Okidoke.
Just when you thought it safe to return to the Football Is Fixed blog...
Football Is Fixed 2.0 returns as not one blog, not two blogs, nor three, four nor five in number, and neither is six the correct totalisation, not seven, but eight.
Strewth...
Each of these sites will primarily focus on something in particular.
We took a two month holiday following a hacking attempt on our computer systems and a parallel series of threats to myself and one of the properties associated with our team.
We decided not to continue with the blog for isolationist reasons until police investigations into these nonsenses were completed.
Sometime soon after my Chinese New Year vacation will be the start date for the new blogs detailed below.
The Abyss Of (Ab)Normality (http://theabyssofabnormality.blogspot.com/)
Trichotomous Triptychities (http://trichotomoustriptychities.blogspot.com/)
Obscene Poets And Carnal Pimps (http://obscenepoetsandcarnalpimps.blogspot.com/)
Upwards From Below (http://upwardsfrombelow.blogspot.com/)
Where's That Fuckin' Hemlock? (http://wheresthatfuckinhemlock.blogspot.com/)
A Ludic Abstraction Of Competition (http://aludicabstractionofcompetition.blogspot.com/)
A Wunch Of Bankers (http://awunchofbankers.blogspot.com/)
Football Is Fixed 2.0 (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/)
Contain that excitement...
Recent Posts On Other Blogs
We're All Black Jacobins Now
(http://upwardsfrombelow.blogspot.com/2010/01/were-all-black-jacobins-now.html)
Yo! Untutored Blatherskites And Gobshites
(http://obscenepoetsandcarnalpimps.blogspot.com/2010/02/yo-untutored-blatherskites-and_08.html)
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Friday 20 November 2009
Thursday 19 November 2009
Malcontent And Desperation #
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Wednesday 18 November 2009
Who Really Owns Birmingham City?
In this post, we explore the Real ownership behind Birmingham City.
In this post, we assess why Richard Scudamore chooses to ignore this issue.
In this post, we project the scenarios ahead for this incredibly dodgy operation.
Over two years since, we warned readers about Carson Yeung.
It wasn't the combination of middle age, side-parting and hair dye that caused concern, but rather the way the man had risen from barber to billionaire via an escapade with a casino in Macau.
Then, when Richard Scudamore, Our Great Leader, was pushing through the fit-and-proper-persons test (FPPT) before the Real ownership of Brum was known, we once again said that a wise and prudent overseer would wait to see who bought into the club in the ongoing rights issue that was taking place at the very moment Scudamore was burying this hyperreality away in the file marked 'Blinkered'.
In the light of the ongoing Arkady Gaydamak Affair at Portsmouth, we thought the bookmakers' lackey was pushing his luck.
And indeed he was...
Peter Pannu is the joint vice-chairperson of Birmingham City.
We presume that he personally requested the moniker 'vice'.
Pannu was previously a senior inspector of police in Hong Kong.
And his role was to investigate Triad activity in the province.
Pannu was known for sailing close to the wind, if you catch our drift.
For example, he was acquitted of receiving cash from Triad boss Andely Chan, a man who was consequently murdered at the Macau Grand Prix.
Our Asian broker has given us some other details of Mr Pannu's past that the lawyers have said that we absolutely must not publish in this place.
But put two and two together from the above, and you will not be a great distance from Reality.
The deals financier is Pollyanna Chu.
She has a history of insider trading and was required to surrender her commodities trading licence on the Hong Kong Exchange following an investigation by the territories' Securities and Futures Commission.
As a sideline, she was also chief executive officer of the Golden Resorts Casino in Macau.
So, even before the selling of further shares, the Big Three at the top of the Birmingham City hierarchy were a fairly rum bunch - 'alleged' collaboration with the Asian mafia, proximity to underground murders, insider trading and running a casino.
And you thought Ken Bates was a wanker!!!
Everything would have progressed smoothly if it had not been for the Porn Baron and his Moll, the former occupiers of the comfortable seats in the Birmingham boardroom.
The Moll wanted a golden parachute to grab as much money as possible from the Midlands club before she moved into the orbit of Alan Sugar, and this invalid payment was secreted in the takeover deal but was only discovered by Yeung when he and his cronies were undertaking due diligence.
Being above the law, Yeung sought to wriggle out of this commitment.
It was then that the shit hit the fan/fans...
The appropriately named David Gold was "shocked" that police officers specialising in economic crime visited the Birmingham City offices yesterday to examine the paperwork.
He flustered that it was an "inappropriate and unreasonable" probe.
Then, rather ill-advisedly, he warned Yeung and his associates to remember that football in this country is a small closed shop of a world and that "what goes around, comes around."
And sure enough, one of the Porn Barons behind Brum was true to his word, which is not something that can have been stated too frequently.
For within 24 hours of the news that the police were examining the Pornman's paperwork, it was announced that the Premier League were to investigate the Real owners of the club.
How spooky is that?
We wait 17 years for the Premier League to even show the slightest interest in illicit club ownership and then, lo and behold, Our Great Leader leaps up to defend the Porn Baron and his Moll.
Two companies registered in the British Virgin Islands, Winning Top International Overseas and Genuine Ocean International Trading, now own a controlling interest of more than 42% in Grandtop, Yeung's investment vehicle.
And Theo Guardian revealed: "This occurred after Yeung, the Birmingham City president, issued fresh shares and convertible bonds to fund a $117.6m (£70m) takeover of Peace International Creation Ltd. On Sunday Grandtop issued a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange, where the company is listed, that it had completed the deal to buy Peace International, a shell company also registered in the BVI."
Our broker informs us that the Real owners of Birmingham City are now to be found hiding behind these shell operations and that Carson Yeung is just the frontman.
This is pretty much the same illegal structure that allows Al Faraj entirely fake ownership of Portsmouth FC.
Birmingham City are still claiming that Yeung is the main man but, then again, Dick Cheney used to say that about the strange idiot child from Texas.
Peter Pannu claims that there has been "no effective dilution" of Yeung's stake which is an outright lie.
Our Asian broker has provided us with some names that we are not allowed to print here but try creating a sentence including the words "Birmingham", "City", "Bookmakers", "Asia", "Underground", "Rigging" and "Markets" and, once again, you will be nearer the truth than not.
