Heads Up: BBC 4 Tonight: Storyville - Forever Pure - Football and Racism in Jerusalem

whitelion said:

http://www.northstandchat.com/showt...-and-Racism-in-Jerusalem&highlight=Storyville

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Tom Hark said:

Ah, right, apologies for not looking back umpteen pages (last post 28/11) on the off chance that somebody had already posted something about it. My bad.

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whitelion said:

In hindsight they might be different programmes.

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Tom Hark said:

Pretty sure they're the same programme.

Mods: please merge etc. as there has already been quite a bit of discussion about this programme. Cheers.

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Tom Hark said:

'Documentary which follows events at Israel's most notorious football club. Beitar Jerusalem FC is the most popular team in Israel and the only club in the Premier League never to sign an Arab player. Midway through a season the club's owner, Russian-Israeli oligarch Arcadi Gaydamak, brought in two Muslim players from Chechnya in a secretive transfer deal that triggered the most racist campaign in Israeli sport and sent the club spiralling out of control. Forever Pure follows the famous football club through the tumultuous season, as power, money and politics fuel a crisis and shows how racism is destroying both the team and society from within.'

Shocking preview clip shows hundreds of home fans walking out in protest following a goal by their newly-signed Muslim Chechnyan striker Zaur Sadayev. Quite sickening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04jrq3v

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