Miguel Guedes says Varandas invents rows between Sporting and Porto | OneFootball

Miguel Guedes addressed the tense atmosphere in Portuguese football and indirectly criticized the way some public narratives have been built by Frederico Varandas. The Porto supporter frames André Villas Boas’s recent statements in response to Frederico Varandas’s accusations in the Luís Suárez case as arguing that certain readings of football end up drifting away from reality.

“Imagination is an admirable quality, but it can also be a problem when it leaves the territory of creation and begins to take the place of facts. Some accusations are born from evidence, and some accusations are born from the need to find someone to blame for events that did not go as expected. It is a very old disease in our football: the inability to accept that not every event follows conspiracy theories, instead of imagining things on behalf of others,”

Miguel Guedes then criticizes what he describes as the tendency to involve the Dragons in external explanations: “In recent years, Sporting’s president seems to have developed a peculiar relationship with Porto, as a secondary character in his explanations.”

The columnist reinforces that idea: “It is a curious way of acknowledging importance to those who truly have it, in a kind of supernatural omnipresence that influences elections in Turkey, affects refereeing, interferes in international negotiations and, one imagines, perhaps controls the tides and winds of the Mediterranean.”

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