This was a bad strategic move by the Porn Baron.
Gold might believe that he is a Big Man, but he is squiggly shit next to the Triads.
We would suggest he removes the light-bulbs before going to sleep like all the rest of the individuals do who tread on the toes of this global Asian mafiosi.
At least the Moll has kept her mouth shut.
But now she has got a new sugar daddy.
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In this post, we assess why Richard Scudamore chooses to ignore this issue.
In this post, we project the scenarios ahead for this incredibly dodgy operation.
Over two years since, we warned readers about Carson Yeung.
It wasn't the combination of middle age, side-parting and hair dye that caused concern, but rather the way the man had risen from barber to billionaire via an escapade with a casino in Macau.
Then, when Richard Scudamore, Our Great Leader, was pushing through the fit-and-proper-persons test (FPPT) before the Real ownership of Brum was known, we once again said that a wise and prudent overseer would wait to see who bought into the club in the ongoing rights issue that was taking place at the very moment Scudamore was burying this hyperreality away in the file marked 'Blinkered'.
In the light of the ongoing Arkady Gaydamak Affair at Portsmouth, we thought the bookmakers' lackey was pushing his luck.
And indeed he was...
Peter Pannu is the joint vice-chairperson of Birmingham City.
We presume that he personally requested the moniker 'vice'.
Pannu was previously a senior inspector of police in Hong Kong.
And his role was to investigate Triad activity in the province.
Pannu was known for sailing close to the wind, if you catch our drift.
For example, he was acquitted of receiving cash from Triad boss Andely Chan, a man who was consequently murdered at the Macau Grand Prix.
Our Asian broker has given us some other details of Mr Pannu's past that the lawyers have said that we absolutely must not publish in this place.
But put two and two together from the above, and you will not be a great distance from Reality.
The deals financier is Pollyanna Chu.
She has a history of insider trading and was required to surrender her commodities trading licence on the Hong Kong Exchange following an investigation by the territories' Securities and Futures Commission.
As a sideline, she was also chief executive officer of the Golden Resorts Casino in Macau.
So, even before the selling of further shares, the Big Three at the top of the Birmingham City hierarchy were a fairly rum bunch - 'alleged' collaboration with the Asian mafia, proximity to underground murders, insider trading and running a casino.
And you thought Ken Bates was a wanker!!!
Everything would have progressed smoothly if it had not been for the Porn Baron and his Moll, the former occupiers of the comfortable seats in the Birmingham boardroom.
The Moll wanted a golden parachute to grab as much money as possible from the Midlands club before she moved into the orbit of Alan Sugar, and this invalid payment was secreted in the takeover deal but was only discovered by Yeung when he and his cronies were undertaking due diligence.
Being above the law, Yeung sought to wriggle out of this commitment.
It was then that the shit hit the fan/fans...
The appropriately named David Gold was "shocked" that police officers specialising in economic crime visited the Birmingham City offices yesterday to examine the paperwork.
He flustered that it was an "inappropriate and unreasonable" probe.
Then, rather ill-advisedly, he warned Yeung and his associates to remember that football in this country is a small closed shop of a world and that "what goes around, comes around."
And sure enough, one of the Porn Barons behind Brum was true to his word, which is not something that can have been stated too frequently.
For within 24 hours of the news that the police were examining the Pornman's paperwork, it was announced that the Premier League were to investigate the Real owners of the club.
How spooky is that?
We wait 17 years for the Premier League to even show the slightest interest in illicit club ownership and then, lo and behold, Our Great Leader leaps up to defend the Porn Baron and his Moll.
Two companies registered in the British Virgin Islands, Winning Top International Overseas and Genuine Ocean International Trading, now own a controlling interest of more than 42% in Grandtop, Yeung's investment vehicle.
And Theo Guardian revealed: "This occurred after Yeung, the Birmingham City president, issued fresh shares and convertible bonds to fund a $117.6m (£70m) takeover of Peace International Creation Ltd. On Sunday Grandtop issued a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange, where the company is listed, that it had completed the deal to buy Peace International, a shell company also registered in the BVI."
Our broker informs us that the Real owners of Birmingham City are now to be found hiding behind these shell operations and that Carson Yeung is just the frontman.
This is pretty much the same illegal structure that allows Al Faraj entirely fake ownership of Portsmouth FC.
Birmingham City are still claiming that Yeung is the main man but, then again, Dick Cheney used to say that about the strange idiot child from Texas.
Peter Pannu claims that there has been "no effective dilution" of Yeung's stake which is an outright lie.
Our Asian broker has provided us with some names that we are not allowed to print here but try creating a sentence including the words "Birmingham", "City", "Bookmakers", "Asia", "Underground", "Rigging" and "Markets" and, once again, you will be nearer the truth than not.
This was a bad strategic move by the Porn Baron.
Gold might believe that he is a Big Man, but he is squiggly shit next to the Triads.
We would suggest he removes the light-bulbs before going to sleep like all the rest of the individuals do who tread on the toes of this global Asian mafiosi.
At least the Moll has kept her mouth shut.
But now she has got a new sugar daddy.
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Monday 16 November 2009
How To Deal With The TV Licensing Police
OMG, it seemed so simple.
The BBC gives promotional airtime to a neo-fascist 'politician'; a customer decides that they are unwilling to pay a fee/tax to receive such propaganda; a legally binding letter is sent to TV Licensing to inform them of this decision.
End of story?
Not likely, mate...
A standardised letter is sent out from the BBC Police informing one that, as 27% of individuals who claim not to have a television set are lying, a surprise visit has been scheduled. The letter claims that you must allow access to your property to enable these inspectors to determine whether you are, in fact, telling the truth or are being economic with it.
Once they are convinced of your 'innocence', you are allowed three years before these people contact you once again just to check that you haven't been tempted to return to the state propaganda format.
First, the simple bit...
TV Licensing have no legal right to undertake such a strategy unless granted it in court.
If you are in this position, simply cut and paste the following letter provided by our barrister, and email it to TV Licensing.
