Conspiracy theory and Sports, the world cup experience and why truth wins.

[Oshio-man]

But you know that FIFA world cup executive will not allow such to happen to Argentina and Spain because they don't want any team to complain, this match is going to be a tough match between the two clubs for the world to know who among them is stronger most in the final match, we saw the disgrace, and such disgraceful  is not belong

[Agbamoni]

Why not think of it this way? What if, due to the last complaint from fans that was pretty obvious, FIFA decided to take its hand from the match between England and Argentina? The conspiracy theories may be true, and they may be false, but one thing is sure. Messi receives a totally different treatment from other players. He gets away with much ill behavior. Only Messi warns the ref without getting a yellow card for doing so.

[EluguHcman]

The officiating of the world cup may not be excellent as there are several reasons to believe that FIFA are favouring some persons or teams, however there is no perfect system anywhere so we cannot use those few cases to discredit FIFA or conclude that the benefactor, which in this case is Argentina, are not good in the game. They have tried in this tournament and won some of their matches legitimately, it's just unfortunate that even if they win the trophy, the conspiracy that they are being favoured by FIFA will persist.

Imagine after you have spent so much time studying how the final match between the Argentina and Spain will end and unfortunately you lost the game.
Or you somehow sourced informations about an insider revealed about how the game was going to end (if game was fixed), I guess the level of your confidence will also rise to the point you will be convinced to believe the information but again you lost the game, I am sure you will have that deep doubt whenever you hears games are fixed next time.

I want to believe that good number of bettors lost more money in this 2026 FIFA World Cup after much unexpected favourite teams were eliminated. This reason alone many people will also believe the game is being rigged without understanding that football may be fragile that lucks also have great influence over teams.

Of course Argentina is well deserved in the position they are now. If it was easy to manipulate FIFA, the great US President or Donald Trump would had hijacked the key. This is how it was also rumoured about about Trump bribing the FIFA officials in favour of the US team but unfortunately the US has been knocked out.

[MArsland]

This made me to have a dipper reflection of the the world cup and all the accusations that has been going on, and I have come to the conclusion that it has always been conspiracy theories and nothing more, if Argentina wins this world cup against Spain no body should blame FIFA over favoritism but, should congratulations Argentina for their hard labour and not giving up spirit.

Are you already preparing to how you would comfort your Argentinian fans who had so much confidence with their team players?  .

I know you are joking and so I am too. Of course both teams deserves the accolades to had reached this height because it had not been an easy journey from the day 1 of the tournament down to the final round.
Is the tournament polluted? Do you think it is really that possible to manipulate matches in a whole world Cup?
It won't work because too many local and foreign observers would be there at the international sector. So it will be difficult to manipulate but there is still possibilities to do that through players.

Favouritism is a void to be considered as a strategy to win your bets but as for casual supports, it is okay to consider your team favourite.

What Spain and Argentina have achieved to finally be in the final is all thanks to the hard work of the team as a whole. Meksipun can not be separated from some drama outside and inside the field that ultimately gave birth to many theories that will intervene theory of certain parties. Especially after the case of Trump who asked FIFA to lift the sanctions for red cards of us players, because if something like that happens at the World Cup, then most likely the problem of wild theories is getting closer to the truth. Then there was the FBI investigation that identified bribery from Argentina to the president of FIFA.

With all that is happening, I consider this 2026 World Cup to be the worst.

[r_victory]

I’ve heard many people say that FIFA had already decided who would win this World Cup, but in my opinion, the teams that reached the final deserve to be there. Of course, there were controversial moments involving questionable decisions, but until actual fraud is proven, that’s nothing more than sore-loser talk.

[Joeboy]

Why not think of it this way? What if, due to the last complaint from fans that was pretty obvious, FIFA decided to take its hand from the match between England and Argentina? The conspiracy theories may be true, and they may be false, but one thing is sure. Messi receives a totally different treatment from other players. He gets away with much ill behavior. Only Messi warns the ref without getting a yellow card for doing so.

