To much Malackia!! - Gennaro Gattuso

Football is a small depiction of our country as well. Whatever happens in Greek football happens in real life as well. Everything is fixed and corrupted. It likely will never change. Sadly...

If my boy alfie goes missing we all know why...

Not to forget, the case of Iraklis. The only club that was relegated 3 times from the football administration even though the club was finishing always in the top half.

The quality of greek football really dropped after the 2004 Euro. As a Greek the situation just gets worse every day and it really prevents me from beeing proudful of Greece's achievements in European and worldwide level.

The start of the corruption in Greece started in 2000...(or at least that is when things went to a ridiculous level)

Something extra: before 2011, Panathinaikos was a team that was developing, they had beaten the Champions League winning team, Inter away from home, finishing top of their Champions League group had star players like Cisse and Gilberto Silva, 2004 stars like Seitaridis, Karagounis, Katsouranis e.t.c. and youngsters like Ninis, Fourlanos and Mavrias(people playing FM would remember them). After what happened, almost everyone left and the club got into a financial crisis, basically destroyed the biggest rival of Olympiakos. This also had a huge impact in Greek European performances. With Panathinaikos out of the picture, Greece fell from the 10th place in club rankings, at their current 18th.

As I'm watching this as an Arsenal fan, everyone on Arsenal's subreddit thinks things against Arsenal are bad. Then I watched this video about Greek football and now I'm thinking that the EPL is doing alright.

The truth is that the owners of all the top 4 Greek clubs (Olympiacos,Panathinaikos,AEK & PAOK) are highly controversial.Whichever club you support,you have to admit that these owners are very toxic.They just attack and insult each other and they refuse to talk and cooperate.We are so busy fighting with each other that we don't see that Greek football is going from bad to worst.All we want is to watch football without having to hear about referring and corruption every now and then.

As a Greek, it really sucks to see our country's football getting ruined. I hope that one day, corruption will cease to exist in Greek football, and every Greek football fan will be able to proudly enjoy this amazing sport. We don't want to get deprived of good quality football anymore.

Thank you for covering this! It doesn't get enough attention outside of Greece just how corrupt our football system is

And you didn't even talk about the scandals of olympiakos during the kokkalis period...one of the strongest oligarchs in Greek football.

Football in Greece is more of a mafia than a sport...

Γιατί δεν έχουμε αλλάξει το όνομα σε Σούπερ Λίγδα ακόμα δε μπορώ να καταλάβω... 🤔

Corruption is possibly the true national sport of Greece. Though corruption seems a feature of every aspect of the sport. And one day, if not addressed, people will find other things to do than watch it.

Day 1: what on earth is going on with Bolton

Unfortunately that's half the story. There is immediate connection between team owners and political parties. The HFF have for the last 3-4 years a new president backed by PAOK and AEK owners. The previous 3 years displayed significant changes in Greek football such as the appointment of foreign referees in Greek derbies and the induction of VAR, the rise of PAOK at the same time its owner Mr Savvidis started getting major state properties in Salonica for very low prices, the New stadium of AEK after the club got relegated to the third division and their debts got magically erased by law, all of which are unfortunately part of the same corruption process. There have been claims and actual convictions of team having the same owners (PAOK and Xanthi), a case that forced the previous government to change the law that dictates punishments in the same night the ruling was announced so that PAOK don't get relegated and allegations that PAOK uses the same system of satellite teams as Olympiacos used to do. The same people that got convinced in the Koriopolis scandal remain still in Greek clubs, such as Volos NFC (a distorted offspring of Olympiacos Volos), with its owner and actually mayor of the city previously a Marinakis supporter, now a Savvidis one. FYI Volos created 5 years ago, got in the first division extremely fast coincidentally after the change of the HFF backed by Savvidis. Marinakis backed the new government of New Dimokratia in 2019 and within one year he won the league and got acquitted. So there are two corrupted gangs fighting each other right now and actually the better team is winning the championship right now.. So at least there's that

There has been way too much damage done in this league and the last thing that I see happening is this league is things getting better... The fact that Greek football has seen it's biggest downfall and nothing is being done about it is very concerning and I don't wanna imagine what is gonna happen in the years to come. Thanks for making this vid Alfie, it's nice to see outsiders be educated about the fucked up situation of Greek football

The only hope for Greek football will come from outside the country. But I am not so sure that FIFA or UEFA are giving a s.... Maybe corruption is not only a Greek phenomenon.

