L’intelligence sui tifosi “estremi” del Maccabi con precedenti di violenza ha portato al divieto di Villa Park
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/21/police-intelligence-on-extreme-maccabi-fans-with-history-of-violence-led-to-villa-park-ban
di trevthedog
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Apart from the time the Maccabi fans were running around Amsterdam assaulting people (and then hiding behind claims of anti-semitism to protest their innocence), even Israeli police think they’re violent and recently [cancelled a match in Tel Aviv because of this](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/20/sport/soccer-tel-aviv-derby-police-riots-intl).
> They had randomly picked Muslims in Amsterdam to attack. That led to reprisal violence with some Dutch Jews attacked.
This is so dishonest when we have literal court cases in the Netherlands that show the attacks on Maccabi fans and Jews generally were premeditated in chat groups.
What football associations, authorities and police forces have tended to do, only for the past 40 years or so, is; when extreme and / or violent fans are identified, then travel, stadium and league-wide bans have been issued to them.
This is the constructive thing about identifying fans prior to matches or seasons etc.
I’ve been wondering if there might have been consideration given to potential disorder that would be associated with non-football fans in this match at Aston Villa?
I don’t mean the innocents like in Amsterdam. I was wondering if attitudes towards the Tel-Aviv fans, such as the local preacher who publicly stated that they should be “shown no mercy”, might be prevalent?
Or was that an isolated statement and not something worth looking into, in a modern state.?