{"id":220450,"date":"2025-10-17T14:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220450\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:48:12","slug":"home-office-was-told-last-week-about-potential-maccabi-tel-aviv-fan-ban-police-football-unit-says-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/220450\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Office was told last week about potential Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban, police football unit says – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ban will keep fans and locals safe, Villa supporters tell the BBCpublished at 14:33 BST<\/p>\n

14:33 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Navtej Johal
Midlands correspondent<\/p>\n

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David Moss says he doesn’t want Villa or Tel Aviv fans to get injured<\/p>\n

The Villa fans we’ve spoken to outside the stadium today all agree – safety and security for local fans and their families is the most important thing, and the decision to ban travelling fans is the right one. <\/p>\n

“We have enough trouble when Walsall play,” season ticket holder Lee Goodman, 51, tells me. “I\u2019m sure it\u2019s the correct decision, it\u2019s just a shame for the genuine fans.”<\/p>\n

Marshall Spires, 32, says it’s “hard to not have politics get involved”.<\/p>\n

“If [the safety decision] means Villa fans can come down the ground and it’s safe, then that’s all that matters to me.”<\/p>\n

David Moss, 51, says: “My view is that if it\u2019s going to cause friction, trouble, I would say they shouldn’t really be travelling, because I don’t want anyone on the Villa side or Tel Aviv side to get injured.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s the right decision for security and for players and fans. [But] it\u2019s a shame, people want to come and watch their team play in Europe.”<\/p>\n

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Lee Goodman says the ban is the “correct decision” – but it’s “a shame for the genuine fans”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ban will keep fans and locals safe, Villa supporters tell the BBCpublished at 14:33 BST 14:33 BST Navtej…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-220450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}