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I think it would be a good time to focus on other things besides the pig sty that is Greek football and think of better times, I think this guy deserves his own thread. Not sure if any of you ever seen it but nice video on him and shows most if not all of his goals The Prodigal Son.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is loving all of this coverage of the Panama Papers. I figure it would be a good idea to have a thread dedicated to it in this forum. At the time of this writing, the Prime Minister of Iceland has stepped down, Russia is saying ridiculous things, and China is censoring the rather damning evidence of its own leadership's secret business dealers. This is, by far, the largest data leak by a whistleblower in history. Files on some 240,000 companies totalling nearly three TERABYTES of documents, photos, and PDFs have made their way to dozens of investigative journalists, many of whom have been working on these stories for a year. The repercussions of this leak will be felt for a long time.

Its not a good sign that Diamantidis is still the best player on PAO. Calathes and Williams have to step up big time, they have both shown they are capable before. I also think this team is badly lacking enough consistent 3pt shooters right now.

Samaras, a semiprofessional player, in a 4-4-1-1 behind Mitroglou? Come on. We have so many other options for that position - Karelis showed himself more than capable of that role. Now's the time to try the new faces there, not the washed-up ones.

infighting at PAOK does not help the cause....Nor does Ivan's lack of football nous...similar with alafouzos these guys need to hire capable people to run all football matters ... AEK had a tremendous first year back... Tripolis and Atromitos went backwards...they will both bounce back as they now know they need to if they want Europe..

Next season is already over, in fact if no one seriously pulls their finger out just give Olympiakos the next 3 titles. I've said it before and I will say it again, Olympiakos success is killing the competitiveness of the Superleague and the Superleague's lack of competitiveness is killing Olympiakos ability to improve and therefore challenge seriously in Europe. If you don't have regular cut throat games when they do arrive it's such a shock to the system they can't succeed. You don't win anything without being battle hardened and at the moment a wet paper bag puts up more resistence in the league.

SAMARAS???????????

The Euro's would send billions of... euros to Greece and every other country that requested them. What a magical organisation the EU is. You want money? You want money? You got it. WHO ELSE WANTS MONEY?!?!?! Of course German and French banks wanting a higher rate of return on idle capital didn't add fuel to the fire by buying bonds in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain which fuelled asset bubbles in real estate and the stockmarket right? They can never be accused of wrongdoing. As our other friend tells us: It's Greece's own fault! I love this line. Investment bankers gamble on gambles and insure those gambled gambles to make big money but when they lost, the blame fell on the home owners who where approved multiple loans with no means testing, fraudulent loan application approvals, and NINJA loans. At the end of the day it's their own fault for being approved homes they couldn't afford and putting themselves in that position to begin with! And at the end of the day who are we referring to when we say "it's Greece's own fault"? Do the yiayiades and papoudes in the xoria understand Credit Default Swaps? Do they know who JP Morgan is? Maybe he's Taso and Maria's son from Vouliagmeni. Do they understand how a national economy works? Maybe we're referring to the youth, 1 in 2 of which is unemployed and probably 1 in 3 of those employed are owed months of backpay. Is that the Greece who is at fault? The moral righteousness reigns supreme when poor people can be used as an excuse because Greece is free, and people have the freedom to make choices. Make a bad choice and it's your own fault. The complexities of suburban and urban life don't matter. GDP per capita don't matter. Education don't matter. Health don't matter. Nor do political influences. When the wealthy, powerful, make a mistake we turn a blind eye and passively aggressively shove that bit of reality so far down our mind that we barely notice the difference. When world leaders do nothing about the offshore tax havens and the trillions in untaxed wealth, we just pretend like it isn't happening and all is well, just like when one of our friends yells or physically assaults their spouse at a bbq. It's best not to get involved and the problem will be solved somehow. But how dare those poor, powerless people be poor an destroy national and world economies! They're the world movers and shakers that we should go after! While one hand is scolding Greece's poor, the other hand funnels money out of the country into said tax havens, further worsening the crisis for those who have nothing else left to give but the blood their ancestors fought for against the Italo-fascists, Nazi's, Communists, Junta, and Turks. Bravo.

And that's why I tell you don't turn your back on your team or go posting things like I wont be watching them anymore, keep faith in your team even when they're at their worst.

greg he may look good scoring gollares along with barbarousis but in greece these 2 were nekroi and absolute duds fornaroli esparza kai kati sapaki from japan with head band and a kserokefalo m#$%! proponiti anti gia soyvliatzi(fabri)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUpqZt2O-xM

finally scored his first league goals for lugano this season. he was match winner today with 2 goals as lugano won with 2-1 and grabbed 3 important points and left the last position in the league.

I like his hair.

Of that, there is no doubt. Maybe some economists who extol the virtues of austerity are too stupid to realise. Maybe they are firm believers in the Austrian school of economics and were brought up on a diet of Ayn Rand literature. You would be surprised at how some trained economists believe the way the world "should" work.