It's very sad that Greece is full of corruption. Especially in football Greece has the potential to have a top-10 league because it's a country that players would love to go to as well. So much potential, so much love for the sport but unfortunately nothing made of it.

I mean, us Chelsea fans loved Olympiakos for knocking Arsenal out of the Europa League last year

Day 9: 7 best forwards who have fewer career goals than Sergio Ramos.

Love the video, as a forest fan i have always wanted to know more about EM. A rise and fall of nottingham forest would be very interesting to watch, seeing as we were the first ever european cup winners in the third domestic division.

Fan fact: the term calciopoli itself was a play on words on the term tangentopoli (used by italian media to define the bribe scandal in Italian politics in the 90s) and this term was coined by a man who is a friend of mine and that I went on vacation with.

It pains me to watch this video being Greek.

I love that you made this video but your pronunciation of Greek names will always make me laugh

Unless I missed it, in which case I apologize, it should be mentioned that for the Noor 1 case, most of the key witnesses have been found dead by very dubious circumstances (for example one witness who was also a publicist of a newspaper was driving his Porsche one day when suddenly it exploded for no apparent reason, instantly killing that guy), and multiple prosecutors have either resigned or even flew the country, under the apparent fear for their safety. Look, all of you guys who live outside Greece have little to no idea how much dirty everything is, particularly sport, Marinakis and his allies (one of whom is Yannis Alafouzos, owner of Panathinaikos, and owner of the Skai group, which is essentially Greece's equivalent of Fox News) used their media and their influence they have on football fans in order to bring the far-right party New Democracy into power with tragic consequences in our lives, particularly in these COVID-19 times and its awful mishandling of that..

The sheer number of FAČR badges throughout the intro about corruption is shockingly accurate

You forgot to mention the scandal between paok and aek in 2018 where aek won one of the most controversial championships of greek football

Thank you Alfie thank you finally a video about greek corruption

Love the videos about lesser leagues around the world, as someone interested in the Greek league I would love more deep deep dives into different leagues

You should do one of this about FC Porto. Their President has been caught multiple times (with many phone leaks out there) for corruption, the club was charged with corruption but only lost 6 points after already being champions by double digits, while Boavista, charged of the same crime, dropped divisions. Theres so much stuff about them i’d be here all day.

In a game between Aris Thessaloniki FC and Asteras Tripolis an Aris fan through a n empty bottle with no cap at the 4th referee . The 4th referee playacted and got the match suspended . When she went to the hospital the doctors kicked her out as she had absolutely no damage on her ribs where the bottle supposingly hit. However this led , to penalties given against Aris FC which led to the teams final fall to the 2nd Division and ultimately to the third after being bankrupt in 2014 . The team is now back at the highest division and are doing good but suffered from 5 years at the lower levels of greek football . One of the biggest scandals yet

So that's why Greece national team are becoming suck day by day.

