Even in the World Cup, supposedly the highest and most prestigious level of international sport, there’s a stoppage of play roughly every 60 seconds for some guy writhing in pain from some tiny incidental contact. Interestingly, once he gets the call, he gets right up and runs for another hour just fine. It’s almost as if he wasn’t actually hurt at all.
Watch what happens when someone scores a goal - the defending team will immediately throw their hands up in protest, looking for any excuse to disallow the goal. Offsides, incidental contact, anything to refuse admitting they got scored on.
Whenever a ball goes out of bounds, each team starts fervently pointing at one another like toddlers on a playground saying “I didn’t do it, HE did it!”
Every single aspect of the sport is childish scamming. This doesn’t happen in any other sport - Hockey players don’t act this way, and almost all hockey players come from high trust countries. Almost all soccer teams come from low trust countries. They gravitate towards the sport because it rewards scammers. That’s it.
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