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I think yesterday was the 15th penalty he has saved in his career. I remember 4-5 in his tenure with us already "Bloody" goalkeeper we have! Keep it up Luke!

From what I read, Arnesen had a talk with Salpi last week and told him that him and Savvidis want him to stay on the team, but that his playing time will be very limited. Apparently Salpi still wants to compete and be a starter, instead of just sitting around collecting a paycheck, so it was decided that he leaves the team on friendly terms. It would have been nice if the split was planned better. After all he has been a very loyal player, who with limited technical skills managed to have a great football career at PAOK, Panathinaikos and the national team All through hard work and dedication. After all he is PAOK's third all time scorer, and the only PAOK player that won a scoring title in A Ethniki. Also he is the first Greek player that scored in the World Cup. Thank you for your services Dimitri.

My roots can be traced back my villages in Pontos. My father's family is from a village called Pistofandon in Santa in the district of Trapezounta. My father's side left Pontos and settled in a town named Kars, in what was then Russia (now near the Turkish-Georgian border) in the Caucasus Mountains prior to WWI breaking out. They lived there for some time until after WWI they moved to with many other Greeks to their spiritual homeland of Greece. Getting to Greece took them 3 years. Instead of being relocated to the abandoned homes of Turk's who were living in northern Greece, they decided the build a new village an hour from Florina, naming it Neos Nakfkasos (New Caucasus) in homage to the home they left behind. It's not a very old village, just over 90 years old, the second to last village (Niki is the last) before you reach the Skopje border if you're leaving from Florina. My mother's side did not manage to evade the Greek genocide affecting Pontos, they barely escaped from their village in Imera, also in the Trapezounta district. They settled in a village near Edessa, somewhat close to the Loutra like Nea Bafra, in a town named Apsalos. My great grandfather on my mother's side who lived through WWI as a child and passed At 104 years of age (on paper, he may have been older) and was of healthy body and mind till his death of old age, he recalled all of the events that transpired during his life in Pontos. He lived majority of his life in Australia till his death, he could speak Greek, Pontic Greek, Turkish and a little English. A few articles were written about him and his story in Greece. Long story short, I'm from villages near Florina and Edessa haha

Please AEK fans don't turn in to some of the PAO fans with the whining and conspiracy theories. Be more like the PAOK posters. Doxa and Reaper offer an alternate perspective. No need to cause arguments.

This past weekend one of the star player from the great 1970's team, Dimitris Paridis passed away. He was 70 years old.

:huh?:

Thread to talk about past PAOK greats. Here is the greatest players of them all: Georgios Koudas

I love this guy ,makes you wonder what might have happened had he played against brugge.

From the moment i saw the plays i knew Fortouni used his arm. Then on the replays you can see Durmaz used his arm too. Two observations based off of physics alone: 1. Theres no way the ball can roll off your chest to the right and then land straight down to your feet. Durmaz uses his arm and that way rather than roll off to the side the ball comes straight down to his feet. 2. There is no way the ball cancome that far to the right of a player, land there for a second, and once again come straight down to your foot. You can see in both the play and slow motion replay that the ball stays suspended in the air, coincidentally for the same amount of time his arm is elevated. Upon closer look from the refs angle, the ball pretty much lands on his arm. Greeks have a type of crooked mentality where even as you're being robbed in front of your eyes, the victim is at fault. No one says the same s%$#! about a single entity for 20 plus years in a row. I also dont want to hear the "every league has bad calls" line because there is no team in any major league that gets as blatant of a push as Olympiaco, followed by shady out of field activity,followed by strange betting activity, followed by such a ridiculous loaning policy, followed by EVIDENCE of corruption. Not even in Italy did teams get away with such blatant corruption and thats a country where almost a fifth of the countries money passes through the hands of the mafia. All you have to do is watch the game Olympiakos AEK from last year and the Asteras cup final and all your questions will be put to rest. Never has such blatant bias been shown in a professional league thats takes part in European competition regularly.

freezer... a barrel of guinnes on pao to do the double over oly this season deal???? :D

^^^bloody good! :D

I don't buy the Olympiakos rumours. Pereyra and his manager must know that we would never sell him to Olympiakos. Maybe before Savvidis when we couldn't even afford wages, but it's not like that anymore. PAO realistically would be a side grade for him, but again that isn't going to happen. I suppose it's possible his manager encouraged him to behave like this to force a transfer, but that only makes sense if he wanted to play outside Greece. Seeing as no team has made a formal enquiry (as far as I know) I think it's purely a case of he cracked the sads when he got fined at the training session. He then dug his heels in, and the rest is history. I'm sure if he could go back and undo the incident, he would.

