By Chris Wright
During today’s Greek Cup tie between Veria and Apollon Smyrni, Veria striker Charalampos Pavlidis appeared to deliberately used his hand to prevent his own shot from crossing the Apollon goal-line.
The highly curious and decidedly dodgy incident can be seen at the 0:19 mark on this here video (apologies in advance for the dreadful audio track)…
GIF version…
Hmmm. The fact that Pavlidis seems positively delighted with his (‘scuse the pun) handiwork sets alarm bells ringing left, right and centre.
For the record, the game ended 1-1, with Veria’s goal coming courtesy of Nigel Hasselbaink: son of Jimmy Floyd.
(Video via Reddit)