EUFA get it wrong again.

[3Dnata]

From the Guardian.
I don't know if they're trying to justify it because a banner showed a cartoon Sheikh with a money bag but this is just madness.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/18/uefa-fines-ajax-banners

Uefa fines Ajax over fan banners critical of money at Man City game

• €10,000 fine imposed for signs shown at October match
• Banner showing sheikh said: 'Against Modern Football'

Not only are football fans having to absorb the enormous costs of the modern game, it seems they are now having to be told to keep their mouth shut about it too. Following on from the disquieting story ofManchester City supporters being warned by police to take down banners questioning the price of an away ticket at their recent match at Arsenal (a slogan with no swear words or severe antagonism, by the way), Uefa has fined Ajax €10,000 after their crowd displayed banners about the effects of mega-money in football.
During their Champions League match at home to Manchester City in October, Ajax fans unveiled a banner with the motto "Against Modern Football", beneath a cartoon of a sheik holding a bag embossed with a dollar sign, the image presented as a stop sign with a red line through it. Another slogan read "€80 for the away section is ridiculous", and there were banners with offensive messages aimed at Manchester City, Chelsea, Red Bull Salzburg and Red Bull Leipzig.
City are owned by Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi's ruling family. Ajax, who last won the European Cup in 1995, have struggled to compete at the top level of the continental game since the arrival of heavy overseas investment at some of the wealthiest clubs in Europe.
Uefa's official stance was that the Dutch club was fined for "display of a provocative and inappropriate banner".

This article was amended on 18 January to correct the use of "their" in place of "there"​

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[King of Otters]

Disgraceful.

 

[DuDe]

Spoiler: This sums it up perfectly.

 

[kazzah9]

Unbeliveable... or maybe not, this is EUFA after all

 

[leonspurs]

Disgraceful, the sooner those organisations are consigned to the dustbin of history the better.

 

[Col_M]

i can understand uefa not liking it ( they have sponsors to attract) but to fine a club is ridiculously ott

 

[sbrustad]

Well, I guess we can take that as a statement of intent from UEFA. I bet they are going to hit the free spending clubs real hard with the FFP regulations......

 

[punky]

Absolutely disgraceful decision, but honestly... Does anyone actually expect anything different from them by now?

I don't really know anotherof another sport that has such universal contempt for their governing bodies by their fans as football.

 

[joey.leone]

Fans need to start boycotting football, across the whole board. Things like this just leave me speechless, although I come to expect it by now.

 

[TheGreenLily]

Can we not show our support for Ajax and what has happened. We all feel the same about, so why not start getting together and doing something about it.

It is despicable that UEFA has done this and it is about time, we stop moaning about it and do something about it. Football is the peoples game not the money men's game.

We should get a list of all the people on this forum that support what Ajax fans did and give them our support too.

All we need is someone who can speak dutch and maybe a poll to gather all the names. and post it on the Ajax main forum.

It is better than doing nothing and can't do no bad with relations either.