Institutional favouritism at the world cup

[Sandra_hakeem]

It's unfortunate that I have seen this thread late, but I really have to talk about that England vs Ghana match because I watched it. The penalty Ghana was denied towards the end of the match doesn't sit well with my head up to now. I was no fan of either of the teams but even the pundits agreed that that could have easily been a penalty. What is much more sinister is how they never even bother to do any VAR.
Honestly we clearly see through the cracks... Everything just feels rigged/tilted.

People just like to make everything about Lionel Messi. This is an example of an imperfection in the VAR system (though I can't tell if it's a plot and FIFA has a hand in it or it's just the manipulation by the internal referees) but it's nothing unusual. Ghana? The Europeans can't award a pen to a black country, especially when they know too well they don't have the ability to withstand the play, break the defense and equalize, so I guess it's easier to whisper in the referee's ear. Sometimes, I'm lost in thoughts of how George Weah won the ballon d'Or as a black man and no one else has been eligible.

[Cryptoprincess101]

It might be true that FIFA favors certain teams by placing them in groups where they will meet smaller teams, but the question is; if they place some clubs on easier groups, what happens after the group stage matches? the world cup already has a setting on how clubs will meet in each of the stages and it's not even as if they know which team will qualify for the next round. I see that you are saying that FIFA favors some teams and players more than others, it could be true but looking at the group of Argentina, they met Algeria, Austria, and Jordan and of course we can say that they are small clubs but as they advance further, they will still meet though teams. What about Portugal? the only strong team in their group is Columbia but still they couldn't even win them and one of the opponents. In the case of not giving red card to Messi when he committed that bad tackle, i don't really see it that he enjoys any preference treatment, maybe the referee didn't see it as big challenge and besides, the VAR didn't review the tackle, so it is what it is.