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We are pretty much out concerning the first place, and I have much doubt that we will finish in 2nd place as well. If we lose to Panathinaikos on Sunday, we have two games against Atromitos (home) and Tripoli (away). We will need to win both games, which so far we proved that we can't. On top of that after Sunday Panathinaikos will mathematically clinch first place and will not play to win in their last two games. If we have any luck, I think we will end in 3rd place, although a 4th place would not surprise me.

vs MATCHUP: Panathinaikos Athens - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague ? Playoffs - Round 4 DATE: 31-May-2015 TIME: 20:30 GR (17:30 GMT, 12:30 CDT, 03:30 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Athens ? Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium (Capacity: 16,003) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Nova Sports (Greece/Cyprus) , Antenna Satellite/Pacific (USA, Canada/Australia) Panathinaikos vs. P.A.O.K. history: Superleague 2014-2015: 4:3 (Athanasiadis, Skondras, Noboa) - Attendance: no fans 2013-2014: 1:1 (Salpiggidiss - Attendance: 11,713 (play-offs) 2013-2014: 2:1 (Athanasiadis - Attendance: 11,113 2012-2013: 2:0 - Attendance: 13,511 2011-2012: 2:0 - Attendance: 3,012 (play-offs) 2011-2012: 0:2 (Lino-p, Salpiggidis) - Attendance: no fans 2010-2011: 1:0 - Attendance: 19,800 (play-offs) 2010-2011: 1:0 - Attendance: no fans 2009-2010: 2:1 (Vieirinha) - Attendance: 19,875 2008-2009: 4:1 (Malezas) - Attendance: 14,673 (play-offs) 2008-2009: 3:0 (?) - Attendance: 26,430 2007-2008: 2:0 - Attendance: 10,048 2006-2007: 2:1 (Zegarra) - Attendance: 21,356 2005-2006: 1:0 - Attendance: 21,358 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2004-2005: 2:1 (Andralas) - Attendance: 11,001 2003-2004: 3:0 - Attendance: 9,685 2002-2003: 1:0 - Attendance: 13,620 2001-2002: 1:2 (Okkas, Konstantinidis) - Attendance: 10,337 2000-2001: 5:2 (Georgiadis-p, Nalitzis) - Attendance: 9,914 1999-2000: 1:1 (Nagbe) - Attendance: ? (4,000 PAOK fans present) 1998-1999: 0:1 (Frantzeskos) - Attendance: ? 1997-1998: 3:1 (Maragos) - Attendance: ? 1996-1997: 5:0 - Attendance: ? 1995-1996: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1994-1995: 3:0 - Attendance: ? 1993-1994: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1992-1993: 5:0 - Attendance: ? 1991-1992: 5:1 (Toursounidis-p) - Attendance: ? 1990-1991: 3:0 (?) - Attendance: ? (This is the game where PAOK owner Thomas Voulinos took the team off the field in the 77th minute due to biased officiating by the ref Karamanis, who has shown red cards to Skartados and Magdi. PAOK lost the game on paper and was deducted 3 points from the standings. 1989-1990: 2:2 (Lagonidis, Malioufas) - Attendance: ? 1988-1989: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1987-1988: 2:1 (Alexandridis) - Attendance: ? 1986-1987: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1985-1986: 5:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1984-1985: 0:1 (Paprica) - Attendance: ? (8,000 fans in attendance) 1983-1984: 0:0 (?) - Attendance: ? 1982-1983: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1981-1982: 2:1 (Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ? 1980-1981: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1979-1980: 0:0 (?) - Attendance: ? Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 2:2 (Kermanidis, Kostikos) - Attendance: ? 1977-1978: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1976-1977: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1975-1976: 1:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1974-1975: 1:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1973-1974: 3:2 (?) - Attendance: ? 1972-1973: 0:2 (forfeit) - Attendance: ? 1971-1972: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1970-1971: 3:0 - Attendance: ? 1969-1970: 1:1 - Attendance: ? 1968-1969: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1967-1968: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1966-1967: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1965-1966: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1964-1965: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1963-1964: 4:0 - Attendance: ? 1962-1963: 2:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1961-1962: 3:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1960-1961: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1959-1960: 1:0 - Attendance: ? Panhellenic Championship 1958-1959: 3:0 - Attendance: ? 1957-1958: 2:2 (?)- Attendance: ? 1956-1957: 3:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1955-1956: 3:1(?) - Attendance: ? 1954-1955: 3:2 (?) - Attendance: ? 1953-1954: 1:0 - Attendance: ? 1936-1937: 2:0 - Attendance: ? 1935-1936: 6:1 (?) - Attendance: ? 1931-1932: 2:1 (?)- Attendance: ? 1930-1931: 7:1(?) - Attendance: ? GAMES: 70 WINS: 5 TIES: 15 LOSSES: 50

