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Rumors are the Savvidis family is stabbing Garcia in the back and is bringing back Lucescu at 1.8 mil per year.

They played at their stadium this season. Just heard that Kosta Frantzeskos (PAOK, PAO, OFI legend) will be joining Larisa. Why would someone be signing with the sleazebag Kougias is beyond me.

We would start 2 weeks later.

We lost EL, but we can apparently move up to ECL-QR3 if Villarreal wins Europa League.

Garcia can't officially be the coach of the team since he does not have a UEFA coaching license, so on paper it's Thomaidis.

Krmencik declared MVP of the game, but I think it should have been Paschalakis in my opinion.

Did not have picture in the 2nd half. Only radio. Watching the replay of the game on ERT3 right now with my mind at ease as I know that there will be happy ending.

2:1 final Greek Cup winners

Krmencik 3rd time is the charm. 4 minutes extra time.

Gooooooooooooool

Bad timing to get scored on. Bad defense.

Halftime 1:0 We will need to play smart defense in 2nd half. And we can't be making easy mistakes as we did on few occasions in 1st half. We need a second goal as I think they will get a penalty from the ref that is clearly favoring Olympiakos. They should have at least 2 yellow cards by now.

Total domination by Olympiakos so far.

Big save by Paschalakis

He will throw in Krmencik in 2nd half and possibly extra time when the Oly defense might be tired out. Hopefully we are still in the game by that time.

Oops. Take Tzolis out.

Apparently the only question mark is El Kaddouri. I expect this lineup: ------------ Paschalakis ------------ --- Vieirinha --- Varela --- Crespo --- Rodrigo ‐‐---------------------- Baba -------- Schwab ---- Augusto ------- Zivkovic ----------------------- Warda --------------- Krmencik -------------

That's good news. Too bad we will miss Michailidis. He might not have started but he would definitively be a sub, specially with Crespo not having many playing minutes. At least Mihaj got some minutes and will be able to step in.

The game against Norway will be played in Malaga, Spain.

It apparently is a player (Michailidis?) ERT3 will show it on 2 hour tape delay, basically right after the game finishes. If anyone finds a live stream let us know. I am stuck in Arizona this week and won't have access to Antenna Satellite. Might have to settle for the ERT3 Web stream delay.

If Swiderski ends up going to Euro, PAOK be paid approximately 4,500 Euro by UEFA for each day that his team stays in the competition. The only other PAOK player that might be going to Euro is Krmencik, but I am not sure if we get the money or Club Brugge.

That's all good pash, but as of this writing we don't have a technical director. If the rumors are true we will be getting a Russian based TD, who probably has no clue about PAOK. It will take time for him to learn the Greek/PAOK reality. If you ask me I think Georgie will be making all the decisions. For some reason I think the TD rumors and possible upcoming changes were behind the Pablo Garcia outbreak this past weekend.

Good opportunity to sell him at a good price.

VS MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Olympiakos Piraeus COMPETITION: Greek Cup – Final DATE: 22-May-2021 TIME: 21:00 EEST (18:30 UTC, 13:00 CDT, 04:00 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Athens – OAKA Stadium (68,079) REFEREES: TELEVISION: COSMOTE Sport 1 (Greece), Cytavision Sports (Cyprus), Arena Sports 4 (Serbia), Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) 2-Hour Tape Delay: ERT 3, ERT 3 Web Stream (Greece) PAOK – Olympiakos Greek Cup history: 2019-2020: SEMIFINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: no fans 2019-2020: SEMIFINAL-L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 3:2 (Pelkas 2, Misic) - Attendance: no fans 2013-2014: SEMIFINAL-L2: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 17,789 (The “gavroi on the bench” game, with a 5 kilos of gavroi being placed on Olympaikos bench prior to the game by a fan, resulting in delay of game, and severe punishment by EPO) 2013-2014: SEMIFINAL-L1: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:1 (Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 32,000 2010-2011: QUARTERFINAL-L2: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: no fans (the famous game played behind closed doors with Marinakis throwing whiskey bottles at people from the VIP suite and the police helicopters hovering over Toumba and Thessaloniki) 2010-2011: QUARTERFINAL-L1: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:1 (Vieirinha) - Attendance: 28,404 2008-2009: QUARTERFINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 (aet) - Attendance: 23,983 2008-2009: QUARTERFINAL–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Conceisao) - Attendance: 21,043 2002-2003: QUARTERFINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:2 (Georgiadis, Okkas) - Attendance: 11,466 (Rizoupolis Stadium, Athens) 2002-2003: QUARTERFINAL–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 3:1 (Georgiadis, Markos, Okkas) - Attendance: 17,647 2000-2001: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:4 (Egkomitis, Borbokis, Georgiadis, Nalitzis) - Attendance: 13,300 (Nea Filadelfia, Athens) – CUP WINNER 1999-2000: Round of 16: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:1 (Frousos) - Attendance: 17,317 (Single leg tie) (OAKA Stadium, Athens) 1996-1997: Round of 16-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:1 (Tasiopoulos) - Attendance: 4,503 1996-1997: Round of 16-L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:2 (Zouboulis) - Attendance: 20,498 1991-1992: FINAL-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 29381 1991-1992: FINAL–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: 25,744 1990-1991: Round of 32-L2: PAOK – Olympiakos 3:0 (Karageorgiou, Borbokis, H. Hassan) - Attendance: 33,411 1990-1991: Round of 32-L1: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:0 - Attendance: 17,789 1989-1990: Round of 16-L2: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:0 (5:3 pen) - Attendance: 22,090 1989-1990: Round of 16–L1: PAOK – Olympiakos 1:0 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: 27,217 1985-1986: Round 2: Olympiakos - PAOK 0:0 (4:3 pen) - Attendance: 25,955 (Single leg tie) (OAKA Stadium, Athens) 1980-1981: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 3:1 (Damanakis) - Attendance: 30,512 (Nea Filadelfia, Athens) 1979-1980: Round of 32: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:2 (Orfanos, Vasilakos) - Attendance: 38,150 (Single leg tie) 1978-1979: Round of 16: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:2 (6:5 pen) (Guerino, Kermanidis) - Attendance: 38,846 (Single leg tie) 1975-1976: SEMIFINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:1 (6:5 pen) (Guerino) - Attendance: 38,846 (Single leg tie) 1974-1975: SEMIFINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 4:0 - Attendance: ? (Single leg tie) 1973-1974: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 2:2 (3:4 pen) (Paridis, Aslanidis) - Attendance: 26,402 (Nea Filadelfia, Athens) – CUP WINNER 1972-1973: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 1:0 - Attendance: 40,070 (Karaiskaki Stadium, Piraeus) 1970-1971: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 3:1 (Sarafis) - Attendance: 38,000 (Karaiskaki Stadium, Piraeus) 1950-1951: FINAL: Olympiakos - PAOK 4:0 - Attendance: ? (Leoforos Alexandras, Athens) GAMES: 30 WINS: 10 TIES: 6 LOSSES: 14 All home games played at Toumba Stadium. All away games played at Karaiskaki Stadium unless otherwise noted. PAOK never played a single leg tie at home against Olympiakos. All Greek Cup Finals against Olympiakos were played either in Athens or Piraeus.

In the PAOK TV interview he emphasized that he hopes there will be better referees calling the final. In the first interview on NOVA he did not say that he is leaving. He said that when he leaves others will follow as well. Quite a cryptic quote. The problem is that people will now take this quote and use it for their own twisted agendas ahead of the cup final.