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Good performance. If only Costa could improve a little.

That thing happened to me. They robbed my house and I was asleep. Rest of the family was away to an expo. I heard noises and a thud but there were workers those days in the nearby appartment making many noises, so I turned around and continued to sleep. When I woke up I found everything in a mess and I phoned the expo in London and the family were notified from the public loudspeaker system and they were very scared, all the way back to Greece. Then sometime later I saw on tv a news flash "gang of burglars who used the characteristic trick of breaking the lock was arrested". So I go to the police and say "please check if those are the ones who broke into ours as well". They said they were going to and then a policeman came and said it was them. In the court it was revealed they were always carrying a heavy French key with them. So if I had woken up they were certainy going to get me with this.

The Americans are preposterous. First of all re. guns the element of surprise is the all important thing. Therefore 99% of the Americans will not be able to defend themselves with those hand guns of theirs. In NATO exercises I captured entire telecommunications party because the element of surprise was in my favour.

Meriam Webster on Bollix: : to make mistakes in doing (something) : to upset or ruin (something) Panagoulias Alketas (late): The manager who failed Olympiakos Piraeus in 1986 and also the Greek national team in 1994-USA (0-10 aggregate score). Lost position.

The Greek medical term is "Panagouliasis".

This team just can't find the net. Under normal circumstances we might have been 2 up or 3 up when they scored (was it offside ? I think the man who actually headed the ball was n't). I 'm aghast. Mourinho can't find a cure to even stabilize the situation in the bottom third of the table. Never seen anything like it. Re. defense I saw a "Gerrard slip" thing in the first half but the trouble is up front - Sahara desert.

No more free view if you live in a house across the road.

Klopp and Ranieri are doing well, with average players. I have n't seen the Spurs, neither yesterday. Gooners, City and Utd do not impress me. I like City's type of passing game though. But somewhere there is a fly in the ointment in that team.

The Byzantine empire should be recreated. We Greeks are really the christianized Romans. Greece or Hellas was a province. The emperors were calling the regions "themata", meaning "subjects". So there was a Hellenic thema, an Ionian thema and a Thracean thema. Strangely there was no Macedonian thema and the Thracean thema extended out to today's Albania - the Illyric thema. In the revolution of 1821 we had to stop at the borders of Thessaly, as further north the Turks maintained supremacy. In addition the Lord of Wellington did not want anymore revolution. So there could be no new Rome and the free country was named Greece. The blue and white flag was adopted in place of the yellow-black with the Byzantine two headed eagle. Previously a great setback for Greece was the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo. Napoleon's ancestors were Greek (Bonaparte derives from Kalomeris and in Latin becomes "Bonaparte"). As the great Emperor was not engaged in war with the Ottomans and his strategy was to defeat the English first, he was hiding the facts about his ancestry because the High Gate of Istanbul, the Sultan's palace, might not like it. But in France everybody more or less knew it. With Turkey now tottering in the brink of collapse, the empire should be recreated, thus ensuring the uninterrupted flow of oil from the middle East to Europe.

We lost 3-1 to lesser quantities. Re. the league it's a shame to see teams like Utd-Lei-Gooners-City ahead of us.

Leicester are small timers.

If all at 11 pts, take away the Maccabi results from all and it ends up as I say before. Chelsea4's table says if Kyiv win and Chelsea draws then it's Porto-Chelsea. Wrong. It is Kyiv-Chelsea.

Oly v. Arsenal is the talking point now and Arsenal are clearly ahead on goal dif. but they have to win by 2 the pundits say. So the criterion for two teams is H2H. There is no H2H with three teams. You make them into mini league. If after you end up with two teams on the level again then you go for the H2H between them.

If Kyiv beat MTA and CFC v. Porto is a draw then it is Kyiv - CFV - Porto. Chelsea4 has got it wrong. In this case the three team table becomes as follows: Kyiv = 5 points, goal dif. > 0 CFC = 5 points, goal dif. = 0 Porto = 5 points, goal dif. = -1

When there are two teams at the same points h2h counts - so I 'm told. In the world cup it was different. When there are three teams you have to make them into a mini league of three. With Porto v. CFC the h2h is not over so may be they put us in alphabetical order.

I watched until the 3-0 yesterday then switched to the thriller Lyon v. Gent. Now if we win against Porto we finish first. If we draw and Dynamo win against Maccabi then we qualify as seconds - Dynamo top the group. If we lose and Dynamo don't win then we are seconds again in the final standings - Porto first. If we lose we are out - unless Dynamo fail against Maccabi. Porto cannot afford to settle for the draw. We can, after a fashion, but Porto cannot. According to clubelo we are level pegging on points, CFC 1798, Porto 1792.

