Maccabi, Aston Villa and Tel Aviv
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Aston Villa was advised last week by a Birmingham Council-linked safety advisory group (SAG) that the match should go ahead with no Maccabi fans. West Midlands Police backed the SAG advice and said its “intelligence” suggested a safety risk.
The decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans has been met with fury by the government, which is actively trying to have the ban overturned.