A Greek football manager has been handed a four-month touchline ban in the wake of footage showing him attempting to confront a rival supporter.<br /><br />After a narrow 1-0 defeat to rivals AEK Athens - where ex-Spurs star Erik Lamela scored the winner - PAOK boss Razvan Lucescu was lunging at a stadium car park fan. <br /><br />Footage that appeared on X appeared to show Lucescu rushing down the team bus stairs and stumbling as he rushed out to confront the AEK supporter.<br /><br />A report from IAmSport claimed Lucescu had been irked by the fans, who lifted an AEK shirt from six years ago towards the bus as they walked through the car park.<br /><br />Though PAOK staff attempted to restrain Lucescu, they could not, and the police were forced to intervene.<br /><br />In the clip, a large group of officers rushes towards Lucescu as he attempts to make his way to the AEK fans. <br /><br />It's been reported that Lucescu and his assistants Pantelis Konstantinidis, Georgios Tsonakas, Georgios Theodoridis, and Athanasios Kapoulas have all been handed the fine. <br /><br />Reports claim that the coaching staff were each fined £12,400 (€15,000) for their roles in the ordeal. PAOK themselves were handed a £24,800 (€30,000) fine. <br /><br />AEK Athens manager Matias Almeyda was involved in a heated brawl after a fiery derby against PAOK descended into unsightly scenes following the final whistle.<br /><br />In shameful chaos in Greece, AEK lost 3-2 to their rivals in a crucial match in the Super League title race and the result lit the fuse on a chaotic altercation.<br /><br />Almeyda was caught on camera at full-time venting his fury before becoming involved in a fracas as a small crowd of bodies gathered around the dugout.<br /><br />The 50-year-old was spotted pushing Sergio Araujo, his player, and a substitute, and then went on to confront several people, forcing police to step in.<br /><br />PAOK's Taison and several AEK coaches looked to hold Almeyda back but they were unsuccessful as he wriggled away and grabbed another person by the neck.<br /><br />Eventually, Almeyda was dragged out of the melee and the flare-up petered out.<br /><br />According to the Greek publication Sportal, the man seemingly throttled by Almeyda was an official working for the Sub-Directorate of Sports Violence Prevention. <br /><br />Meanwhile, in December last year, the Greek government announced top-flight football matches would be played behind closed doors until February 12 after a police officer was injured in clashes between rival fans.<br /><br />The action was taken after a police officer suffered a severed artery in their thigh in violence during a volleyball match in Athens.<br /><br />The match was between rivals Olympiacos and Panathinaikos, with both teams owned by football clubs carrying the same name.<br /><br />Pavlos Marinakis, a Government spokesperson, announced after a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that all top-flight football matches would be held behind closed doors for two months.
