Sporting misspell all their players’ names on the back of their kits

Sporting’s players must have got quite the fright when they headed into the changing room ahead of their league game against Arouca.

There would have been major confusion after all the names on the back of Sporting’s kit were misspelled.

Teofilo Gutierrez, whose shirt normally has ‘Teo’ on the back of it instead had ‘Guterres’. Likewise Joao Mario’s shirt read ‘J.Dario’.

But, before everyone jumps on the kitman, the bizarrely spelt names weren’t a mistake.

Sporting made the move in order to encourage people to stop buying fake replica shirts and start purchasing official jerseys.

After making the announcement at half time Sporting swapped their shirts to the correct spellings.

Sporting might decide to make the ‘mistake’ more often, as they were 4-0 up after just 45 minutes, through doubles from Teo and Mario.

The game ended 5-1 with former Fulham midfielder Bryan Ruiz adding the gloss in the 60th minute.

So remember kids, don’t buy fakes!