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

[Percy McCarthy]

Watching Monday Night Football. ‘No room for racism’ adverts being played while all sorts of MPs are desperately trying to make room for racists at Villa Park.

[Drummond]

I wasn't going. Then when the ban came I started looking for tickets. And then I stopped. Like Percy I'm being a responsible parent. There's just no way I'm taking a 10 year old now. We've got some great memories from last season in Europe and I'm not risking his Villa supporting future based on all the rubbish we've heard.

There will be trouble or such a heavy police presence that it won't feel exciting or fun.

[RamboandBruno]

The politicians on all sides have so much to answer for here, they have blown this up and dragged our club and supporters into the centre of it, with hyperbole and purposeful misinformation. They have also given the police an impossible job and totally ignored what they may be about to put the local residents through. Its a really shocking political intervention.

[Ads]

I'll be taking my 10 year old and I'm also hatching ways to be irresponsible to bunk him out of school early for the Young Boys game. I wonder what "appointment" he should have.

[Richard E]

I'll be taking my 10 year old and I'm also hatching ways to be irresponsible to bunk him out of school early for the Young Boys game. I wonder what "appointment" he should have.

He’s got to see his probation officer?

[Brazilian Villain]

The politicians on all sides have so much to answer for here, they have blown this up and dragged our club and supporters into the centre of it, with hyperbole and purposeful misinformation.

In the Commons debate, Zarah Sultana suggested that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans be investigated for war crimes.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The politicians on all sides have so much to answer for here, they have blown this up and dragged our club and supporters into the centre of it, with hyperbole and purposeful misinformation.

In the Commons debate, Zarah Sultana suggested that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans be investigated for war crimes.

One of Corbyn's lot? Everybody knows he hates jews. Stammer is still paying the price.

[Percy McCarthy]

The politicians on all sides have so much to answer for here, they have blown this up and dragged our club and supporters into the centre of it, with hyperbole and purposeful misinformation.

In the Commons debate, Zarah Sultana suggested that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans be investigated for war crimes.

Good chance they committed them while on national service. They’ll get away with it though I imagine.

[luke95]

I brought & ticket & I'm still going. 

This was always going to be a contentious night.
Now I'm more concerned with the locals behavior than the visiters the way this has been stoked up.

[kippaxvilla2]

I see Tommy two Names is going to be in attendance. 

[kippaxvilla2]

By stoking this up the politicians are now going to be responsible for something very bad happening.

[Percy McCarthy]

I see Tommy two Names is going to be in attendance.

All are welcome.

[spartacuss]

They're all charm, the Maccabi fans:

https://x.com/EK94227386/status/1980324993809690819

In case anyone references the full, lurid, version of "Holtenders in the Sky", by way of comparison, the difference is the Maccabi fans - most of whom are at least reservists in the IDF - get to play out their fantasies for real.

They obviously have got what it takes for Tommy Two-names:

https://www.reddit.com/r/uknews/comments/1o9evez/outrage_as_nationalist_tommy_robinson_urges_fans/?rdt=37195

[brontebilly]

A lot of Islamophobic people use the Jewish people as a cipher for their rampant racism.

I think this is a fair and likely accurate point. Things do change, but the old extremes of certain hooligans like Chelsea etc had signficant links with C18 and that, so I imagine these FLA marches are a bit more confusing for the older heads.

There's a lot of sideways talking though. Zionist is certainly a synonym for some and there's been holocaust trivialising on this thread alone which ought to make folks uncomfortable.

This issue is often the wink-wink vehicle.

Where has there been holocaust trivialising?

[Ads]

A quick search of the internet would suggest that their clubs anthem is about the colours they play in?

Maybe Mr EK94227386, who appears to post obsessively and exclusively about Israel, isn't quite the trusted source you'd naturally assume they would be.