OPINION
Opinion by João Rosado. João Pinheiro’s controversial decision in São Miguel was not properly dissected.
Tascas and tablets could summarize Rui Borges’ career and lexicon since he was hired by Sporting. The one that starts with “t” seems to haunt the… Trás-os-Montes native who, on the verge of completing a year in Alvalade, has as his main objective the… third championship.
The desired renewal of… Trincão is another story and is beyond the scope of the coach who today returns to Guimarães for a duel of a very high level of difficulty and which was almost ignored in the Press conference that was held yesterday by the coach in Alcochete.
During much of the conversation with journalists, the man who put Mirandela back on the media map made a point of dissecting what he saw and what he didn’t see on the bench during the infamous 12 minutes that turned Santa Clara-Sporting into the joke of the year. A little more and Rui Borges himself would have spent the same time reviewing the technical particularities that condition the viewing of images from the challenges in which he participates.
Perhaps because the club’s communications department concluded that there was an opportunity to offer a kind of public service, Sporting fans and others learned about the resources, channels and routes that serve the working group whenever there is a need for audiovisual support.
As is evident, no harm comes to the World for this decoding made with many details and revelations. No state secrets were disclosed and it will not be because of this that the two-time national champions will soon win, draw or lose at Afonso Henriques. It’s valid immediately and in the long term as well.
What sounded strange and seems unlikely to be acceptable is that the green and white structure validated the minister’s willingness to submit to an exhaustive justification, all of it channeled with the aim of confirming the suitability of someone who admitted to having some defects but never sinned by lying.
And the… truth is that Rui Borges didn’t need that. In this case, he didn’t need to appear, he just had to be as he is, an honest and sincere agent, far from the path that many others follow, apart from the wars between communication departments.
By submitting to the scrutiny and disclosure of details relating to the number of devices, the quality of the internet in each stadium, the number of televisions that support analysis during matches, etc., etc., the impression was left that he felt the need to sell a narrative to convince those who had found the statement regarding the controversial penalty awarded by João Pinheiro insufficient.
By “speaking” about the referee of the Braga Football Association, in essence Rui Borges should have adopted the same course with regard to institutional positioning. In the same way that Pinheiro remained available to referee the Alverca-FC Porto match played last night, as if claiming to be immune to pressure and with a perfectly clear conscience, the leader of the Leonine resort should have whistled aside when faced with the distrust of those who accused him of lying when he made his first statements about the match between Tiago Duarte and Morten Hjulmand.
By accepting to join the game of those who consume their lives accusing others, Borges committed a blatant penalty at home, one of those who don’t need a trip to the tablet and don’t even serve
not even to start a discussion in a tavern. They only contribute to making careers more concise.
