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Thank you for bringing some sense into this argument it couldn't have been said any better...It seems like benfica fans always act like they know what they are talking about when in fact they read the headline and skipped the entire article...I mean I saw some benfica fan post on this site that porto only wins with foreign players LOLOL....another example of benfiquista idiocy? CHECK OUT THE BENFICA WIKI PAGE LOL....under eras they have "the ressurgance under jorge jesus" lololol resurgance? Lol halfway through the season and already its a new era...just wreaks of desperation....

When will the talk of corruption stop? What was found in the porto and boavista cases very different,hence the difference in punishment...if anyone is going to talk of corruption,let him quote from court evidence or similar,not freakin youtube.if ur gonna talk bout the 6 point deduction,find out from the court findings what the deduction was for and quote those here....till someone does that ur all just talkin from word of mouth and rumours,what uv heard on sites like this and from friends.forca porto,vamos lutar ate ao fim!!!

The story is getting people confused it seems, mostly pro Benfica fans who are known to be bitter and confused individuals at the best of times. The issue here is that FC Porto nor any team should have to wait such a massive amount of time for a disciplinary decision to be made. The Liga have acted like amateurs, they should have handed out the punishment within a week, perhaps max. time limit two weeks.

Also worth noting is that Benfica are not blameless in this issue, it was also demonstrated that they have fault in the issue and this is why they have been handed a fine. The video footage (have many of you even seen it??) doesn't show anything particularly shoking and I would have quite easily handed out a fine to the players and staff involved and perhaps given the players something more akin to a 6 to 8 game ban as this would have been ample discipline when compared to what has taken place, which is nothing more and nothing less than unprofessional conduct from Both FC Porto and SL Benfica staff.

So the spin off it appears here is some sort of cry for Porto getting their comeuppance, well they have gotten their comeuppance, years of hard work and years of being the underdog's they finally broke the real corruption that had taken a hold of Portuguese football and have established themselves as a serious football club. the only reason this upsets so many people is because approx. %60 of the nation supports Benfica, they were used to controlling everything with Sporting being a close second, now that this cycle has been broken everyone is up in arms, i'm not suprised, Benfica and indeed the Lisbon Mafioso had been used to dominating football in Portugal and had even been used to having the government break the law for them.

Are we likely to hear complaints from Benfica fans when their club gets bailed out by the government for the millions they owed in tax's and got away with giving up some shares instead, no of course not.

Let's just face one fact, for Porto to break the Southern bias towards the Lisbon clubs they had to fight fire with fire, Once they had broken the spell they progressed simply by being the better organized club. If it could be proved that Pinto da Costa had actually bribed anyone there would be no escaping punishment from either the Liga or Uefa, the fact is most 'evidence' is sketchy to say the least and most of the times outrageously libellous, for example a lot of so called evidence came from a bitter ex-wife.

At the end of the day FC Porto's stability and organization is what has seen our success, not bribing ref's. Befica's inability to keep a manager or President for longer than 5mins is what is their real downfall. If you actually look at the games Porto where accused of bribing the Ref we drew one game and had a penalty maked against us (hardly the actions of a bribed ref) and the other was a rather un remarkable 1-0 win.

Final point has got to be, i'm more than Happy for Benfica and their fans to focus on things like this instead of whats happening on the pitch, because it's Porto's ability to do this that has meant we have become the far more successful club in Portuguese and European history and things are only going to get better for FC Porto.

It's one thing to insult and poke fun of players, coaches and teams, but to allow someone to insult a nationality?

Out of all the posters and readers here, only Canadians were singled out. For the individual who did it, and we all know who you are, dude, whatever.

For the site, is there no filtering system, so this is how it's going to be? Hats off to a second-rate site.

Hey man, don't go making assumptions when you don't know the full story. Boavista and Porto were both punished according to the proof that the police had (as we all know the phone lines were tapped) Proof was found that Boavista had done enough match fixing significantly enough for them to be demoted. On the other hand, Porto was only found guilty in 6 points worth of match fixing... We who live in Portugal know what's going on here, don't try manipulate us.
To everyone else: just because Pinto da Costa perfmormed match fixing recently it doesn't mean he's done that for 25 years... Remember people, jealousy makes you nasty.

Boavista & Porto were caught for the exact same corruption but the only reason why Boavista went down and Porto didn't it's probably because if Porto went down it would hurt the Portuguese Liga alot. Portugal is already in a economic crisis and it would ruin the biggest rivalry in Portugal. As much as Porto deserves to be down I have to say sadly it will never happen because the Portuguese Football Federation is too soft and UEFA are a bunch of dumbasses probably just as dumb as people in FIFA. If Porto thinks this is bad believe it's only a slap on the wrist.

anyone who saw the video knows it's worth a small fine and nothing more. it looks like a bunch of pushing and shoving going on in a group of 20 people, yet they single out hulk and sapunaru. the video doesn't even show how it got started, for all we know the steward could've been the aggressor.

wouldn't you guys just love porto in the second division... yeh i would too if my team sucked. keep bitching like little girls.

in a rebuilding year that we sold 3 stars to french teams and had our star striker suspended for no reason we're still in the race, and playing well in the champions league. that's a quality team/organization. and we would actually be tied for first if a few clean goals weren't wrongfully called offsides.

die slow porto haters

Hulk sucks, but no Porto fan wants to admit it. This only helps your team. Or is it just by chance your team has played better without him.

Smarten up Burros!

porto>benfica

Outside of portugal, Germans are laughing at Benfica.
Go HERTHA

By standing behind violence you can see why Porto have fans who attacked that store Ronaldo's sister was taking care after Porto lost to him. It disgusting that this team promotes these actions. This is not south america, you cannot fight in our games and act higher then everyone else.

Given their lack of respect for the league, these new videos showing them bribing officials would be a good opportunity to give a true punishment. As some other posters stated, bribing is an instant drop to the seconded division anywhere in the world.

it was wrong of hulk to do what he did but i disagree with the punishment its way too long, just let the man play!! porto will win it all again with or without hulk anyway portistas united we stand!!!

Ha-ha-ha!!!! Bye Bye Porto, show solidarity with your team all you want.......clearly you follow the lead of your CORRUPT president Pinto Da Costa. How is video evidence an injustice?...as suggested by many on this very website, the proper suspension should have been a ban for remainder of season and serious probation for the next year at least for those two clowns. As for the rest of the team to stand by them just shows the type of morons that play for this sad excuse of a club. Its actually a shame that the rest of the league didn't stand together like this when Porto were found of corruption in officiating bribes (six point deduction???) now that is an injustice!!! They should have been sent to the 2nd division like Boavista and stripped of all of their 12 titles in the last 15 years, because as far as I am concerned, they were all won through bribes, or through great teams put together from the money earned by being in the CL from all those years they bribed their way to dominance. Payback is often unpleasant, and history is finally catching up to Porto. Those titles truly belong to the 2nd place teams of all those years, which would be about 8 for Sporting and about 4 for Benfica. Unfortunately, the Portuguese league doesn't have the gonads like the Italian league to send one of its big clubs to its deserved destination of the 2nd tier (2a Divisao). Nevertheless, it would seem that their era of dominance/corruption is crashing down to its demise and to that I say, "Finally, justice is being served" ;-)