Miguel Guedes says Varandas invents rows between Sporting and Porto | OneFootball

Miguel Guedes addressed the climate of tension in Portuguese football and made indirect criticisms of the way some public narratives have been shaped by Frederico Varandas. The Porto supporter frames the recent statements by André Villas Boas in response to Frederico Varandas’s accusations in the Luís Suárez case, arguing that certain readings of football end up drifting away from reality.

“Imagination is an admirable quality, but it can also be a problem when it leaves the realm of creation and starts taking the place of facts. There are accusations born from evidence, and there are accusations born from the need to find someone to blame for events that did not go as expected. It is a very old disease in our football: the inability to accept that not every event follows conspiracy theories, and to stop imagining things on behalf of others,”

Miguel Guedes then criticizes what he describes as the tendency to involve the Dragons in outside explanations: “In recent years, Sporting’s president seems to have developed a peculiar relationship with Porto, as a secondary character in his explanations.”

The columnist reinforces that idea: “It is a curious way of acknowledging importance to those who truly have it, in a kind of supernatural omnipresence that influences elections in Turkey, affects refereeing, interferes in international negotiations and, one imagines, perhaps controls the tides and winds of the Mediterranean as well.”

The musician ends with a criticism of the way certain interpretations end up moving away from the facts and into the realm of speculation: “At a certain point, creativity stops being an argument and turns into fantasy literature. While some look for Porto influence in Turkish negotiations, Porto is busy with more prosaic matters, such as building a team”.

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