ThatWasShocking
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So Greek Premier League uses foreign referees sometimes to avoid accusations of bias, corruption etc in some top games.
Team of Polish referees was flying to Athens to officiate one of such high risk games
The whole story is a little mental
Greek journalist with ties to one of the teams accused Polish referees of getting drunk on a flight and getting into violent arguments with football fans and other passengers
Only people confirming that are supporters of the team that this journalist is affiliated with. There's an audio recording of an argument but some say it was doctored and journalist refuses to release the entire copy.
Refs were taken off officiating that game. Police and airline did not confirm that they were disorderly
Officials were breathalyzed but only the next day and it showed no alcohol in their blood but then again it was the next day
Now, Greeks who'd rather not have foreign refs on those high risk games claim Poles were drunk and aggressive and physically assaulted one of the fans on the plane
Polish referees claim it was provocation from one of the sides in order to get rid of them and get the Greek refs to do the game
Either way it's a bit wild and has been one of top news in Poland the last week or two
Raczkowski przerywa milczenie. Jest też drugie nagranie z lotniska w Atenach
Sport.pl dotarł do Stamatisa Voulgarisa, greckiego dziennikarza, który upublicznił nagranie z lotniska w Atenach. Polscy sędziowie mieli tam wyzywać Greków. Oryginału materiału Voulgaris udostępnić jednak nie chce. Dlaczego? - Bo to manipulacja - mówi Paweł Raczkowski, który po raz pierwszy...
So Greek Premier League uses foreign referees sometimes to avoid accusations of bias, corruption etc in some top games.
Team of Polish referees was flying to Athens to officiate one of such high risk games
The whole story is a little mental
Greek journalist with ties to one of the teams accused Polish referees of getting drunk on a flight and getting into violent arguments with football fans and other passengers
Only people confirming that are supporters of the team that this journalist is affiliated with. There's an audio recording of an argument but some say it was doctored and journalist refuses to release the entire copy.
Refs were taken off officiating that game. Police and airline did not confirm that they were disorderly
Officials were breathalyzed but only the next day and it showed no alcohol in their blood but then again it was the next day
Now, Greeks who'd rather not have foreign refs on those high risk games claim Poles were drunk and aggressive and physically assaulted one of the fans on the plane
Polish referees claim it was provocation from one of the sides in order to get rid of them and get the Greek refs to do the game
Either way it's a bit wild and has been one of top news in Poland the last week or two