Our beaches are much better than what you filthy Greeks have.

I guess it depends on why he wants to leave. The first rumor is that he was in contact with Olympiakos, so logically he'd want to go for a pay day and or to win the championship. But in spite of what our dear friends in the PAO forums believe, Panathinaikos doesn't have a squad that will accomplish any more than we can, and I doubt they could offer him more money (unless they think he's worth breaking the bank over). If he got fed up with the team after our disasterous end to the season, that's one another thing entirely.

Get around this page on Facebook What a laugh I stumbled across 'Just mounes' They post some glamours!

After all that has been said, that is the only thing you have to say? :lol: Go back to the oly forum where you and Doxa can talk among one another and stop embarrassing yourself boy.

This is kind of what the hand ball looked like.

Just saw the 1st goal. 100% hand ball. What makes it silly is that the referee had a superb view of it. Who chests a ball with their arms pointing forwards like that ? Like he's trying to trap the ball. It's football, not basketball. What makes this even more farcical, is that the ball hits his left arm first, then his chest, then his other arm. Arxisame me tis m*****es.

But ... but ... Australia does not exist.

Thanks Blackhawk. It would be nice if at some point a testimonial/charity match is organised. If anyone deserves it, it's Salpi.

den peirazei ti na kanoume twra sunexizoume PAOK EISAI ! B)

We don't really know what's going on behind the scenes, but this decision seems both stupid and disrespectful. Maybe Salpi pushed for it because he wanted to be a starter, I don't really know. I get that Salpi is past his best, but is PAOK overflowing strikers ? We have one striker, Klaus, and he hasn't been in form for 6 months. Other than that, there is no one. So what would it hurt to have Salpi in the squad as a backup option off the bench ? And you'd think that considering the loyalty he's had to the club, they could have the decency to axe him at the beginning of the season. There is barely a week left until the transfer season ends. Timing seems poor.

Well, now we're not at risk of blooding him too quickly, amirite?

My mom's side came in the mid 70's, my dad in the early 80s. I think their area had had one large "migration" that happened in the 30s, from Corfu. Whenever I go back to their church, you can definitely tell who's descended from them - they're elderly men and women who do not speak Greek at all. I'd say 90% of the people who are active in that community, are first gen like me (and their immigrant parents/grandparents). I went to the Greek-American museum in Chicago's Greektown right after it opened, and it seemed to focus on people from the 50s and (some considerably) earlier. I found it hard to relate. It seems that the diaspora grows by waves, at any rate. With the newest wave happening since the crisis (obviously). Generally more educated than the font from which I sprung.

The league is actually improving, teams are doing better in Europe, having better squads, better players, better attendences and all of those things are not because of PAO. So you just repeat all the time what ever you want to sleep better at night. But the league is doing very well and will continue to improve while PAO actually is the only team that is going backwards. It's sad but you have to stop talking about PAO and the other teams as ONE thing. I know it's hard to see all the other teams going forward and PAO the opposite but please this is reality stop trying to link all the teams to the situation of PAO because it's not true. Thank you.

No the Kafenio is where all the old grumpy Greeks hang out and play Birimba, Bida, Thanasi and complain about their shitty kids and wives. That's upstairs from the proposed gyradiko...hahah

So your admitting that it hit the arm, im sorry to bust your bubble guy but to sane people the arm is in no way part of the shoulder :lol:It hit his chest and the use of both arms/forearms were used to keep the ball in control as Durmaz took it down, clear as day. 100%

Mak's expressions when he gets interviewed after games always crack me up:

As my cousin says "GAMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTE TOUS!!!!!!!"