Hellas futebol

[Faliro]

Sporting is supposedly after Paschalakis. Is he any good? 

I think so. Far better than Karius. 

But seriously, yes, he seems solid. I remember him at Panthrakikos. Talent. Good at most things. In fact, if you haven't noticed my dear old friend Calcio, the guy is a fucking monster. 6'6 and not a skinny 6'6. Built.

[Faliro]

I certainly would have loved to hear how the Argentinean commentator pronounced Bicakcic.

Zdjelar I always used to say - 'that serb you know.. dzdzjel-dar..'

Could have just said Sasha.

Yea.. That seems now the obvious thing to have done..

[Calcio]

Sporting is supposedly after Paschalakis. Is he any good? 

I think so. Far better than Karius. 

But seriously, yes, he seems solid. I remember him at Panthrakikos. Talent. Good at most things. In fact, if you haven't noticed my dear old friend Calcio, the guy is a fucking monster. 6'6 and not a skinny 6'6. Built.

What an unit.

[Faliro]

Sporting is supposedly after Paschalakis. Is he any good? 

I think so. Far better than Karius. 

But seriously, yes, he seems solid. I remember him at Panthrakikos. Talent. Good at most things. In fact, if you haven't noticed my dear old friend Calcio, the guy is a fucking monster. 6'6 and not a skinny 6'6. Built.

What an unit.

Yea, I remember him at Panthrax - even told my mate who is a junior football coach. He was unaware of him. Then I lost track of the guy. Turns up at PAOK and today when you asked me about him - I realise it is the same guy who hugely impressed me at Panthrax. 

[Cloughie]

Better than Vlachodimos?

[Faliro]

Better than Vlachodimos?

For me yes.

[miguelsousamartins]

Better than Vlachodimos?

For me yes.

what is your opinion on vlachodimos?

[Faliro]

Better than Vlachodimos?

For me yes.

what is your opinion on vlachodimos?

Never saw anything that made me think he is super talented or anything. There is still time for him to become a better product. When I heard Benfica wanted him - I always assumed it was to make money from the deal - rather than to find a new keeper for Benfica themselves.

[Festivus]

Sporting is supposedly after Paschalakis. Is he any good? 

I think so. Far better than Karius. 

But seriously, yes, he seems solid. I remember him at Panthrakikos. Talent. Good at most things. In fact, if you haven't noticed my dear old friend Calcio, the guy is a fucking monster. 6'6 and not a skinny 6'6. Built.

Why are you using imperial? It's not very accurate for height. 6'6 ranges from like 198cm to 200cm I think?

Also those must be massive feet they use to measure people's heights. I'm 1,83m (6'0 in the imperial system just barely. IF YOU'RE UNDER THIS HEIGHT YOU'RE A MANLET~!) and I'd need more than 6 of my own feet to measure my height from head to toes.

[Faliro]

Sporting is supposedly after Paschalakis. Is he any good? 

I think so. Far better than Karius. 

But seriously, yes, he seems solid. I remember him at Panthrakikos. Talent. Good at most things. In fact, if you haven't noticed my dear old friend Calcio, the guy is a fucking monster. 6'6 and not a skinny 6'6. Built.

Why are you using imperial? It's not very accurate for height. 6'6 ranges from like 198cm to 200cm I think?

How I was raised (London). At school we had to use both cms and inches. The rulers had both. However with people's height - we would only use feet and inches (I believe I am 5'10 ½ - I am not sure what that is in cms without using google) and to this day - we still use miles and not KMs on our roads. With food weights we now use grams finally (but not necessarily on the street). However for alcohol - we still use pints.

Also those must be massive feet they use to measure people's heights. I'm 1,83m (6'0 in the imperial system just barely. IF YOU'RE UNDER THIS HEIGHT YOU'RE A MANLET~!) and I'd need more than 6 of my own feet to measure my height from head to toes.

No doubt it is a weird system. When I was growing up - there was a war going on whether to punish those still using imperial. As you can see many street sellers don't care:



The old school finally won the war it seems.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078648/Victory-Metric-Martyrs-finally-win-right-sell-fruit-veg-pounds-ounces.html

[Festivus]

Sporting is supposedly after Paschalakis. Is he any good? 

I think so. Far better than Karius. 

But seriously, yes, he seems solid. I remember him at Panthrakikos. Talent. Good at most things. In fact, if you haven't noticed my dear old friend Calcio, the guy is a fucking monster. 6'6 and not a skinny 6'6. Built.

