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Larissa Wants to Sue Football Association of Wales for Stealing Coleman

Club Larissa has announced its intention to take legal action against the Football Association of Wales over the appointment of Chris Coleman as Wales manager. Coleman was unveiled as the successor to his former Wales team-mate Gary Speed at a...

Ashton Kutcher is (crazy) Partying in Athens

It doesn’t look like his split from wife Demi Moore is getting Ashton Kutcher down. TheTwo and a Half Men star  has been partying like crazy  for the past week in Athens  with actress Lorene Scafaria .  Ashton and Lorene went to one of Athen's...

Fakelaki, Rousfeti and the 4-4-2 System

While the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos appears to be shocked with Mr Diomidis Spinellis' declaration that Greek tax officers, play the 4-4-2  football system  a.k.a tax evader  gets a  discount of 40 per cent on the agreed fine-...

Lucky Draw for Greece in Euro 2012

The Greek national soccer team got a strong deja-vu feeling on Friday upon seeing the draw for the Euro 2012 finals pitting them against co-hosts Poland, Russia and the Czech Republic. The undoubtedly favourable draw in Kiev for the European...

The Other Side of Athens

To most who arrive in Athens, the city resembles something between a complex of industrial factories, and the dodgy areas of Detroit. Smokestacks shooting out dark clouds pepper the skyline, above the endless maze of concrete and cement. It...

ΕRT Outrages With Champions League Broadcasting Offer

Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation’s (ERT) proposal of purchasing the coverage of UEFA Champions League for the period 2012-2015 over 18 or 24 million Euros has outraged political representatives of the Greek Parliament with Nea Dimokratia seeking justice to the Supreme...

Makis Psomiadis Temporarily Released From Prison

Makis Psomiadis, owner of Kavala FC, has been temporarily released from prison after having been accused of setting up a soccer match-fixing network. There is an on-going dispute between the investigator and the prosecutor concerning the criminal treatment of...

Soccer Club Owner in Match-Fixing Scheme Gets Off Again

ATHENS – A businessman and soccer club owner who had been on the run for two months after being charged with fixing games before being apprehended will be let go after a judge declared there was not enough evidence...

Big Mac Phenomenon in Relation to Greece’s Tragedy

Soccer club owner Makis Psomiadis – one of Greece’s most wanted men- was arrested after the anti-terrorist squad raided a luxurious villa in south Attica rented by Psomiadi’s friend, a thirty-eight year old former beauty Queen and model. For...