Great move by Savvidis to hire Arnesen as Technical Director. He has all the qualifications a team would want in a TD. The big question is if he will be allowed to do the work he knows. He needs to be given time to build the team. Just hope that he will not be chased away like some other big names (Stephens). The chance of him becoming a tourist like Stephens or Boloni is quite possible. His first move is to find a new coach and than good players to start building the team. let's hope this is the start of better things to come.

Good game by the Hawks yesterday. Specially in the first two periods. I expected the Ducks to win yesterday's game. Anything can happen in game 7.

vs MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki ? Panathinaikos Athens COMPETITION: Superleague ? Playoffs - Round 3 DATE: 27-May-2015 TIME: 19:30 GR (16:30 GMT, 11:30 CDT, 24:30 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Nova Sport (Greece/Cyprus), Sport Plus (USA/Canada) PAOK vs Panathinaikos history: SUPERLEAGUE 2014-2015: 1:2 (Pereyra) - Attendance: 24,903 2013-2014: 1:0 (Vukic) - Attendance: No Fans (PLAYOFFS) 2013-2014: 2:1 (Stoch, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 24,633 2012-2013: 2:0 (Camara, Vukic) - Attendance: 19,856 2011-2012: 1:0 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 11,484 (PLAYOFFS) 2011-2012: 1:3 (Vierinha) - Attendance: 19,002 2010-2011: 2:1 (Athanasiadis, El Zhar) - Attendance: 19,391 (PLAYOFFS) 2010-2011: 0:1 - Attendance: 22,009 2009-2010: 2:1 (Garcia, Muslimovic) - Attendance: 23,104 2008-2009: 0:1 - Attendance: 27,703 (PLAYOFFS) 2008-2009: 0:0 - Attendance: 25,795 2007-2008: 0:1 - Attendance: 19,000 2006-2007: 2:1 (Georgiadis, Balafas) - Attendance: 8,795 2005-2006: 0:1 - Attendance: no fans ALPHA ETHNIKI (Professional) 2004-2005: 1:1 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 17,845 2003-2004: 1:2 (Hagan) - Attendance: 17,805 2002-2003: 4:1 (Georgiadis 2, Spasic, own goal) - Attendance: ? 2001-2002: 2:2 (Spasic, Frousos) - Attendance: ? 2000-2001: 2:2 (Nalitzis, Karadimos) - Attendance: 12,978 1999-2000: 1:3 (Bratic) - Attendance: 20,888 1998-1999: 2:0 (Katsabis, Frantzeskos) - Attendance: 12,996 1997-1998: 2:1 (Nagbe, Comingez) - Attendance: 16,877 1996-1997: 1:0 (Frantzeskos) - Attendance: 13,110 Frantzeskos strikes once again for PAOK. 1995-1996: 0:1 - Attendance: 13,832 1994-1995: 2:0 (Lagonidis, Alexiou) - Attendance: 21,114 1993-1994: 3:1 (Luhovy 2, Havos) - Attendance: 6,728 1992-1993: 1:1 (Alexiou) - Attendance: 8,054 1991-1992: 1:0 (Chionas) - Attendance: 21,838 1990-1991: 1:1 (Hasan I.) - Attendance: 15,303 1989-1990: 2:1 (Magdi, Palaskas) - Attendance: 25,100 1988-1989: 1:0 (Skartados-p) - Attendance: 25,291 1987-1988: 4:1 (Skartados 2, Borbokis, Alexandridis, ) - Attendance: 36,305 1986-1987: 2:3 (Skartados, Vasilakos) - Attendance: 22,166 1985-1986: 0:1 - Attendance: 21,448 1984-1985: 1:1 (Skartados) - Attendance: 35,914 1983-1984: 1:0 (own goal) - Attendance: 34,256 1982-1983: 2:0 (Damanakis, Trinhold) - Attendance: 19,164 1981-1982: 2:0 (Iosifidis, Kostikos) - Attendance: 20,257 1980-1981: 4:2 (Koudas 2, Vasilakos, Alexandris) - Attendance: 18,131 1979-1980: 0:2 - Attendance: 29,992 The famous ?Litsas? game with very pro-Panathinaikos officiating. Litsas disallowed two clear PAOK goals and did no call a penalty on Kostikos. At the end of the game, when the score was 0:2, Litsas awards PAOK a penalty kick. The fans demand that Orfanos miss the penalty kick on purpose, and he does by kicking a weak shot to the middle of the goal straight to the goalie. Orfanos shoots a weak shot straight on Konstantinou in protest. ALPHA ETHNIKI (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 3:0 (Kermanidis 2, Orfanos) - Attendance: ? 1977-1978: 3:1 (Sarafis 2, Koudas) - Attendance: ? 1976-1977: 0:0 - Attendance: 45,000 1975-1976: 3:1 (Guerino 2, Sarafis) - Attendance: Guerino 2, Sarafis 1974-1975: 2:0 (Apostolidis, Sarafis) - Attendance: ? 1973-1974: 1:1 (Aslanidis) - Attendance: 42,318 1972-1973: 1:0 (Koudas) - Attendance: 39,500 1971-1972: 1:0 (Apostolidis) - Attendance: 40,051 1970-1971: 3:2 (Stavridis 2, Aslanidis) - Attendance: ? 1969-1970: 0:1 - Attendance: 33,136 1968-1969: 1:2 (Theofanidis-p) - Attendance: 26,572 1967-1968: 2:1 (Charalambidis 2) - Attendance: ? 1966-1967: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1965-1966: 1:3 (Theofanidis) - Attendance: 21,020 1964-1965: 0:0 - Attendance: ? 1963-1964: 0:1 - Attendance: ? 1962-1963: 1:1 (Vasiliadis) - Attendance: 20,131 1961-1962: 2:1 (Mouratidis, Simeonidis) - Attendance: ? 1960-1961: 0:1 - Attendance: ? 1959-1960: 0:2 - Attendance: ? GAMES: 60 WINS: 30 TIES: 12 LOSSES: 18