Very well done video. Now let's talk about some simple facts and some personal opinions mostly based on Greek clubs. FC's are businesses and the people running them use them for either making some profit and/or laundering money. With enough connections and a good legal team you can get away with it either by never getting caught doing it , having the offence dismissed prior/during court or taking so much time that it reaches its statute of limitation. Big4 (AEK-OLYMPIAKOS-PANATHINAIKOS-PAOK) club owners also have the advantage of being in charge of an army of fans which means political pressure to make things go your way (in the other businesses they run outside football) with a little push by the state as to not upset your fans (voters) There are no Saints in Greek Football. The majority of presidents from the major league down to the amateur/semi-professional leagues are or have been in some way of form criminals. The loan system you mentioned is much deeper that what it seems. There are numerous cases where Olympiakos would approach teams to buy a player often for an absurd amount and the player would remain in the team he was bought from for few years until they released him back to the team on "free transfer" or he would roam around the Greek league on loan until he was set on "free transfer" list. Many of those players have ended up playing in teams lesser than the one they originally came from , lower divisions or mid-bottom teams in weaker championships around Europe. Coincidence that's repeating stops being a coincidence. Another fun facts about this is that players would spent a good 3-4 years in a mid-top club with descent/good performance and never even be considered to be called for the National team. As soon as they signed for Olympiakos they were in even though they had zero official games played for them. We all know that National team caps = money for the club that owns you , boost for your price as a player and more exposure to scouts. Lastly if people think that feuds between presidents or the government and presidents is about football then please go get a lobotomy to save us all. It's about money and influence. Football has stopped being a sport for the people but a playground for the rich. P.S Another fun fact. Theodoros Theodoridis the GS of UEFA (former Hellenic Football Federation member) is the son of the late honorary president of Olympiakos Savvas Theodoridis (veteran player of the club). Just saying.. P.P.S There has not been a president of Olympiakos for the last 40+ years that was not in legal trouble. Only half of them got convictions and spent/ are spending time in jail..

Could we have some subtitles please? This seems really interesting but I can't understand everything and the auto-generated ones aren't that accurate

Not a single mention about Paok's owner owning both Paok and Xanthi and both clubs getting only a few point deduction instead of relegation.

Day 7: Top 15 ranked National teams' golden generations if they were compiled into a league format

Im Greek, I demand this video done in a more sarcastic version by the Irish guy

If you want to learn the hidden truth from a Greek: In Greece everything is connected to politics. So briefly: 1989-1995: Panathinaikos owner is George Vardinogianis (shipowner,oilowner) and the political party in goverment is New Democracy (liberal-conservative). Panathinaikos dominates the League 1996-2003: Olympiakos owner is Sokratis Kokkalis (entrepreneur,telecommunication,shipowner) and the political party in goverment is PASOK (social democratic). Olympiakos dominates the league 2004: New Democracy is re-elected, so Panathinaikos wins the league. Then changes owner. 2005-2009: Olympiakos dominates the league, in Sokratis Kokkalis last years. 2010: Panathinaikos wins the league (Djibril Cisse era). Olympiakos changes owner. The new owner is Evaggelos Marinakis (shipowner, drugs, guns). Marinakis and his family is related to a lot of members in New Democracy. 2011-2015: New Democracy is re-elected and Olympiakos dominates the league. 2015: SYRIZA is the first Left-Radical Progressive Alliance political party that is elected in Greek Goverment and Alexis Tsipras is the new Prime Minister. In these 4 year, three teams win the league (Olympiakos 2 titles, AEK Athens 1 title (since1994), PAOK Thessaloniki 1 title (since 1984). Its the first time since the 80's that 3 different teams win the league in such a short period. ---------------- KEY FACT-------------- In 2014 ‘Noor 1’, a ship owned by Marinakis, was investigated by the Greek Coast Guard and found tons of herroine. Alexis Tsipras wants to go Marinakis to a trial for drug trafficking (check wikipedia). Marinaki's assasins kill all ship crew and witness. In this period Marinakis buys a lot of Newspapers, Political bloggs and TV Channels and start a war with Alexis Tsipras (SYRIZA Leader and Prime Minister) 2019: New Democracy is re-elected, with Kyriakos Mitsotakis as leader and Prime Minister. Marinakis and Mitsotakis are realated (Marinakis is godfather of Mitsotakis newphew). Also Marinakis is sponsor in New Democracy. 2020-Now: Olympiakos and New Democracy dominate everything in Greece and Marinakis owns the whole country under dictatorship. This is not a scenario for new Netflix Series. This is the real life in Greece.

I think you should have talked a little bit more about Noor1 scandal. 9 dead witnesses through the years, 2 or 3 head judges left the country and port workers who were patrolling the port that night were transferred to thessaloniki.

