“Given the sensitive nature of football governance in Greece with the recent match fixing ... to carry a gun the warrant relates to the pitch invasion. “Ivan (Savvidis) didn’t threaten ...

After half an hour of negotiations, Greek football league officials, in fear of the mob that had invaded the pitch, agreed to stage a parody of a winning ceremony which Atromitos players agreed to ...

A league game between Greek football giants Panathinaikos and Olympiakos ... some of whom were masked – invading the outside of the pitch and attacking the Olympiakos substitutes and those ...

On the pitch, the quality has dropped ... played for Levadiakos in Greece in 2013-14. He described Greek football as "a total mafia" in an interview with French football magazine So Foot.

A AEL Larissa statement said the protest was "in memory of the hundreds of children losing their lives every day" Footballers in Greece staged a sit-in protest at the start of a game over the ...

a club director throwing a miniskirt at the president of the Greek football federation, threatened lawsuits, ultras invading the pitch, a ref being hit in the knackers and an attempt to stop a ...

and a row erupting between the new Greek government and Uefa and Fifa. Football violence has also spiralled out of control, with riot police regularly seen on the pitch. However, despite the long ...

More than that, 2014-15 has been a difficult year for Greek football on the whole. Olympiakos crashed out of the Champions League at the group stages while off the pitch, numerous violent ...

In Greece, fights between football fans and clubs are frequent on and off the pitch before or after a game and the government has been trying to reform football. More than 400 people had been ...

The issues in Greek football go beyond incidents in the stands and out on the streets. Off the pitch, the sport has been tarnished by accusations of refereeing bias and corruption. Hatchard added ...