Short memories: Bodo were “small fry” until Sporting got thrashed | OneFootball

Remember? It wasn't that long ago. FC Porto lost 3-2 in Bodø, on a cold night in Norway, and the Lisbon press was quick to prepare the coffin. "Shameful defeat," "team without European level," "lost against who?!" — the festival of outrage was epic. Bodo Glimt, of course, was presented as a team of Arctic fishermen that any "serious" club would beat with their eyes closed.

Well then. Sporting has just been beaten 3-0 on the exact same stage.

Three. To zero. No discussion.

Funny how Bodo Glimt suddenly gained a different status, isn't it? Now you hear talk of a "competitive team," "solid project from Northern Europe," "difficult game context." The collective memory of the Lisbon press has a truly admirable capacity for regeneration.

When it's FC Porto losing, the opposing team is from the "third world of football." When it's Sporting being thrashed by the same opponent, suddenly we're facing one of the revelations of Scandinavian football.

In Porto, we don't forget. We remember everything.

And today, with all due respect to Bodo Glimt — which is, after all, a good European team, as it was when they faced FC Porto — we can only say one thing:

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