West Midlands Police apologises for Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv debacle

January 15 – West Midlands Police has offered a belated apology to Members of Parliament in the UK after it emerged that its intelligence around banning Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from Villa Park was not just wrong, but clumsily wrong, produced through the careless use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Chief Constable Craig Guildford admitted the force had misled the Home Affairs Select Committee by presenting a fictitious match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and West Ham United as part of its risk assessment.