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[Faliro]

Nice video ^^

[Jotenko]

All goals from the games today:

http://www.sport-fm.gr/videos/24082796

http://www.sport-fm.gr/videos/1026391

[Jotenko]

Faliro, why do you guys use greek characters sometimes and western characters in other times?

What's the rationale?

[Faliro]

Faliro, why do you guys use greek characters sometimes and western characters in other times?

What's the rationale?

Like when exactly?

[Jotenko]

Faliro, why do you guys use greek characters sometimes and western characters in other times?

What's the rationale?

Like when exactly?

In the websites above, per example.

[Faliro]

Well it's been covered before but nearly every Greek is fairly fluent in English. Greeks do not dub foreign movies or TV shows so by the time they are 16 - with school also, their English is pretty good. They know all the expressions in English and they use them without fear in conversation. 'Car park' 'live tv' 'web based systems' 'EU regulations' 'Tax fraud.' Greece has no language protections like the French do to stop foreign words entering the discourse and lexicon. So Greeks embrace foreign words. Most the sports newspapers even have English names - written in English..

[Faliro]

In fact, even Olympiacos is written in English on the actual stadium..






Even the smaller clubs have everything in English:



Most shops have English names or Greek names in the latin alphabet to help the trade..

[Jotenko]

Thanks Faliro.

I was just trying to find some logic here. Like "when to write in greek and when to write in english".

[Faliro]

The funny thing is Greeks have no problem with their language being disintegrated, but in true Greek logic, certain websites wont publish comments written in Greeklish.

Greeklish:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeklish

[Faliro]

Hello my portuguese friends. A big update from the country that should be called Elladastan. I will tell you what happened.

As you know everyday has been touch and go for whether Greece would be booted from FIFA. The press has been playing their games and backing their sides. Kontonis the communist said unless the EPO (Greek football association) resigned, he would not reinstate the Cup and we would be booted. Everyday Kontonis said the EPO and the president of the EPO - Girtzikis have to resign or Grexit. Well today he did what the Greeks call Κωλοτούμπα - literally a somersault. He gave in to FIFA on the proviso the EPO follows FIFA and UEFA ethics. 

So Greece is back. Most likely Silva and Poyet will now stay. The Cup will be played through to completion behind closed doors, outside of Athens most likely - with the stadium spectators consisting only of school children. Also the refs for these games will most likely be non Greek!

[Faliro]

AEK beat badly 3-0 by Levadiakos on the final day today. The AEK fans stormed the hotel demanding answers from the players.



The funniest thing happened. The fans went up to Djebour asking for an explanation and he said, ''πες του Μελισσανίδη να κάνει μεταγραφές'' which translates as - ''tell it to  Melissanidis who makes the transfers.''

[Faliro]

Poyet sacked.

Said yesterday he would leave in the summer, Tiger said he will leave today in response and not even be allowed to coach aek tomorrow in their semi final.

[Covenant]

Greece is crazy

[Cloughie]

Poyet sacked.

Said yesterday he would leave in the summer, Tiger said he will leave today in response and not even be allowed to coach aek tomorrow in their semi final.

Tiger is crazy!

[Faliro]

Poyet said today Tiger did not spend enough money. He is right,  Aek spent less than a million euros on players this season!    And they still finished second..  Tells you how absolutely pathetic PAOK and PAO are when it comes to running a football club.