AEK vs PAOK

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Greek Cup Final



AEK vs PAOK

Date - Saturday, 11th May 2019

Venue - Unknown

Competition - Greek Cup

Round - Final

Time - 19:30 (Greece time)

[Amorgos]

Venue looks to be OAKA so VAR can be used. Vasiliadis will not allow fans but that will be confirmed on Monday Greek time... very sad to see a final in an empty 70k stadium

[Don Giovanni]

A game of this magnitude ought to have fans in attendance. It would be a new low point if this game is played behind closed doors or if ugly scenes were to mar the game.

At the end of the day, the Greek government should stay out of it for the most part. This comes down to the owners and league chairmen.

Melissanidis and Savvidis, more than anyone, have to come out together in the same press conference and demand respect from their fans towards their rivals. That's the first step to getting this right.

These guys need to clean this up and realize they are in this together. They need to do what's right moving forward, leaving past differences, no matter how bad, aside.

Otherwise FIFA and UEFA will cut Greece out until it does happen, which could be a long time. And then it won't be cup finals played behind closed doors anymore to think about, it will be the microscope with the whole of Europe suddenly taking note. Greece will suffer, not just in footballing terms.

[Amorgos]

Meli and Savvidis should def do that! At the end of the day though it’s that Minister of Sports Vasiliadis that makes all the calls and he’s proving to be a real knob

[Reaper]

Mel and Savvidis have been instrumental in backing the Syriza minister from day 1. No way they will have a joint press conference to argue the case of having fans.

The saddest thing, if the ottomans still ran Hellas - I suspect they would have made a safe cup final with fans possible.. The chart of brain power goes like this:

Greek patriots
Normal Greeks
Turks
Leftist Greeks
Communist Greeks/ Nazi Greeks

[Original Sydney]

The police aren’t bothered for the final and the govt doesn’t care about football right now with elections on the radar, so football suffers.

Last years final with 17k fans each was fine, there weren’t riots like in Volos, it was actually ok fan wise.

I honestly don’t see why they don’t do the European concept which is one set of fans must be inside the ground 2 hours before kickoff and then stay back an hour or 2 after the game, this is done in many European countries don’t see why we can’t do the same. This would give police more control.

If they have this final with no fans then it’s a disgrace.

We are 5 days out from the final and nobody knows what’s happening, once again only in Greece does this shit happen.

[Reaper]

Commies seem to be intent on banning all fans. Like with the reduction in teams - Syriza is intent on putting its stamp on the super league the way it did with North Macedonia. This is their country now. We have to play by their rules - even if govt interference is banned by FIFA - Syriza know showing Greeks who is boss will translate to votes as many Greeks vote for their abusers on reflex as they associate aggressive stupidity with strength. The more the league is associated with Syriza, the more Greeks will think - well, you don't fuck with them.

[Original Sydney]

They may act like it’s their country but everyone of them is currently shit scared to make an appearance in northern Greece as they know what will happen if they show their faces there.

Dont be surprised if these c*nts win the next election also as they’re massive puppets to Germany.

[Original Sydney]

No fans confirmed

http://www.sport-fm.gr/article/podos...pellou/3980567

[Amorgos]

Utter disgrace that this has happened... this is not football. I hate Vasiliadis so much.

We had planned to have friends get together to watch this but to watch an empty stadium??

Years and years of hooligans ruining it for all yet Greece does nothing to fix it. How did we manage to get last years game going with and now, with no incidents we’re having to see no fans “just in case”

Amazing how the lows never seem to finish in Greece

[Damianos]

Disgrace. For those of you have forgotten there were flares and some where thrown on the pitch last year. Hooligans all over Greece would be celebrating this hard

[Original Sydney]

This isn’t about the fans or hooliganism. This is about an incompetent govt who are more concerned about the upcoming elections.

Last years final went ahead and no major dramas occurred. Sure there were flares but I’d that is the biggest wrong there was that day then I’d say the final was massive success when you compare it to Volos.

Embarrassing for Greek football.

[Greekfreak]

This is not embarassing, it's strictly pro forma for the SL and has been for years.

I just don't understand the third-world mentality of the clubs not at the very least, paying for real security at home matches to make sure you root out the assholes who ruin it for everybody else. Flares still being allowed on the grounds in 2019? Come on.

Improve the security, more people come. More people in the stadium that behave themselves, the stadiums look fuller and more exciting (read: appealing) to the neutrals and more conservative fans of the game. It looks better on tv and you get more gate revenue. You sell more swag, more food, more drinks, etc. It's win-win-win but Greece will always insist on losing.

Pathetic. It's one of the reasons I haven't really followed the league this season.

All that aside, kudos to PAOK who help to make it the first time in a long time that Oly was kept off the top in consecutive seasons.

[Reaper]

Should have played it abroad in a nation with basic law and order. Maybe even in Konstantinople considering both teams are from there.

Could have done the oaka with 20k fans each a length apart.

Could have invited over 20k school kids but then again the schools are heavily unionised and last time the teachers refused.

Just a broken nation.

[Original Sydney]

Reaper as you said earlier, it’s their rules and their decisions. They do what they want.

The only people that will be inside the stadium are those who’ve been given an invitation. Originally numbers were 1500 but there was a worry invites might get into the wrong hands. So now it’s been dropped to 250-300 people,this is bullshit, we saw in 2016 when we played Oly how terrible it was playing a final with 300 people inside.