Blackhawk Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Citing various issues concerning how EPO operated, FIFA has decided to assign an interim committee to run day to day issues at EPO. This interim committee will supposedly be in place until elections for a new EPO president are held. It should be noted elections were to be held on October 26, 2016, but were cancelled after legal actions by Viktoras Mitropoulos. Here is the announcement by FIFA: http://www.epo.gr/media/files/FIFA_UEFA/FIFA_LETTER_HFF_NORMALISATION_COMMITTEE_20161014.pdf In my opinion this action is too little, too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananas Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 (edited) @Blackhawk isn't it better than nothing ? Then again, I suppose it all depends what comes of it. Edited October 15, 2016 by Bananas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pash Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 That second paragraph...so dry, yet so astounding that an FA could be this inept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athinaios Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 On 10/14/2016 at 2:26 PM, Blackhawk said: Citing various issues concerning how EPO operated, FIFA has decided to assign an interim committee to run day to day issues at EPO. This is an example how Greeks, since the Revolution, couldn't manage their own affairs and had foreign bodies tell them how to do it or Greeks brought them in to be in charge of Greek affairs. This is when conspiracies fall short, you know, that everybody hates Greece and can't let this country be what it can be, etc.... Two sections of society, sports, and education where Greeks have been 100% in charge show which is true... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhawk Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 On 10/14/2016 at 7:13 PM, Amorgos said: Wow that's pretty big and good! Do you know much about Mitropoulos and why he took legal actions? Viktoras Mitrepoulos used to be the President of EPAE, the organization running 2nd Division (these days Football League). Before that he was the president of Aigaleo and Karditsa. These days he is behind the Imerisia newspaper. He is also the brother of Thomas Mitropoulos who was president of Aigaleo in 2002 during the game fixing scandal. That's when Thomas Mitropoulos was heard on tape saying: "F*** everybody else as long as Olympiakos and Aigaleo win", when he tried to influence referee assignments. Viktoras tried couple times to become the EPO president, but failed against Gagatsis amd Pilavios. I think with this legal action he is trying to somehow once again get involved with EPO. I am almost certain that his move was also backed by the faction supported by Olympiakos and was certain to lose the EPO elections that were going to be held on October 26. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Sydney Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Wonder what legal action he took to have a whole election to be cancelled. Seems the ones who don't want change are trying anything they can as they can obviously see they wont have the person they want there in the elections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhawk Posted November 9, 2016 Author Share Posted November 9, 2016 Early today morning "unknown" arsonists set fire to the house of EPO's Head of referees, Georgios Bikas. Nobody was inside the home at the time of fire. As a result, the FIFA Inetrim EPO committee canceled all national competiions (Superleague, Football League, Division 3) until further notice. I said it before. Only complete expulsion of Greece from FIFA and UEFA competitions will force Greek officials to fix Greek soccer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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