Reffymandering

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Reffymandering

Reffymandering : noun, masculine, describes organisational decisions taken by a sports body in charge of refereeing to create an uneven playing field by choice of referrees i charge of each game, be it depending on their origin, club of choice, geographical elements (hometown for example), race, religion, specific sensibility to situations arising in a game, repeat use of same referees for one or several teams, interpretation of rules dependent on the team who breaks them, influencing the timeline and any other such acts