FC Porto fined nearly €18,000 for “injury to honour” | OneFootball

The Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Football Federation imposed a fine of 17,850 euros on FC Porto’s SAD for “damage to the honor and reputation of the sports structure’s bodies and their members,” it announced on Friday.

The sanction is related to strong criticism by the Dragons of the refereeing, as well as Benfica and Sporting, published in the Dragões Diário newsletter on February 17. “With another round of the championship completed, FC Porto remains ahead of an opponent who is forbidden by decree from losing points. The team that benefited most from the referees’ unfortunate mistakes was once again carried along against Famalicão,” could be read regarding the Lions, also mentioning names such as Frederico Varandas and Morten Hjulmand and alluding to the Eagles. “It is no surprise the complicit silence on the other side of the Segunda Circular – who clamor for even more penalties – in this Holy Alliance that aims to try to bring down FC Porto by any means,” wrote the blue and white club.

The complaint was even commented on by André Villas-Boas in the editorial of the February issue of Dragões magazine. “We were surprised by the decision of the FPF’s Refereeing Council to file a complaint against FC Porto for the informative article published in Dragões Diário which, according to the body, attacks the dignity and honor of the members who govern the Refereeing Council. The phrase ‘It seems that someone is in charge of refereeing in Portugal and it is clearly not its leaders’ was considered more damaging than the one, meanwhile filed by the Disciplinary Council, which categorically stated that Pedro Proença, Duarte Gomes, Nuno Almeida, and João Capela worked at the behest of some club presidents. It seems like a joke, but it isn’t,” said the Porto official.

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