Day 1: 7 best wartime footballers (I know this screams of Alfie)

Multiple refereeing decisions benefiting olympiacos with the worst one being katsouranis getting a clear goal disallowed as offside while having at least 5 players in front of him. Konstantineas a Greek referee had a bomb placed in his bakery after a match between olympiacos and xanthi he officiated ended in a draw. Tzilos got his legs broken after a match of olympiacos again against xanthi ended in a draw and he was the ref. Phone calls got leaked where it was clear to see that there are matches being fixed behind the scenes with marinakis being in the forefront, but he never got judged about it. Last but not least the whole noor 1 where a ship belonging to marinakis was investigated and 3 tons, i believe, of heroin were found on board and somehow every witness died over the next few years either through car crashes or "heart attacks", the ship magically disappeared and mobile phones containing evidence got lost alongside the ship. Despite the evidence being out there for everyone to see olympiacos fans either are refusing to face reality or are too stupid to understand it, I tend to lean toward the latter one

Could you make a video on the Basque Country national team which left Spain during the Spanish Civil War to raise funds for the region going on tour around Europe and North America. The team also took part in the first ever Mexican Football League in 1938/39 coming 2nd and included some of the best players in Spain at the time including Isidro Langara, Luis Regueiro, Jose Iraragorri, Guillermo Gorostiza, Leonardo Cilaurren etc.

Day 19: best Xl of players that would be eligible to play for the Catalan national team (even if they already play for another country)

As an Olympiacos fan i dont want to take anyones side for the corruption. In 2017 Aek won the league and reached Champions League group stage, the owner took the money and didnt support the team , till then AEK cannot contest Olympiakos. In 2018 similar thing with PAOK who didnt reach to Champions League . I want to point out that both teams got embarrassed in Europe, while Olympiacos was the only team contesting . In 2019 PAOK FC and Xanthi FC (Super League teams) were accused for being owned by Savvidis , the goverment changed the law in one night so that none team will get relegated in the 4th division. At the end of the case only Xanthi got relegated to the second division. I dont want to take anyones side , i know as all greeks know that this league is corrupted . All the Big 5 chairmans are criminals, but dont only point out Olympiacos. Savvidis (PAOK) -MoneyLaundring and owning two teams in the league, Melissanidis (AEK) was in jail 10 years ago, Alafouzos (Panathinaikos) stole ships from Romania .

R.i.p. Alfie. He was found dead in a car accident like many witnesses of the Noor 1 case

Day 11: What on earth is going on at Hertha BSC?

Day 1: Seven players who disappeard after the 2014 world cup

Reminds me of Egypt, I could write several full length books on how the government has always made it their top sporting priority to make sure Al Ahly are successful for political reasons. Just once I would like an honest journalist or content creator to delve very deeply into this because it will take you away from sports and towards politics in a way you wouldn’t expect from football.

Everyone who was involved in Olympiacos situation was innocent after all...the last court took place a week ago and the 28 people who were accused of corruption were found innocent by the Law...

Great video as always! You should try to do a simmilar one for Croatian football as a big number of people don’t support the croatian football association ( HNS ) even despite the world cup final for such a small country.

damn finally thank you Alfie

2:01 That's the high school I went to.

Day 1: What on earth is going on at Bolton Wanderers Football Club?

Day 2: Best top flight league of every decade since 1900

As a football fan and Greek, I am utterly disgusted by what is happening in my country's football scheme by this man, who uses his wealth and subsequent power to fix the championship to his favour. He is responsible for the decline of many clubs such as AEK, Panathinaikos, Panionios, Aris, Iraklis and Greek football as a whole. And what did the Greek Justice do? Absolutely nothing!

Greek gang🇬🇷

I would love to hear about how some clubs went bankrupt or why some clubs reformed to another club such as Accrington before they became Accrington Stanley

Requests : Top 7 Best and Worst Premier League Sophomore Seasons Attempt 24 Context : Rate any teams, no need to be newly promoted, re promotion is ok, their 2nd seasons after surviving the first one

I don't know if you already made a video on Colombian football but it would be interesting how the sport is influenced there by the drug cartels, narcos and other controversies.

