Nea Bafra

it's a [insert profane adjective of your choise here beacuse if i do it it will get filtered] Xeftila

Quotes from Antonis' agent say he wont be fully fit until the end of the month

liability? if that's the case he'll fit right in

Sabo, he's clearly undroppable for some reason

3-0

Goal Pelkas, rodrigues and golasa with the setup Pelkas with the chest to score

me either. radio streams?

injuries?

pash, it's probably more pertinent to the northern states

some of the defending on display in the PAO-PAOK game is comical.

at about the 46:50 'put a bit of 'nerocism' WTF?

i've been a huge critic of the muppet but the third goal is a foul on olsen. It's hard for me to write that. But FFS we shouldn't be in that position in the first place.

Former PAOK player Apostolos GIannou in a tug of war apparently between Australia and Greece..................... really? http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2015/10/16/giannou-torn-between-australia-and-greece

fixed for accuracy

his team is on top of the ladder, which means clearly he wins at life over us and we should just shut up and do as we are told

Can't see us winning this one, we are just not playing well enough. In fact some of the wins we are getting echo last year in that we are forced to come from behind to win regularly.

They got steamrolled 5-0, not completely unexpected for a largely amateur side against a decent group of pros.

Pontos, did you get tickets to this?

News on a couple of former PAOK players, one much loved, the other not so much Pablo Contreras http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2015/09/29/former-victory-defender-contreras-hospitalised-after-collapse Kostas Katsouranis http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2015/09/29/greek-legend-katsouranis-heidelbergs-headline-act

It takes a couple of days mate

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I've made a promise to one of my cousins who in his younger days used to be a gate 4 psycho that if and when PAOK make it to he champions league group stages I will fly over for a fortnight and take in a home and an away game and take him with me.

she's six now, she tells me she wants to play for PAOK when she grows up. Unfortunately for her that might be easier than breaking into her local club's womens team.

Thanks Pana, unfortunately Dad had had a succession of strokes from about 2003 up until 2010 with about 4 major ones up until he had that one in Greece. Up until that one they had only left a minor loss of peripheral eyesight after he had rehab, however the one he had in Greece left him blind and mentally affected. Once we got him home he had a couple more big ones and passed away in 2012. As sad as it is, from what the neurologists have since told us, the condition he has that caused it, meant that he probably had in excess of 30 strokes/bleeds in the brain over the decade, some obviously though would have been too minor to notice. By the end it was in part a relief as well as a loss.

my story is not a short one, but here goes anyway. in early 2010 my wife and I thought we'd take our 16 month old daughter to Greece to see my Yiayia. Thought, may as well get a holiday in and booked 4 weeks with some time on an island and in Athens as well as a stop in Paris to see my best friend who lives in London now. My folks said 'how about we come at the same time' while not ideal from a cramping our style point of view, there was a bit of on hand babysitting that could be done. Dad went over 3 months earlier being retired to see his mum, and my mum would fly over with us. A fortnight before we were supposed to fly out my Theia calls and says your dad has had a stroke and he's in the hospital in Drama. Mum and I fly out within 48 hours and spend the next week doing the nurses job for them in the hospital [never, ever get sick in Greece EVER the hospital in Drama looked like something out of an old school Eastern Bloc cold war era time]. Eventually we get Dad moved to the Diabalkaniko hospital in Thessaloniki and the place and doctors there are amazing. They put Dad in an induced coma and into the ICU for 2 weeks. During that time we can only see him for 30 minutes twice a day at very specific times. The hospital happens to be next to the Hotel Nikopolis so we stayed there so we could walk back and forth. I think I've mentioned this previously but this is where the players and coaches would spend the 24 hours previous to any home game or departure for any away game having meetings and other stuff. This was also during the playoffs at the end of the 2009/2010 season and there had been a Wednesday game at home to Olympiakos postponed for the general strike [the day some psychokhunt threw a molotov at a bank and killed people inside]. They rearranged it for a Sunday and so there were plenty of tickets available. I jump in the car and head to Toumba to buy a ticket. The guy asks me what kind of ticket I want. My answer a pair of the most expensive ones you've got as long as they guarantee me a seat. There was no way I was talking my wife to a game and going in Gate 4. So the day comes around and we jump in a cab to the ground and go in. The wall of sound is immense, we walk to our allocated seats and they're taken. Not being used to not being able to see anyone remotely looking like a steward/marshall/usher anywhere in site, I say to the guy, I think these are our seats. He laughs and says, listen mate I don't know what your ticket says but we always have these seats. Now I'm no hero especially with my wife there so I look further up the stand and there are plenty of free seats so we go a few rows further back and relax waiting for the teams to head out. My wife starts pissing herself laughing when the PAOK players come out to the strains of ACDC's Thunderstruck 'haven't they got any metal songs of their own?' The game starts and we are all over them like a rash, Lino was especially strong that day up and back like greyhound. Nikopolidis fluffed a clearance deflected by Filomeno that went to Muslimovic who slotted it. We dominated large swathes of the game but couldn't exactly relax on a one goal lead. However the scores remained unchanged and everyone left very happy [particularly as away supporters were banned during the playoffs] Below are some photos I took from the game and a youtube link to the highlights. I had been to see PAOK a number of times in Serres, but never at Toumba. https://youtu.be/8mpf_wUtJbI Meanwhile back at the hotel we were there for pretty much the entire playoff run so I saw the players around quite a bit. I even sat and had a coffee with Muslimovic [he really is one of the nicest people you could meet] in the bar. One of the girls that worked there gave my daughter a handful of karameles and told her to go and give them to Fernando Santos to see if she could get her to make him smile or laugh [she swore she had not seen him smile once in 2 years] and she got him to crack a smile, but no laugh, she even got a hug from Conceicao. Could you not laugh at this? It was the brightest part of a truly awful and horrific time.