Back from the dead (or finally out of an extensive coma)

By: Peter Katsiris | December 16th, 2009

Yes you read correctly, I am still alive, and on that note so is the Olympiacos CFP blog. I’ve been taught not to make any excuses in life, and the following is the least bit manufactured, but a summer of hard-work by yours truly quickly transpired into the school year (my second of a forecasted four years at university) that has felt like a coma since its start in early-September – the marvels of university life, I suppose? But in any case the past is the past, and there’s no changing that; however, I can try making up for the lengthy “MIA” spell.

So here is what I have planned for the next few days in order to catch-up, and it’s something students, those at university now and whom have attended in the past, can maybe relate to. Just like the exam period, where many scramble to learn the course material that has been taught for the last couple of months in a mere 3-4 days. It’s an ironic practice of time-management, which is something that is preached to students before they entire post-secondary school institutions, where students who neglect managing their time studying and staying on top of course material do so at the very death of the course or semester in an attempt to ace the final exam – a feat sometimes required to save their skins from the fiery hell known as failure.

So without further a due, I present the line-up for the next few days:

1)      Summer Transfers and News: An anthology of reports through the first-half of the season.
2)      Greek Super League: Reviewing the quest for another domestic double
3)      UEFA Champions League Campaign: From qualifiers to the quest for the quarter-finals
4)      Report Cards: Player Reviews
5)      Christmas Wish List: Winter Transfer Targets

A lot has changed since I…stepped out: there is a Panathinaikos blog on the website (one that like the club’s title hopes started off promising to those ignorant of Greek football, and soon collapsed), and the AEK blog led by my colleague on various levels, Chris Paraskevas, appears to be the only Greek blog with a pulse (the irony is just so rich — (rich: an antonym that can be used to describe AEK — and commenting on this allows me to realize just how much of Greek Football geek I am). But I’m about to change all that is on this website — a least from a Greek standpoint. So prepare for a whirlwind of reports over the next few days as I try to restore some decency in this blog