Panathinaikos 1-4 Chelsea

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PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS

 

Thursday 24th October 2024
 Europa Conference
Athens Olympic Stadium
 5:45 PM UK

[NikkiCFC 7,953]

@cosmicway go to this one with Chelsea kit among Panathinaikos fans...

[cosmicway 1,323]

1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

@cosmicway go to this one with Chelsea kit among Panathinaikos fans...

panathinaikos hooligan:

[cosmicway 1,323]

A match in which I was seated next to their hooligans gate and then made lewd gestures at them and they did n't dare do anything:
 

 

[Fulham Broadway 16,854]

Gate 13 hoolies are primarily left wing, or 'commies' as someone describes

- ''With us Panathanaikos Ultras, Rapid and Curva Sud (Roma) we are in a brotherhood. We have traveled together and we stand in continuous communication. The important thing  is that both ultras Rapid and Roma promoting antifascist ideas unlike Austria Wien fans and Lazio SS neonazis.''

[cosmicway 1,323]

9 hours ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Gate 13 hoolies are primarily left wing, or 'commies' as someone describes

- ''With us Panathanaikos Ultras, Rapid and Curva Sud (Roma) we are in a brotherhood. We have traveled together and we stand in continuous communication. The important thing  is that both ultras Rapid and Roma promoting antifascist ideas unlike Austria Wien fans and Lazio SS neonazis.''

You are daydreaming.
In the history of Panathinaikos were some political animals of importance:

Messaris - Destounis left
Kamaras - centrist
Linoxylakis - Antoniadis con-lib

but they are the team of the juntist right.

Their all time superstar Domazos ?
Married on the 1st of May 1967 to legend pop singer Vicky Moscholiou.
9 days after the dictatorship was declared (n.b. 21 April 1967). Best man was Ioannis Ladas a junta colonel, tha hard liner.
9 days after the junta gets to know the colonels whom we did n't know before and also become friends !

The team has acquired the name "bird team" after the symbol of the dictatorship, the phoenix reborn from his ashes.



Tha fans are likewise notorious bird lovers - everyone knows.

When I went to the army I did n't want anyone to imagine I was a commie, as the second bureau does n't like these things. 
So in basic training I declared myself a supporter of Panathinaikos.
It was the month of April so one asks me what matches of Panathinaikos you watched this year ?
I had watched only two matches - I was in England and returned to be called up.
I had watched AEK Athens v. Herakles Salonika and Ethnikos Piraeus v. AEK.
On the day of Ethnikos v. AEK, Panathinaikos was playing at home against Doxa Drama so I said to the other guy "I was against Doxa Drama".
He says "in the torrential rain ? geroff", I say "yeah, in the rain, with an umbrella".
He says ok, a few days later he returned and says "ok, I got it, you don't like the commies but you are b***dy AEK Athens".
How he worked it out ? I did n't even talk to anyone else.
Later his mum met with my mum and they talked, but that was later.
As fortunes change I met this guy ten years after the army. He greeted me but he was very shy. I learned he had become Pasok ...

Panathinaikos are also known for the Wembley scandal of 1971..
First they meet Everton.
At Goodison park they draw 1-1.
In the replay another draw 0-0 but go through on away goals.
The referee of the replay match was a Frenchman called Elie, who favoured Panathinaikos although he did n't have the occasion to really slaughter Everton.
Ten days after the match we see a picture of him in the Athens racecourse and a mini interview.
He says "I like the races, you have such a nice racecourse so I decided to stay a bit more" ...
You get it ...

Incidentally in 1995 there was another such thing, involving a Paraguayan member of the international Olympics committee, voting at the time for the
venue of Olympics 2004. This time I was frequenting the racecourse. As I was in the front lawn looking at the daisies, a cop I knew approaches me and 
he says "are you fast asleep ? the Paraguayan is here - inside they are tearing the walls !".
What that meant ? To pay the Paraguayan they did not arrange for some super outsiders to win but for the ultra favourites of the press, race after race !
So that's why the others got air and were "tearing the walls".
Small to tiny prices but as the Paraguayan man placed big stakes it was big money for him.
So I took some advantage myself.

Anyway back in 1971 there follows the notorious semi against Red Star Belgrade about which our friend NikkiCFC maybe can tell us more.

These days however I 'm involved in a campaign to convince Panathinaikos supporters to sue Olympiakos Piraeus supporters for a slander they 
are guilty of.
They suggest in the year 1942 Panathinaikos played a friendly against the German SS, occupying Greece.
This is a lie.
I went to the parliament's library and looked into the body of the occupation press.
I looked for match report but also for announcement - lest the Germans lost and then censored the report.
Nothing - that one is a lie.
But the greens don't listen and are dragging their feet.

Edited October 22 by cosmicway

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[cosmicway 1,323]

I don't fancy the present Panathinaikos team.
But they eliminated Ajax.
Traditionally they are a hard kicking team and they like sending some opponents to hospital.
AEK - Olympiakos don't do that.

[Fulham Broadway 16,854]

On 22/10/2024 at 06:19, cosmicway said:

You are daydreaming.

No, just quoting the Panathanaikos fans

[Fulham Broadway 16,854]

Jorgensen; Veiga, Disasi, Badiashile, Cucurella; Fernandez, Dewsbury-Hall; Neto, Felix, Mudryk; Nkunku 

Probably...possibly

[cosmicway 1,323]

16 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

No, just quoting the Panathanaikos fans

No club I know of is affiliated to any political party.
Supporters are all kinds of things.
But we are talking about the ultras.
Show me something from Panathinaikos fanbase that looks remotely left.
They are birdies.

Edited October 24 by cosmicway

[Special Juan 27,429]

Be an unreal atmosphere this one- Good thing is we will see Nkunku, Neto and Felix start and I expect Enzo to start Mudryk too

 

[cosmicway 1,323]

I forgot Liana Kanellis.
Deputy secratary of the communist party.
Diehard Panathinaikos.



She is strange.
She is lesbian but also devout Christian.
Started life as the secretary of Panathinaikos - in their den, Armatolon and Klefton street.
Then she decided the communist party was for her.

[Fulham Broadway 16,854]

4 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

I forgot Liana Kanellis.
Deputy secratary of the communist party.
Diehard Panathinaikos.



She is strange.
She is lesbian but also devout Christian.
Started life as the secretary of Panathinaikos - in their den, Armatolon and Klefton street.
Then she decided the communist party was for her.

Was she the one that fingered you ?

[Fulham Broadway 16,854]

Not a bad team the bubbles, but we should have enough to beat them

[cosmicway 1,323]

Despoina