This is what happens when your sport is completely out of control, European soccer...

Original source for these stories:  ESPN FC.

Perusing for other stories, I happen to come across two stories from Portugal that absolutely disturb me.

They both involve the same (ostensibly) "football club", though, given the stories, I am not sure that there is anything to do with sane soccer in this club.

In the highest amateur division of Portugese soccer rests a bunch of thugs named Canelas 2010.  They now lead this division (for a reason you will be told in a moment).

In the third round of play in the fourth-division league, Marco Gonclaves commits, effectively, the ultimate sporting offense...


Yep, that's a knee to the head of the referee of the match after a cheap shot 30 yards off the ball, a foul for which he was sent off.

The team has banned him for life, and the league has banned Marco Gonclaves for four years from all football.

Too bad they need to take the entire team with them, for two reasons.

First, this is not the first example of dirty play by this strip club-sponsored amateur side:


The second is a result of a little background on the team.  It turns out that four of the members of the team are violent "ultras" of FC Porto, the "Super Dragons".  This includes the captain, who was invited to "bring friends" to the team in 2012, 41 year-old Fernando Madureira.

And it turns out the violence is, apparently, NOT limited to the field!  The referees are routinely intimidated, and opposition supporters report a "terror environment" when they would face the Canelas supporters.

So much so that the entire competition has been turned into an absolute FARCE!

Only one team this season has even deigned to face Canelas 2010 on the pitch -- and you saw what probably happened in their match.  As of the writing of the ESPN FC article, Canelas 2010 is leading that highest amateur division with 16 wins and a draw (there is no way this should be the case, as the referee assault should've been enough to throw these fucking cocksuckers out of their league, as any amateur league worth a damn would have done so!), but this is probably only because of at least 11 consecutive forfeits, and the winning side of this amateur league gets to play a playoff with the lowest third-division side to be in Portugese professional football!!!

WHAT

THE

FUCK!!!!

The organization of this team, and probably most of it's players, should be rotting in Portugese prison, not one tie or match from professional status!!!

This is making Turkish or Italian football look civilized!!

Shut down the whole damn league if you can't control these animals!