7 footballers who could have taken up another sport

Great video. Something you might like Alfie is the book champagne football about corruption in the fai (Irelands national football body). Mainly because I want to see a video about corruption in Irish football.

If owners outside of Olympiacos would properly spend their money they wouldn't bitch and complain about match fixing or anything. AEK and PAOK to answer for. I'm not saying Marinakis hands are clean but Olympiacos isn't the problem.

Maybe maguire has an idea

Nice to see you doing videos like that . But man , you really know very few things about corruption in Greek football . If you think the problem is as superficial and as one sided as you present it ,allow me to say that you are mistaken .

Guatemala, my country, had people so involved in corruption the contry and clubs were banned from participating in international tournaments

I have to say that I have really enjoyed this channel videos, especially the ones taking on more obscure issues, because it was stuff I had never heard of and always assumed that there was some basic research done. Having watched the amount of research or in this case lack of research done for this one, I doubt that anything on this channel is accurate. I think the only sources used Djibril Cisse rants and some tweets by fan newspapers from Greece. The most disturbing fact is that nowhere in the video there's any representation of what the other side says. The video mentioned more than once that noone has been found guilty and that is pretty much it. However it would be very interesting to the audience to at least present one of these cases, what were the accusations, where those accusations were based and why there were dismissed, usually in case of corruption dismissal are really funny and absurd. The rants of Djibril Cisse are considered facts and based on the controversy faced by his team during the the 2010-2011 campaign where his team was blatantly wronged in their direct clash against Olympiacos, however there is no mention of the fact that prior to that game his team was 7 points behind and a win would mean just a reduction to 4 points which are a lot for any team to cover in Greece, let alone the fact that they proceeded to lose the next games as well (although one can understand their disappointment after their unfair loss against Olympiacos). He also complained about fans and the owner mistreating him after the game which is all horrible but is not a rare occurrence for greece, for example later premier league player Kevin Mirallas was hit in the face with a heavy glass ashtray in a game where home fans were banned from attending the game. Also what Cisse does not mention is the controversies that went his way in the previous campaign 2009-2010 campaign were incidentally his team wan the championship, the most blatant of those would be the match in Salonika against rival for the title at the time PAOK. Cisse is a winner and a champion and does not like losing, and just like every other player of his caliber will bitch and moan and cry every time they lose something and this is understandable however to take his word as gospel is a misstep in my opinion. The video then goes on to talk about some issues around the name of the owner of Olympiacos, Marinakis, but mostly the Noor 1 ship which first of all has nothing to do with football and second of all the D.E.A. and Interpol are involved in this issue and have not made any allegation against him so I guess European and US authorities are also in his pocket, what I found interesting though is the fact that you bothered to check the sources of the site defending him but not the ones making the allegations. I should note that I am at no point saying that he is innocent of everything that he has been accused and I would not be surprised if he was involved in criminal activities, however in this video makes it seem like he is this mastermind controlling greek footbal with his minions. It would hurt to mention that other owners of greek clubs currently clashing with Marinakis have been proved guilty of very interesting stuff. The most awesome of this cases is one where PAOK salonika owner entered the field with a PISTOL visible in his belt to threaten the referee of the game was banned for ONLY two years from and football game but proceed to be in the stadium for the final of the greek cup later that year because the owner of the club his team was facing said it was ok. There is video proof for this. Also another owner entered the referee locker room proceeded to grab the referee by the balls and asked him to do officiate the game "better" this was written down in the referee report after the game and not in some tweet btw. Note that all the examples I used had everything to do with football many of the owners have been accused for a plethora of crimes outside football, the funniest of which would be previous Olympiacos owner Sokratis Kokkalis was accused of being a spy for the east German STAZI. My with this is that in the best case scenario for the narrative is that Marinakis is a criminal among other criminals which the video does not hint at any point. I see that the video is almost a year old and it is very unlikely that any of the creators will check this comment however in the slim chance that one does I would be very happy to provide sources for my claims.

Accusations of match fixing get thrown around far too loosely in Greece. Theres a reason he’s not been found guilty

Day 4 of asking what would the East and West German sides look like today if Germany split again?

