Villas-Boas blasts refereeing in Sporting games, warns Varandas | OneFootball

André Villas-Boas once again took aim at Sporting and Frederico Varandas. Porto’s president leveled harsh criticism at the refereeing in the lions’ matches and also took an ironic swipe at the green-and-white leader, in a new exchange of barbs between rivals.

In the August edition of ‘Dragões’ magazine, Villas-Boas addressed refereeing and accused Sporting’s matches of following a pattern favorable to the green and whites. “In refereeing, however, there is one truly comforting piece of news: the much-proclaimed standardization of criteria does, after all, exist! While Porto’s matches have become genuine essays on blindness, with crystal-clear penalties evaporating until VAR has the decency to bring them back into the game, in Sporting’s matches, refereeing chance reveals an almost moving randomness: decisive incidents always seem to go the same way and benefit the same side.”

The Porto chief continued in the same critical tone. “Between goals wrongly disallowed for opponents and red cards that go unshown, the cycle repeats itself with a regularity that should fill with pride those who promised to standardize criteria. It is not easy to make so many coincidences always go in the same direction year after year, especially with VAR, but here too one can recognize the quality of the work being done.”

After criticizing the refereeing, André Villas-Boas addressed Frederico Varandas directly, the lions’ president, returning to the subject of sporting integrity and once again using irony to send a message to Sporting’s top leader.

“So let us wait for the next appearance by Sporting’s president, at some book fair, to enlighten us on the subject. Perhaps he will take the opportunity to present the second volume of his work on sporting integrity, this time with the suggestive title: ‘The possible standardization and the miracle of permanent coincidence’,” he concluded.

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