The aura and glow of Hagia Sophia, an escape from misery and toxicity | Blog – Yannis Ceritis

Yiannis Seritis writes of the aura, glow, luminosity, and opportunity the OPAP Arena – Hagia Sophia gives us to escape a period of miserable toxicity and the unimaginably tiring rivalry of Greek football.

Those of us who were fortunate in times of the somewhat purer fans (don’t scrub them, bear wood had been falling off even then), those of us who tried electricity in Philadelphia as … “guests”, maybe we can get closer (yet.. .) RKeep an eye out for AEKtsi this and all the days before. Because actually Agia Sophia is one of the best things that happened to us in Greek football after winning the Euro and especially from 2010 onwards, when it started to gradually decline and reached the level of the Greek national team’s decline.

Agia Sophia, Botanikos, New Toumba is a ray of light in the black darkness of Greek football. It’s not normal not to be jealous of her friends these days Eck. Grandparents and juniors. Teens and 40s. Boys and Girls. everybody! It’s crazy not to like what they expect, and what the Athenians mostly live with.

All accepted. Expensive season tickets, delays, failures, and exaggerations (to my taste) in some elements of the stadium and events, but all of these and more make up the tree. The forest is the breeze. positive energy. the new. the beautiful. The wonderful. the talk. Get rid of grumbling and misery. Not for long, let us not be under any illusions. Even for a few days. Then we’ll start again the same thing. With the European Patent and Arbitration Office, publications and advertisements.

Like those in … Almost every year AEK Vs PAOK, like the last AEK Vs Panathinaikos with Kabakov in Leoforos, was founded. Will it all end because of Hagia Sophia? of course not. They will continue (we refer to the “big” competitors who will have representation in the opening) perhaps with greater intensity especially this year when everyone has their own reasons for feeling like a potential champion because the semi-permanent Greek champion is in the “Ziegernagel” situation here and two months.

Let’s all take a break these days. To see, to enjoy, to feel, to learn, to focus on adults and children. To the purest thing, to the least toxic and “polluted” of all that we have been living for many years (and) in football in this country. Not bad to “get away” for a few days because of the Hagia Sophia. To imagine something new, something much nicer, something that should be “natural”. After that, we’ll go back to Greek “normality,” rest assured. With topics like today for example.

He says that Superleague announced, “Following the relevant decisions of its board of directors, Establishment of the “Professional Football Refereeing Organization” is a sole proprietorship. Which undertakes the implementation of professional arbitration, according to the standards of the English Premier League.” The funny thing is that when you ask “How will the plan be implemented”, no one knows the answer! I fully agree that “The Professional Arbitration Institution is an important step forward, as international experience has already shown and will contribute to an increase in Develop football, based on internationally recognized standards,” as stated in today’s relevant announcement. But what really fits “according to internationally recognized standards” in Greek football to be optimistic about how this plan will be implemented?

Will Greek referees work for a living exclusively with refereeing when almost all teams (yes, those who make up the league, with Olympiacos first!) face them and are ‘cleaned up’ with penalties overnight? And would teams that spend days and weeks arguing over arbitration matters even in the age of VAR, which of course have been the generous sponsorship of the Greek government and not the association itself, agree?

What ‘Premier League standards’ are we talking about when teams can’t even agree on central management of TV rights? When, six months ago, did the European Patent Office and the Undersecretary argue like roosters over the famous “record”? When he was president of KED, he is last year’s partner of the former president of KED, who was chosen by the “Big-4”, but he is no longer satisfied with PAOK and AEK and is now a “referee advisor” for the Greek league and at the same time responsible for the development of arbitration in Egypt? Everything seems like a joke at the moment. Although when it gets serious we’ll deal again.