The Spaniard, who is back on the coach bench of the red-whites after 15 months, is determined to put the fatal state of the team to an end. Will time support him however?

The lack of electricity not only leaves holiday-makers in the dark, but without air-conditioning and hot water (available only if electric water heaters work), turning the summer vacation from fun into summer hell.

“We are hardly surviving,” this was the conclusion of the owner of an Italian shoe shop with 25 years of history on the central Athens street Pindaru. You can hear these words from every small shop and commercial establishment in Greece this summer.