Cesc, Costa (3), Matic were the open goal chances plus the one that went in. So better in that department. Norwich were poor but they too had a very good chance to go ahead as well (and in the rebound we almost scored). The target is quite clearly to stay away from the relegation zone, until reinforcements arrive.

Trick goal but good one.

We are going to score ... by Good Friday.

Fanatical Islam is a strange cult. It does n't follow the usual socio-political patterns we know of. Consider a Greek person who goes to live in the UK. The typical such person is an Anglophile, probably celebrated it when 'pool won the champions league with the 3-3 draw against AC Milan. One who goes to France is Franco-phile, Italo-phile, Espania-phile and so on. The agents of international communism were always hard at work to ghetto-ize such persons and make them into bombists, aided and abetted in this by the local right wing extremists but the effect was minimal. With muslims it's different and the "allah-u-akbar" cult seems to be going places. It's not 100% the dominant cult but it is strong. This is why the Bin Laden followers are making such noise, whereas the corresponding Baader Meinhoff followers and similar are all but gone. If at least their base in Syria-Iraq could be destroyed.

We need to win this to stay out of trouble. Anything else is in the sphere of the club's finances now.

There are many conspiracy nutters, especially the communist left. They have a problem because IS don't like them, but they are hard at work to find some angle so they can do some terror sponsoring. The right wing extremists at the same time think it's time to stop those foreigners from traveling across the continent and put under strain the dentists waiting lists. It's funny if it was n't so tragic. It's also incredible how much people believe old wives tales. At the supermarket an old friend reports to me about another friend's ill health. In reply I said "tell him to go to the best doctors - those who rely on state system doctors are risking it". At hearing this a number female customers standing nearby exploded in unison "the gentleman is right - it's the airplanes - the spraying jets - conspiracy". So I ate my words (so imagine what rubbish the muslims hear in the middle East from their fanatics).

It's a civil war situation, but those who started it are from outside. The Greek civil war of 1946-49 has a few similarities and the Greek government of the time handled it in this way: First there were the military operations in the mountains, where the communists were eventually defeated. For internal security and to stop the flow of guerilla recruits from the towns to the mountains, they created concentration camps in desert islands (Makronisos and some others). Those who were taken there were the following types of individuals, starting from the labelled most dangerous to the less dangerous: - Communist guerillas of Jugoslav nationality captured in the mountains (Macedonian autonomists). - Greek communist guerillas captured in the mountains. - Known communists who were involved in the communist coup d' etat of 1944 but were not guerillas. - Other known communists. - Strong sympathizers detected by the police / military police. - Weak sympathizers detected. The last category were not prisoners. They were called in for so called "army duty" but they served it in the desert islands. After the end of the civil war in 1949 things became quiet and progressively they were all released, except those against whom criminal proceedings were due. It was a Greek Guantanamo no doubt, but so were the corresponding communist detention camps behind the iron curtain where people abducted were taken. The operations were effective. Because though the communist party eventually decided not to use violence anymore (in 1958), from 1950 to that time they could do nothing much really. The same has to happen now. If not then the governments of Europe are sleeping. The question seems to be should race, religion, ethnicity become criteria for suspicion - leading to arrest or expulsion, or not ? ISIS likes that. Also the various right wing extremists. Now is the time to have a go against my business rivals, the typical right wing extremist thinks. We 've seen that happening in Greece ad nauseam those years. President Truman in America made a speech against phoney anticommunism but the effect was minimal. At the same time race-religion-ethnicity are criteria. How many sympathizers of European decent does ISIS have ? Are there perhaps some RAF-ETA-Red brigade domestic terrorists allied with ISIS ? Even that seems unlikely. They are all Magrebians, Syrians, Iraqis and some others who have converted to Islam. i don't know how effective allied operations in the middle East will prove to be, but in view of the above, things are very critical and dangerous.

This worked against ISIS in the military sense but their logic is this: First to radicalize all the Muslims. If some Muslims in the middle East are pro-west or anti-west but of moderate stance, they will be silenced or else. It's an old method, from the days of Black September. Second to make Europe hate muslims and immigrants in general. This will again serve their strategic purpose of bringing about polarization. Third to encourage the old Chamberlain style pacifists and appeasers. I 'm not buying it and I 'd use maximum force. Hitler too was a propaganda master and he employed secret agents and spies who were able to infiltrate. But he failed in his efforts to divide the allies (Hitler was so crazy that when Roosevelt died in the days he was hiding in the bunker, he thought it was a miracle and he won the war). For me this one was just another U-2 bomb that was fired against the allies and the war continues. The other ones were Ankara-Pakistan-Kenya-Paris again.

That person ain't the board. Not in British type of management at any rate. The boards only give info relevant to the budget to the managers.