Why are you using imperial? It's not very accurate for height. 6'6 ranges from like 198cm to 200cm I think?

How I was raised (London). At school we had to use both cms and inches. The rulers had both. However with people's height - we would only use feet and inches (I believe I am 5'10 ½ - I am not sure what that is in cms without using google) and to this day - we still use miles and not KMs on our roads. With food weights we now use grams finally. However for alcohol - we still used pints.

Also those must be massive feet they use to measure people's heights. I'm 1,83m (6'0 in the imperial system just barely. IF YOU'RE UNDER THIS HEIGHT YOU'RE A MANLET~!) and I'd need more than 6 of my own feet to measure my height from head to toes.

No doubt it is a weird system. When I was growing up - there was a war going on whether to punish those still using imperial. As you can see many street sellers don't care:



The old school finally won the war it seems.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078648/Victory-Metric-Martyrs-finally-win-right-sell-fruit-veg-pounds-ounces.html

I always forget that countries like Canada, NZ and Australia actually use metric, as does the UK it seems. I often see those people online using imperial. Australians are odd in that case. They use metric for everything, except height where they still use imperial. 

Was the imperial system a UK invention that spread to their colonies or is it something most European countries and countries in the world used at some point? 

[Faliro]

Sporting is supposedly after Paschalakis. Is he any good? 

I think so. Far better than Karius. 

But seriously, yes, he seems solid. I remember him at Panthrakikos. Talent. Good at most things. In fact, if you haven't noticed my dear old friend Calcio, the guy is a fucking monster. 6'6 and not a skinny 6'6. Built.

Why are you using imperial? It's not very accurate for height. 6'6 ranges from like 198cm to 200cm I think?

How I was raised (London). At school we had to use both cms and inches. The rulers had both. However with people's height - we would only use feet and inches (I believe I am 5'10 ½ - I am not sure what that is in cms without using google) and to this day - we still use miles and not KMs on our roads. With food weights we now use grams finally. However for alcohol - we still used pints.

Also those must be massive feet they use to measure people's heights. I'm 1,83m (6'0 in the imperial system just barely. IF YOU'RE UNDER THIS HEIGHT YOU'RE A MANLET~!) and I'd need more than 6 of my own feet to measure my height from head to toes.

No doubt it is a weird system. When I was growing up - there was a war going on whether to punish those still using imperial. As you can see many street sellers don't care:



The old school finally won the war it seems.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078648/Victory-Metric-Martyrs-finally-win-right-sell-fruit-veg-pounds-ounces.html

I always forget that countries like Canada, NZ and Australia actually use metric, as does the UK it seems. I often see those people online using imperial. Australians are odd in that case. They use metric for everything, except height where they still use imperial. 

Was the imperial system a UK invention that spread to their colonies or is it something most European countries and countries in the world used at some point? 

Imperial units began in 1826 and everyone in the Empire had to use them - they are the continuation of 'English Units.' English Units were the direct descendant of Anglo Saxon and Roman Units. It was the Romans who loved this whole 'feet' business and obviously they had their own miles - very similar to our miles (a bit longer in fact - a Roman mile was supposed to be 1000 paces).

It is fucked up. I remember - fuck - to this day - when I meet an old school Brit and they are selling fruit and veg - and they say - 'here 2 Lbs (pounds) of bananas' - still can't work out what that is in kilos. Ounces I am even worse with. You see in supermarkets it is all kilos and grams and I even worked in a super market delicatessen and I was trained only in kilos and grams. The one that fucks me off the most is property. I know how big 50sqm is for example - but so many agents talk only in square feet - which I immediately have to google. If I ask them - 'how much is that in square meters?' - they look at me blank and can't figure it out. This is what having a dual system does. Our money system used to be even worse (shillings (12 pence??), halfpennies etc) - but thankfully it was before my time..

[Faliro]

Heavy work has begun at the AEK stadium site. Second tier on the north stand starting to take shape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3BoLiyiTh0

[Covenant]

 How is the situation in Panathinaikos?

[Faliro]

How is the situation in Panathinaikos?

Seems the Thai bought PAO. Confirmation in the next few weeks. All debts and players have been paid, Donis hired as new coach and they have signed a few players - they are now looking to sign Leo Bonatini who used to play for Estoril.

They seem safe. The rules that demoted clubs like Iraklis were bent to keep PAO in the league. The mentally unstable Dimitrios Giannakopoulos is working 24/7 to convince the Thai of his hair-brained idea to move PAO to the OAKA and convert the Olympic stadium to a football ground instead of developing a proper site like Votanikos or Goudi.