Olympiacos v Villa Pre-match Thread

[Somniloquism]

No Emery presser today?

[VillaTim]

I don't know how people get the time or money to go to these games , wish i could . I imagine some fans have done them all too from Hibs to Athens .

[eamonn]

No Emery presser today?

It's usually the day before the game.

[Ads]

18:00 is the coach meet at Panathinaikos ground for this. Seems really early to me, unless it's a bit like Warsaw and the first busses leave at 18:00. Why you'd want to be inside a ground 3 hours + before hand I don't know.

[eamonn]

It’s not the same ref as last week now, I’ve just read. Felix Swayer is now the ref.

Having previously served a six month ban for match fixing.

He supposedly took a payment of 300 euros as a bribe by the actual match ref (who was the main match fixer) when a young lino. He then dobbed himself in and the ref in and was obviously punished for it but as he whistle blowed, was banned for 6 months only. That was 20 years ago.

Buuuuuuuuurn him! 

Yes, check what his other career is on the link to his own Wiki - a real-estate broker!

[aldridgeboy]

It’s not the same ref as last week now, I’ve just read. Felix Swayer is now the ref.

Having previously served a six month ban for match fixing.

Oh ffs you couldn’t make this shit up

I think he has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_German_football_match-fixing_scandal

I had only seen it on Fb to be fair, but seemed a decent standard post on a decent group. Not one of the awful clickbait type ones

[olaftab]

It’s not the same ref as last week now, I’ve just read. Felix Swayer is now the ref.

Having previously served a six month ban for match fixing.

Fixer Swayer. He can sway either way.

[Holte L2]

I don't know how people get the time or money to go to these games , wish i could . I imagine some fans have done them all too from Hibs to Athens .

I've done 4/7.  Legia, Alkmaar, Ajax.and Lille.Achieved via Remote working and budgeting carefully.

A few friends of mine have done them all. One is retired. The other is single! Enough said.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I don't know how people get the time or money to go to these games , wish i could . I imagine some fans have done them all too from Hibs to Athens .

I've done 4/7.  Legia, Alkmaar, Ajax.and Lille.Achieved via Remote working and budgeting carefully.

A few friends of mine have done them all. One is retired. The other is single! Enough said.

I've been lucky enough to get to all of them as I've been retired for nearly 10 years. If I'd been working there's no way I would have been able to attend any of the away games at all.

[Nii Lamptey]

It’s not the same ref as last week now, I’ve just read. Felix Swayer is now the ref.

Having previously served a six month ban for match fixing.

He supposedly took a payment of 300 euros as a bribe by the actual match ref (who was the main match fixer) when a young lino. He then dobbed himself in and the ref in and was obviously punished for it but as he whistle blowed, was banned for 6 months only. That was 20 years ago.

Buuuuuuuuurn him! 

Yes, check what his other career is on the link to his own Wiki - a real-estate broker!

Then you also have the Olympiacos/Forest owner who also has previous for match fixing!? WTF!

[algy]

Edit: Noticed the referee has already been brought up so no point rehashing it

[Bad English]

Maybe he fixes matches for English clubs rather than Greek ones. *THUMBS UP! ROCK ON!*

[algy]

It’s not the same ref as last week now, I’ve just read. Felix Swayer is now the ref.

Having previously served a six month ban for match fixing.

He supposedly took a payment of 300 euros as a bribe by the actual match ref (who was the main match fixer) when a young lino. He then dobbed himself in and the ref in and was obviously punished for it but as he whistle blowed, was banned for 6 months only. That was 20 years ago.

I mean given that, it could be that he's been put on duty precisely because he has has a track record of reporting bribes.

Well, that's my hope anyway

[VillaTim]

Edit: Noticed the referee has already been brought up so no point rehashing it

German ref i believe.

[Small Rodent]

It’s not the same ref as last week now, I’ve just read. Felix Swayer is now the ref.

Having previously served a six month ban for match fixing.

Oh ffs you couldn’t make this shit up

I think he has.

It’s okay, he’s German. The British and Germans are not natural enemies.

I read that somewhere.