Messi, Maradona, Chelsea: The biggest robberies in football history

What is the biggest robbery in football history?

Ask most football fans and they will say there’s a robbery against their own side almost every week.

Such is our blind passion and bias towards our own club, we often believe every decision that goes against our side is wrong.

But one Twitter thread is asking fans to widen that out a little and think about the biggest robberies in the history of the game.

We’re not talking about a throw-in being given the wrong way or an undeserved yellow card. We’re talking about scandals.

We’ve trawled through some of the popular answers to the thread and compiled them in a list below:

What is the biggest robbery in football history?

Van Persie was shown a second yellow card at the Camp Nou for having a shot about a millisecond after the referee blew the whistle for offside. Arsenal were 3-2 ahead on aggregate at the time before they crashed out with 10 men.

UEFAlona, Biggest robbery of all times.pic.twitter.com/KoknvJ4XbD https://t.co/jhv4YuMcMF

Does the Argentine deserve to have won Ballons d’Or than the seven he’s already got?

Messi winning only 3 out of 8 available Ballon d’Ors since 2013 https://t.co/cCimw2gseN

In a World Cup qualifier, Henry’s handball saw France triumph over Ireland and the Irish haven’t forgotten about it.

What made this even worse is that France were tragic in that World Cup. We never make world cups either