IT’S A SHOOTOUT
FOOTIE BOSS RUNS ON WITH HIS GUN
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POLICE are hunting a football club owner who led a pitch invasion carrying a gun.
Ivan Savvidis, 58, stormed on to the field during a clash between PAOK and AEK Athens in Greece.
He was angry after his PAOK team had a goal disallowed.
Mr Savvidis ran on to the pitch flanked by four bodyguards with a pistol in its cover. He is accused of threatening the referee.
Players from the rival team fled to their dressing room and the Greek SuperLeague has now been suspended.
AEK manager Manolo Jiménez said: “It’s the type of thing you expect to see in a Clint Eastwood movie.”
Police have issued an arrest warrant for Savvidis, who is one of Greece’s richest men and a close pal of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Officers searched the city of Thessaloniki, where PAOK play their home games, to find the Greek-Russian businessman and his bodyguards.
Christos Theodorakopoulos, a member of the conservative New Democracy party, branded the incident “disgraceful”.