US EditionMaccabi Tel Aviv FC fans will not be able to buy tickets to Aston Villa match in Birmingham
- On Monday, Maccabi Tel Aviv said in a club statement it will decline any ticket allocation for fans for the Europa League match at Villa Park next month, preventing supporters from buying tickets.
- Last week, Birmingham's Safety Advisory Group barred away fans after West Midlands Police classified the Nov. 6 Villa Park match as high risk following a local assessment.
- The club blamed a toxic atmosphere created by hate-filled falsehoods that made attending unsafe and cited fan wellbeing and hard lessons learned, hoping to play in Birmingham in the near future.
- Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer criticised the ban as wrong, while the UK government said on Friday it was working with West Midlands Police and Birmingham City Council to allow Israeli fans, with Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy stressing police make the final call.
- Last year in Amsterdam, clashes led to arrests and unrest as more than 30 legal experts urged UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin to restrict Israeli teams amid discrimination concerns flagged by Fare network.
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Maccabi Tel Aviv furore: Starmer bends over backwards for Zionist hooligans - The Communist
Facebook Twitter Reddit WhatsApp Messenger Email Print Fans of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv – renowned for their hooliganism and racism – have been banned from attending a Europa League game against Aston Villa in Birmingham. This decision came from the council’s Safety Advisory Group, based on the assessment by the West Midlands Police who said they are incapable of preventing the kind of chaos that we saw in Amsterdam last year. …
The Israeli football club made this decision itself after local Birmingham authorities declared them unwelcome. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke out against the decision.
Maccabi Tel Aviv now voluntarily waives his guest quota in the dispute over the exclusion of Israeli football fans from the Europa League game with the English representative Aston Villa. The Birmingham authorities had classified the game as a high-risk game on 6 November.
We have allowed Jew hate to take over the streets
Last night’s decision by Maccabi Tel Aviv to not take up its allocation of away tickets is deeply depressing. The statements of principle that have come from across the political spectrum, arguing that it is wrong to ban Jewish fans because of the sectarian bigotry of many in that area, are now irrelevant. Castigation of
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