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The stream has started. Two hours late.

Allready an hour and a half late. Only in Greece.

Yes indeed.

He'll be there in spirit ...

At the same time organized fans are holding their own celebration at Lefko Pyrgo. Meanwhile, some of the notable attendees at the official celebration: Ivan Savvidis Most of the current soccer team players and coaches Most of the current basketball team players and coaches Most of the current volleyball team players and coaches Aggelos Anastasiadis Zlatan Muslimovic Tzak Aggelidis Frank Arnesen Georgios Koudas Bladen Fortula Christos Terzanidis Stavros Sarafis Pablo Garcia Theodoros Zagorakis and his wife Lily Zisis Vryzas Lino Yannis Boutaris

Good. i expect him to say something concerning the matter during the celebration today.

It's live on the PAE PAOK official youtube channel. As usual things are always late in Greece. Right now there are interviews with various people, including Muslimovic, who grew some hair.

Gus Poyet was just fired by AEK. Considering that Pablo Garcia tried to bring him to PAOK before he went to AEK, I wonder if he might be considered for the position.

I read somewhere that they already had first contacts to make ERT World available in Canada. I think it was on the SDTV website. The European feed is now uploaded on Eutelsat Hotbird 13D. The video feed currently only displays an ERT World logo, but four radio stations are operating normally: Proto, Devtero, ERA Spor and Voice of Greece. The Trito radio station is also expected to be included in the lineup. Not sure if the radio stations are going to be available for the non-European feeds, but Dish used to carry ERA Spor and Voice of Greece in the past.

Later in 2016. Most likely in August. Possible clubs are big teams we faced in European competitions in the past (Bayern, Arsenal, Benfica, AC Milan, etc.). At least those are Ivan's plans. They will have to agree to play us first though, before anybody else knows.

Final series in volleyball started today. PAOK easily defeated Foinikas Syrrou 3:0 in first game. The series now shifts to Thessaloniki for the second game on Friday.

The 90th birthday will be celebrated by PAOK at the Mousiko Megaro in Thessaloniki tomorrow. It will be televised live on Nova Sport 2 and on the PAE PAOK Youtube channel. scheduled to start at 20:30 Greek Time. Additional events are planned for later, including a friendly between PAOK and a big European club, as well as an international friendly by the PAOK baskeaball team.

All the possible scenarios are posted above.

FINAL STANDING (pending various appeals) 2. PAO 55 3. AEK 54 4. PAOK - 45 5. Panionios - 44 6. PAS Giannina 42 If the playoff started today, and the current fines remain (Panionios no license, AEK -3 points) 1. PAO 3 2. AEK 2 3. PAOK 1 4. PAS 0 If Panionios gets a license and AEK does not get the 3 points back: 1. PAO 2 2. AEK 2 3. PAOK 0 4. Panionios 0 If AEK gets 3 points back and Panionios does not get a license: 1. PAO 3 2. AEK 3 3. PAOK 1 4. PAS 0 If AEK gets 3 points back and Panionios gets a license: 1. AEK 3 2. PAO 2 3. PAOK 0 4. PAS 0 In any case, it will be beneficial for us if Panionios does not get a license.

I would not count on Panionios getting the license. These days they are taking closer look at what data the team supplies. My prediction is that Giannina will take part in the playoffs.

Makedonia TV is owned by the Antenna group, and the Antenna international channel carried some of their programming in the past, so technically they are part of an intenational channel. Four privately owned national channels are adequate for the size of the country. Financially they can't make it. Even the current big ones are in deep financial trouble. They only reason they survived in the past was because the various governments (PASOK, ND) were looking the other way. On paper most of these broadcasters were operating illegally, since they never paid their licensing fees.

PAOK24 web site has a poll about PAOK taking part in the return game with Olympiakos: http://www.paok24.com/podosfairo/podosfairo/67810/na-katevei-i-oxi-o-paok-esy-apofasizeis The current results are: 50% - Don't send a team to play the game 33% - Send a youth team 17% - Send the normal senior squad

Official dates have bee released by EPO for the cup: 20-Apr: AEK - Atromitos 26-Apr: Atromitos - AEK 27-Apr: Olympiakos - PAOK 07-May: Final Semifinal games will be played without fans. Final will be played with only students in the stands.

Skondras was injured in practice today, so he is probably out. With Vitor and Leovac also not able to play we have a defensive problem all of a sudden. Not sure what Ivic has in mind, but he does not have many options: ----------------------- Vellidis --------------------- Kitsiou - Chatziisaias - Malezas - Tzavellas ----------- Kace ------------- Tziolis ------------ Rodrigues --------- Pelkas ------- Korovesis ------------------------ Mak ---------------------- or ---------------------- Glykos --------------------- Kitsiou - Malezas - Tzavellas - Korovesis -- Kace --- Tziolis --- Cimirot --- Antonis -- ------- Rodrigues ----------- Mak -------------

There are several issues that need to be resolved first: - will Panionios get a license - will AEK and Atromitos get the 3 points back - who will get 6th place (if Panionios does not get a license) - and finally what the results of last round will be. In a normal situation the first three issues would have been decided before the last round of games is played.

pash I had to google the word incorrigible

We got something out of the appeal process today. EPO gave us back 2 points for cup game punishments. The other parts of the punishments remain unchanged. The results of the other appeal (for cup games against Kalloni and Panionios) were not announced yet.

The game all of a sudden became almost meaningless for PAOK, but it means a lot for Platanias that is chasing the 6th place. I think it might be a good thing to play subs, so we can avoid injuries and possible cards.

I am sure we can come up with some creative solution. That's why the injury option might be better.

We won back 2 points through the appeal process. This means we have secured a spot in the playoffs, and the Platanias game is meaningless . STANDINGS AFTER ROUND 29 4. Panionios - 44 (assuming Panonios gets a license) 5. PAOK - 44 ----------------------- 6. PAS Giannina 39 7. Platanias 38 8. Tripoli 38 9. Atromitos 36 (assuming -3 point deduction remains) ROUND 30 Xanthi - PAS Giannina Platanias - PAOK Panionios - Atromitos Tripoli - Veroia If the playoff started today, the initial standings would be: 1. AEK 2 (assuming AEK -3 point deductions remains) 2. PAO 2 3. Panionios 0 (assuming Panonios gets a license) 4. PAOK 0