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RECENTLY, contributors to the Star’s sport pages have been stumped trying to work out a question: should fans get their money back when their team is humiliated?
The discussion started when Aston Villa began losing every single week and fans grew more and more frustrated watching their team get pummelled.
Then, when PSG won the French title last month beating Troyes 9-0 away, one writer said that the home fans should be refunded their money as they shouldn’t have had to sit through that kind of loss.
ROGER MCKENZIE argues that it was correct to ban the notorious Israeli side who were likely to cause trouble in Muslim areas of Birmingham, but asks, given the occupation and slaughter in Palestine, why any Israeli team is being hosted anywhere
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
LARRY LAGE writes about the growth of tackle football and how it provides female athletes opportunities in a game previously dominated by men