Ayoub Khan MP

[Protheroe]

Notable anti semite and homophobe calling for UEFA, the UK Culture Minister and Villa to cancel the fixture against Maccabi Tel Aviv "to ensure public safety and community harmony".

What does that last bit mean, do you think?

[GunsOfNavarone]

Notable anti semite and homophobe calling for UEFA, the UK Culture Minister and Villa to cancel the fixture against Maccabi Tel Aviv "to ensure public safety and community harmony".

What does that last bit mean, do you think?

Dunno. Israel are going to bomb Witton? Goody   .

[Duffers]

It's fine, the genocide will stop once Israel realise they won't be allowed to enter Eurovision.

[GunsOfNavarone]

It's fine, the genocide will stop once Israel realise they won't be allowed to enter Eurovision.

Wish Eurovision would have been kind enough to ban the UK from the competition when we went back into Iraq. Do you think there’s any chance of a retrospective ban?

[Josh1873]

When did Duffers become the go-to for Eurovision questions?

[Shabby Russian]

Notable anti semite and homophobe calling for UEFA, the UK Culture Minister and Villa to cancel the fixture against Maccabi Tel Aviv "to ensure public safety and community harmony".

What does that last bit mean, do you think?

Possibly he could just have cut to the chaste and suggest that Israeli football clubs should be banned from eufa competitions just as Russian football clubs are.

I'm not sure I'm at that point yet, but clearly it is a subject up for debate.

[Old Stroller]

Notable anti semite and homophobe calling for UEFA, the UK Culture Minister and Villa to cancel the fixture against Maccabi Tel Aviv "to ensure public safety and community harmony".

What does that last bit mean, do you think?

I imagine he’s referring to the match against Ajax where the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans incited a riot with their behaviour. 

This is how it started. From The Guardian:

“The first incidents were reported on Wednesday evening, the day before the match. Police say Maccabi fans tore a Palestinian flag down from the facade of a building and burned it, shouted “fuck you, Palestine”

After a radio callout a number of taxi drivers converged on a casino on the nearby Max Euweplein, where about 400 Israeli supporters had gathered. Police dispersed the taxi drivers and escorted supporters out of the casino.

Verified social media videos show Maccabi fans setting off flares and fireworks and chanting in Hebrew “olé, olé, let the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] win, we will fuck the Arabs”. The Dutch national broadcaster NOS, other local media outlets and Amsterdam city hall officials also reported that fans chanted that there were “no children” left in Gaza.”

It kicked off big time after that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...tball-fans

[Jacko]

You've quoted the wrong part of the article there surely?

[Old Stroller]

You've quoted the wrong part of the article there surely?

No, I was merely pointing out that letting a lot of mouthy Israeli fans turn up to try and cause trouble in an area with a lot of Palestinian support isn’t necessarily going to end well for them.

A clear case of FAFO, as Proth is fond of saying.

[Jacko]

Ah so free speech (chanting, flag-burning) isn't okay, and FAFO is an excuse for anti-semitic violence? I love this bored.