Am glad other sees what I see.. Lionel Messi is obviously the real dictator coz he tell what the referee to do and what not to do.. The Argentinian is good no doubt about that, but the again, the favouritism toward him is just too obvious FIFA has achieved what they want to achieve by making Argentina reach the finals.. I really hope that they let this finals be free and fair game so as to allow the better team to win based on merit..

[Africolo]

The world we live in is one place that, is filled with different people all with different kind of reasoning and the way that, they look at things. Bringing it down to sports there is always this talk about favoritism especially from the governming bodies that constitute different sports governing bodies. Football the most popular sports if am not mistaken has been on the center of it all, since the beginning of the 2026 world cup for the past three weeks the most important football competition there has been different conspiracy theories. Especially on this forum .


From the group stages of this world cup there has been different conspiracy theories going on, which has been that FIFA football governing body is favoring some certain countries, when the world cup was in the group stage the caption was FIFA was favoring European teams and was biased towards certain teams such as Africa countries. When the group stages were over we started hearing another one and that was that FIFA was favoring Argentina because, of Messi and that match officials were instructed by by FIFA to favour Argentina.

But after watching the semi finals of the FIFA world cup matches both from the Argentina vs England and that of Spain vs France games, it became clear to me that all these stories were all conspiracy theories and nothing more. Using the Argentina game it was believed that FIFA was going to favour Argentina. But after watching  this game, one thing that I realized is that this game was one of the best games in terms of officiating if you ask me. But Argentina has to once again come back from behind to win this game in their usual format, right from the beginning of this world.

This made me to have a dipper reflection of the the world cup and all the accusations that has been going on, and I have come to the conclusion that it has always been conspiracy theories and nothing more, if Argentina wins this world cup against Spain no body should blame FIFA over favoritism but, should congratulations Argentina for their hard labour and not giving up spirit.

This conspiracy people bring to the fore is just between Messi and Ronaldo fans who feels because Messi is winning and playing against African teams that the FIFA president has decided to give them cheaper teams that would made them easily win but from all indications those are mere rumors to underrate the hardwork the Argentine team has displayed during this world cup, they have really performed well with a high team spirit to retain the trophy as defending champions, I'm not a fan of the comparison between the two players Messi and Ronaldo because they have done so well in the football world.

Looking at the game between England and Argentina you could see the fire in them to win even when they were loosing, they put in so much efforts in other to comeback into the game and win. With that kind of performance will people still say they are being favored by FIFA?, as for the final let the best team win.

[famososMuertos]

OP, the point is that the teams or the referees are perhaps the furthest removed from any possible conspiracies. FIFA has been plagued by corruption throughout its history; it was an open secret, and this began with Joao Havelange. In fact, paying bribes to secure hosting rights became "normal." Incidentally, the FIFA secretary when the whole  began with Joao Havelange was none other than Joseph Blatter.

The things that have happened in the various games are simply part of football itself and how its rules are being applied. A rule being applied incorrectly doesn't necessarily imply any conspiracy.

[Versatile_choice]

Messi receives a totally different treatment from other players. He gets away with much ill behavior. Only Messi warns the ref without getting a yellow card for doing so.

Brother! Messi did absolutely nothing wrong, I didn't even see that thing he did wrong that deserves yellow card. I think you're over thinking things, or perhaps you don't like messi lol. But to be realistic messi didn't do anything wrong, the warning you're talking about is not that serous. I don't even take that as warning rather he was just pointing out few things that happened earlier. that requires attention but he overlooked, that's all.

I know alot of people will be saying that the ref is sentimental but that's wrong, if you ask me I would say that the ref didn't side for any team. he was neutral.

