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Meanwhile, in Thessaloniki, PAOK's chairman Ivan Savvidis charged onto the pitch when a late goal against AEK Athens as disallowed

With a holstered gun around his waist (contrary to the more sensational reports that make it sound like he went all Dirty Harry on the referee)

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Suffice to say it was even more shambolic in real-time

 

Trump wants to arm school teachers.He'll like Mr chairman.

 

I like that AEK player in the background with the whole "Ooo err" look on his face as Omid Djalili's Greek cousin wades in.

 

It's a ridiculous story, especially as the goal was correctly ruled out, but I was struck by something almost completely irrelevant:

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How the **** do you draw that?

 

Hopefully Sullivan and Gold wont get any ideas from this.......

 

I've heard of bending over backwards but that's ridiculous!

 

So here's a basic unpacking of this season's Greek Superleague that led to it all going a bit The Warriors (cribbed from r/soccer)

The Greek Superleague, which has been won by Olympiakos for the past 7 years, is now a tight race among AEK Athens, Olympiakos, and PAOK FC.

When PAOK hosted Olympiakos 2 matches ago, before the match had begun, a roll of paper (some say toilet paper, others say cashier receipt paper) was thrown from the PAOK stands and hit Olympiakos manager Oscar Garcia in the head. Some people claim that Garcia faked the injury. Olympiakos winger Kevin Mirallas provoked the crowd as players were taken off. The match was eventually cancelled and Olympiakos was awarded a 3-0 win and PAOK was to be docked 3 points for the event.

The week after that, Asteras Tripolis beat PAOK 3-2 with a winner in the 90+8 minute after PAOK equalized in the 90+7 minute. Meanwhile, Olympiakos drew 1-1 with rivals Panathinaikos in the first ever “derby of the eternal enemies” played without a crowd.

Then, on March 11th, the Greek FA went back on its decision and re-awarded PAOK the 3 points.

Finally, the events that you see in the video happened during yesterday’s match. Cape Verdean defender Fernando Varela was the one who scored the disallowed goal. PAOK president Ivan Savvidis was the one who walked on the pitch with the gun.

To my understanding, at the moment, no one is even completely sure of the result. Some sites have it marked as a 0-0 draw, but other sites claim that the referee went back on his decision to disallow the goal and hence PAOK won 1-0. The referee apparently ordered the players to come back on and finish the few minutes of added time left, but none of the players returned to the pitch.

 

Facundo Ferreyra doing to one of Roma's ballboys what one of our players should've done to that twat at Bournemouth on Sunday...

 

And the award for Stupidest Thing A Footballer Has Said All Week goes to...

Translation: “You have to have a positive attitude and get the best out of the situation you are in. Stephen Hawking”, says the bloke with a boo-boo on his toe compares himself to someone who spent half a century living with motor neurone disease...

 

Dortmund are out of the EL.
But Atletico and the Red Bull FCs are still in.

 

CL QF draw :

Barcelona v Roma
Sevilla v Bayern Munich
Juventus v Real Madrid
Liverpool v Manchester City

 

City still getting the easy opposition then...

 

Just checked their fixtures.

They are so far in front in the PL that they
could scratch the fixtures against Man
Utd and Spurs in order to have starting XIs
to demolish the Poool, and at worst still have
a 10 pt lead with 5 games remaining.

 

That would mean Guardiola actually rotating his squad, which would be a first for this season.

 

Europa League draw - the stats that matter

• Four clubs from the Champions League (CSKA Moscow, Atletico Madrid, Sporting CP and RB Leipzig) have reached the quarter-finals, equalling the record which was also set in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2011

Emphatically proving how rigged the EL
format is in order to try and preserve the
status quo.

 

EL draw :

RB Leipzig v Marseille
Arsenal v CSKA Moscow
Atletico Madrid v Sporting Lisbon
Lazio v Red Bull Salzburg


A nice little away day for the neighbours.

 

You would wonder if they have the ‘nerve’ for that assignment

 

I doubt he was in Dodge City.

 

PSGASM is trending on Twitter.

Sadly it's just the hashtag for the PSG/Monaco match, and not a hashtag for people remembering the first time they experienced this...

 

Ronaldo..... wow, just wow!!

Horrid little man, but you just have to acknowledge that 2nd goal.
As Juve’s chances head south......