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Friendly against Panserraikos tomorrow at 15:00 EET. It's an official friendly (tickets sold, etc.) as opposed to the last week's one against Agrotikos Asteras (4:0). Glykos, Klaus and Leovac will sit this one out. Glyskos and Leovac to rest for the Fiorentina game, while Klaus has a minor injury.

You can add Pigi Devetzi to the above list as her doping verdict became official.She has been stripped of her 2007 World Championship and 2008 Olympic Games medals in the process.

Pigi Devetzi officially lost her triple jump bronze medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after an IOC announcement that she used Stanoznol steroid during the games. She must now return the bronze medal to IOC, which will give it to the 4th place finisher Olga Ripakova from Kazakhstan. Not all new is bad though. Viktoria Mavridou who finished in9th place in the 75 kg weightlifting class jumped one place in the standings as the bronze medal winner Marija Grabovetskaya from Kazakhstan was banished for steroid use. Moving one place in the standings of the 94kg weightlifting class are also Kostas Garipis (from 13 to 12), and Tasos Tryantafyllou (from 14 to13) following the banishment of bronze medal winner Akaev Pasagev from Azerbaijan.

I think the Eurosport claim is wrong. Superleague games besides Greece are available legally only in Cyprus and Albania.

Where did you see that? Can you provide a link? I don't think it's the case.

vs MATCHUP: ACF Fiorentina - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Europa League – Group Stage – Round 5 DATE: 24-November-2016 TIME: 20:00 EET (18:00 GMT, 12:00 CST, 05:0 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Fiorentina – Antonio Franchi Stadium (47,290) REFEREES: TELEVISION: OTE Sport TV (Greece), Cytavision Sports (Cyprius), ESPN3, WatchESPN, Fox Soccer 2GO (USA) Standings: 1. ACF Fiorentina - 10 2. Qarabag FK - 7 3. PAOK Thessaloniki – 4 4. FC Slovan Liberec - 1 Our European history against Italian teams: 1973-1974: AC Milan – PAOK FC 3:0 - Attendance: 25,963 (Cup Winners Cup – Quarterfinal – Leg 1) 1973-1974: PAOK FC – AC Milan 2:2 (Sarafis 2) - Attendance: 43,882 (Cup Winners Cup – Quarterfinal – Leg 2) 1985-1986: Hellas Verona – PAOK FC 3:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: 27,008 (Champions Cup – Round 1 – Leg 1) 1973-1974: PAOK FC – Hellas Verona 1:2 (Vasilakos) - Attendance: 40,000(Champions Cup – Round 1 – Leg 2) 1988-1989: SSC Napoli – PAOK FC 1:0 - Attendance: 62,662 (UEFA Cup – Round 1 – Leg 1) 1988-1989: PAOK FC – SSC Napoli 1:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: 39,848 (UEFA Cup – Round 1 – Leg 2) 2000-2001: Udinese Calcio – PAOK FC 1:0 - Attendance: 14,258 (UEFA Cup – Round2 – Leg 1) 2000-2001: PAOK FC – Udinese Calcio 3:0 (aet) (Camps 2, Froussos) - Attendance: 24,324 (UEFA Cup – Round 1 – Leg 2) 2011-2012: Udinese Calcio – PAOK FC 0:0 - Attendance: 11,641 (Europa League – Round of 32 – Leg 1) 2011-2012: PAOK FC – Udinese Calcio 0:2 - Attendance: 22,400 (Europa League – Round of 32 – Leg 2) 2014-2015: PAOK FC – ACF Fiorentina 0:1 - Attendance: 22,612 (Europa League – Group Stage – Round 3) 2014-2015: ACF Fiorentina - PAOK FC 1:1(Martens) - Attendance: ? (Europa League – Group Stage – Round 4) 2016-2017: PAOK FC – ACF Fiorentina 0:0 - Attendance: 20,904 (Europa League – Group Stage – Round 1) GAMES: 13 WINS: 1 TIES: 5 LOSSES: 7

Looks like the game will not be played as scheduled. Who knows when it will be played. Don't forget we still have to play Round 1 and 2 of Superleague.

Looks like Superleague will not resume this weekend. They just can't make their mind. What a joke. There was no ban to support. It was just a temporary stoppage. In any case I support a complete stoppage. I would prefer to just cancel this season and not start the 2017-18 season unless things get fixed. And that means holding EPO elections that were blocked by a FIFA coup last month. Also in that time frame all the legal issues should come to trial, so once in for all these legal issue can't be used by different people to push their own agenda. I know, this will never happen, but I can dream.

