PAOKRANOIA
The behaviour of PAOK and some of its supporters, as well as from its various social media channels recently, has at the very least been perplexing.
As an avid follower of Greek Football for many years, I have always thought that Greek clubs have been slow to capitalise on this current “social media era”. PAOK to their credit, have been one of the few clubs to have “gotten it”, but the stuff coming out of the club in the last few weeks, has left a lot to be desired.
Publicly claiming conspiracies, vendettas from Athens and searching for other boogeymen to lay the blame for their astonishing collapse.
It’s all well and good for PAOK people to be upset, after all, it was their League Championship to lose and by all rights, it should be them celebrating their 3rd Greek League Title this weekend, instead we have all seen how the closing weeks of the season have played out for the club.
But where should the finger of blame be pointed at?
Whose fault is it that the club received points deductions and had matches abandoned?
Is there some sort of Anti-PAOK agenda being played out in front of the World?
Trawling through the various comments from PAOKtzides over the last few weeks you’d think there was a conspiracy. But in the cold light of day, they and the club have to ask themselves, who threw the receipt paper roll which hit Olympiakos coach Oscar Garcia in their aborted match at Toumba?
The antics of Garcia are frankly irrelevant in this whole debacle, in my opinion. Why would any supporter whose side is on the brink of history allow themselves to do something so stupid? It defies all logic.
Then we come to the match with AEK, also at Toumba. Which club President entered the field of play with his security detail in toe, going straight for the referee, with a gun in his holster? Regardless of what anyone thinks went on, on the field that day, this type of behaviour cannot be allowed to happen and cannot be defended.
Of course no one thinks that the PAOK President was intending to do anything stupid, but of course it was a bad look for PAOK and Greek Football and the club was punished.
No doubt that for PAOK as a club and for all its fans, seeing AEK being crowned Champions this weekend would be a difficult thing to swallow, but if there is blame they are looking to lay somewhere, they should first and foremost have a good hard look at themselves.
As an avid follower of Greek Football for many years, I have always thought that Greek clubs have been slow to capitalise on this current “social media era”. PAOK to their credit, have been one of the few clubs to have “gotten it”, but the stuff coming out of the club in the last few weeks, has left a lot to be desired.
Publicly claiming conspiracies, vendettas from Athens and searching for other boogeymen to lay the blame for their astonishing collapse.
It’s all well and good for PAOK people to be upset, after all, it was their League Championship to lose and by all rights, it should be them celebrating their 3rd Greek League Title this weekend, instead we have all seen how the closing weeks of the season have played out for the club.
But where should the finger of blame be pointed at?
Whose fault is it that the club received points deductions and had matches abandoned?
Is there some sort of Anti-PAOK agenda being played out in front of the World?
Trawling through the various comments from PAOKtzides over the last few weeks you’d think there was a conspiracy. But in the cold light of day, they and the club have to ask themselves, who threw the receipt paper roll which hit Olympiakos coach Oscar Garcia in their aborted match at Toumba?
The antics of Garcia are frankly irrelevant in this whole debacle, in my opinion. Why would any supporter whose side is on the brink of history allow themselves to do something so stupid? It defies all logic.
Then we come to the match with AEK, also at Toumba. Which club President entered the field of play with his security detail in toe, going straight for the referee, with a gun in his holster? Regardless of what anyone thinks went on, on the field that day, this type of behaviour cannot be allowed to happen and cannot be defended.
Of course no one thinks that the PAOK President was intending to do anything stupid, but of course it was a bad look for PAOK and Greek Football and the club was punished.
No doubt that for PAOK as a club and for all its fans, seeing AEK being crowned Champions this weekend would be a difficult thing to swallow, but if there is blame they are looking to lay somewhere, they should first and foremost have a good hard look at themselves.
By Maik for Hellas Football
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