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There are enough of us from Macedonia in the Chicago area that the Pan-Macedonian Association held their annual convention here in the past. As for Roumeliotes, what area of Chicago did you grow up in? My wife's parents are both from Roumeli and they lived on the south side (Hegwisch), which seemed to have quite a sizable population from that region of Greece.

Novasport has announced that it has reached individual agreements with 8 Superleague teams for the next season concerning television rights for their home games. They are: AEK Asteras Tripolis Larisa Levadeiakos OFI Olympiakos Panionios PAS Giannina PAOK

Final decision about this game will apparently be announced next Wednesday. During today's appeal PAOK asked that the game be played as scheduled. Olympiakos on the other hand asked that PAOK receive an addition 3 point deduction from the standings.

Piraeus prosecutor Eirini Tziva has charged Olympiakos and Nottingham Forrest owner Evaggelos Marinakis and three additional people with possession, distribution, and financing of a criminal organization concerning the Noor One drug smuggling case. Noor One is the ship that was intercepted by Greek police and which carries 2.3 tons of heroin. Since that interception 8 witnesses that were held mysteriously died while being held in prison. As part of the indictment, Marinakis is barred from leaving the country, but reports are that he is presently in England. This news broke about 3 hours ago, and has yet to be reported by the mainstream media in Greece. That is the same media that went into frenzy when Savvidis stepped on the field during the AEK game.

Tuesday's game against Czech Republic will be televised on Laola1.tv. Kick off is at 16:00 EEST. https://www.facebook.com/Greeksoccerontv/

Koulouris will start tomorrow according to Skibbe and he will be shipped to Xanthi for the U-21 game against Czech Republic as will Limnios.

Skibbe is going to start Koulouris and also play Limnios tomorrow against Switzerland and then ship both players to the U-21 NT for the game against Czech Republic on Tuesday.

4:0 win against San Marina in Xanthi today. Next game on Tuesday against the Czech Republic in Xanthi again. That is the important game to win to keep our hopes to finish on top of the group.

Campos scored for Angola in their 1:1 friendly tie against South Africa.

There is only one solution to the Greek football problems. Apply the current rules of the law to all teams fairly and equally. Not depending on the name of the team. If it takes Grexit to accomplish that then let it be. We all now this will never happen. Corrupted society = corrupted football.

My wife's parents are from 2 horia that are on the map.

It doesn't really take much to be ahead of some of the other clowns doing sports radio in Thessaloniki. He is good to listen for entertaining purposes since there is nothing else to listen to during that time. In the past his shows used to be better, but the last few years he is bringing in some very unfunny guests on his show.

Raptopoulos is an idiot and a clown but always good for a laugh or two if there is nothing else to listen to on the radio.

PAOK today submitted additional material to the judge including a video footage. Decision is now expected Friday or next week. I expect very heavy punishment for PAOK considering the wishes of the government and paid off media. The final decisions will be decided on appeals.

Did you actually see the game or are you basing your opinions on what you are reading in the Greek media? There was police present. If anyone was threatened they would have restrained him. The fact that he had a concealed weapon was not known until he was leaving the field when he took his jacket off. The only reason the gun issue is used is because a photographer was able to snap a picture which was then immediately circulated to all the paid off media. The only reason AEK was "threatened" was because the ref informed them that the score was 1:0. If it was 0:0 they would have come out on the field without any problem. Now let's get back on topic. Olympiakos hopes for both PAOK and AEK to get punished, so they can get their dirty hands on another "paper" title.

Which it was and that's why the ref asked the teams to come out and play, but only PAOK came out. In any normal country it would be a clear cut case. PAOK wins game on paper. Savvidis and Michel get a big punishment including a big ban from soccer. That's in a normal country, but in Greece everything is being tried in the corrupted and paid off media, so the end result will be heavy punishment for PAOK on all levels. Once again it will be a selective enforcement of the rules, and things will go on as usual until the next incident.

Very true. And after the "questionable" retirement and his return to the Bulls the addition of Rodman to the team brought more titles to the Windy City. Had he not "retired" there would have been more titles.

Court decision is expected on Thursday, but I have a feeling this will drag on for a while.

If AEK is punished for not coming out to play, the punishment is -10 points according to KAP rules. It's no longer -3 points.

That was their plan all along. If they can't win it on the field, win in the courts.

It will be on Epsilon TV in Greece. Also on Swiss channel as well as Arena Sport in the Balkans. All TV schedules here: https://www.facebook.com/Greeksoccerontv/

Then it was last Friday, and now it might be this Friday. It all depends on what happens with the decision in the PAOk - AEK game in my opinion.

Yes I was and enjoyed every minute of it. Sadly, I saw live the game where Jordan broke his foot in 1986. It was the 3rd game of that season and he missed the rest of the 1986-1987 season.

Both teams appealed to the 2nd level of appeals concerning this game. Olympiakos wants to also include a point deductions for PAOK to the already 3:0 win on paper. PAOK in return asks that the appeal court overturns the 3:0 loss and either rules it in PAOK's favor or at the minimum have the game replayed. I believe the appeal will take this Friday. Incidently the Olympiakos's appeal ruling concerning the Olympiakos - AEK game is still pending after the many postponements. Olympiakos hopes to have the -3 points erased in this case.