Greek side Panathinaikos President Ioannis Alafouzos warned that Greek football "is at risk of being broken up unless widespread hooliganism and corruption is tackled by the state authorities," according to Matt Scott of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. Alafouzos said that he fears Greece "could be banned from participating in European competitions over the growing violence on the terraces and the constant shadow match-fixing that clouds the Greek game." That in turn "could lead to certain clubs choosing to quit the Super League football establishment." Fans' fighting has "spilled over into the boardrooms," with Alafouzos's deputy, Vasilis Constantinou, suffering a "split lip in an alleged attack by a bodyguard of a rival club's president at a Greek Super League directors' meeting last month." Alafouzos believes the chaos in the stands "is fuelled by the perception among supporters of endemic match-fixing in the Greek game." Alafouzos: "Unless fans get back the confidence that the games that are played inside the field are honest and the results are not predetermined, I don't think that this problem can be resolved" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 3/18).
