1.1 The Rise and Fall of Bruno de Carvalho - The Rise to Power
What follows is the first in a series of long reads which will chart the rise and fall of the onetime club president of Sporting Clube de Portugal, Bruno de Carvalho. If you're not familiar with what happened during his presidency then hold onto your hats, it's going to be a wild ride. I'm going to take you on a journey that will culminate with one of the darkest days in the club's history and the subsequent legal cases that followed in its wake. For some of you reading this it will all be brand new, for others a refresher of what happened during his reign. Therefore a one size fits all approach will be hard to achieve so throughout I'll add additional context where I think it's deemed necessary, but if you read each part in turn it should ensure that even if you're coming to this blind you should quickly grab a sense of who everyone is. Of course what will follow will largely be based on fact but along the way opinions stated will be my own for which I don...
