The discussion of its arbitration Stoiximan Super League was in the spotlight right from the premiere of the championship. KED/EPO he decided not to punish them Sidiropoulos, Fotia and Zambalafor whom there were complaints, while, in fact, for the first one there was an admission of his mistake by Stéphane Lanoislike revealed the Kyriakos Thomaidis through it News Bulletin 247.
The former president of the EPO, Takis Baltakosspoke to News Bulletin 247 and on the show “Pressing” of Vayu Tsuchika and Michalis Tsochouemphasizing that the French referee has two paths. Either to immediately reinstate the nine referees he removed from the boards or to explain the criteria by which he made this decision.
Takis Baltakos spoke about:
-the disputed phases, the analysis of Stéphane Lanois, the fact that there was no punishment of the referees who are the protagonists in the decisions: “The video was expected, we had seen it over the weekend, it was not news. All was said at the weekend. The tradition is that they leave the referee out while the KED/EPO decides. I think that this cannot be done now, as with 18 referees the championship cannot come out. If there are 16, 14, 12 referees, the championship cannot take place. At the moment there is a difficulty because the number of referees is limited, the numbers do not come out in any way. If he punishes them, who will judge? I don’t want to criticize this (including how this data was generated) because I don’t have an institutional role now. I am very much in favor of Greek arbitration. I always see it more generally and broadly. I have said and I believe that Greece is not… a banana, nor is the EPO a regional coffee shop in Europe. We should never have reached the point where Greece needs the presence of foreign referees, we are back in the 60s. Greek referees are excellent, but they are excellent when they go to Indonesia to play FIFA U21 World Cup.
When they’re playing in fear that someone curious might show up and say “you sent a message two years ago that I didn’t like”, so I cut you off and you’re great, what are they going to do. The referees are more unprotected than the police. What I have in mind is that in the last two years the penultimate matchday was decided in the penultimate matchday and the last match was decided in the last matchday. Whatever has been said about the referee and Freundfeld, who was chosen by me and not by UEFA, what matters is that the championships were competitive until the last second. The result counts. Arbitrations can never be good. Obviously mistakes are made, referees are not robots. Referees will make mistakes too. Journalists make mistakes, lawyers make mistakes, doctors make mistakes. Only the… Pope is infallible».
-whether he felt more secure with foreign referees in his two years of presence: “In the derby, of course. I knew very well that if a Greek referee played, the questioning would start from the sidelines. Why did he put him in? About who brought him, who put him in, who set him up, who messed with him. So, I necessarily accepted foreign referees in derbies. Not that foreign referees are better. Foreigners came who were of a lower profile than the Greeks, but at least they didn’t say why he gave an offside and after 17 passes a goal was scored and the offside is to blame.”
-whether he made a complaint about Lanois to the French Football Federation: “I didn’t make a complaint, what I did was that, because I know well how a Federation works and especially the French Federation, I informed the Federation, I didn’t make a complaint. I have a friendly relationship with Mr. Diallo because he is a lawyer, he is also a member of the UEFA Executive Committee. Each referee belongs to the Federation, not to the one going or to UEFA. I informed and said that it would be good to be asked by what criteria he removed nine referees in five days from the tables, two of which are international. I sent it yesterday, no reply to it. Mr. Diallo also sent me what happened to Mrs. Frapar. He will not answer, but will ask his referee. what did you do How did you do it? I expect Mr. Diallo will look into this. I don’t blame Mr. Lanois, because I don’t know. Either he’ll have asked the Pythia at the Oracle of Delphi and she’ll tell him you’ll be the new umpire, so he’ll be looking for months, which I’m obviously joking about, or he’ll be staying up late at home in France looking for videos or gathering information. How would she filter the information? There is also the ruffian, the devil. It is completely inexplicable and unjustified that he took out nine referees. Mr. Lanois has two options. Either you should restore them immediately. He should judge them on their performance in the run up to November and not on what’s circulating in the coffee shops».
-how the referees were cut and the placement of Makis Gagatsis: “If he said that, Makis Gagatsis is respected because he is president. Mr. Gagatsis is completely uninvolved in this. In one month he has done what other presidents have not done in two years. I will not say anything bad about Makis Gagatsis. If these are his criteria, he should say so. To say that I judged with competitive criteria. The Constitution of the country says that nothing can be done without listening to the accuser. Mr. Manouhos is at home and looks at the walls. He should either reinstate them or publicly explain what his criteria were. I believe that there will be an investigation by the French federation, I say this after knowledge.
Mr. Lanois needs to clarify his position on the matter. Above all it is FIFA and not UEFA. If someone has not done their job properly, you are referred to FIFA’s Ethics Committee and you can be banned from football for ten years. Silence breeds suspicion and suspicion breeds toxicity and toxicity we know what it breeds. The nine must return. If the EPO has the first reason and creates this institution of professional arbitration, then it will not be easy to bowl them over.
Last year at the FIFA conference in the four-year renewal of Infantino’s tenure, I raised this issue, he said refereeing is boring. I can’t deal with the National Team. I said the arbitration should go to the League. They replied that if you do this, the next day we will be in Athens
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Source: Sport Fm
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