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[Bentley Bullet]

I can only guess why they cheat. I imagine it is more because of intimidation like I've already told you, than any suggestion of financial gain. I use the word cheat because I believe officials treated Rovers unfairly by their inequality. That is cheating.

[Dutch Uncle]

A matter of semantics BB I think

IMHO the word 'cheat' requires active knowledge of the defrauding action, which I think is not quite what you mean

At law, cheating is a specific criminal offence relating to property. Historically, to cheat was to commit a misdemeanour at common law. ... For example, under English law it was held in R. v. Sinclair that "[t]o cheat and defraud is to act with deliberate dishonesty to the prejudice of another person's proprietary right."

Not sure you are meaning that referees, by being intimidated, are actively cheating. 'Bottling' maybe. Certainly the end result can be seen as unfair, but maybe cheating is slightly too strong.

[Bentley Bullet]

Dutch, yes cheating is a strong word, and I use it intentionally because I find it appalling that football officials, who are there to penalize cheating, apply their own form of cheating by their occasional inequality, which is both dishonest and deliberate.