VS MATCHUP: AE Larisa - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague – Round 11 DATE: 01-February-2017 TIME: 19:30 GR (17:30 GMT, 11:30 CST, 04:30 AEDT next day) CITY/STADIUM: Larisa – AEL Arena (Capacity: 16,118) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Novasports 2 (Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria), Sport Plus (USA, Canada, Australia) Larisa – PAOK history: Superleague 2011-2016: Larisa played in lower divisions 2010-2011: 1:2 (Contreras, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 12,829 2009-2010: 2:1 (Contreras) - Attendance: 6,848 2008-2009: 0:2 (Bakayoko, Conceicao) - Attendance: 4,669 (Playoffs) 2008-2009: 0:0 - Attendance: 4,611 2007-2008: 4:3 (Athanasiadis 2, Balafas) - Attendance: ? 2006-2007: 1:2 (Mieciel 2) - Attendance: 7,358 2005-2006: 2:1 (Mieciel) - Attendance: 8,906 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 1996-2005: Larisa played in lower divisions 1995-1996: 2:1 (Gioukoudis-p) - Attendance: 1,618 1994-1995: 0:2 (Anastasiadis, Kapetanopoulos) - Attendance: ? 1993-1994: 1:1 (Karasavvidis) - Attendance: ? 1992-1993: 2:1 (Djurdjevic) - Attendance: ? 1991-1992: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1990-1991: 1:1 (Lagonidis) - Attendance: ? 1989-1990: 0:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: ? 1988-1989: 2:1 (Giagkos) - Attendance: ? 1987-1988: 1:1 (Borbokis) - Attendance: ? 1986-1987: 2:1 (Vasilakos) - Attendance: ? 1985-1986: 2:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: ? 1984-1985: 1:2 (Dimopoulos 2) - Attendance: ? 1983-1984: 1:1 (Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ? 1982-1983: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1981-1982: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1980-1981: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1979-1980: 0:3 (Koudas, Orfanos) - Attendance: ? Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 1:1 (Guerino) - Attendance: ? 1975-1978: Larisa played in lower divisions 1974-1975: 0:2 (Kermanidis, Guerino) - Attendance: ? 1973-1974: 1:1 (Aslanidis) - Attendance: ? 1964-1973: Larisa played in lower divisions GAMES: 27 WINS: 8 TIES: 9 LOSSES: 10

Superleague will resume as scheduled this weekend. All this uproar over the violence and arson against referee directors by the FIFA/UEFA/EO puppet was nothing but a smoke screen to calm things down. In couple weeks there will be another incident. Superleague will be stopped and will resume a week later. What a farce. Why would somebody want to be a sponsor of this bourdello? Savvidi, take the 5 mil sponsorship and spend it on the team or give it to charity instead.

Superleague resumes as schedule with Round 11 this weekend.

Koulouris scored the tying goal against Cyprus (2:2) with a penalty kick in the 89th minute.

EC should have been abolished decades ago. Not just now. It's the 21st Century after all.

There is a news story today on Metrosport that Ivan has decided to sell Klaus. Not sure if this is a true story, or just a planted one to create a buzz for the next two weeks, when they will not have anything to write about since there won't be any games played.

I agree, the Electoral College needs to be abolished and the popular vote should decide the president.

The people that attacked the train were nothing but cowards. They did not care a bout human lives. There could have been little kids travelling on the train. The sad thing is that they will get away with it, as has happened so many times in the past. I have not heard anything about police doing any investigating into the incident. With videos popping up on youtube it should be quite easy to track down the people that were behind it. I am pretty sure I would have responded the same way if I was attacked with rocks and flares. In the heat of the moment you go into self defense mode, so I am not surprised at what happened to the Olympiakos fan who was beaten to the pulp.

Why would they leave when they have a contract in place? Easy money for doing nothing.

The new members of E.S.R. (Ethniko Symvoulio Tileorasis) have been selected, opening the door for TV license bidding process to take place again.

Radio Arvyla trailer for the 2016-2017 season that starts on Nobvember 21, 2016 on the Antenna TV (Ant1, Antenna Satellite, Antenna Pacific). The only Greek TV show that I can stand watching on TV. Everything else is just pure garbage.

I don't think anything will change either. The league will be postponed by one week and then it will resume, until the next incident takes place. Unless drastic measures are taken, and people facing criminal charges are not brought before justice, nothing will change. Unfortunately nobody wants to take these drastic measures.

I don't disagree about his playing abilities (or disabilities). I don't even disagree about him having a life outside of the game. However, he is the team captain, and he should at least lay low when the team is having a bad run. It's not the first time he has gone partying after a bad result. I don't care if he goes out after a game, but refrain from being included in the celebrity pictures that will make the rounds on the internet. Keep that stuff private. Also, since his new contract, he has not performed up to his previous levels. He has not shown any improvement in his play, clearly showing his concentration on other things. We should have sold him when we had the chance. I think now it's too late.

Looked like there just 500 people in the stands, but EPO announced 3,108

The league should not start until all this garbage that is called Greek Soccer is cleaned up.

Sounds like his manager planting stories to increase the selling price.