Kasnaferis: “It’s more likely that I’ll pull out my hair than that the playoffs will be completed”

On Metropolis 95.5 and on the show “Sti Sentra” he was hosted George Kasnaferiswith the veteran referee and former technical director of Lamia talking about the state of Greek football, the clashes between teams against the backdrop of refereeing, the possibility of not completing the playoffs of the Super League, but also the issue with foreign referees.

First, he said about whether the playoffs will be completed:I’m more likely to lose my hair than make the playoffs. Every day has a surprise, it’s all funny, what happens, both in the upper and lower category. I personally have not experienced such toxicity, there is a non-existence of institutional factors and everyone pulls the rope without caring about others».

For the foreign referees, he underlined: “Everyone else doesn’t do us, they want elites from six countries, we are talking about absurdity to the highest degree. Who are we to demand this in a country… banana? So what will we do when our teams play European competitions? Will they ask UEFA to field only six countries? Instead of sitting down and finding a formula, we say no, what we want will be done and it is also the fault of the Greek referees who will have to say, “You don’t want us? we don’t even play in the play outs”, so there is no reason for there to be a Greek referee. Also, only the big guys care about having foreigners in the playoffs as if the teams playing for relegation have no value».

While he added: “Can Sidiropoulos go to Euro 2024 and have him play Kifissia-Apollon Smyrnis and not have him play in the derby?».

For the referee Dabanovic, who was at the AEK derby with Panathinaikos: “He was tragic, he didn’t know what he wanted to perform, let’s say in the last phase he was trying to find a penalty. He seemed to have lost it and was inadequate for this level. Now what happened that he got a bad rating, got 4,500 euros and went back to Montenegro».