Sporting CP v Vitória SC
Sporting CP v Vitória SC Monday May 4th, 2026 Estadio José Alvalade Matchday 32 The warm up Every year in Gloucestershire they hold the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and wake, a dangerous high speed competition where participants chase a 7lb wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down a near-vertical hill. With Sporting CP we have something similar with the anti-Borges brigade who all clammer to be at the front of the queue to stick the knife in charging down the hill as soon as the final whistle goes on any game they don't win. It'll probably come as no surprise to learn that I write this the day after the 1-1 draw away to newly relegated bottom of the table AVS Futebol SAD. I don't remember if I wrote before that game or the forthcoming one to Tondela about how unkind the fixtures were leading up to the next two games but I think I like everyone else naïvely expected us to come away with six points against the two worst sides in the division. Ev en making five changes to...
