“They want him beheaded!” - Rui Borges attacked, ex reacts | OneFootball

Tito Arantes Fontescame out in defense ofRui Borges ahead of Sporting’s home match against Arouca, in the seventh round of the National Championship. In a column dedicated to the Lions’ current situation, the former president of Sporting’s General Assembly Board harshly criticized what he sees as a campaign against the coach, arguing that the manager deserves the fans’ support.

“The disproportionate attack on Sporting and on the coach, whom so many bargain-basement commentators and those in the pay of the ‘two-tone power’ want to see beheaded — and now! — in the public square!” he wrote in the newspaper 'Record', arguing that this movement aims to “smear Sporting, belittle it, destabilize it.”

In the same analysis, he recalled the results achieved by Rui Borges since taking charge of Sporting, particularly highlighting the national title won in 2025 and the victory in the Portuguese Cup: “All it took was the draw in Famalicão for all those people to uncontrollably pour out their bile on Rui Borges, disrespecting the man, attacking his work, his character!” he said.

Tito Arantes Fontes also stressed the club’s European and domestic run, recalling Sporting’s place in the Champions League quarter-finals: “Rui Borges does, however, and unfortunately for those people, have a significant track record at Sporting! Because — besides having been champion and won the domestic double, and having brilliantly reached the quarter-finals of the millionaire Champions League last year (just a few months ago!) — in his more than 20 months in charge of the Lions, he has only two defeats in league matches!”

To conclude, the former official criticized the refereeing in Famalicão: “I will leave for the next column the relentless attack that refereeing has carried out against Sporting... because it is plain for all to see what we have suffered this season, see the unspeakable case of the degrading display of hatred toward Sporting that Luís Godinho and his VAR (Bruno Esteves) perpetrated in the last round in Famalicão!” he concluded.

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