Merry Christmas and happy new year

Merry christmas and a happy new year to all of my readers. This blog is going through a test period and will take its final form during January.

I am not in the mood of analyzing yesterday's results but it seems that some teams never change their attitude against big teams! Despite the change from A'Ethniki to Superliga, all the constants remain the same.

Today i have two soccer picks and one basketball pick. Send me an e-mail to get them.

Kasnaferis' Comments

Kasnaferis was the ref of yesterday's game between PAOK and Levadeiakos which ended 1-0 with a late winner for the home side.

The unsual was that Kasnaferis decided to withdraw himself from the game 20'' sec before the end!!!!!!! He was replaced by the 4th ref. Later, he explained that he was feeling dizzy because he was very annoyed by PAOK's fans!

That's a quite unusual event for the European standards. There is more to that which unfortunately i cannot reveal on this blog. Just keep in mind that Kaznaferis has some "strange" connections.


Today there are some interesting Cup games on basketball, and my pick comes from there. As always, send me an e-mail.

TRITH 20/12/2007

Today three greek teams compete for the UEFA competition while Aris is playing against the French Le Mans for the Euroleague competition.

Aris doesn't have any other option but to win this game. Aris players must be serious and play good offense. Aris will win but will they cover the handicap ?

As for the Greek teams, Panathinaikos is playing in Spain against Atletico Madrid, Larisa is playing at home against Nurnberg and AEK in Athens against Spanish Villareal. I can't say who will be the winner on these games, since the motives of all teams are in question. But i believe we can easily predict O/U bets.



I have two picks for today, send me an e-mail to get them for free !

Olympiacos - Aek Aftermath

Well, as i told you, Olympiacos was the better team and won rightfully by 1-0. That was our first bet ;)

I would like to make some comments on the game's aftermath.

AEK's player ZHKOS made a rather offending comment not only about the game's refs but the refs that are in charge of Olympiacos' home games. He stated that the Refs are playing like "pussies" on Olympiaco's home games. I believe that this statement is quite correct. Olympiacos always has the refs favor when playing at home.

AEK's Rivaldo was quite dissappointed not only because he lost a good opportunity to score but because Oly's fans' behaviour was not very polite. Olympiaco's fans seem that they have forgotten all the good things that Rivaldo did for them.......

Anyway, my next pick will be from Euroleague.

Olympiacos - Aek Athens

This game is a big crash test for both teams.

Olympiacos managed to qualify to Champion's League for the first time after so many years and is consindered to be a great success. As for AEK, is leading the Greek Superliga, 3 points ahead of Olympiacos and Panathinaikos.

Olympiacos' fans can hardly wait for the game to start and te stadium will be fully packed. The ref of the game will be Kakos , an average ref who i believe won't spoil the game.

Olympiacos has by far a better squad in comparison to AEK . My first pick will be from this game.

Hello from Athens

Hello there,

My name is Nick Papadopoulos and i am a manager on a industry leading sports company here in Greece. My occupation gives me the priveledge to contact and have good relations with many greek sports teams on several sports.

Here you will find my comments on Greek sports' issues or previews for some games which i believe they require attention. I won't post too often due to lack of time.

As for my picks, you must send me an e-mai at hellenibet@mail.gr and will send it to your e-mail. I won't post picks here!