Poor move by Savvidis. He needs to keep his mouth shut, hire professionals to run the team, and give financial support. He wasted 3 solid years with amateur moves. And what does this even say about Georgiadis? He should have resigned following the game.

Tiger has not spent a single dime on AEK. He didn't really had to. It will be interesting to see what he does now that they are back in Superleague. I also think that Savvidis will not blow the budget open. There might be a small increase, but nothing major. He just spent 11 mil covering the debt. The thought that Lino might be coming back to PAOK, and that Garcia will probably be the next TD points in that direction.

After today's game, even if it goes to game 7, I believe the Ducks will prevail. The game was lost and by miracle we tied it in the last 2 minutes of the game only to lose on their first shot in the OT. Overall I think they have a better team.

Tziolos and Tzavellas are playing fairly well. It's the xasogoli Mak that is disappointing me.

Nice to see you again Gabriel. Welcome.

Just saw the game. We had couple great chances to score a second goal and win this game, but in extra time Atromitos could have scored as well. If it wasn't for Itandje we would have lost 2:1. 1:1 is not the worst result, but need to win the next two games.

This was the Hawks longest game in history. If we lost yesterday, I could not see us turning things around from a 0:2 deficit. As for the Shaw header, if he did not make such an obvious move to head it in, I can't see how they would not be able to allow it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bisGLo_mFGs[/youtube]

vs MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - Asteras Tripolis COMPETITION: Superleague ? Playoffs - Round 2 DATE: 24-May-2015 TIME: 18:15 GR (15:15 GMT, 10:15 CDT, 01:15 AEST next day) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Nova Sports (Greece), Sport Plus (USA/Canada) (Greece) P.A.O.K. vs Asteras Tripolis History: 2014-2015: 0:0 - Attendance: no fans 2013-2014: 2:0 (Vitor 2) - Attendance: 13,637 2012-2013: 1:0 (Oliseh) - Attendance: 10,529 (PLAYOFFS) 2012-2013: 2:1 (Lawrence, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 5,601 2011-2012: 2:3 (Athanasiadis, Georgiadis) - Attendance: 6,894 2010-2011: 1:0 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 13,585 2009-2010: 1:0 (Koutsianikoulis) - Attendance: 14,128 2008-2009: 1:1 (Anastasakos) - Attendance: 15,892 2007-2008: 0:1 - Attendance: 12,796 GAMES: 9 WINS: 5 TIES: 2 LOSSES: 2

I did not see the game, but from what they said on the radio, the goal was gifted to them by Itandje (an ex-Atromitos player). At least we were able to come back and tie it. It's now important for us to win the next two home games against Tripoli and Panathinaikos if we want to keep any chances of finishing first.

