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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Greece suspends professional football due to fears of crowd violence

• Crackdown on violence led by new Syriza government• Third time this season Greek football has been shut downGreece’s professional football leagues have been suspended indefinitely in a bid to crackdown on crowd violence, the top-flight Super League announced on Wednesday.The move follows a pitch invasion at the end of the Athens derby last weekend and a Super League board meeting which ended in a brawl on Tuesday, with Greece’s recently elected Syriza party aiming to stamp out the problem of crowd violence. Continue reading...


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