The U.K.'s home secretary on Wednesday urged the head of one of the country's leading police forces to resign following a report on how fans from Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv were banned from a match against Premier League side Aston Villa in Birmingham last year.
Shabana Mahmood told lawmakers that the independent report's findings into the decision by West Midlands Police for the Nov. 6 match were “devastating,” not least because it overstated the threat posed by Maccabi fans while understating the risk to them from traveling to the match.