Big Greek team owners are usually bigshot shipowners/traders who own at least one tv station and/or radio station as well. Teams are mainly used to put pressure on governments through the numbers of their fans so that economic concessions are made for their owners and oftentimes legal bending as well. That's the main reason they have the TV channels. Smaller teams are usually ran by people who just want to make money out of the league's communal TV contracts, or from illegal betting.

About 6/7 years ago there was game at the end of the season where a team who had already qualified for promotion or European football were playing a team who just needed a point to stay up. Ladbrokes gave 55-1 on the home team to win. The team towards the top of, who were playing at home, were given odds that you wouldn’t see non league teams get against the league champions ever. Safe to say I fell for it, put enough on the win that my returns would be a grand and watch the game as both teams purposefully kicked balls way over and wide making no attempts to play the game.

I'll have you know Forest won 3-0 against Wycombe today :,)

Marinakis is the Pablo Escobar of Greece with the exception that he has succeeded in politics

Great work ! as a Greek myself I have been disgusted with the way football is played here. I really do hope change comes soon.You should also have a look at Ivan Savvidis owner of PAOK.

Corruption at a large scale actually happen everywhere especially in some of the biggest league

Τhe problem is not Olympiakos. Olympiakos is by far the most wealth team in greece singing the best players in Greece have great scouting great management with best academy for the Greek standards. The problem is the lack of competitiveness. The corrupt at lower division who doesn't invests to young Greek players is the biggest problem. Without Olympiakos the Greek football is dead

Mate, as someone who watches and keeps up with Greek football (admittedly am an Olympiacos fan) I take some issue with this one. I won't defend all of Marinakis's off pitch activity - he's definitely sus in that regard, and Greek football definitely still has some issues, but it's gotten a lot better. I personally find it disrespectful to see Olympiacos in the title of this video because every big club in Greece is just as, if not more, corrupt. The Hellenic Football Federation is no longer run by someone who's "in Marinakis's pocket", and the league includes foreign (non-Greek) refs for big games (i.e., less probability of ref bias), and the day after all games, Mark Klattenburg (former Premier League and UCL ref who now works in Greece) goes over every controversial call on TV (penalty, VAR, etc) for clarity, to explain why the call was made, or admit if there was a mistake. Your comment about Olympiacos using loans as a means to sway their influence in votes is also a bit puzzling. I say this because PAOK, the second biggest club in Greece these days, LITERALLY owned another team, not in the lower leagues, but in the first division. This was Xanthi FC, who have since been relegated as a result of the point deduction they received from this offense. Literally, PAOK's owner Savvidis arranged for Xanthi to be owned by someone under his orders, and PAOK have used Xanthi to arrange transfers and loans frequently. With Xanthi having been relegated, they've since undergone some murky transfer engagement with Volos (selling Amr Warda over the summer then signing him right back in the winter for next to nothing with little negotiation). It's not rocket science that the biggest clubs loan lots of players out - it's harder for young players to get in the team, and they have more money to buy fringe players that might end up getting loaned out in the future - and it's also not rocket science that teams typically loan players out to the same place because the relationship between these teams is important (you want to be sending your player to a place where you're confident they will do well, not some random team you have no relationship with). This in my eyes is completely fair, doesn't provide an unfair benefit to a team like Olympiacos and it's very common across European football. Lastly, the comments about Olympiacos match fixing. Did they have some weird stuff going on in the 2010s? Yes. Let's not talk about that, since your title uses "are" (present tense). Have you taken a look at the table in Greece this year? Let's just say match fixing wouldn't be required to hand Olympiacos the trophy. They're clear of every other team in Greece, and if you think they're only winning games domestically because of some unfair advantage, let's talk about how they beat Arsenal last year in Europe, and played very competitively with Wolves shortly after. The team is just good... I don't know what to say. And when they haven't been good, they haven't won! PAOK won the league two years ago and AEK three years ago - for me that's rather supportive of the fact that the league isn't rigged for Olympiacos in either way. Long story short (lol surely nobody will read this), Greek football is corrupt, no doubt, and the Hellenic Football Federation is pretty awful at times (see the scheduling debacle surrounding the Greek Cup Final last year), but it's gotten better. You claim at the end of the video that it hasn't, but you also can't cite any match fixing issues since like 2012. Also, I'm rather upset you've singled out Olympiacos here. Just because Olympiacos are the biggest club in Greece means you utterly disregard PAOK literally owning another team, or the owner of PAOK charging the stadium with a gun after a game? This one could have been researched better or framed differently - all I'm going to say.

