As much as we'd like to believe it, I don't think it's easy for the Qataris or FIFA or whatever to influence refs. How would they do it? Can't order the refs to favour one side, can't pay them either. Or they can, but it would come out sooner or later because of so many people involved (ref + assistants, in multiple teams of refs). Would need 30+ professionals to keep their mouths shut, and that's only during this WC.
Subconciously they could give a pen to Neymar rather than to Kramaric. But for example Morocco to get unfairly favoured against Portugal by an Argentinean ref is unlikely, well unless the guy hates CR lol.
How would they do it?
How did they give a WC to Qatar in the first place?
Or, look at Barca. Neymar's transfer. So many people involved, shady business involving 10-20 or more people.
Juventus, shady business regarding wages, every single player involved.
In Croatia, do you remember that the mafia dude Zdravko Mamic (Joan has his avatar, iirc) controlled both Dinamo Zagreb and NT team.
He was giving huge wages to youth players, securing them place in the NT, and then if they make it, they needed to give him 50% of their wages till the end of their career.
Modric, Kovacic, Lovren, Eduardo da silva, all had shady deals with Mamic and cheated on taxes, Modric almost ended in a jail before 2018'.
I mean, Messi's deal with Psg is probably a shady deal, everything regarding Psg and City is a shady deal, everything regarding Platini and Infantino is shady.
In Real life, the whole crypto world is a giant ponzi scheme and a huge scam, yet billions of people were involved for years and it was all allowed.
Yet, you think that it is a problem to have "a few of your refs" who knows what they have to do with a soft pen in the 70th minute for Brazil or France?
I don't know if you remember a WC final in 2018' France-Croatia.
You don't even need a team of 5 cheaters for that, only 1 main ref is enough.
At 0:0, Brozovic has barely touched Griezmann at the edge of a box: soft free kick: 1:0 for France.
Perisic equalized for 1:1 with a banger from the edge of a box.
What happens next? An unintended handball in Croatian box and a penalty.
As I have wrote, in every match, you will have at least situation in the box where you can give a soft pen: handball, contact during corners, one contact/tackle during dribbles over 90 minutes.
If you want to, you can always "invent" a pen. And you can always say: well, there was a contact because: there is always some contact.
In Croatia, it is a known thing that Dinamo Zagreb has it's set of refs.
They are on a payroll of Mamic, they get shit ton of money and they call a soft pen here and there if Dinamo needs it.
How does it work (rigging matches for dummies):
Well, you let the match to be played in a normal way.
If Dinamo can win it in a normal way 2:0' or 3:0, you DON'T interfere.
You interfere ONLY if the match is very important/title decider and if Dinamo is losing 0:1 or if it is 0:0 in the 80th minute.
Then you get soft pens our of any contact in the box.
The same was known for Juve in the early 00s.
Whenever it was 0:0 in the 85th minute, it came "Juve time" with +6 minutes injury time and a late soft pen.
Here is an example of one soft pen out of nowhere for Dinamo. But check the score, it ONLY happens in late minutes and if the score is 0:0 or 0:1. You don't need refs if the game is won in a normal way:
Now apply the same basic rigging for dummies on WC matches, for example already mentioned Brazil (hosts) - Croatia from 2014.
Refs started to interfere ONLY in the last 70 matches since Brazil needed their help:
Regarding Barca, in La Liga Real is a political club and refs are against Barca. We all know that.
But in a CL, Real and Barca are a tier no1.
Now, try to remember some matches in the last 15 years when refs made calls against Barca/Real against smaller teams like Donetsk, Plzen and similar.
Have you ever seen a case that a ref awarded 2 pens for Plzen at Camp Nou out of nowhere? No way.
But have you seen 10s of soft pens of Cr7, Neymar, Messi and similar? Of course.
Money, money, money.
And tiers.
You just have to ask yourself who is in which tier in a certain competition and who is currently an NT team/club/player of the highest FIFA/UEFA interest.
Also, can anyone found a match where France was robbed in a newer history since Platini was FIFA's president?
For example, a famous 2009' match between Ireland and France, a final round of KO matches for a qualifying to a WC 2010.
In the first match it was 1:0 to France, in the 2nd it was 0:1 for Ireland and then in the extra time, France scored this, lol:
Again, how come that these mistakes in key matches always favor Brazil, France, England, Argentina.
And it almost never happens against them.
What a shock that in this world where everything is staged, rigged, corrupted, influenced by politics, money and interests = even football is equally as rigged on the highest level.
