Olympiakos v Fiorentina: Europa Conference League final – live

Olympiakos v Fiorentina: Europa Conference League final – live

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Style guide. The Guardian, along with the BBC by the looks of it, spells the name of our Greek heroes as Olympiakos. Other editorial institutions say “ochi!” and write it up as Olympiacos instead; those include Uefa, the Press Association (who supply our automated score feed at the top of the page) and, er, the club themselves. So why do we do what we do? Let our style guru, production editor and general font of all knowledge Philip Cornwall explain.

It’s moot, transliteration always debatable. I inherited a keyword written that way, we always use Kos not Cos for the island, the 2000 Olympic champ turned 2003 drug test avoider calls himself Kostas Kenteris. But if I didn’t have 64 other things to think about I might change this one to Olympiacos.

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