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Obviously my Chelsea comments were solely based on the fact that I know no-one reads comments in this thread unless they include a dig at Chelsea or Liverpool, and I prefer Liverpool.
The documentary shows a lot about sections of the Israeli society and mentality as well, and I was completed unsurprised to see Avigdor Lieberman pop up, the Israeli Farage who has legitimised the kind of disgusting attitudes shared by a lot of those fans.
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Fair point.
I thought that the positive side to the documentary is that it shows that, throughout the world, whatever our differences, we have some things in common. Israelis, like us, can be mindless hateful venomous dispicable racist bigots.
Please note the use of the words "can be." Like us, they need not be and many, probably most, are not.
cliveo
That is a brilliant documentary and to be commended to everyone, whether or not they follow football. It shows that the issue is deeper than football suppport. Indeed,, football has, to a considerable extent worked to combat that particular issue.
In Israel, many people whi supported Beitar have now moved on to a new side set up as a reaction to the racism. These include the otherwise unpraisworthy Netinyhau. The money launderer was laudable in his attempts to change the racism within Beitar. Sadly he failed. How they remain in UEFA is unfathomable.
To say that they inspired the idiots on the Paris Metro is nmore than a stretch. Those people almost certainly were unaware of Beitar and not at all likely to be influenced by them. Beitar racists were only anti Muslim. The Paris Metro idiots appear to have been anti black and may have been anti semitic as well.
Finally, if you think that racism, anti semitism and homophobia in football is confined to Chelsea and that opposition to them should be focused on Chelsea, then you are in for a very big disappointment.