"I will not tolerate any visit by a TV Licensing Enforcement Officer at my address. Therefore, I withdraw from TV Licensing, its employees and its agents the implied right of access to my property at [ADDRESS]. Henceforth, no employee or agent of TV Licensing qualifies as an invitee to my property. Any such person who ventures onto my property at [ADDRESS] will be trespassing on my land, and I shall not hesitate to seek legal redress for the offence caused."
You will then receive a reply akin to the following: "My reply acknowledges receipt of your withdrawal to the right for a visit from any TV Licensing Officers. However, we reserve the right to use other methods available for the detection of television receiving apparatus."
TV Licensing are a private body and their enforcement officers are rewarded for their productivity in nailing non-payers.
TV Licensing are contracted to the BBC to undertake this enforcement but TV Licensing are, in Reality, Capita Business Services Limited, a commercial enterprise.
They prefer to utilise fear tactics rather than science to back up their agenda.
It used to be a running joke that TV Licensing vans parked on your street were simply empty Transit vans pretending to be something more Big Brotherish.
Nowadays, the enforcement officers allegedly have hand-held devices that inform them of active television use within a property.
The Stalinist nature of TV Licensing is exhibited in other ways that make the psychopathies of the Murdochracy seem positively light touch.
If you purchase any television or television-linked device, the dealer is under legal obligation to inform TV Licensing which is the best reason for utilising a fake address when making such a purchase.
The buying of a tv set or a video or a DVD recorder does not necessarily mean that one wishes to plug into the BBC and this should thought of as an additional caveat emptor when making the purchase.
From time to time, TV Licensing decide to make an example of a particular case, not because the non-viewer is behaving illegally but because their internal assessment suggests that the case is statistically likely to be an earner for their shareholders if pursued.
If one finds oneself in this position, it is possible to get a Court Injunction to stop this private organisation from harassing you.
Check how David Guest and his family de-Stalinised the Stalinists at http://www.marmalade.net/lime/david_guest.html.
And, even if you are a viewer and you lie to TV Licensing, so long as you already possess a criminal record, the gaming of the experience may work to your advantage.
Not, of course, that we should suggest such a tactic.
The average fine if found guilty of Lying To Stalin is £153, just ten pounds and fifty pence more than the cost of the licence in the first place (although you would, obviously, have to purchase a licence to continue viewing).
So, so long as you can string the bastards along for 56 weeks or more, you are quids in!!
In a rather excellent piece of numerological correlation, the BBC disclosed that in 2005/06, it cost £153 million to hassle members of the public over the TV Licence, 73% of whom were acting entirely legally.
On a train journey back to Manchester last week, I discovered a copy of the Manchester Evening News on the seat opposite.
In it, they disclosed that the new head of BBC in Salford, Caroline Thompson, claimed over £4,000 on taxi fares in just three months.
She earns £413,000 per annum.
In total, the BBC spends over £25 million per year on taxis for senior staff.
And then there is Ross and Paxman and Wark and Peston and Vine and Hansen and Lineker and Brand and Dimbleby and Humphrys and, last but not least, Nick Griffin...
As lime@marmalade.net states: "One cannot simply refuse this entertainment service, without appearing to be dishonest in the eyes of TV Licensing™... The non-viewer does not fit into their framework. To TV Licensing™ there are licence-payers and licence-dodgers and the non-viewer (with whom they really have no business) is treated as a suspect licence-dodger.
"'I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's one called brightness, but it doesn't work.' — Eugene P. Gallagher.
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The BBC gives promotional airtime to a neo-fascist 'politician'; a customer decides that they are unwilling to pay a fee/tax to receive such propaganda; a legally binding letter is sent to TV Licensing to inform them of this decision.
End of story?
Not likely, mate...
A standardised letter is sent out from the BBC Police informing one that, as 27% of individuals who claim not to have a television set are lying, a surprise visit has been scheduled. The letter claims that you must allow access to your property to enable these inspectors to determine whether you are, in fact, telling the truth or are being economic with it.
Once they are convinced of your 'innocence', you are allowed three years before these people contact you once again just to check that you haven't been tempted to return to the state propaganda format.
First, the simple bit...
TV Licensing have no legal right to undertake such a strategy unless granted it in court.
If you are in this position, simply cut and paste the following letter provided by our barrister, and email it to TV Licensing.
"I will not tolerate any visit by a TV Licensing Enforcement Officer at my address. Therefore, I withdraw from TV Licensing, its employees and its agents the implied right of access to my property at [ADDRESS]. Henceforth, no employee or agent of TV Licensing qualifies as an invitee to my property. Any such person who ventures onto my property at [ADDRESS] will be trespassing on my land, and I shall not hesitate to seek legal redress for the offence caused."
You will then receive a reply akin to the following: "My reply acknowledges receipt of your withdrawal to the right for a visit from any TV Licensing Officers. However, we reserve the right to use other methods available for the detection of television receiving apparatus."
TV Licensing are a private body and their enforcement officers are rewarded for their productivity in nailing non-payers.
TV Licensing are contracted to the BBC to undertake this enforcement but TV Licensing are, in Reality, Capita Business Services Limited, a commercial enterprise.
They prefer to utilise fear tactics rather than science to back up their agenda.
It used to be a running joke that TV Licensing vans parked on your street were simply empty Transit vans pretending to be something more Big Brotherish.
Nowadays, the enforcement officers allegedly have hand-held devices that inform them of active television use within a property.
The Stalinist nature of TV Licensing is exhibited in other ways that make the psychopathies of the Murdochracy seem positively light touch.
If you purchase any television or television-linked device, the dealer is under legal obligation to inform TV Licensing which is the best reason for utilising a fake address when making such a purchase.
The buying of a tv set or a video or a DVD recorder does not necessarily mean that one wishes to plug into the BBC and this should thought of as an additional caveat emptor when making the purchase.
From time to time, TV Licensing decide to make an example of a particular case, not because the non-viewer is behaving illegally but because their internal assessment suggests that the case is statistically likely to be an earner for their shareholders if pursued.
If one finds oneself in this position, it is possible to get a Court Injunction to stop this private organisation from harassing you.
Check how David Guest and his family de-Stalinised the Stalinists at http://www.marmalade.net/lime/david_guest.html.
