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Asteras Tripolis: who are they?

kursaal

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A look at their emergence from regional football to the Greek Super League in ten years.

Looking at their unusual manager and star players.


Read the full article at www.thfclatest.com
 

bigspurs

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I would say that the lack of activity on this thread says a lot about our collective "Meh" towards this horse-shit of a side...
 

Spurslove

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I would say that the lack of activity on this thread says a lot about our collective "Meh" towards this horse-shit of a side...

Couldn't have put it any better myself. For my part, there's absolutely no reason to get excited about this entire nonsense of a competition until we get to the quarter-finals.
 

kursaal

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My fear is Manchester City will come third in their champions league group and drop into the Europa.
 

Spurslove

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My fear is Manchester City will come third in their champions league group and drop into the Europa.

That is the utter nonsense of the competition and why it's so hard for me to get too worked up about the Ropey League, but the same goes for Arsenal if they don't win tonight, I reckon.

You know what, part of me would love to see the smug bastards suffer the embarrassment of having to fight for their lives in the very competition they've always laughed at.
 

Gassin's finest

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The respect is strong in this thread.

Asteras sound like the Greek equivalent of a non-league side rising through the ranks and eventually mixing it with the big boys... akin to Wimbledon coming up through the leagues to win the FA Cup.

So one of those all too rare occasions of there still being some romance in the game... which I think is pretty cool.
 

kursaal

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There is no doubt that Greek club football has improved. The three Athens clubs are of a decent international standard. Olympacios beat Juventus in the Champion League last night.

It is difficult to know how good or bad this lot are tonight but we should not underestimate them after their first two Europa games.

I too hate the fornat of this Ropey league but Spurs need to take full points off Asteras in the next two games imo.
 
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