Day 3: Teams with the most draws in one season

Good job, please let us know if they try to take down your video

Day 12 : 7 of the greatest players who started their career as an injury replacement

The photo tha you showed on 2:13 is the 8th General High School of Athens in Kato Patissia which I'm attending

Would be interesting to see a documentary style video on why teams share stadiums? The most notable of course being Coventry City sharing with Birmingham

my friend. It is good you covered this topic. But there are way more scandals including PAOK, AEK and many other top greek teams

Day 99: 7 Asian or African teams that could compete in a big 5 league or squad of best players who have only played at asian or african teams

Day 20 : Can you do a video on why French Clubs have not been as successful historically ? I know you have defended Ligue 1 in the past , but only 1 UCL for French clubs is really underwhelming for a country like France . Especially when you consider that Dutch clubs have won 6 UCL ' s and Portuguese clubs have won 4 UCLs

What number cement do you wear?

I am a young football fan and Olympiakos fan, but as most things here in Greece the football is very corrupt which is why except for mainly olympiakos european matches my main football focus is the premier league , here's hoping I can watch premier league games live on stadiums sometime in the future. However , the situation is complex , it's certainly not the big bad Olympiakos and Marinakis ruining everything for the other innocent teams . See Paok - Xanthi multi ownership that would result in relegation if the government didn't change the laws overnight after it was revealed. The whole thing is still pending it's very stupid honestly if you see all the details. See the cup quarterfinal draw the other day which was held behind closed doors , an olympiakos official "predicted" with much certainty the draw the previous day which would pair Paok and Aek with the 2 easiest teams , and Olympiakos with Aris , their 2 biggest rivals at the moment against one another. From all the things I've heard the previous Olympiakos owner , Sokratis Kokkalis was way more shady that Marinakis. The only certain thing in this mess is that Pedro Martins ( the coach) is a very talented one that is doing an amazing job even when there are big setbacks

Finally a video about Greek football thanks alfie

Life long ban from football as a chairman , most chairman are like this in all fairness never to be seen at a game

Day 28: "Final Yugoslavia First League Teams: Where are they now?" would be interesting with Red Star winning the 90s CL but then falling from grace as a lot of teams in the region.

Day 8 : Fiercest club Rivalries of 7 continents

I am a Greek who supports the club PAOK, which is also growing hostile to Olympiakos and I knew most of what you mention in the video and I would like to thank you for making this video so that the Olympiacos fans can understand what kind of team they support. Big thanks again

As a spurs fan I was very happy when olympiakos knocked out arsenal out from the Europa cup Ooopa..

Day 2 part of the managers best 7 signings series... Neil warnock’s best 7 signings.

in Saudi Arabia the Royal Family like a football team so for some reason obviously not corruption or anything that football team wins the title every year even worse there was a club that won the title 3 times so they had their manager be accused of so many illegal things just so he can quit his job and leave the club, in the last 2 years that club has had 16 different coaches and was in the relegation zone last season

Very well made and well researched video! Truth is that the same type of controversy surrounded the previous owner of Olympiakos, Socratis Kokkalis, as well. During his time at the presidency of the team when the word "paraga" you mention in your video was made

I worked at a Greek-owned music shop from 2009-2014, the owners of whom are huge PAOK fans; they could never properly explain the extent of the corruption involving Marinakas, but made it clear their game was gone. This video has finally shed some light on the whole mess, so once again, many thanks for your hard work, Alfie!

Hitc what number of shoe you wear?

Seeing the badge of Czech Football Association at the beginning of the video about corruption is not just incidental I guess.