Lol, big teams are usually more favored not because of corruption, but because they put the ref in more situations to make a mistake. A team that will have 20 attacks around the box and in the penalty box of the opponent is more likely to receive a soft penalty or to benefit from a dive, than a team that barely attacks all game.
It's purely a matter of sample size. Let's say on average a ref gets 10-15% of the decisions wrong in a game. If he has to judge 60 attacks from a team, and 20 attacks from the other team, than the 10% error rate means he will make 6 mistakes for the first team and only 2 for the 2nd team. Hence he would look like he's favoring one team, but in reality he's consistent with his errors.
Of course exception happen, but usually refs favor the big teams more because the big teams generate more situations that demand the ref intervention. The more situations a ref has to evaluate and make a decision, the more likely it is for him to make more mistakes for the attacking team.
You are speaking from Barca's point of view.
In my country, Croatia, football and justice is a joke.
League is rigged for years.
Dinamo Zagreb is our own Juve.
There have been trails and jails and it is a known thing how refs are controlling matches.
Exactly as I have explained above.
On the other hand, as Hamzah said about cricket, the same is in other sports.
For example, in Croatia handball is quite popular.
I remember in 90s, Zagreb played a few Champions league finals against Barcelona.
Lol, it was the biggest scam in sport ever seen.
Handball is a contact sport and basically in every action, an attacking player will jump and try to break through the defenders.
So, basically, in every action, you can ALWAYS award BOTH a foul in attack and a defensive foul, based on what the ref "wants" to do.
So, basically between a rich Barca and who-cares-about-poor-Croats= if Barca were better=fine.
If Zagreb was better by 5-6 goals, the refs would virtually do this:
1. Barca's players jumps in the attack and scores=no foul, goal allowed
2. Next action: Zagreb's player jumps and scores=a goal disallowed, foul in attack
3. A counter, Barca has the ball: Barca's player jumps and scores=goal allowed.
4. Next action, Zagreb has an attack. Their attacker jumps and scores=goal disallowed, foul in attack.
And you can't do anything.
Spain, Germany and France are big handball nations and a lot of money is invested.
If Barca will win a CL, sponsors will invest more money, more people will buy tv pay per view, more people will buy tickets, more people will buy yerseys.
If Barca loses=Their FIFA will also lose money from sponsors.
So the same as with France at a WC in football, a smaller, financially poor team can win only if you can win at least 3:0 in football or +10 goals in handball and try to never touch the opponents to screw the refs.
The whole world, USA and their wars and interests, Russia and their interests, China and their interests, EU and their interests are corrupted where people are killed for fun and billions are won and lost daily on corruption and interests.
And you think that it is a problem to award a soft pen for France in a world cup final and award a few soft free kicks around the box, since it will get +610M higher income for Nike.
I don't know have you watched a WC in Japan/Korea in 2002.
Those extremely rich countries started to invest in football and FIFA decided to award them a WC and then to help to those two teams to progress as far as possible, so that football becomes popular there, which will longterm bring Billiins of Euros to FIFA and Europeans.
Korea managed to win, due to refs, against Portugal, Italy and Spain.
Their opponents were given red cards in every match, had goals disallowed in every match, had offside calls against them all the time for no reason, Korea were awarded soft pens and they were allowed to kick their opponents for 90 minutes in Casemiro's way, without fouls.
A ref Moreno from a match Korea:Italy was arrested in 2010 while smuggling 6 kgs of heroin, lol.
Do you really think that such a guy had problems to rig a match and that everything was a coincidence?
A video of a beatiful game where the best team always wins in a fair way, lol:
