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Podcast: Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Episode: 190: Maccabi Tel Aviv's sorrowful ban from Aston Villa plunges football into darkness
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A chunk of my background, both personal and professional, has been washed away.
I didn’t think football was supposed to hurt like this.
Banning a mere thousand or less Israeli football fans from Villa Park for a Europa League tie is a cause for deep sorrow.
But not just for me, an Aston Villa fan through my Holocaust-surviving grandfather who setup his typewriter shop bang next to Aston Station on the Lichfield Road, but for this ge...