

I think t is somewhat delusional to think anything much on your wish list would happen. Villa are a mid ranking European Club who everyone forgot about for 25 years until this time last year. We have little influence. 

Yup. It would generate an equal mixture of support and hatred across social media, and the reaction from the people in charge would be something along the lines of "why are you jumped up little pricks rocking this boat which we'd really rather you weren't rocking?"

Obviously it's never going to be tested as we're not going to be forefeiting anything.

[Ads]

Us canceling the game would be dumb as fuck. At best we'd receive a massive fine, at worst be kicked out and receive a ban. Meanwhile Maccabi pick up the win, the win money, and the points that may see them progress to play more matches.

Very unlikely....an AVFC pro humanity/anti genocide stance would generate huge support across the world. UEFA wouldn't have bottle to kick us out, every other club in the group would be under pressure to do likewise, and we will qualify anyway.

We may not get kicked but everything else would happen. Everything

I think t is somewhat delusional to think anything much on your wish list would happen. Villa are a mid ranking European Club who everyone forgot about for 25 years until this time last year. We have little influence. 

Yup. It would generate an equal mixture of support and hatred across social media, and the reaction from the people in charge would be something along the lines of "why are you jumped up little pricks rocking this boat which we'd really rather you weren't rocking?"

Obviously it's by the by, given we're not going to be forefeiting anything, because we're not stupid.

Can Starmer really be in charge if he's in Netanyahu's pocket?

[PeterWithesShin]

A number of fans of other clubs may think it's good we forfeit, but as Somny says, when nearly everyone of note politically in this country  is criticising it we won't have many in our corner. Maybe those running other clubs in the Europa think it's great we made a stand, they'd also much prefer us being kicked out as we're clear favourites.

[Somniloquism]

I expect an annoucnement that Police from other forces will be asked to help out WMP and then the "risk" will drop enough for SAG.

[Dave]

Us canceling the game would be dumb as fuck. At best we'd receive a massive fine, at worst be kicked out and receive a ban. Meanwhile Maccabi pick up the win, the win money, and the points that may see them progress to play more matches.

Very unlikely....an AVFC pro humanity/anti genocide stance would generate huge support across the world. UEFA wouldn't have bottle to kick us out, every other club in the group would be under pressure to do likewise, and we will qualify anyway.

We may not get kicked but everything else would happen. Everything

I think t is somewhat delusional to think anything much on your wish list would happen. Villa are a mid ranking European Club who everyone forgot about for 25 years until this time last year. We have little influence. 

Yup. It would generate an equal mixture of support and hatred across social media, and the reaction from the people in charge would be something along the lines of "why are you jumped up little pricks rocking this boat which we'd really rather you weren't rocking?"

Obviously it's by the by, given we're not going to be forefeiting anything, because we're not stupid.

Can Starmer really be in charge if he's in Netanyahu's pocket?

In this context, those in charge = UEFA.

[Brazilian Villain]

We may not get kicked but everything else would happen. Everything

I think t is somewhat delusional to think anything much on your wish list would happen. Villa are a mid ranking European Club who everyone forgot about for 25 years until this time last year. We have little influence. 

Agreed, plus the last thing we need is Jezza waving a Villa banner at one of the "Pro-Palestine" marches.

*Obviously Zarah wouldn't, given she's an MP in Coventry.

[TaxDodger]

We'd literally deserve to be kicked out if we forfeited the game. If we want to play in UEFA competitions we can't pick and choose which of the clubs that qualified for the competition we want to play against.

[TonyD]

We shouldn’t have to be hosting this club. 
But the reality is we are. 
So the option with probably the least amount of dangers of people getting hurt is to play it behind closed doors. 
Beat them and move on.

[SamTheMouse]

Fuck that. Why should Villa be penalised in any way whatsoever?