Yes, the difference was that with the Irish vs. the Dutch, both games were on at the same time so if the Egyptians had scored, everybody would have been exactly level on all counts and lots would have been drawn (as they were to decide that Ireland finished second ahead of the Dutch - which saw us play Romania and them play West Germany). The decision to stop competing had the potential to hurt the teams who made the decision.
With the game in 1982, as the Algerian game had already finished, there was no petential danger in coming to a prearranged (explicitly or implicitly) result. It was orchestrated cheating by two teams over 90 minutes.
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