Maccabi Tel Aviv FC

I see there was another riot at their ground this last few days ?

 

According to Sky news, MTA have decided not to sell tickets to the game against Villa.

Sensible idea or are MTA themselves antisemitic now too?

 

It wasn't only your posts.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c3w98224xx8o

 

Read the link I've just posted.

 

In before the thread gets locked lol.

 

@SimonW won't be around for a while. He's still desperately trying to find reports of someone who's been killed or even seriously injured by the MTA fans.

I'm not even going to mention that it was the Hapoel fans throwing the flares that caused the abandonment of the recent game, or the fact that MTA refused the tickets because they believe the English authorities can't protect their fanss. As Simon repeatedly told us, it's everyone else that needs protection from the huge group of IDF and Mossad agents coming over.

Here's a thought though, what do we do if Israel qualify for Euro 2028? Especially considering Villa Park has been chosen for the event? Personally I'd remove the stadium from the list and host it elsewhere.

 

Fair comment. Its hard to not discuss politics when it becomes part of football. I'm staying well clear of the whole Palestine/Israel rabbit hole but to add, for all the wild narratives being thrown around this game, had the game been say Newcastle v Maccabi or Man City v Maccabi then the game would have gone ahead regardless. West Midlands police have made one huge monumental C0ck up in how they have approached this, police forces have no right to a political agenda yet they have made decisions based on political pressure. This could set a very dangerous precedent in future.

 

Police have confirmed they based their decision on intelligence about the risk of violence from Maccabi fans.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/21/police-intelligence-on-extreme-maccabi-fans-with-history-of-violence-led-to-villa-park-ban?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Did they?

At the bottom of the article it just says "West Midlands police were unable to comment before publication".

All it says is "according to sources" then lists a mix of potentially invented stories rounded off with conjecture and speculation.

Honestly, without actual quotes from the committee that made the decision or the police force themselves, that article is nothing more than the expected left wing propaganda from the Guardian.

 

So, to cap it off and summarise, you want them banned because they sing naughty songs and shout hurty words?

Meanwhile, Turkish and Italian fans run around stabbing people for fun and in the instance of the lads from Leeds, actually killing them but it's definitely the hurty words that all of a sudden are the biggest issue in European football?

 

Oh, right. So you think they just made all of this up, do you?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy81qvn7gjo

I see how this game is played. If you're running with a narrative everyone on that side is always to blame no matter what. Lets be grown up about this whole Israel/Palestine scenario, both sides are complicit whether that be at a football match where violence ensues or in the conflict in general. This isn't a case of terror top trumps, that area of the world has had conflict for hundreds and hundreds of years.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/17/maccabi-tel-aviv-fans-banned-aston-villa

This from the Guardian of all rags is a fair summing up of the situation.

 

Honestly, go through it point by point. There is absolutely nothing in there and they've carefully picked their words to make it sound as factual as possible without a single fact or quote provided in the bullet points. Take points 2 and 3. Was it one fan, a couple, was it a small group or was it every single one of them like it suggests? Were there any arrests to support this, or even a report supplied to Uefa who can add weight to the claims?

I'll save you the bother though because I've looked myself. There were just 5 convictions and the longest sentence was just 6 months.

Point 5. How many fans? "Some" could be a single household and more that likely was or they'd have used words like "majority" or 'large numbers'.

Also, why didn't they get a quote from the police before rushing it too print for example?

Everyone who is fair minded knows the answer. The police wouldn't have provided one and this is just a made up 'story' from a left leaning rag that's written to cause division and is best ignored.

I'll leave it with two quotes from a sky news report after the trouble in Amsterdam, both which paint a very different picture to the one pushed above and I'll also note that every single post from yourself and Simon deliberately left out the fact that many fans had reacted to the large pro Palestinian demonstration organised to 'welcome' them to Amsterdam.

Amsterdam police and prosecutors said "antisemitic" rioters "actively sought out" Israeli supporters to attack and assault them.

A report from the Amsterdam mayor's office said the violence stemmed from a "toxic combination of antisemitism, hooliganism and anger" about the war between Israel and Gaza and other conflicts in the Middle East.


https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11959/13451567/maccabi-tel-aviv-why-have-israeli-clubs-fans-been-banned-from-aston-villa-europa-league-game-key-questions-answered