And, even if you are a viewer and you lie to TV Licensing, so long as you already possess a criminal record, the gaming of the experience may work to your advantage.
Not, of course, that we should suggest such a tactic.
The average fine if found guilty of Lying To Stalin is £153, just ten pounds and fifty pence more than the cost of the licence in the first place (although you would, obviously, have to purchase a licence to continue viewing).
So, so long as you can string the bastards along for 56 weeks or more, you are quids in!!
In a rather excellent piece of numerological correlation, the BBC disclosed that in 2005/06, it cost £153 million to hassle members of the public over the TV Licence, 73% of whom were acting entirely legally.
On a train journey back to Manchester last week, I discovered a copy of the Manchester Evening News on the seat opposite.
In it, they disclosed that the new head of BBC in Salford, Caroline Thompson, claimed over £4,000 on taxi fares in just three months.
She earns £413,000 per annum.
In total, the BBC spends over £25 million per year on taxis for senior staff.
And then there is Ross and Paxman and Wark and Peston and Vine and Hansen and Lineker and Brand and Dimbleby and Humphrys and, last but not least, Nick Griffin...
As lime@marmalade.net states: "One cannot simply refuse this entertainment service, without appearing to be dishonest in the eyes of TV Licensing™... The non-viewer does not fit into their framework. To TV Licensing™ there are licence-payers and licence-dodgers and the non-viewer (with whom they really have no business) is treated as a suspect licence-dodger.
"'I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's one called brightness, but it doesn't work.' — Eugene P. Gallagher.
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Friday 13 November 2009
The Death Of Robert Enke And Other Stories
I cried when I heard that Robert Enke had died.
When death has been recently close to you anyway, spectacular deaths have impact, whether Real and Suicidal as with Enke or hyperreal deep state shenanigans as with Diana Princess of Paris.
First, let's get one thing absolutely straight.
To not have periods of depression in this horrendous late capitalism nightmare is the surest sign of mental illness.
Depression is the norm outside of psychopathic behaviouralisms and if you are not occasionally depressed, you are deluding yourself.
Even if you reside in 'First World' consumerist comfort, the fruits of your luxury are built on the maquiladoras of the North Mexican border or the sweatshops of South East Asia.
Squatter towns, cardboard shacks, refugee cities, the Gaza Panopticon, rampant wage slavery founded on fear throughout the tiers slightly elevated from absolute poverty, shareholder capitalism exploits and murders the individuals on whom the Ponzi Pyramid is built.
For a Darfur refugee, the few strands of life available are fought for to the last breath, these people are desperate to survive the mass rapes and sexual assaults, the randomised violence and death that the 'First World' allows in the name of economic progress and oil.
In the 'First World', those in touch with their emotional and psychological Realities are able to share these pains in an ever so irrelevant and distant way, but it is there in the background all the time - it is simply not valid to go on vacation to these 'tropical paradises', for example, without reckoning with the gross distortions of living created by global and national capitalist psychopathies.
Four members of my family have undertaken voluntary work for The Samaritans - a British charity that offers support for those contemplating suicide, indeed my brother remains a chairperson of his local branch to this day.
There are good things and bad things about this organisation, but the primary good thing is that volunteers are there not to prevent callers or visitors from committing suicide, but to be there for the client, if necessary, while the suicide takes place.
While I was a volunteer, I researched numerous statistical analyses of suicide in both Britain and Europe.
Several key points arose from these data...
* Men tend to be markedly more violent in the manners of choosing their own death whereas woman generally take less 'extreme' routes that are more in the 'cry for help' territory rather than a determined desire for self-termination.
* Death distributions are highly seasonal with the lead up to xmas/New Year and spring being worst. Overnight and early morning are also more problematical than the remainder of the day.
* Certain countries have peculiarly high suicide rates with some correlations existing with regard to the hours of sunlight. Related to this are the clusters of suicides of Afro-Caribbean men in Britain - this non-racist nirvana.
* Reasons for feeling suicidal are primarily poverty, relationship breakdown, stress, racism, death, unemployment, bullying, sexual/physical violence and alcohol or other drug abuse. There are also systemic reasons outlined later in this post.
* Public attitudes to suicide, although improving, remain unevolved. Militaristic violence against masses of Islamic civilians is regarded as okay in Daily Telegraph Land but violence against oneself is not.
It was this last factor that directly led to the death of Robert Enke.
Having lost his two year old daughter to a rare heart disease, the Enke's adopted another daughter. Robert feared that if his depression became public knowledge, the authorities would take their adoptive daughter away from them too.
Consequently, he kept his condition to himself, even keeping the Hannover 96 club psychologist in the dark.
After three months out injured, Enke returned to action last weekend for the derby against HSV and had expected to be included in the German Nationalmannschaft for the friendly internationals against Chile and Cote d'Ivoire as he was the number one choice prior to his injury.
The selectors chose to omit him from the squad, a decision made in ignorance of Enke's psychological state, so no blame may be attached to the German management team.
Goalkeepers are particularly prone to depressive issues in professional football as it is the keepers that are most frequently targeted by those wishing to criminalise football match outcomes - we know of one Premier League goalie who is coerced into doing the dirty work of one particular organisation due to the knowledge of the 'lifestyle issues' which that organisation has on this individual.
A rock and a hard place...
Robert Enke obviously never recovered from the death of his daughter.
But the system is responsible for his death too.
If we declare our depressive tendencies, it goes on our work records, on our adoption papers, resulting in serious difficulties in maintaining an adequate lifestyle/employment history which fuels the depression still further.
How is it reasonable for a caring couple like the Enke's to have concerns about their suitability to bring up a child when war criminals, psychopaths etc are able to breed, adopt or whatever?
This is a damning indictment of a system.
And the system creates suicide of its own accord.
The first occasion I suffered a bout of depression was after Thatcher took power and my generation suddenly came face to face with the Reality that the social system that we had been brought up to expect in our adult lives had been replaced by the monstrosity that is free market capitalism, where it is those very breeding psychopaths who gather the rewards at the expense of our existence.
When I went one year to The Samaritans Annual Conference in York, I stood at the back of a room on the Saturday night with a co-volunteer, Sheila, watching the bizarre disco that was taking place as light entertainment for those attending the event.
