Surreal events preceded the AEK Athens-Aris Thessaloniki match in the 4th round of the Greek Super League playoffs. In order to ensure impartiality, the Greek federation invited a quartet of Polish referees to Sunday’s meeting. The head judge It would have been Pawel Raczkowski, his two assistants would have been Radoslaw Siecka and Adam Kupcik, and Kristof Jakubik would have worked in the VAR room.
The conditional method is justified by the fact that the Polish sportsmen on Saturday’s Warsaw-Athens flight immediately began to empty the alcohol supply and thoroughly poured it down the throat, reports Marca with reference to the gazzetta.gr portal. So much so that on the plane they spoke with the Greek passengers who live and work in Poland, so they speak both languages. Polish referees are said to have spoiled Greek football, forgetting that the passengers might understand what they were saying.
The scandal broke out when two Greek passengers, father and son, complained about what they had heard.At this, the Polish sportsmen started shouting, and one of them allegedly spat at one of the passengers when they were already picking up their luggage.
This is the passengers’ version, but the Polish referees presented a completely different story. According to them, it is not true that they got drunk, anyway, they are professionals and would not do anything like that. They claim that two Polish-speaking Greek passengers insulted them for no particular reason, saying that they were Panathinaikos fans and that when they arrived in Athens they would make sure that the Raczkowskis could not drive AEK– Aris match.
BREAKING NEWS🚨
New reports are saying that witnesses on the plane SAW the referees and they WERE NOT DRUNK DURING THE FLIGHT!
According to THE WITNESSES REPORT THAT ALL THE ALLEGATIONS ARE FAKE! #SLGR #AEKARIS
— Georgios Sideridis (@gsideridiss) April 9, 2023
According to Raczkowski, one of the Greeks even spat them down on the ground. The intervention of the police prevented an even bigger scandal.
Raczkowski’s version continues that a representative of the association was waiting for them, and when the Poles wanted to file a complaint, he dissuaded them from doing so. After that, they went to the hotel, and the next morning, the representative of the association informed them that they would not be refereeing on Sunday night.
The two versions are diametrically opposed to each other. What is an irrefutable fact: AEK won the match 3-1, with Greek referees officiating.
