Sporting pundit slams Porto and André Villas-Boas: no sporting values | OneFootball

André Pinotes Batista’s column is generating a lot of buzz and promises to ignite the debate in Portuguese football. The commentator close to Sporting levels heavy criticism at Porto and André Villas-Boas - who could be punished - , arguing that the Dragons have no fair play.

“Farioli and the commentators close to FCP have been playing particularly dirty... Don’t get me wrong. The Dragons lead the league on merit and through hard work, but those leading them do not honour the values of sport and the most basic competitive decency”, he wrote in his piece for the newspaper Record.

The PS deputy doubled down on his opinion, stressing that the blue-and-whites still play the victim. “Week after week, they dish out straw to mislead and confuse their fans, whom they treat like idiots. On social media, on television, in newsletters and in newspapers: in 29 matchdays, Porto claims it has been wronged in every single one of them”, it reads.

André Pinotes Batista says that Porto complains about everything and everyone, and that it will not be long before they also lay the blame on the leader of the Catholic Church: “Besides their rivals, they complain about referees, VAR, journalists, commentators, the League, the Federation, refereeing experts and, before long, Pope Leo XIV himself”, he said.

In conclusion, the Sporting supporter sees it all as a genuine circus. “In the theatre, we applaud the emotions and lessons stirred in us. In the circus, the smiles with which clowns tear our faces apart. Soon, in football, the least profitable thing will be the ball. Perhaps on that day some artists will come knocking on a circus door”, he concluded.

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