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Fixed match in Greece Sun 7 May, Olympiakos - Panathinaikos, away win 2.05 maybe more in the exchanges. Discussion Evangelos Marinakis owner of Olympiakos Piraeus and Nottingham Forest wants to gift the league to Panathinaikos. Panathinaikos are old rivals but Marinakis's no 1 enemy in the world is the president of the yellows (AEK Athens) Dimitrios Melissanidis. Also the match will take place with the gates closed - no spectators. Pawn the jewels.

Not all great players become good managers. The Greek legend of legends Maropoulos was a very bad manager and the fans were throwing pieces of wood into the pitch, back in the years.

Chased out of hospital ! I went to the doctor last week for a yearly check up. He says ok, we must make a scan as well to be on the safe side. So he gives me a paper saying "body scan" in lieu of perscription and another paper - hospital form for the scanners and he says "you go there, the appointment is fixed". I go Tuesday morning to the hospital. A nurse gives me a bottle of water and goes back into the scanners room. I was expecting her to come back with the stuff I had to drink and the needles she had to put in my arm. But instead of that an odd looking woman from the administration appears and she says "give me those two papers of yours". I give them thinking it's part of the procedure and she starts yelling "now you will go to prison !", "I 'm going to call a platoon (!) of policemen". I say to her "what's the matter ?", she keeps on shouting and I say to her "you are crazy" and then the doctor comes out and he says to me "please leave the area". So I left. Later on it transpired that the perscription "body scan" had to be signed by a hospital doctor rather than an outside doctor. Ok, hospital rule, accepted, but could n't see say this simple thing instead of the ... platoon off policemen. Could we not obtain the signature of one of the establishment's doctors ? Also I 've been three times before to the same place in the same hospital and probably they have me in the computer. Have you ever seen patients being treated like that ? The family doctor holds me by his teeth not to go to the ministry complaints service to report. That woman was a Syriza demonstrator, obvious from a distance of several miles.

No I 'm not downplaying. But the premier is more difficult than Europe. Europe is seemingly more difficult because it's a cup competition and you cannot afford to lose a tie. In Europe I recognize only Real-Barca-Bayern-PSG. Also Atletico but not their team of the last two years. In Europe we may also face other English clubs (and Arsenal of 2019 were poor really) but from the other nations I recognize only the above four as difficult opponents (well, not now of course - we would probably go out to Krasnodarsk or Tatabanya now).

True. Also I believe our European successes in those 6 years is somewhat overblown. Because there is really nothing out there in the continent if you take away 4-5 big clubs. Then we won the CL with only two good performances really, against Real Madrid and City - masked the underlying problems.

Anti-prohibition festival 2023 6 May 2023 - Athens The new Syriza campaign song:

Despite his ballon d' or (well deserved) never could. Only a few times and also a rare moment of brilliance with the goal he scored against United a few seasons back. Generally he has no attacking qualities.

Kante was tried as a playmaker again - inevitable.

Nobody has ever frustrated me more than Sterling. Mudryk and Madueke are useful.

Kovacic lost himself in the park and Arsenal scored their first. But really nobody expected anything better. Madueke was a positive.

FFP after squandering money indeed !

Why is everyone against Neymar coming to Chelsea ? Nonsense. He will be our best player.

Gallagher and Sterling are in my opinion uncle George types when it comes to penetrating a block of defenders - can't do it. Kante scored a goal against United I think it was once upon a time. He is one of the topmost defending midfielders ever but no use in attack - he makes mistakes the moment he tries.

Another thing that perplexes me is this: Let's accept as a fact that we 're no longer capable of taking on Real Madrid-City-Bayern, possibly PSG and some others. Because those have found the cream of the planet and we did n't and it's difficult to match them. But Fulham, Brighton and Brentford ???

Wiith Torres, Morata we were doing well. Remember 6-0 against Arsenal inside 20 minutes ? Things got progressively bad, then desperate after Hazard left and also after Willian, Giroud left.

Both statements are true. If we had Diego of 2017 now and the rest as they are, things would be better. But the absence of mobility is the bigger problem and with a free flowing team, I d' settle for Ba or Remy.

Those players we have are all sticks of wood dressed in football shirts. They cannot move the ball into the opponent's area and if you cannot move the ball into the opponent's area then with or without a proper striker you won't score a goal. The only exception yesterday was Kante who was given an attacking role. You could see how he differed from the others and he also had a good effort at goal. Unfortunately he is awful at passing the ball (always so) and could be of no more help. The rest are sticks of wood.

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The matches that follow are Arse, Bournemouth, Forest, City, Mc Guire, Newcastle. Only Forest, Newcastle at home. For the projected number of points I 'm finding it difficult to say other than zero. However we don't relegate. Of the five strugglers the nearest one is 9 points behind. Three of them will have to become giants in order for us to drop. But there is always next season. Next season's Southampton-Norwich will be Chelsea as things stand.

Although the predicament is such as it is, I am furious with Greek soccer sites who insist upon writing our name as Τσέλσι with an ι. The correct spelling is Τσέλση of course. This is vazivouzoukism at its worst.

He ought to. Unless the squad is to be changed by 100%.

This is a relegation side. You can't ask for more. But the players of relegation sides cost 3000 quid at most.

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New TT disaster, 1-3 to Mainz.

Postecoglou is Greek. Good wines.