A missed penalty, a ball that slips between the gloves and it is a few tens of euros hoped for by a bettor who fly away, at the same time as a victory or a goal for the offending player.
And then, the avalanche of angry or insulting comments from disappointed players, publicly or directly in the private messages of the protagonists, on Twitter or Instagram in particular.
It is against this phenomenon, even more often observed in individual sports such as tennis, that the Professional Football League (LFP) and the National Games Authority (ANJ) wish to fight by launching a prevention clip, this Wednesday 6 April.
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The #Pariersansclasher campaign
“I receive a lot of messages of this kind”, admits a French international footballer who prefers to remain anonymous on this subject far removed, according to him, from football.
“Me, I really don't care, but I can understand that some are affected, slips this offensive player.
I don't answer and they give up.
If you pay attention to all this or if it affects you, it is better to stop the networks permanently.
It almost makes me laugh…”
Particularly targeted attackers
Others do not have the same phlegm and suffer from assaults which add to a sporting disappointment.
“It is impossible to have quantified feedback because the victims do not systematically want to talk about it, but clubs have told us of situations where their players were targeted by embittered bettors, explains Jérôme Belaygue, communication and CSR director of the LFP.
Much work has already been done to combat online messages of threats, racism and homophobia.
It is also very important to develop this axis.
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The manager explains that "attacks concern attackers more, in the event of a missed penalty or an opportunity, or goalkeepers".
This is confirmed by Mathieu Bodmer, Jérémy Clément and Fabrice Abriel.
All passed by big clubs in the first years of the opening of online betting and present on social networks, they assured us that they had not been targeted personally and directed us to specialists in these positions.
This year, the Messin Ibrahima Niane exposed his fed up with a bettor who had called him "dirty bastard", indignant that he "no longer scores".
Former Parisian Thomas Meunier was also amused by certain messages received when a goal scored had invalidated the ticket of certain players.
“There is absolutely nothing sporty about it”
It's all the paradox, even a victorious action can trigger an avalanche, as Pierre Bouby, a former player now a consultant for The L'Équipe channel, tells us, followed by 46,000 people on Twitter: "It's a phenomenon that I know well, although, personally, I was rather taken to task because of the time I spent on social networks.
With the bettor, sport no longer comes into play.
He looks at the statistics, the opinions, he forms an opinion and he makes a decision.
If he bets that there will be less than two goals and you score the 3rd, you make him lose 2000 balls on a combined and you take the mouthful.
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“There is absolutely nothing sporting in it, he still regrets.
The player is collateral damage and the bettor has nothing to do with our emotions.
Then, the reactions are very personal.
This can have an even more negative impact if it occurs at a difficult time, at the family, financial level, or in sports dynamics.
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Clubs, too, are sometimes targeted, as Katia Mourad, Montpellier's communications director, tells us.
"After our defeat this weekend (2-1, in Brest), we still received insulting messages in all languages, from bettors with no connection to the MHSC, but who had included it in their bet" , she explains.
With the aim of putting people back at the heart of the game, the clip that the LFP and the ANJ will broadcast on their social networks presents two teams entering the field, with players without heads or bodies, and a match narrated only under the prism of successful or missed bets.
With the hashtag #Parierssansclasher, the two organizations intend to "raise awareness among football and sports betting fans so that they place the values of sport at the heart of their passion".