Olympiakos v Burnley

[Supersub6]

Alto-- as one who has had many dealings with the FA throughout the years I can assure you that they are a law unto themselves and often make up the rules as they go along.
This attitude is no different with UEFA or FIFA as you can plainly see.

[outwoodclaret]

Spitting is just not acceptable. Any Olympiakos fans visiting here care to reply?

[WillPark]

Sean can complain if he want to, and putting preasure on the ref is not ok. But I don’t think we got treated unfair. Our centerbacks were struggeling at times and did not always play fair. Playing these kind of games in Europe is another thing completly and takes time to adapt to. We were not quite up to it on Thursday, hopefully (not sure I am hoping for it though) we can get the result we need next week.

[Altobelli]

I wasn't hoping to carry on in this Mickey Mouse Europa also Will, but after the over the top hostility with spitting at our players, surrounding the Ref in the tunnel and going into his dressing room, plus the lad who got stabbed, I really want us to win against these bastids on Thursday.

[Edrahill]

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.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

With respect Edrahill you are talking bollox. Spitting at our players, intimidating the referee in his dressing room at half time, cheating and diving and stabbing visiting fans. Athens police kidnapping and mistreating genuine fans?

Thanks but no thanks. Hope we never have the pleasure of playing you lot again, but praying that we smash your lot of obnoxious cheats on Thursday.

[oldcolner]

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.

[alfinyalcabo]

Looks like BT has been on the sarsaparilla pop again.. Hehe