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Yes new government. Gruevski is gone and SDSM are now in charge . Zoran Zaev is the name of the new leader. They want to get into EU and NATO. A poll in FYROM said 60% are willing to compromise name just to get into those clubs. Also, as of Feb 6th they have changed the name of the airport in Skopje from Alexander the Great to Skopje International and the main highway which was also called Alexander the Great has been changed to the Friendship highway. I have heard talk of them also wanting to take the statue down. So this government is how can i say 'normal' . Of course to the fanatic Slavs of Canada and Australia they are traitors.

If this isn't a cut and dried case for points deductions I don't know what is. If this isn't such a case, how do we define such a case ? When there are "x" number of fans on the pitch ? When there are "x" number of punches thrown ? When there is "x" dollars of property damage done to the stadium ? End of the day, it has to pass the common sense test, and that is, do we want this sort of thing discouraged or not ? If your answer is no i.e. you are all right with this sort of thing happening any time, then sure, there should be no points deductions. But then those who complain of the poor state of football in Greece in general can stop their complaining or their calls for improvement. Greeks being Greeks, with cynicism in our blood, will say "Of course Olympiakos had points deducted, Savvidis owns EPO and he wants to win the league". And you know what, they may be right, but of what relevance is this ? Should Olympiakos feel aggrieved if there is a points deduction because in the past they would have gotten away with it ? Is the implication that if Marinakis controls EPL then there would not be a points deduction ?! The implication is that no one in Greece believes in a fair and just system. They believe that the only way to get justice is to control EPO. You either control it and have ... a better brand of justice ... or you don't and you have no justice. Either way, it reflects poorly on Greeks and Greece as a nation. It's actually embarrassing. Olympiakos should cop it. And cop it sweet, and the same should happen to any other team that has a similar incident where there is a violent (violent being the operative word) pitch invasion. You can't let incidents like this go unpunished and anything short of points deductions is a slap on the wrist.

he was already capped by australia by the time he played with greece, hence we lost that game on paper (that idiot skibbe wasn't aware of, which cost us some points on the rankings)