Attacking players fine, decorating dressing rooms scandal: welcome to Portuguese football | OneFootball

About a month ago, the match between FC Porto and Sporting caused a wave of outrage in the Lisbon media. The reason? Photographs of FC Porto's achievements on the walls of the visiting team's locker room at Dragão. Permanent decoration, available to any visitor to the club's museum. Days and days of headlines, debates, heated comments, demands for accountability.

Now let's look at this week. Pepê gets hit on the head with a lighter, thrown from the stands at Luz. Our forward had to receive medical assistance. Gabri Veiga dodged a water bottle by mere centimeters. Dangerous objects thrown at players during the game.

A week ago, Cláudio Pereira, referee of the Sporting vs. FC Porto match, was hit with a lighter.

How many headlines? How many debates? How many commentators demanding exemplary punishments?

Little to nothing. Case closed.

The summary of Portuguese football in two lines: a newspaper cover on a wall deserves weeks of national scandal. A lighter hitting an opposing player and a referee deserves a footnote, at most.

Double standards. Two measures. A completely skewed compass — and we all know which direction it points.

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