Maccabi Tel Aviv’s struggle with a handful of rioting fans is escalating, and for the first time, we reveal here how the club deals every game with the unruly parts of the crowd.
The most significant moment was in the Conference League against PSV Eindhoven and Eran Zehavi, after during the game the referee took the players of both teams off the field for several minutes due to throwing objects, which caused the UEFA to impose a fine of 15,000 euros on the team. The latter the same rioters, who were immediately removed from the Bloomfield stands and civil lawsuits were filed against them.
He will educate meChairman of the Maccabi Tel Aviv events, recounted how one of them was caught: “He did not stay until the end of the game, he was in the wind and did not stay in the stadium at all. We took the photos from the stadium cameras and also our photos, It took about a month until we knew the name and ID card. “
It was a yellow club struggle that had been going on for several seasons, and one of the highlights was the first derby at the refurbished Bloomfield Stadium, which ended with pictures of burning chairs, so the torchbearers were brought to court after interrogation, which earned the club significant punishment. The main goal is to prevent collective punishment like Radius. This season, the Yellows were prosecuted quite a bit and fined hundreds of thousands of shekels, despite the concentration of effort against the rioters.
So what is missing? According to Ishkil, the next step is administrative fines: “It’s a process that is happening these days, there is a real series of it in terms of law and understanding among the fans that this is not going through as it was in the past, without punishment.”
