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Richard Tice has slammed the decision to allow West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford to retire after facing pressure to resign over the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban. His departure comes after the force was found to have used "exaggerated and untrue" intelligence to justify a ban on fans of the Israeli club from attending a match against Aston Villa in Birmingham. Speaking to Martin Daubney on GB News, the Reform UK Deputy Leader described the retirement as a 'little weaselly cop-out'.

The BBC's Daniel Sandford on the forced "retirement" of West Midlands' chief constable: “I think it’ll be quite a long time before a police force recommends that fans, however controversial, are banned again in this country without making sure that they have very widespread support.” No, Daniel. The fear will be reserved exclusively for Israeli clubs. I'm pretty sure that any European club's fans widely found chanting race hatred and threatening violence to ethnic minorities would be banned imme