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Evangelos Marinakis, the man who took Nottingham Forest back to the Premier League
There’s no doubt he has an aura.
Evangelos Marinakis fills the seat that was specially put in for him when he became the new owner of Nottingham Forest. It is not quite a throne, but it is bigger than all the others. It is polished before every home game. It is the only seat in the entire stadium that has its own special cover.
There was a time when he was an infrequent visitor to Nottingham and it was unusual for him to attend games.
When Marinakis had his first look at the City Ground in , the people who accompanied him remember his face darkening when he realised how far it lagged behind the Karaiskakis stadium, home of Olympiacos, his Greek club.
This season, though, Forest are back in the Premier League and Marinakis divides his time between watching Olympiacos and flying to England, if he is not already at his London residence, to follow the team he has bankrolled with a flex of his financial muscle.
The fans are happy to see him. They wave from different parts of the stand. On television, at the first game of the season, one supporter shook his hand and followed it up by genuflecting — arms up, palms out — in his direction. Marinakis took Forest back to the Premier League and, after
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Derby Days, Athens: The Derby of the Eternal Enemies
Over the next few months, The Athletic will be attending some of the most ferocious derbies across Europe, charting the history of the continent’s most deep-rooted and volatile rivalries. The first of the series takes us to Greece. This is the story of Olympiacos versus Panathinaikos.
Ecstasy (noun): an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement. From the Greek ecstasis (standing outside oneself)
It was a sudden, three-pronged assault on the senses. The smell of gunpowder. The sight of a hundred red flares lighting up the night sky. And oh, the noise; an almighty, prolonged, ear-splitting roar, punctuated by the bang of one firecracker after another.
They call it the Derby of the Eternal Enemies and 48 hours in Athens leaves you wondering whether that might actually be underselling it.
Nowhere in European football, arguably, do emotions run higher — and when Olympiacos substitute Marios Vrousai raced clear in the 89th minute to break the resistance of Panathinaikos, putting a serious dent in their arch-rivals’ Greek Super League title hopes, there was a surge of euphoria, an explosion of joy but also relief, like a valve had been opened to release all that fear and loathing.
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