Vassilis Sambrakos writes about the obvious things that arise in the match between AEK and PAOK.
It should be so simple, in this day and age, to control the behavior of team officials in football: from the end of the match for the controlling authority to have at its disposal the videos of the behavior of the “benches”, and the videos of the bellows and the corridors of the changing rooms to check and find out if there are delinquent behaviors and criminal acts. To have at her disposal the statements of all the protagonists in order to decide whether and who crosses the line, to impose punishment on him.
Why doesn’t everything I describe above happen in Greek football? Not because it’s expensive and they don’t want the PAE owners to pay the cost of running the recording system, but because they haven’t been forced to by a law, a government. Because as the history of Greek football teaches, the owners of PAE do not want transparency in the control of behaviors and the application of regulations. They want accordion regulations, applied when convenient and ignored when not.
Just because the PAE owners don’t want anything to change, a coach declares every three days in public that there is a mafia controlling Greek football and no one calls him to substantiate his complaints or suffer the consequences, and a president feels he has the right to go to the visiting team’s locker room to “tell” her coach. For the football that the PAE owners and the national football administration want, today is just a Thursday.
We all understand where everything we watch, what we see happening between AEK and PAOK will end up, and no one is trying to prevent the bad that will happen. And obviously I am not referring to the administrations of the PAE, because they do nothing but raise the tone, nor to the organizers of the championship and the cup, because it is a waste of time to explain that they do not want to change the regime.
The problem is that there is no one to pick them up. Force them to change their public behavior. Make them watch their words and actions. To remove the good guys from their side.
How will football deal with the current situation? The AEK delegation will ask the police for an effective plan to get to and from the Toumba stadium safely and “everything is fine, let’s move on”. Because that’s how football works: we “kill” each other for our petty interests but don’t even hit. And when tomorrow we hear that those who have been blinded by the hatred that we are growing up have been stabbed, we will condemn the violence vaguely and abstractly and we will arrest the relatives of the victims.
THE Razvan Lucescu it will not “collect”. And PAOK does not want to “collect” him. Who will tell Mario Iliopoulos that he should not go to the PAOK locker room? His own self as the owner of PAE AEK? Within football there is no authority to which the owners of PAE will obey. Unless there is a government intervention that will hold them all accountable and immediately force them to change their public behavior, good luck.
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