The first serious dietary mistake in Superleague 1starring referee Dimitris Karantonis, was enough to cause hard punches.

The referee from Imathia, by his decision to stop the phase for a non-existent foul before the goal of Asteras Tripoli in the game with Olympiacos (0:0), is sure that he will enter the ice (at least until the break of the championship for the World Cup), which also applies to Angelos Evangelos, who was in VAR.

The aforementioned was “photographed” – without naming the judges – by the new head of KED, Steve Bennett, describing their performance as “unacceptable” and announcing “internal disciplinary action” and “additional education and training for several months for these officials”.

Earlier, Superleague President and EPO 2nd Vice-President Vangelis Marinakis made an emergency visit to the federation’s office and framed all the judges’ mistakes. In an hour-long meeting he had with EPO President Takis Baltakos and others, he discussed the need for 50-50 refereeing and how refereeing errors should be treated the same in all cases, mentioning other bad refereeing in the first two matches. for example, Tsilos in the match PAOK – Atromitos, as well as Kutsiavtis in the match Lamia – AEK. At the same time, according to the information, the issue of professional arbitration was also discussed. Reportedly, the president of the organizer informed Mr. Baltako that the League, having received the approval of FIFA-UEFA, is “launching” the project and that in the next few days he will be able to announce the direct partner Mark Clattenberg, as well as the first Greek referees who will take part in the project, agreeing to leave their jobs by signing professional contracts with SL1.

What the president of Superleague 1 and Olympiacos discussed with T. Baltakos – Discomfort among the Greek referees.

The goal of the cooperative is to bring professional arbitration into force during the football season (from the beginning of 2023), which, of course, requires an appropriate legislative initiative to give the Super League the first voice in its matters. The same information says that in the coming days the full plan will be submitted to the Ministry of Sports.

Karantonis’ refereeing, however, rules out any possibility of appointing a Greek referee for the upcoming Thessaloniki Ari-PAOK derby. In fact, the Greek arbitrators believe that this specific arbitrage was disastrous for them at a time when, combined with a change in leadership at QED, they hoped that the big games would begin to whistle again and regain lost confidence in their person. .

“Not only derbies we won’t be able to whistle, but even games between big teams and small teams after what happened…” said the current SL1 referee…