"They are just callers with elastoplast on" stated my colleague.
And that is why The Samaritans works - people who have survived the threat of suicide themselves are the best placed to help others who are still in a very dark place indeed.
Violence against self is a right.
Systemic violence isn't.
Robert Enke's funeral takes place tomorrow.
No doubt the mainstream media, which avoids depressive Realities most of the time, will be present en masse to claim their slice of the action, of the distress, the pain and the suffering and horrendous sense of loss.
Tomorrow I'll think of his wife and adopted daughter, and of the poor train drivers who in the process of going about their labours ended up being indirectly responsible for the loss of a good man's life.
And I'll hope that not only will this sad death result in a more enlightened attitude to depression but also that we are able to look forward to a point in the future where non-violent methods of self-termination are available for those who feel that they are unable to go on in this nightmarish hyperreality of psychopathic and systemic violence.
Robert Enke RIP.
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When death has been recently close to you anyway, spectacular deaths have impact, whether Real and Suicidal as with Enke or hyperreal deep state shenanigans as with Diana Princess of Paris.
First, let's get one thing absolutely straight.
To not have periods of depression in this horrendous late capitalism nightmare is the surest sign of mental illness.
Depression is the norm outside of psychopathic behaviouralisms and if you are not occasionally depressed, you are deluding yourself.
Even if you reside in 'First World' consumerist comfort, the fruits of your luxury are built on the maquiladoras of the North Mexican border or the sweatshops of South East Asia.
Squatter towns, cardboard shacks, refugee cities, the Gaza Panopticon, rampant wage slavery founded on fear throughout the tiers slightly elevated from absolute poverty, shareholder capitalism exploits and murders the individuals on whom the Ponzi Pyramid is built.
For a Darfur refugee, the few strands of life available are fought for to the last breath, these people are desperate to survive the mass rapes and sexual assaults, the randomised violence and death that the 'First World' allows in the name of economic progress and oil.
In the 'First World', those in touch with their emotional and psychological Realities are able to share these pains in an ever so irrelevant and distant way, but it is there in the background all the time - it is simply not valid to go on vacation to these 'tropical paradises', for example, without reckoning with the gross distortions of living created by global and national capitalist psychopathies.
Four members of my family have undertaken voluntary work for The Samaritans - a British charity that offers support for those contemplating suicide, indeed my brother remains a chairperson of his local branch to this day.
There are good things and bad things about this organisation, but the primary good thing is that volunteers are there not to prevent callers or visitors from committing suicide, but to be there for the client, if necessary, while the suicide takes place.
While I was a volunteer, I researched numerous statistical analyses of suicide in both Britain and Europe.
Several key points arose from these data...
* Men tend to be markedly more violent in the manners of choosing their own death whereas woman generally take less 'extreme' routes that are more in the 'cry for help' territory rather than a determined desire for self-termination.
* Death distributions are highly seasonal with the lead up to xmas/New Year and spring being worst. Overnight and early morning are also more problematical than the remainder of the day.
* Certain countries have peculiarly high suicide rates with some correlations existing with regard to the hours of sunlight. Related to this are the clusters of suicides of Afro-Caribbean men in Britain - this non-racist nirvana.
* Reasons for feeling suicidal are primarily poverty, relationship breakdown, stress, racism, death, unemployment, bullying, sexual/physical violence and alcohol or other drug abuse. There are also systemic reasons outlined later in this post.
* Public attitudes to suicide, although improving, remain unevolved. Militaristic violence against masses of Islamic civilians is regarded as okay in Daily Telegraph Land but violence against oneself is not.
It was this last factor that directly led to the death of Robert Enke.
Having lost his two year old daughter to a rare heart disease, the Enke's adopted another daughter. Robert feared that if his depression became public knowledge, the authorities would take their adoptive daughter away from them too.
Consequently, he kept his condition to himself, even keeping the Hannover 96 club psychologist in the dark.
After three months out injured, Enke returned to action last weekend for the derby against HSV and had expected to be included in the German Nationalmannschaft for the friendly internationals against Chile and Cote d'Ivoire as he was the number one choice prior to his injury.
The selectors chose to omit him from the squad, a decision made in ignorance of Enke's psychological state, so no blame may be attached to the German management team.
Goalkeepers are particularly prone to depressive issues in professional football as it is the keepers that are most frequently targeted by those wishing to criminalise football match outcomes - we know of one Premier League goalie who is coerced into doing the dirty work of one particular organisation due to the knowledge of the 'lifestyle issues' which that organisation has on this individual.
A rock and a hard place...
Robert Enke obviously never recovered from the death of his daughter.
But the system is responsible for his death too.
If we declare our depressive tendencies, it goes on our work records, on our adoption papers, resulting in serious difficulties in maintaining an adequate lifestyle/employment history which fuels the depression still further.
How is it reasonable for a caring couple like the Enke's to have concerns about their suitability to bring up a child when war criminals, psychopaths etc are able to breed, adopt or whatever?
This is a damning indictment of a system.
And the system creates suicide of its own accord.
The first occasion I suffered a bout of depression was after Thatcher took power and my generation suddenly came face to face with the Reality that the social system that we had been brought up to expect in our adult lives had been replaced by the monstrosity that is free market capitalism, where it is those very breeding psychopaths who gather the rewards at the expense of our existence.
When I went one year to The Samaritans Annual Conference in York, I stood at the back of a room on the Saturday night with a co-volunteer, Sheila, watching the bizarre disco that was taking place as light entertainment for those attending the event.
"They are just callers with elastoplast on" stated my colleague.
And that is why The Samaritans works - people who have survived the threat of suicide themselves are the best placed to help others who are still in a very dark place indeed.
Violence against self is a right.
Systemic violence isn't.
Robert Enke's funeral takes place tomorrow.
No doubt the mainstream media, which avoids depressive Realities most of the time, will be present en masse to claim their slice of the action, of the distress, the pain and the suffering and horrendous sense of loss.
Tomorrow I'll think of his wife and adopted daughter, and of the poor train drivers who in the process of going about their labours ended up being indirectly responsible for the loss of a good man's life.
