Blackhawk

Prijovic 1:2

penalty for PAOK

Finally some good play by Kaddouri and Pelkas.

Poor defending so far in the game.

It did cross the line.

0:2

Bad goal.

Bleacher report has it live in free preview but that might end before half time. Link: https://live.bleacherreport.com/soccer/soccer-tournaments/events/spartak-moscow-paok-fc/48839

0:1

The teams don't see any revenue from the gambling money. The government does from legal betting companies. Lot of sports gambling in Greece is via online betting and a lot of it on illegal sites, which don't offer any tax revenue. I agree that more money intro the league is good, but there are only 5 or 6 healthy clubs that can survive using the revenue from TV, tickets, etc. Under the current system people that put teams into debt and in some cases declared bankruptcies only to come back and created more debt. Instead of the owners being put behind bars and the teams dropped into amateur divisions they get rewarded with a TV contract using tax money that should be put into better use. As long as the owners see that the government will always be there to bail them out in the end, there is no reason for them to clean up their act.

I'll take a 0:0 draw if we can't get a win. We have what it takes to score one in Moscow, when we should have both Vierinha and Biseswar back.

PAOK is over 4.5 mil. AEK is 5 mil and Olympiakos 5.5 mil. NOVA is not ripping off SL. They only pay what they can afford and what the market will support. It's evident that the market could not support the additional 7 teams and that's why their offer was low. ERT is basically paying Panathinaikos double what NOVA was offering, but who cares it's just tax payers money.

ERT streams all their channels on the web. The question is if they will place regional restrictions on their streams. They do with some of their programming when the international right to those programs belong to somebody else. It will all depend on who gets the international rights for the Superleague games. One way to get around the regional restrictions is to use a VPN to change your IP to a Greek one.

That move by the government is basically to appease the voters for the upcoming elections by squandering tax payers money that could be spent better elsewhere. Those 7 teams could not get a TV contract in a free market, so they blackmailed the government to offer them a deal by threatening to boycott the start of the season. NOVA that operates as a private company sure wasn't willing to spend that much money on those 7 teams, and their rival COSMOTE did not make an offer either. This deal once again proves that government still wants to control the sport in Greece. Don't know how much Melissanidis pays the government in taxes with his control of OPAP, but the teams don't get any percentage from the betting revenue. I am sure the online betting companies don't pay any taxes at all. Also the teams don't make any money from the away games.

The corrupt government that is running a bankrupt country came out to bail out 7 teams without TV contract by giving them 14.5 mil in tax payers money through the state broadcaster ERT. This move basically prevents the 7 teams from boycotting the Superleague and pretty much guarantees the start of the season as scheduled on August 25. The 7 teams will divide the 14.5 mil gift as follows: Panathinaikos - 4.2 mil Aris - 2.0 mil Atromitos - 1.9 mil Xanthi - 1.65 mil Panaitolikos - 1.65 mil Lamia - 1.45 mil Apollon - 1.45 mil ERT will show the home games for the above teams. The deal with ERT is for two seasons.

Well the government came in and bailed out the 7 teams without TV contract by offering them 14.5 mil TV revenue through the state broadcaster ERT. The Undersecretary of Sport came to an agreement with the 7 teams for a two year deal (14.5 mil per year), which pretty much guarantees that the Superleague will kick-off on time as scheduled on August 25. The 7 teams will divide the 14.5 mil gift as follows: Panathinaikos - 4.2 mil Aris - 2.0 mil Atromitos - 1.9 mil Xanthi - 1.65 mil Panaitolikos - 1.65 mil Lamia - 1.45 mil Apollon - 1.45 mil In return ERT will show the home games of the above teams, which comes out to 105 games. Additional ERT will also show the Football League (soon to be renamed Superleague 2) next season.

He did but Lucescu/Savvidis did not make him an offer since we already have a similar player on the roster (Mauricio) and he would also take a non-domestic spot on the team as mentioned by pash.

Anastasakis finished 9th in hammer throw with 73.33 meters. Skarvellis finished 11th in shot put with 20.11 meters Stefanidi with 4.55m, and Kyriakopoulou and Polak with 4.45m qualified to the final of the pole vault

The transfer happened, but the Jews are not paying. Same situation as with Galata concerning Rodrigues. PAOK should just mention FIFA and you'll see how quick an installment arrangement for the 300K will be set up. Wernbloom used PAOK to get a better deal. Let's see if anybody bites. There are mentions of Galatasaray is after him. PAOK should have gave him an ultimatum long time ago.

I think it's more important to do this in this game as opposed to the Basel game. I predict that the team that scores in their away game will qualify.

Bibras Nathko signed for two years with Olympiakos at 1 mil per season. Good signing for them.

Good start for Greek athletes with 3 out of 5 qualifying to the finals. In Long Jump Tentoglou finished1st in qualifying with 8.15 meters. In Hammer Throw Anastasakis finsished 5th in qualifying with 75.61 meters In Shot Put Skarvelis fisnished 6th in qualifying with 20.24 meters The two sprinters (Nyfantopoulos and Spanoudaki) failed to qualify to the next rounds on 100 meters.

Season ticket count as of today: 16,023

Taking the place of Mystakidis. (sorry pash). We still have a chance to make 2 changes 24 hours prior to the first game. Would not be surprised to see Wernbloom and/or a left back added to the list.

You are right. Thanks for noticing. Fixed.