Greece suspends professional football due to fears of crowd violence

• Crackdown on violence led by Syriza party

• Matches suspended indefinitely while problem is addressed

• Third time this season Greek football has been shut down

Greece’s professional football leagues have been suspended indefinitely in a bid to crackdown on crowd violence, the top-flight Super League announced on Wednesday.

The move follows a pitch invasion at the end of the Athens derby last weekend and a Super League board meeting which ended in a brawl on Tuesday, with Greece’s recently-elected Syriza party aiming to stamp out the problem of crowd violence.

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