Bananas

In other games, AEK - Larisa 0 : 1 Lamia - Olympiakos 1 : 2

Can't. I assume the last sub is saved for Vieirinha.

V-A-R-E-L-AAAAAAAAAAA! (please extend your contract champ).

Btw, thanks for that link/stream. I could've kissed ya.

I think I just saw a Dutchman kissing a guy in a kilt.

Matos, you are a MANGA! How can you not love him. Limnios to RB ?

Can't. AEK are hoping Savvidis walks onto the pitch with a bazouca hidden in his pants.

What the hell was that Giannoulis, ha ha.

I was 13 years old boys. R-E-S-P-E-C-T your elders.

Shakhov MUST get a contract extension, ha ha.

I would like it if he came on with a bastouni.

That could be out Dutch friend.

Ha ha, Varela was HANGING to score. Bravo.

Pelkas, gotta do better son. Good opportunity.

Anyone seen someone in the crowd wearing a kilt ?

It all depends on what Assange released to the public. I don’t know specifically what he released. But if it was say information about the Russians developing a new type of weapon, or of genocide, then he would be a hero. But because a lot of the information seems to be about governments universally, well it’s hard enough to pick a fight with the government as it is, but to pick a fight will all governments, man that is ballsy, or stupid, depends on your point of view. He seems intelligent, but also unstable and delusional. Did he really think he could get away with this ? The most disappointing part about this is the actions (or lack thereof) of the Australian government. I am not surprised. In fact I’d be surprised if they stood up to the U.S. and said he’d be prosecuted in Australia. As for the Ecaudorian government, what can you say. Shameful behaviour all for some pieces of silver. Always the silver, always. I’m not saying he’s a good guy or didn’t break the law. I’m simply saying neither is the government, so I’m not exactly on their side either. I “get” what’s going on. The government has to go for Assange, otherwise, others will follow. Nothing new under the sun here.

Foustanella and bag pipes ? Could that work ?

This idea that Olympiakos deserved to win 6-1, I have heard this over and over but I don't get it. They played naive soccer. If you watch the highlights they had 2 actual proper chances where they made space for the attacker to have a proper shot without defenders breathing down his neck. One was Fortounis early in the 2nd half and another near the end of the game by Hasan which wasn't quite as good. The golden opportunity was that by Fortounis. All the rest was just them lobbing the ball into the box. Yeah sure, go and do 25 crosses against PAOK. Varela and Crespo will be loving you all day. And pretty much all their chances there were PAOK players breathing down their necks and not giving space easily. I'm not saying Olympiakos didn't play better. They played much better. But if you said to me before the game, that was their tactic, against a PAOK team with Varela and Crespo, good luck buddy, you'll be lucky to get 1 goal today at most. Even if that game was repeated, I don't believe Olympiakos playing that way could get more than 1 goal. Which is about what they deserved. You can't just lob the ball in all day like that and expect because we got the ball into the box 15 times, we should score 6 goals. It was half chance after half chance. And a lot of quarter chances. Then the players look up at the heavens like they are unlucky. When you play like that, it's not unlucky. It's naive football. It's hit it in and hope. Like I said, good luck with that approach against Varela and Crespo. They are more than happy for you to lob the ball in, instead of try to work it into the box. It's lazy football because their wingers couldn't cut in or beat the full back to get behind the defence. There is a reason why PAOK hasn't conceded more than 1 goal in any games this year. There is also a reason why the derbies went like this :- PAOK - AEK 2 : 0 Olympiakos - PAOK 0 : 1 PAOK - Panathinaikos 2 : 0 Aris - PAOK 1 : 2 AEK - PAOK 1 : 1 (another game where they did 100 crosses for 1 goal with us playing with 10 men for 60 minutes). PAOK - Olympiakos 3 : 1 (this if anything, could've been 6-1). Panathinaikos - PAOK 0 : 2 PAOK - Aris 1 : 1 To your credit, Aris actually gave us the best challenges this year in both games overall by far. Anyway, that's just my opinion.

Maybe so. It's the sort of thing you would've needed to do a few times during the season, so that by now the fans and the city would know you and they'd say "Oh him ? He's just that crazy Scottish guy".

A kilt is not enough. I want bag pipes also, and to be standing in the middle of Gate 4!

16 teams is the perfect number for Greece. 30 rounds done and dusted like we have now. If you go 14 teams, then by default there must be extra games, which is to say, for whatever reason the sports minister definitely wants play-offs of some kind. There must be more to it than the sports minister wanting this. Not being conspiratorial, just saying that he alone wouldn't be enough to push for and get this. I'd be hiring a private investigator to check his swiss bank account(s). As for the idea of a title being decided via play-offs, it obviously just feels wrong. We all "get" that the idea is to have less teams that are "weak", but having a title decided just has a bad smell to it and I don't think you can get rid of that. I am kind of surprised the clubs haven't pushed back harder.

Hmm not good news about Varela. I thought it was sorted but apparently not. You gotta wonder about these agents. Oh well if he really thinks he can get a better deal elsewhere more power to him. Maybe the gavs will sign him.

I actually think Vieirinha is irreplaceable in that I don’t think we can find another player with his skill set. Doesn’t mean we’re gonna fall apart but his drive on the pitch is something else. I wouldn’t mind signing a young gun in the mould of Jaba/Akpom for that LB position. Start cooking that pie biatch. Then again, maybe not. I just got a disturbing image in my head.

Agree Yianko. We need a higher quality LB. The other thing about Vieirinha is that he could also play RB just as well (and both flanks and I think he could even play as a 10). So in the one player you had a RB/LB. Matos injured ? No problem, play Vieirinha there. The current backup to Matos is Lyratzis I believe so all of a sudden our defence which has been our rock this season is looking a little thin in terms of quality depth. Nice pic pash. Is that your maid ? And what the hell sort of pie is that ? Doesn’t look appetising.

Bah, I meant to say winter signings were paid for by sale of Prijo. I just think it’s a bit of a stretch to think Savvidis will spend the 10 or 15 million required to get the sort of players that are being mentioned. As always, I’ll be more than happy to eat some humble pie. I’m sure Manolo is already working out how AEK can expose that LB position in the final and Lucescu will be wondering whether he plays Giannoulis or Crespo in that position.