Superleague is the one that should initially investigate such accusations, since it's their own product that is on the line. However since all the decisions are made by Olympiakos with all the satellites, there was no way Superleague would go ahead implicating themselves. The next step should be for EPO to step in and do their own investigation, but we know who controls them, and since UEFA would only step in if EPO asked for it, don't expect anything happening in such cases.

In all seriousness, did you really expected any other outcome in this case?

Yiasou Barcelona. Nice to see you here.

Veroia was saved from elimination by the Supeleague disciplinary commission. Veroia was implicated in arranging a 3:0 loss to Olympiakos couple years ago. The coach at that time, Kalaitzidis (current Aris coach), Georgeas and Kafes testified that during hal-time the Veroia General Manager told the players that the owner of the team wants the game to end in a 3:0 loss. Well guess what the final score was? Now how you arrange a fix without the other team knowing is beyond me. In any case the Superleague disciplinary commission claims that there was not enough evidence to proceed with the case making everybody happy. Veroia stays in SL, Olympiakos is not implicated, and unfortunately more people will decide not to watch Greek soccer as a result.

19 players travelled to Athens for the game. No Salpi, Papadopoulos, Konstantinidis, Golasa Possible lineup: ---------------- Itandje ------------------- Skondras - Vitor - Costa - Rat -- Kace --- Tziolis --- Noboa -- -- Pereyra -- Klaus -- Mak -- In my opinion it will be a defensive affair. We will need to contain Napoleoni and be careful with set pieces. If we have any thought of winning this game, the offense needs to pick things up. I predict a 1:0 win with a Klaus goal.

We always have a tough time with Atromitos.

vs MATCHUP: Atromitos Athens - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague ? Playoffs ? Round 1 DATE: 20-May-2015 TIME: 20:30 GR (17:30 GMT, 12:30 CDT, 03:30 AEST next day) CITY / STADIUM: Peristeri - Dimotiko Stadium (Capacity: 9,035) REFEREES: Andreas Pappas (Athens) - Christos Akrivos (Athens), Michail Karsiotis (Corinth) TELEVISION: Nova Sports (Greece), Sport Plus (USA/Canada) Atromitos vs. P.A.O.K. history Superleague 2013-2014: 4:0 - Attendance: 1,640 2013-2014: 1:2 (Salpiggidis, Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 2,315 (playoffs) 2013-2014: 1:1 (Tzavellas) - Attendance: 2,894 2012-2013: 2:1 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 2,292 (playoffs) 2012-2013: 1:0 - Attendance: 3,910 2011-2012: 1:1 (Salpiggidis) - Attendance: 2,651 (playoffs) 2011-2012: 0:0 - Attendance: 3,274 2010-2011: 2:2 (Lino, El Zhar) - Attendance: no fans 2009-2010: 0:0 - Attendance: 4,020 2008-2009: Atromitos played in lower divisions 2007-2008: 0:0 - Attendance: 2,770 2006-2007: 2:1 (Christodoulopoulos) - Attendance: 1,638 2005-2006: 2:1 (Salpiggidis-p) - Attendance: 2,400 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 1980-1981: 0:2 (Triantafyllidis, Dimopoulos) - Attendance: ?? Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1976-1977: 1:6 (Koudas 2, Sarafis 2, Anastasiadis, Kermanidis) - Attendance: ?? (Game played at Leoforos Alexandras) 1975-1976: 0:1 (Apostolidis) - Attendance: ?? 1974-1975: 0:1 (Aslanidis) - Attendance: ?? 1972-1973: 0:2 (Sarafis, Apostolidis) - Attendance: ?? Panhellenic Championship GAMES: 17 WINS: 5 TIES: 6 LOSSES: 6

PAS owner said today Chavez is not going anywhere, since he still has 1 year left. And since they can't get players on transfer, they will keep him for now. Could be a trick to start a bidding war for the player.

The 3-year rule does not apply to Superleague/Football League. It appears that AE Pontion Iraklis has not paid off some of his past players. That's probably why they did not get the license. They can appeal, and I expect them to get the license after the appeal.

Vellidis signed a new deal with Giannina so he is out, but it looks like Chavez is talking with PAOK. Apparently we are also interested in Dimitris Chatziisaias (Defense) and Olivier Boumale (offense) from Panionios according to rumors. As for TD, he is going to be from Spain and will be announced soon. The plans are for him to be with the team at the first playoff game next week.

Michalis Leontiadis. He played in early 90's. Character wise he was the Pablo Garcia of that time.