{"id":30666,"date":"2025-10-26T09:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=30666"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:46:43","slug":"whats-behind-away-fan-bans-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=30666","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind Away Fan bans? | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"program__page__source\"><span class=\"video-program-source__program-name\">Game Theory<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have been banned from Villa Park for their Europa League game against Aston Villa. But who decides when away fans are banned and what constitutes a high-risk game? Samantha Johnson looks at  the reasons and the politics behind banning orders in European football.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 26 Oct 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">26 Oct 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Theory Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have been banned from Villa Park for their Europa League game against Aston Villa. But who decides when away fans are banned and what constitutes a high-risk game? Samantha Johnson looks at the reasons and the politics behind banning orders in European football. Published On 26 Oct 202526 Oct<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[493,7545,344,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-30666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-bans","9":"tag-fan","10":"tag-sport","11":"tag-whats"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}