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Downtown_Skill t1_ja2qrd4 wrote

Exactly that's why it's bittersweet. It's in the same vein as being eliminated from a tournament by losing to the future champion.

Edit: Haha just genuinely confused as to why I'm being downvoted. When you lose to a team that turns out to be the best it's slightly less hurtful because it at least feels slightly valid. If you lose to a team that gets blown out in their next game the loss might hurt a little more.

Like would you feel worse about being cut from a bad team or worse if you were cut from a team that turned out to be very good and didn't need you after all.

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jonnythefoxx t1_ja2k4m2 wrote

You do remember correctly, this was the only time I ever gambled on sports. I live in Scotland and had two English colleagues pontificating about how it was good that they were going to play Iceland in the next round and that it should be an easy game, I piped up and told them I wouldn't be so sure as Iceland were on blazing form. After a full day of ridicule I went home, opened a betting account and stuck a tenner on Iceland at 10-1. I have never let them forget it.

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