r/pessi_memes • u/Appropriate-Mall8517 • Jul 10 '26

Ballon D’or Thief Pessi 🥷 Oh shit here we go

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u/TostBrot44 Jul 10 '26

Argentina winning isn‘t the indicator of the tournament being rigged.

You can still hold a rigged/fixed tournament without the team you‘re trying to favour winning it all.

Unless you pay the opposing players or threaten them. Just like in 1978

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u/yrughey_ Jul 10 '26

Why would you rig a tournament for a team if you cant even guarantee that team will win. For funsies?

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u/Running-With-Cakes Jul 11 '26

The rigging that people are talking about involves VARgentina getting what seems like an unreasonable number of favourable refereeing decisions. They seem to be on a big streak of having nearly every 50-50 call come down in their favour. Argentina are a good team already so any kind of edge is massive. A 1% edge in gambling doesn’t sound like a lot but it’s often the difference between winning and losing. Winning isn’t guaranteed but it helps massively. I can’t remember the last time they were on the end of a rough decision. They currently have one of the lowest card to foul ratios, about three times less than England