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For sure, lots of positives to be taken out of this. First time PAOK has even won matches in CL play in their history.

Best of luck to PAOK in the Europa League... hoping they can get out of the group

Is what PAOK accomplished in beating Basel and Spartak worthy of praise? Yes. Does the team deserve ridicule for their performance today? Yes.

Arguably the biggest game in PAOK's history and the team shits the bed at home vs a team that got smoked in the Champion's League last year. Doesn't matter how they got here, this is an embarrassment for Greek football.

PAOK is just not good enough. What's the long term goal here for European football... invest in academies, buy better players, what?

Very shambolic defending from PAOK today.

Hoping for a top 5 finish this season for the Bulldogs

Yes, subbed out at half time though

3-1... called it haha. Olympiakos should have scored one more to put the tie in the bag. Anything can happen in England.

I'm predicting a 3-1 tomorrow for Oly... too optimistic?

A PAOK game in Toumba, televised on a well known US TV station. Say it ain't so. I hope they have another large banner about Makedonia to provide the neutral watchers with a bit of a history lesson lol.

Tense match. Warda is fantastic. Toumba is gonna be nuts next week.

I can't believe I'm watchin PAOK on TNT. Pame dikefale!!

How do you fancy their chances vs Burnley or Basakshehir?

Lazaros is an absolute beast

My predicted standings for this season are: 1. PAOK: most talented squad, great fan support, it's their year. 2. Olympiakos: re-tooled the team significantly this year, expect them to show out 3. AEK: their revival has been fantastic over these past few years, but their personnel losses have been too many, imo. 4. Asteras Tripolis: solid squad 5. Aris: probably more-so wishful thinking on my part, but I think they will make a splash and have been doing well this preseason. Relegated teams: 15. Lamia 16. Apollon Smyrni

Etsi bravo! Let's hope they can pack the house next week.

Very unfortunate. There needs to be better representation of teams in Makedonia besides PAOK and Aris

Great results so far. Realistically, what's your expectation for Aris this year? Is a Euro qualification spot possible

What's going on with Kastoria? Anyone think they'll ever make it back to the Protathlima? Lol

Bravo PAOKara... would be wonderful to see two Greek teams in the champions league group stage this year. What do y'all reckon the odds will be?

What type of players are involved in that tourney? Is it mostly just youth players from professional clubs?

Does Aris have any players that are current or future NT material?

Today there was a high school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. At least 8 dead, possibly more. Perpetrator was 17 year old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a student at the school. There are Facebook photos of his circling around the internet which show a jacket he owned with communist sickle, german cross, and Cthulu pins. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I sure know it isn't "thoughts and prayers"

Well, on the one hand it's important to not get caught up in the accomplishments of those who lived 2000 years in the past, but this is all just a fun exercise anyway and gives us a better glimpse into the who the pre-historic and ancient Greeks were as a people and a culture. It's more of an academic fascination for me than anything I suppose and not something born out of genetic supremacy. That being said, I wonder how much guess work goes into these and how similar things would turn out if you gave the same skull to 5 different dxperts for a reconstruction. I know for some things like the skin tone, they approximate; who remembers that bust of King Tut's mom a few months back and some people were crying over "white washing?" I believe that, that in that, they had based the skin pigment off of what the average Egyptian woman looks like in the 21st century. Other things, like the nose and ears, are made out of cartilage.. so how would they be able to faithfully recreate that? I haven't read into this stuff so I'm a bit in the dark on it.