NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Here’s a Benfica fan declaring his support to Arsenal against the corruption of FC Porto in the Champions League.

So I let you know this, in order to make you understand how their victories were obtained all over this 25 years:

- FCP’s President, Pinto da Costa (PC), and many collaborators were caught in about 50 phone calls to referees or referees’ president, asking for easy games.

- The trade was made often with prostitutes, vacations and money.

- Due to the limitations to phone listening by the police, many accusations were drop and never came to court.

- However 3 games went to court and are expecting to be judged. In one of the matches it’s known and proved that the referee was in PC’s house in the evening before the game.

- At this time the Portuguese FA also started a inquiry in order to investigate the facts involving the 3 matches.

- Porto was declared guilty for attempt to corrupt (?!!!) in 2 of the 3 matches

- Why is that? Why attempt and not consumed corruption? Because the Portuguese FA regulations ridiculously consider that even if you ask for the favour and pay for it (what is proved for the 2 games) it’s needed to prove that the referee really helped the paying team. That is so subjective that the experts failed (or were asked to fail) to prove this benefice. However the referee’s, incomprehensibly, were condemned of consumed corruption. No need to say that this regulations were made by a very well known FCP Supporter, also involved in football TV shows where he is representing the club.

- So PC, who asked and paid for the help, was merely guilt of attempt to corrupt. The sanction for this is the deduction of 3 points per game (6 in total) in the season when the sentence was read. This was in the end of last season of Portuguese league.

- As they were more or less 20 points ahead at that time and with the fear that if they recur the punishment could be taken this season, they didn’t do it, declaring to anyone that they really are corrupts. However, in a personal way and not dangering this season to FCP, PC recurred himself as he was also condemned.

- When UEFA declared that FCP may not participate, due to a regulation made after the calciocaos in order to punish corrupt clubs that are not really punished in their own countries, they rushed to try to involve FCP in PC recursion. This could be possible in Portugal because in a condemnation where more than one person (or entity) are accused for the same facts if one condemned recurs and wins, all the other condemned are beneficed. But that was not the case, because in one of the matches it was not PC that corrupted the referee, but a collaborator. That means that FCP could never recur for that match, as the deadline for that was passed and PC didn’t recurred for that match.

- So, in first place, they tried to confuse UEFA, sending paid Portuguese FA members to UEFA, saying that PC’s recursion could benefice FCP. Then, when his recursion was about to be decided, in a meeting of a comitee of 7 Portuguese judges, and very close to the UEFA’s deadline to solve this problem in order to punish FCP this season, the comitee’s president, observing that 5 of the 7 judges were voting for the condemnation, finished the meeting, without any decision made. However the other 5 members dismissed their president (something they could do) and started another meeting and declared PC as guilty of all charges.

- Of course that the confusion created by the comitee’s president allowed FCP to recur about the second meeting and UEFA, with no effective condemnations when the deadline came, nothing could do.

- 15 days later, the second meeting was validated and the condemnations were effective, but not in time to avoid the corrupts to participate in the Champions League.

- Apparently, Sir Alex Ferguson knew what he was talking about when he said that FCP buys championships in the supermarket. That was said at the time of the clash between FCP and Man Utd in 2003/04, where FCP beneficed from a Man Utd legal but invalidated goal and also the season of the majority of the phone calls recorded.

What about that?

THANK ARE YOU DO SO.
HAVE A NICE TIME.
WENGER

@SF: Yeah mate if you ever head out this way Portland or Seattle we’ll have to meet up even if it’s not for a match, just to have a pint and talk footy. Just give me some notice.