For Pete's Sake

For Pete’s Sake

Sporting KC trolls Real Salt Lake on Twitter after Sunday’s victory

By Pete Grathoff
Seth Sinovic, right, celebrates with Felipe Gutierrez after Daniel Salloi gave Sporting Kansas City a 2-0 lead in the 19th minute Sunday at Children’s Mercy Park. Gutierrez assisted on both first-half goals and Salloi scored the final one in SKC’s 4-2 victory over Real Salt Lake..
Seth Sinovic, right, celebrates with Felipe Gutierrez after Daniel Salloi gave Sporting Kansas City a 2-0 lead in the 19th minute Sunday at Children’s Mercy Park. Gutierrez assisted on both first-half goals and Salloi scored the final one in SKC’s 4-2 victory over Real Salt Lake.. Ryan Weaver Special to The Star

Too soon?

Just minutes after it beat Real Salt Lake 4-2 in Sunday’s playoff game at Children’s Mercy Park, Sporting Kansas City took to Twitter and made an alteration to Salt Lake’s logo.

It was a bit of trolling, of course, but depending on your point of view, it was funny, too.

Or savage.

You decide:

Sporting was just giving Salt Lake a taste of its own medicine after Real trolled Los Angeles FC after their playoff game:

This story was originally published November 11, 2018 at 4:31 PM.

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