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RED SHERIFF

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  1. Fortounis played well...

    Astana got behind us a lot more than the score indicates....we actually had more clear chances v APOEL..

    only difference was the Cypriots scored early, and were not as naive as Astana..also APOEL had a lot of luck...

    on balance of chances we should have beaten APOEL by more than we beat Astana.

     

    Astana will trouble us away..

  2. you mentioned people trash him because he was an osfp player...

    they trash him also for not being full Greek, not speaking Greek, and being a Catholic...

     

    let them now enjoy...Tzavellas and staf....?? good luck to them..both are half the player Lloyd is...

     

    as far as LB goes..staf has the spot now for a decade...   I'd like to see how Lykogiannis would go..He is a regular at Sturm Graz.

     

  3. for me Greece was number 1 always..but I was also a very passionate socceroo fan until around 2000..

     

    I was devastated when Iran beat us in 1997..I was there..however by 2001 when Uruguay played at the MCG..I was secretly supporting an aussie defeat..have been ever since...

    I think when I hit around 30..I realised how arrogant/ignorant the masses were here..and the whole jingoism really turned me off them..

    the 'ugly australian' sledging on the field....really got me angry..

    For me the straw that broke the camels back was post 2000, when the Aussie media was gunning for Athens to lose the Olympics....the total misinformation and constant lies at the time was very offensive and down right racist...

    After a successful Athens 2004, and no apology from the aussie media..I felt 'stuff you'......combine this with the euphoria of euro 2004..amd the exclusion of south Melbourne fc  from A League based on ethnic grounds..

    I turned my back totally on aussie sport.. and the sporting culture..

    It was difficult to care about AFL..Socceroos etc ..after winning Euro 2004...it was 'like winning sporting powerball'..

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  4. On 12/10/2016 at 9:56 PM, Amorgos said:

    Bringing back some memories Sheriff, we won most of those games quite convincingly too, Bosnia we smashed 3-0 from memory

    We did lose 1-0 or 2-1  to Cyprus at Ethnikos Asteras.....what a bizarre place to play Intl.Football..

     

    nonetheless..the crowds in that era were poor.....too many people like to blame OTTO/Santos/EPO/ Kats/Kara/Tziolis/Vyntra.  or economic crisis.etc...for fans not showing up..  but it is not true

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  5. The need for 'tutoring'  has been created by the teaching fraternity to make money....

    its part of the greek system of 'protecting industries' to make money..

    they teach the kids 80% of what needs to be taught to pass high school knowing full well the parents will pay extra for the other 20% needed to pass...

    the education curriculum could easily be engineered to ensure students are taught in school what they need to pass...

    but its just another example of how far behind Greece is in a socio political sense.  

  6. there were many poor crowds watching the NT in the good old days...

    I can go back to WC qualifier in kalamata v Bosnia in 1996..

    or the whole serious of friendlies played v Slovakia, Estonia, Cyprus, El Salvador, Nigeria..at some really bizarre in the late 1990s at some bizarre venues like Rhodes, Trikala, I think one of the matches was at Ethnikos ASTERAS GROUND??

     

    A recall a 4-0 win over Austria ?? in kalamata no one showed up...

    or how about the recent matches v Denmark and Italy at Karaiskaki...when non one showed..

     

    NO EXCUSES....THIS HAPPENS IN NO OTHER SO CALLED FOOTBALL NATION WITH OUR SIZE POPULATION...

    THIS IS VERY 'BALKAN'...  VERY FYROM OR BULGARIA MENTALITY...THIRD WORLD MEAT HEAD MENTALITY..

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