[Onyeeze]

The officiating of the world cup may not be excellent as there are several reasons to believe that FIFA are favouring some persons or teams, however there is no perfect system anywhere so we cannot use those few cases to discredit FIFA or conclude that the benefactor, which in this case is Argentina, are not good in the game. They have tried in this tournament and won some of their matches legitimately, it's just unfortunate that even if they win the trophy, the conspiracy that they are being favoured by FIFA will persist.

the people who are officiating this world cup I have not seen any bias thing that have done in this FIFA World Cup has kind of favoritism, there are officiating this match accordingly but people must to say bad against them thinking that maybe FIFA I have a particular country I want to be the winner of this cup why anybody who is officiating the match is doing based on what it really see and understand during the process of the match, so if you should ask me a particular country that FIFA is favoring I cannot be able to mention one or two since the World Cup started

[batang_bitcoin]

This made me to have a dipper reflection of the the world cup and all the accusations that has been going on, and I have come to the conclusion that it has always been conspiracy theories and nothing more, if Argentina wins this world cup against Spain no body should blame FIFA over favoritism but, should congratulations Argentina for their hard labour and not giving up spirit.

People are reading too much on the internet with all of the conspiracies that they are reading. They can't accept the team that they have supported lost to the better team and that's why they find reasons for them to justify to what they believe that it's all conspiracy theories and some scripted shit that they see on the web. While some people agrees to what they say, maybe it's just some folks riding their trip when they have some good conclusion although it doesn't make sense that they'll apply that to the biggest world stage.

[Felicity_Tide]

if Argentina wins this world cup against Spain no body should blame FIFA over favoritism but, should congratulations Argentina for their hard labour and not giving up spirit.

I don't think it's in your place to tell anyone what to and what not to do. Neither is it in my place to do the same.
After watching that very game yesterday, I have decided not to engage in anything that has to do with comparison or FIFA favouritism involving Argentina and Lionel Messi. It takes extra guts to watch that game, and still think that this Argentina team are not as good as they seem. It takes extra guts not to admit that Messi is the greatest, and a good leader to the coming generation of Argentines.

Like I once said, I have not seen a team as passionate as this Argentines. They literally deserve the very best for their hardwork. Of course, the officiating in this WC in general is not perfect, but only that of the Argentines made the headlines for some reasons. And it's funny how those who barely watch football didn't hesitate to amplify certain things despite not knowing football rules. Those who wants to argue are free to do so... But I just think that the conversation is not longer healthy.

[Russlenat]

This is not new. Conspiracy theories like this do not only happen in this particular event, but in many other games and competitions as well, and most of them have never been proven.

I believe a lot of it comes from people who lost their bets or from die-hard fans. When we strongly support a team, our judgment can easily become biased because we naturally want things to favor our side. That is understandable, but we should not immediately believe that corruption happened without evidence or unless it is proven.

Let us brush that aside so we can enjoy the upcoming finals. Of course, we can also place our bets based on our own instinct to make the game more exciting to watch.

Argentina or Spain? For me, Argentina winning would create the better storyline.

[Alphakilo]

Why not think of it this way? What if, due to the last complaint from fans that was pretty obvious, FIFA decided to take its hand from the match between England and Argentina? The conspiracy theories may be true, and they may be false, but one thing is sure. Messi receives a totally different treatment from other players. He gets away with much ill behavior. Only Messi warns the ref without getting a yellow card for doing so.

Well, Messi getting away with warning the ref shows how much caliber he has and it's a normal thing to see even when he plays for his club sides. What about Mbappe that sends a ref on errand and earned himself the nickname, 'the dictator' because of his charisma.
There's always conspiracy theories, but just like all theories they aren't true to be called a law or fact unless hard evidence is present.

At this point of the final stages, I think Argentina is the better side but the Spanish team has more intelligence of midfield control and that's what makes them a worthy opponent that could eventually triumph over the Argentines.

[Su-asa]

A friend of mine asked me, how is it possible for Argentina to always end up winning a game at the last minute when it is obvious that they are supposed to end up losing, the said that these matches are scripted. There are other people with the same opinion as well but having such an opinion doesn't mean that it is true, Argentina just knows how to put in a lot of effort at the dying minute instead of giving up.