And I'll hope that not only will this sad death result in a more enlightened attitude to depression but also that we are able to look forward to a point in the future where non-violent methods of self-termination are available for those who feel that they are unable to go on in this nightmarish hyperreality of psychopathic and systemic violence.
Robert Enke RIP.
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Tuesday 10 November 2009
Fakety Fakety Fakety Fake #
Climbing Walton's Mountain To See What We Might See From The Summit
Just as 'The Waltons' tv series was based on a fictional town in Virginia, Peter Walton's refereeing of Premier League matches is equally phantasmagoric.
Last night, Walton gave Liverpool an entirely illusory penalty which, in effect, saved Rafa's job.
So what?
The latest round of matches were full of outcome-altering non-professional fake decisions by the men in the middle.
Altered states equals altered outcomes.
But let us look a little closer at Walton on Merseyside.
Out of Walton's last nine Premier League appointments, 4 of those matches have been Liverpool home games.
FOUR!!!
In a non-fictional footballing world, one would expect Walton to get just one such game per season.
Mmmmmmm....
And the results of those matches:
Liverpool 3 Spurs 1
Liverpool 4 Stoke 0
Liverpool 6 Hull 1
And last night...
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Get On With The Game, Get On With Your Bookmaker, Get On With The Massive Corruption
The global betting turnover on the Chelsea versus Manchester United fix was around £### billion.
A top tier Premier League referee earns £90,000 per annum, before tax.
The 'Respect' campaign is a joke.
It must be because the Daily Telegraph says so.
Quoting frontal lobotomy shyster Kevin Garside: "The game cannot proceed without rules. It is the job of the referees to apply them and the participants to respect them. Without that tacit agreement, there is no game. To accept unconditionally a decision is the mark of a man. The more so if the decision is obviously bad, as we trust that it is made in good faith... There is no respect and that is why the beautiful game is ugly to watch."
Sir, the beautiful game is ugly to watch because a quantity of the top flight referees in England have entirely inappropriate relationships with bookmakers - check out the data on #################### and Mark Clattenburg released yesterday.
The chain of respect breaks down at that point.
Any reaction further down the line is determined by this core Reality.
And as for the utter bollocks about accepting decisions "being the mark of a man", to accept invalid orders and to carry such orders out without individual assessment starts getting you into the territory of fascism, not football.
In Garside's view, it was no doubt the mark of a man that he didn't question putting Jews, Roma, Homosexuals onto trains bound for Auschwitz.
How To Access Wall Street Journal Articles Without Paying For Them
The Murdochracy is trying to get the world to pay for ALL of their fake content, be it BSkyB, The Times, The Sun or The Wall St Journal (WSJ).
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Although why anyone would wish to take seriously the output of any Murdochratic media is beyond us.
Financial Fascism
Goldman Sachs had only one losing trading day in the 3rd Quarter.
Hank Paulson, the architect of the new financial neohyperreality was formerly a chief executive of this former investment bank.
Tim Geithner, the current architect, is also a GSman.
Paulson's policies destroyed Goldman competitors Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, while Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and UBS are shadows of their former psychopathy.
Goldman controls the markets.
Totally.
Any decent trader could achieve such levels of returns in such a rigged environment.
This bank invested public monies into a marketplace primed for proprietary psychopathic control, achieved remarkable returns and rewarded their traders and hierarchy massively for such cornering of the markets.
And Lloyd Blankfein, the head antisocial at the firm, claims both that the bank is a social body and that it is doing "God's work".
Linking deities with corruption is a common thread in late capitalism.
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Just as 'The Waltons' tv series was based on a fictional town in Virginia, Peter Walton's refereeing of Premier League matches is equally phantasmagoric.
Last night, Walton gave Liverpool an entirely illusory penalty which, in effect, saved Rafa's job.
So what?
The latest round of matches were full of outcome-altering non-professional fake decisions by the men in the middle.
Altered states equals altered outcomes.
But let us look a little closer at Walton on Merseyside.
Out of Walton's last nine Premier League appointments, 4 of those matches have been Liverpool home games.
FOUR!!!
In a non-fictional footballing world, one would expect Walton to get just one such game per season.
Mmmmmmm....
And the results of those matches:
Liverpool 3 Spurs 1
Liverpool 4 Stoke 0
Liverpool 6 Hull 1
And last night...
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Goodnight Peter boy...
Get On With The Game, Get On With Your Bookmaker, Get On With The Massive Corruption
The global betting turnover on the Chelsea versus Manchester United fix was around £### billion.
A top tier Premier League referee earns £90,000 per annum, before tax.
The 'Respect' campaign is a joke.
It must be because the Daily Telegraph says so.
Quoting frontal lobotomy shyster Kevin Garside: "The game cannot proceed without rules. It is the job of the referees to apply them and the participants to respect them. Without that tacit agreement, there is no game. To accept unconditionally a decision is the mark of a man. The more so if the decision is obviously bad, as we trust that it is made in good faith... There is no respect and that is why the beautiful game is ugly to watch."
Sir, the beautiful game is ugly to watch because a quantity of the top flight referees in England have entirely inappropriate relationships with bookmakers - check out the data on #################### and Mark Clattenburg released yesterday.
The chain of respect breaks down at that point.
Any reaction further down the line is determined by this core Reality.
And as for the utter bollocks about accepting decisions "being the mark of a man", to accept invalid orders and to carry such orders out without individual assessment starts getting you into the territory of fascism, not football.
In Garside's view, it was no doubt the mark of a man that he didn't question putting Jews, Roma, Homosexuals onto trains bound for Auschwitz.
How To Access Wall Street Journal Articles Without Paying For Them
The Murdochracy is trying to get the world to pay for ALL of their fake content, be it BSkyB, The Times, The Sun or The Wall St Journal (WSJ).
This railroading is being trialled with the WSJ.
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Although why anyone would wish to take seriously the output of any Murdochratic media is beyond us.
Financial Fascism
Goldman Sachs had only one losing trading day in the 3rd Quarter.
Hank Paulson, the architect of the new financial neohyperreality was formerly a chief executive of this former investment bank.
Tim Geithner, the current architect, is also a GSman.
