The penalty caused a scandal of a nationwide scale

A terrible scandal ended on Sunday the principal Athenian derby between Panatinaikos and Olympiacos. With the score of 1: 0, in favor of the Pirean club on the 93-minute match, the judge of the match Joachim Ephtimiadis decided to appoint a penalty into the gates of the Green, which incurred a storm of anger from officials and fans of Panatinaikos. But, despite the stormy protests of the hosts of the Apostolos Nikolayidis stadium, the Olympiacos player, Pravrg Georgevich, realized the 11-meter, which deprived his rivals not only of victory, but also, according to Sports Today , the chance to squeeze eternal rivals on the second line of the Greece Tournament table.

Enharged by such a turn of events, the president of Panatinaikos Angelos Phillipides and the team coach Sergio Makaryan after the final whistle broke into the field with the explicit intention of dealing with the referee. Soon, breaking through the police cordons, part of the fans followed them (while one of the fans received severe injuries as a result of the fall of the barrier -free grid). When the law enforcement officers managed to recapture the judge from the crowd, the unfortunate head was broken, and he himself was bleeding. The Athenian police have already started a criminal case about the riots at the stadium. Panatinaikos is facing a large fine and long -term disqualification of the home arena. However, the leaders of the rebels still gained arrogance and turned to the country's prime minister with a request to suspend the national championship.

"Green" believe that a flagrant injustice was allowed in relation to their team, and until this case is investigated properly, the tournament cannot be continued. However, the Greek football Federation has already condemned such a position, saying that scandalists would not be able to "turn the sports problem into political." “The events at the Apostlees Nikolaidis are worthy of contempt for all the country's football fans,” the representative of the federation said. “Squints of intimidation and a cowardly attack on the judge are able to put a cross on all the achievements of Greek football, which we have recently achieved.”