[bhadz]

if Argentina wins this world cup against Spain no body should blame FIFA over favoritism but, should congratulations Argentina for their hard labour and not giving up spirit.

Fans should just let it go that whoever wins this world cup, they're the better team, instead of thinking that there's favoritism over this tournament.

A friend of mine asked me, how is it possible for Argentina to always end up winning a game at the last minute when it is obvious that they are supposed to end up losing, the said that these matches are scripted. There are other people with the same opinion as well but having such an opinion doesn't mean that it is true, Argentina just knows how to put in a lot of effort at the dying minute instead of giving up.

It's their moment and that's the reason why I think many still think that it's scripted because of those crucial moments. They're just used to it and they're good at it. Although can't blame the fans who are thinking that it's scripted and there's likely a favoritism towards Argentina. Before it was the US because they're the host but when they got eliminated, it had been transferred to Argentina.

[Makus]

It looks like Argentina has rub the wrong way fans of the world cup for this year. But I guess we are not all that blind on the calls that they are getting so yeah there could be biased from the organizations and the referee themselves.

So I will also root for Spain here just to have some fans. I'm not against the Argentinians fans as for sure they are huge here. But it looks like Spain is the favorite so I might go with the crowd.

From the looks of things Spain has a very high chance of winning the match, the sportsbook are placing a low value odd on them to win the world cup and as for Argentina their odds are slightly higher. The rumors going around that FIFA favours Argentina would be monitored in the finals and even though such a thing exists it would not be done easily because a lot of football fans would be watching and monitoring every single movement by the players. Spain is going to win the world cup because they have more chances.

[ejikeme24]

It looks like Argentina has rub the wrong way fans of the world cup for this year. But I guess we are not all that blind on the calls that they are getting so yeah there could be biased from the organizations and the referee themselves.

So I will also root for Spain here just to have some fans. I'm not against the Argentinians fans as for sure they are huge here. But it looks like Spain is the favorite so I might go with the crowd.

From the looks of things Spain has a very high chance of winning the match, the sportsbook are placing a low value odd on them to win the world cup

Come on man! It's high time you understand that odd does not determine who will be the winner, if we are to judge from odd it means that England was meant to win because the sport book also place a low value odd on them to win while Argentina in the other side has a higher odd and if you look at Thier odds, you would see that the possibility for them to win England is low. so I would advised you don't pay attention to the odd, I mean don't judge with low odd, just make your own personal research or better still you can make use of instinct if you don't know what to bet .

[BRINIRHA]

The fact is that Argentina does not know how lose and in the end I see that FIFA seems to be acting quite ethically and these conspiracies against it will probably remain just speculation very soon.

And now I am rooting for Spain, with its strength and determination, to eliminate Argentina

From the beginning in the drawing there were problems about the Argentina national team, in some matches there was always controversy and every time they won it always seemed that there were a lot of pros and cons, including perhaps the iconic one today is the match against Egypt in the round of 16. But in the end we just have to keep seeing how the situation keeps rolling because no matter how hard we say they are cheating but in the end there are many elements that cannot be changed including for the final result.

I am on the same side but to be in Spain with the conditions now is also a little bit difficult for a final although some would probably say it's an ideal final but for me there are a lot of things that shouldn't happen but because of the excessive intervention of the referees even fifa this becomes a little bit complicated even for Spain though.

[Hispo]

I’ve heard many people say that FIFA had already decided who would win this World Cup, but in my opinion, the teams that reached the final deserve to be there. Of course, there were controversial moments involving questionable decisions, but until actual fraud is proven, that’s nothing more than sore-loser talk.

Who the hell is saying FIFA already decided who would win this world cup? That is too wacky to even suggest.

I only assume those are the comments of people who are hurt because their national teams who eliminated from the tournament, like those who are very into Cristiano Ronaldo or even Mbappe.

It kind of reminds me the conspiracy theories one can find within the world of politics in the United States and in the European Union. Those conspiracy theories and the conspiracy theories being translated to Football (specially that one you mentioned) do not make any sense whatsoever.