Paulson's policies destroyed Goldman competitors Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, while Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and UBS are shadows of their former psychopathy.
Goldman controls the markets.
Totally.
Any decent trader could achieve such levels of returns in such a rigged environment.
This bank invested public monies into a marketplace primed for proprietary psychopathic control, achieved remarkable returns and rewarded their traders and hierarchy massively for such cornering of the markets.
And Lloyd Blankfein, the head antisocial at the firm, claims both that the bank is a social body and that it is doing "God's work".
Linking deities with corruption is a common thread in late capitalism.
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Monday 9 November 2009
12 Men, 13 Men, 14 Men - How Oligarchs Win Prizes And Other Fraudulent Fripperies #
The Premier League/PGMOB need to explain how the three most anti-Manchester United referees were the individuals selected to officiate the Big Match yesterday between Chelsea and Manchester United.
Martin Atkinson, the supposedly impartial match referee, has the most significant negative bias against United, while the original choice as 4th Official, Phil Dowd, has the second most anti-Man Utd tilt in his officiating.
Then, when the John Colquhoun Experience worked on getting Dowd to officiate at the heavily rigged Wigan Athletic versus Fulham match, the new 4th Official was none other than Man Utd Hater Mk III, Andre Marriner.
The statistical chances of Atkinson getting the match was 1 in 15 (as Halsey is injured).
The statistical chance of Atkinson being referee and Dowd 4th Official, and then Dowd being replaced by Marriner is around 3000/1.
A very long shot indeed.
As Wayne Rooney nearly correctly mouthed to the camera: "12 men", when, in Reality, he meant 13 men.
Or 14...
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The last three key fixtures for Chelsea in England have ALL had Mr Atkinson officiating - the FA Cup Semi Final victory over Arsenal last year (Webb had already been given the Final), and the home victories over both Liverpool and Manchester United this year.
Similarly, over 3000/1 against one man getting these three matches.
As the Premier League and the PGMOB claim, with repressed hilarity, that the selection of the match officials is on merit and that no one club has influence over the choice of officials, Scudamore/Hackett need to explain exactly how these statistical anomalies keep arising.
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And the whole atmosphere of 'something fishy going on' emanated from on high throughout the weekend.
There were refereeing changes across the league without neither announcement nor reason.
Firstly, without any warning and at the very last minute, Mark Clattenburg replaced Chris Foy for the Aston Villa versus Bolton fix. Then Clattenburg replaced Mason as 4th Official under Mike Dean for the Hull/Stoke market; then Dowd was moved from Chelsea 4th Official to referee at Wigan; and this allowed Marriner to arrive at the Bridge in a nautical stylee.
The PGMOB need to also explain Mr Clattenburg's appointments this season as it would appear that a bookmaker, ##############, are having undue influence on the selection of match officials.
Since Clattenburg was allowed to return to the criminality known as the PL following his ban for threats of physical menaces to a former business partner, he has officiated at the following matches:
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Just imagine the degree of control that one bookmaker might be able to have over Premier League outcomes if we made the obviously outrageous assumption that Mr Clattenburg exhibits criminal tendencies.
Just imagine!
Which brings us finally to the John Colquhoun Experience.
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Obviously this is just another statistical fluke of ScudamoreWorld.
Except, we could also name several other referees who also appear conducive to the market activities of one particular football agent.
Of course, we may simply step off the ride in the themepark of ScudamoreWorld.
Choose to do something with our limited lives.
Because the Real battle at the weekend wasn't between Chelsea and Manchester United on the football pitch, but between Abramovich and the bookmakers in the marketplace.
The gamble on Chelsea was obvious, mug heavy and significant in one of the biggest betting turnover events of the season. The bookmakers were left forlornly hoping that they could balance the books with the usual disinformative claptrap that their spokespeople put out.
So, Abramovitch has bought the league.
The bookies have taken a hit.
The mugs can pay off some debts.
And another nail is firmly hammered into the coffin marked 'English Football'.
Just pleased that I spent my time reading 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and '2666' instead of watching...
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Martin Atkinson, the supposedly impartial match referee, has the most significant negative bias against United, while the original choice as 4th Official, Phil Dowd, has the second most anti-Man Utd tilt in his officiating.
Then, when the John Colquhoun Experience worked on getting Dowd to officiate at the heavily rigged Wigan Athletic versus Fulham match, the new 4th Official was none other than Man Utd Hater Mk III, Andre Marriner.
The statistical chances of Atkinson getting the match was 1 in 15 (as Halsey is injured).
The statistical chance of Atkinson being referee and Dowd 4th Official, and then Dowd being replaced by Marriner is around 3000/1.
A very long shot indeed.
As Wayne Rooney nearly correctly mouthed to the camera: "12 men", when, in Reality, he meant 13 men.
Or 14...
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The last three key fixtures for Chelsea in England have ALL had Mr Atkinson officiating - the FA Cup Semi Final victory over Arsenal last year (Webb had already been given the Final), and the home victories over both Liverpool and Manchester United this year.
Similarly, over 3000/1 against one man getting these three matches.
As the Premier League and the PGMOB claim, with repressed hilarity, that the selection of the match officials is on merit and that no one club has influence over the choice of officials, Scudamore/Hackett need to explain exactly how these statistical anomalies keep arising.
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And the whole atmosphere of 'something fishy going on' emanated from on high throughout the weekend.
There were refereeing changes across the league without neither announcement nor reason.
Firstly, without any warning and at the very last minute, Mark Clattenburg replaced Chris Foy for the Aston Villa versus Bolton fix. Then Clattenburg replaced Mason as 4th Official under Mike Dean for the Hull/Stoke market; then Dowd was moved from Chelsea 4th Official to referee at Wigan; and this allowed Marriner to arrive at the Bridge in a nautical stylee.
The PGMOB need to also explain Mr Clattenburg's appointments this season as it would appear that a bookmaker, ##############, are having undue influence on the selection of match officials.
Since Clattenburg was allowed to return to the criminality known as the PL following his ban for threats of physical menaces to a former business partner, he has officiated at the following matches:
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Just imagine the degree of control that one bookmaker might be able to have over Premier League outcomes if we made the obviously outrageous assumption that Mr Clattenburg exhibits criminal tendencies.
