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PAO with 10 men. Shenkenveld red card.

1:1 Thomas

I hope Oliveira is done with PAOK. If I was Savvidis I would not pay the money he wants to resign with the team.

Bad defense once again.

PAOK HC Women's Handball team has defeated OF Nea Ionia 23:15 in the 4th and decisive game of the Greek Women's Handball Championships and for 5th straight season captured the national title.

And starting lineup:

AEL FC Arena is a no go. The stadium does not have a license to hold games, but that does not stop Iraklis Larisa to play their Superleague2 game in that stadium. Speaking of licenses neither does OPAP Arena have one but that does not stop AEK from playing there. EPO is now looking at Lamia and Agrinio as possible stadiums to hold the final. When Harry Klynn was alive he once called Greece the only African country on the European continent. How true that statement was.

They are going to start playing in 2024-2025 season in the local Xanthi league. It will be a while before we see them in the top divisions again.

Squad for the game: Sastre, Ingason, Augusto, Taison, Kurtic, Narey out.

Behind the scenes highlights:

Fenerbahce will not renew the option for Pelkas and he will become a free agent at the end of the season. Currently is on loan at Hull City. Could there be a return to PAOK in the cards? He is 29 years old.

It's difficult because people are playing political games. One of the biggest crooks in Greek football Beos is in charge of the Volos stadium and he is placing all kinds of obstacles for the game to be played there. If he does not give the ok, the game will not be played there. He got the control of the stadium as the mayor of Volos and it was given to him by the current prime minister of Greece Evaggelos Marinakis. Kaftanzoglio is in such shambles that it is in no shape for a cup final to be played there. As it is AEK would not agree to play in Thessaloniki anyway. OAKA is controlled by Marinakis through Avgenakis and those two are waging a war against the current EPO leadership, so that stadium is out of the question. AEL FC Arena is privately owned and the owner agrees for the game to be played there, but the local government (probably on orders from the Marinakis government in Athens) will place obstacles for the game to be played. What's left is Toumba and OPAP Arena. Unless they agree on a two leg final I don't see that happening. I would like to see the final being played in Constantinople. Both finalists have roots in that city, and I am sure the Turkish government could use it as a propaganda tool against Athens, so they would probably give the ok. Final option is not to play the final at all and use a coin toss to decide winner.

3:2 final Exciting game witnessed by the Dutchman in person.

Golara Zivkovic

2:2

2:1 Schwab

Penalty

1:1 Taison

10,100 the official attendance. Second half under way.

0:1 Tragic mistake by Koulierakis.

Quite disappointed to see so many empty seats at Toumba.

8th

It will be tough with Ingason and Augusto missing.

EPO has this pretty much covered. If there was a team in the final from northern Greece it would be played in Volos or outside of Greece. The problem is political. The prime Minister of Greece Marinakis is at war with EPO because he wants to control it. As a result he placing obstacles to discredit the AEK/PAOK controlled EPO.

Latest in the Greek Cup final saga is AEL FC Arena in Larisa on May 24. Why do I believe that this will not be the final location for the cup final.