Quote Originally Posted by Edrahill View Post
Hello there again. First of all, i woold like to express my sorry for the incidents that happened against some of your fans. I was expecting sth like that cause hooliganism is really uncontrollable here. This is why i tried to warn you.
About the much, serioucly I cannot understan Burnley's coach frustration over the referee. I don t know about intimidation by players or owner during half time, but I cannot remember any incident where your team was unfairly treated. You must know that almost everyone here believes the opposite. They think your penalty was badly given, that Podence should have taken penalty on the incident when your defender used his hands to throw him down and that the hand at the end of the fisrt half should be penalty as well.. Personally, I believe that the penalty you won was harsh but it could be given, there was penalty in Podence's incident and of course no penalty in the hand incident. On the second half I didn t see any serious mistake.

PS. Also, it was the first time i saw so much hand-using from your defenders. And I mean that in every defence they were using hands to put Olympiakos players out of their way. That is dangerous. Maybe with a harsher ref, you would have taken many more yellows.
Hi Edra
I thought there was a lot of Greco Roman wrestling going on throughout the game including two on our players in the penalty area. Once your team got away with it then ours decided to do the same.we don’t normally play like that.
Handball is supposed to be a deliberate action, not the ball hitting someone’s hand, so I thought you were lucky to get that.
I suppose we all have our own view of what happens, that what makes it interesting.

Telling fans to get on a bus for the game then taking them to the police station and making them miss it is, then dropping them at a closed tube station late at night is the height of bad manners - to put it very mildly. This wasn’t your fans but officialdom spoiling what many thought was their trip of a lifetime.

The ref was clearly nobbled at half time dishing out yellows like confetti and a red that was not merited. So you won and got a two goal lead. Let’s see what Thursday brings. Pity our pleasantries have been damaged by the actions of others. Whatever happens your team will live long in our memory but for all the wrong reasons.