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Let’s bear in mind the last time we had a story about violence and football fans. Late last year the predominantly Jewish fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv were banned from coming to the UK to attend their team’s game against Aston Villa, due to fears of violence. Not violence on their part, albeit that’s what West Midlands police claimed in one of the most sordid events in the history of any British police force. Instead they were banned partly because of fears of violence against the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the local community. Thank God for Nick Timothy, the shadow justice secretary, without whom the true details of this scandal may not have emerged. So what do we do now that we have genuinely violent football fans on our streets, albeit from a different religious and ethnic background to those of Maccabi Tel Aviv?

Can anyone with a straight face tell me they think there will be a similar legislative response to the growing problem of violence from foreign fans, or fans of foreign teams? Can anyone with a straight face tell me they think there will be any action beyond a few arrests, maybe a conviction or two for the worst offender — likely a suspended sentence at most? It is surely an inescapable conclusion that white football fans creating trouble is seen as something significantly more disturbing than football fans with other backgrounds.