Football: Greek club Paok's owner banned for 3 years and fined over pitch invasion with gun, team lose 3 points
The gun-wielding president of PAOK Salonika has officially been banned from football for three years while the Greek SuperLeague club has suffered a hefty punishment.
He was also fined 100,000 euros (£87,000) by the Greek Superleague.
As reported by Sky Sports News, the team have also been docked three points, and picked up a hefty fine for the shocking moment of madness by the 59-year-old businessman.
The Greek government's indefinite suspension of the Greek Super League and Cup competitions, has been lifted following a meeting on Monday in which the 16 Greek Super League clubs unanimously made a decision to abide to a raft of conditions set down by the Government and the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO).
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PAOK are now five points behind the league leaders with five games remaining for the season, which resumes this Saturday.
The side were also docked three points and fined for Ivan Savvidis' actions, meaning they drop to third place in a tight championship race with AEK and Olympiakos. Athens-based AEK now have a commanding lead at the top with 57 points followed by Olympiakos with 50 and PAOK with 49 points. PAOK said they would appeal.
"We are proceeding with an appeal and wait to be judged on real facts".
The head of a FIFA committee set up last July to monitor the Greek football federation, Herbert Hubel, recommended in his report to FIFA's leadership that Greece, the 2004 European champions, be excluded from global competition. "Greek football is going to an edge", Herbert Huebel, head of a FIFA monitoring committee for Greek football, said earlier this month.
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