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Low stakes, but sports are rigged. And this leads me to my personal ever-hate rage belief of the Denmark-England match in the semi-finals of the European championships.
Denmark got screwed in the semi-finals of the European championship against England. The game was rigged. THERE WAS A SECOND BALL ON THE FIELD FFS! AND WHAT ABOUT THAT FUCKING ELBOW? WHAT THE FUCK REF YOURE GOING HOME IN A FUCKING COFFIN I WILL FIND YOU AND I WILL KILL YOU THIS IS ACTIONABLE.

I remember reading an article how all major sports are more or less rigged. Can't find it any more though 👁️. It does make sense to me though. I almost never see a fair ref, they're always putting their thumb on the scale in one way or another. I mainly watch football (le socceur for yanks) and everybody from certain teams always goes "well of course we will think the ref is unfair" but those teams are often having more wrong calls made against them. Then other teams will only rarely complain of an unfair judge - not every match. They'd probably say it's because they're better or not sore losers, but the thing is they much more rarely have wrong calls made, and the refs are much often more lenient. And why wouldn't it be rigged? The prizes are massive, teams have budgets equal to small countries, betting is huge, and FIFA is known to be corrupt as fuck. Why would that corruption suddenly not be systemic or structural?