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Preview: AEK Athens vs Panathinaikos 24 Oct 2010 | 08:24 pm
Preview can also be found here on the AEK Athens blog. What is it? An Athenian derby Who should care? Olympiakos fans wanting to figure out who’s NOT going to challenge for the title, Djibril Cisse ...
Barcelona 5-1 Panathinaikos: Hardly Herculean as Lionel Messi writes Greek Tragedy 15 Sep 2010 | 05:44 pm
If Barcelona keep on facing sub-par Greek teams in Europe over the next few years then Lionel Messi might just surpass Euripides as one of the great Greek tragedians based on his latest performance. ...
Preview: Barcelona vs Panathinaikos – With a tinge of Inter Milan and a Herculean effort? 15 Sep 2010 | 04:45 am
In truth, I’m resisting the temptation here to fill this rather hastily assembled preview with a whole heap of clever plays on words and football cliches, par example: Panathinaikos’ men will each hav...
Dealing with the (Red) Devil(s) 28 Jun 2010 | 07:55 pm
According to reports from Italy, the notoriously trustworthy AS Roma magazine, FORZA Roma, Manchester United are tabling a 12 million euro bid for Panathinaikos’ Sotiris Ninis. Now, normally I’m all f...
FREE PAPA PAOK! 8 Jun 2010 | 02:51 pm
Throughout the course of human history there have been countless rallies and revolutions that have shifted the direction of the human race but none can surely compare with the latest to spring from th...
Is The Real World Finally Catching Up On Greek Football? 25 May 2010 | 02:10 am
The Greek super League and its accompanying Greek Cup have well and truly finished, with the focus of football fans now turning toward the country’s second ever appearance at a World Cup in South Afri...
Greek Super League Play-Offs Set To Get Under Way 21 Apr 2010 | 07:36 pm
The official draw has been released for the Greek Super League Play-Offs, a system not uncommon around the continent for deciding European spots but one which this writer finds particularly lethargic ...
Panathinaikos Clinch Greek Super League Title For First Time In Six Years 14 Apr 2010 | 03:20 am
Unsurprising as it is that my fellow Offside blogger Peter Katsiris (an unashamed Trifylli hater/Olympiacos fan) has been unable to whip up a piece on Panathinaikos winning their first league title an...
The A(me)RI(ca)S Files: The Introduction 13 Jan 2010 | 06:55 pm
While Barack Obama’s administration leads the way in the fight against terrorism after a bomb plot scare left the country’s security unreliability exposed this past Christmas, another American Team ai...
Reality Check 18 Sep 2009 | 08:02 pm
When an out-of-sorts Olympiakos for the first time ever opened their UEFA Champions League campaign proper with a home win against Dutch champions AZ Alkmaar, one might have been excused for momentari...
