A new scandal emerges in Portuguese football, with revelations that Porto allegedly pressured the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) to remove referee Fábio Veríssimo from the Porto-Benfica classic, related to the quarter-finals of the Taça de Portugal, held in January. According to messages handed over to authorities on the mobile phones of referees already heard as part of Duarte Gomes' complaint, the dragons wanted the removal of the referee from the Classic due to an existing dispute between both parties. Fábio Veríssimo had already been at the centre of another huge controversy with Porto's structure, when last season, at halftime of a Porto-Braga match, a television that was impossible to turn off was placed in the referee's dressing room, showing plays in which the northern club felt wronged. The President of the Arbitration Board, Luciano Gonçalves, allegedly threatened to report the FPF person who tried to pressure him.
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