Sporting accuse Porto of towel theft and hot dressing room | OneFootball

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·10 February 2026

Sporting accuse Porto of towel theft and hot dressing room

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The classic match between FC Porto and Sporting was marked by several incidents, with the Lions lodging various complaints.

The main grievance concerns the alleged theft of several towels from the goals where Rui Silva was stationed, towels that the goalkeeper used to dry his gloves in the heavy rain that hit the north of the country.


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Sporting also released images of the visitors’ locker room which, according to FC Porto, has been decorated since September with covers highlighting the achievements of the blue and whites—visible on the walls, above the urinals, and on the doors of the shower stalls. The same source insists that the intention was not to provoke the national double champions, but to showcase a decoration that the public can see when visiting the club’s museum, which includes precisely the visitors’ locker room.

Furthermore, Sporting complained that the dressing room where their players changed was set to the maximum temperature—the explanation from Porto being “centralized climate control.” Below is also an image of FC Porto’s ball boys who, with the score at 1-0, allegedly hid several replacement balls.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.

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