Just imagine!
Which brings us finally to the John Colquhoun Experience.
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Obviously this is just another statistical fluke of ScudamoreWorld.
Except, we could also name several other referees who also appear conducive to the market activities of one particular football agent.
Of course, we may simply step off the ride in the themepark of ScudamoreWorld.
Choose to do something with our limited lives.
Because the Real battle at the weekend wasn't between Chelsea and Manchester United on the football pitch, but between Abramovich and the bookmakers in the marketplace.
The gamble on Chelsea was obvious, mug heavy and significant in one of the biggest betting turnover events of the season. The bookmakers were left forlornly hoping that they could balance the books with the usual disinformative claptrap that their spokespeople put out.
So, Abramovitch has bought the league.
The bookies have taken a hit.
The mugs can pay off some debts.
And another nail is firmly hammered into the coffin marked 'English Football'.
Just pleased that I spent my time reading 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and '2666' instead of watching...
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Friday 6 November 2009
The Dean Machine #
This post, which is totally for subscribers only, examines the performance of the English refereeing team for the Europa Cup match in Croatia yesterday between Dinamo Zagreb and Ajax Amsterdam.
The referee was Mike Dean, neatly fitting this event in between two live BSkyB matches.
Will he match his skip of delight at giving Birmingham their penalty last Sunday?
I do hope so.
Beach Ball Jones was the 4th Official and Andre "I Know How To Get Liverpool To Win" Marriner stood behind a goalline interfering with things.
We also examine the biases in favour of West European teams over their Eastern Brethren.
We rumble Dean and we rumble UEFA.
But not for freeloaders, we don't...
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The referee was Mike Dean, neatly fitting this event in between two live BSkyB matches.
Will he match his skip of delight at giving Birmingham their penalty last Sunday?
I do hope so.
Beach Ball Jones was the 4th Official and Andre "I Know How To Get Liverpool To Win" Marriner stood behind a goalline interfering with things.
We also examine the biases in favour of West European teams over their Eastern Brethren.
We rumble Dean and we rumble UEFA.
But not for freeloaders, we don't...
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Thursday 5 November 2009
The Fouliest, Most Odious, Fattest Elitists Versus The Bin Men And Proper Football At The Grass Roots Of Dub #
We Will Pull Off Great Escape Says Rafa; We Need A Miracle Now Says Rafa; Rafa Believes In Miracles, Apparently
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It's FA Cup or nothing now.
There is something deeply satisfying about injury time reversals, it is the extremities of emotions in a short time space.
And before anybody starts bemoaning the 'quality' that the Champions League is losing with the exit of Liverpool, the most fouliest teams in the midweek matches were Liverpool and FC Zurich with 24 apiece.
Still, it is good to see Rafa sticking to the FACTS as ever, that would be Fulham, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Tottenham and Sunderland.
What Is A Great Penalty, When It Is At Home?
Richard Keys said it and I heard it in the pub the other night - "And Ronaldinho scored a great penalty."
Did he take a Bob Willis-length run up before diving head first and flicking the ball into the top corner via a vicious whiplash with a loose dreadlock?
Or did he just hammer the ball into the goal from 12 yards?
What Is Our Great Leader Up To? Not Much!
It would be nice to think that when Our Great Leader is lying low, that he is taking it really horizontally somewhere, recharging the ol' batteries, thinking of new ways to refer to excessive debt and criminal ownership in glowing terms.
We would have to hope that Scudamore was indeed on a beach somewhere when he made the following announcement to the PR industry: "Scottish football is Scottish football. For a traditionalist like me, that's where the Old Firm should play."
Wowowowoooooo...
"... a traditionalist?"
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Who was it that pushed Scottish football over the edge, anyway?
Sky.
It matters more when there's money on it.
Public Schoolboys Attempt To Sound Human, Repeated Failure Results In Project Being Scapped
Those establishment sorts at Betfair, when not sniggering openly about the amount of commission that they charge their dutiful clients, don't really get the football thing.
The recent advertising campaign is proof.
The PR people are trying to market the "Fan versus Fan" message and the home page consequently offered a banner highlighting the major betting event of the day...
"We did the double on you last year" versus "What did you win? Champions, champions..." - Liverpool v Man Utd.
"We'll play our kids and we'll knock you out" versus "Now to start our season after United win" - Arsenal v Liverpool.
"Winning last week will kickstart our season" versus "These are the games we have to win" - Birmingham v Man City.
Thankfully the clipped accents have dropped the campaign for the Champions League Qualifiers.
Although we would have to ask why?
"Red Army! Red Army!" versus "Tak zyt' nielzia*" - Man Utd v CSKA Moscow [* "one cannot live like this."]
And, anyway, we don't speak like that, if I might very very briefly represent everyone north of Watford Gap.
"Oy! Scouser!! Are you on remand?" versus "Munich! Munich!"
Because that is how we all speak...
...all the time.
Accrington Stanley Avoid A Winding Up Order, And Good For Them Too; It Will Allow Them To Undertake A Little More Insider Betting Before Stanley Are Eventually Cremated
Southend United have until Friday to pay £2.135 million.
Otherwise, another one bites the dust, or at least starts the journey that results in dust eventually being taken in by the mouthful.
Luton, Rotherham, Stockport, Southampton, Bournemouth, Brighton, Leeds, Chester City, Bradford City, Accrington Stanley and not forgetting Portsmouth, Hull City, West Ham United, Newcastle United etc etc...
And anyway...
What is a winding up order?
And who gives them out?
This sounds like my sort of job...
Proper Football #275
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQPW2jC_URY
Dragan Stojkovic showing that he still has the class...
"What Shall We Do Today, Dad?" "Why Don't We Go To The Sportsdirect.com@St James' Park Stadium To Watch The Lads?!"
Some people do not have the decency to die soon enough - Mike Ashley is one such man.
There are three types of capitalism - shareholder, stakeholder and Essex capitalism.
By some distance, the latter is the worst, and you don't have to come from Essex as vast swathes of Cheshire will testify.
The only value he sees in brands and products is their financial value.
Nothing else matters.
A better name for the stadium?
The Fraudulent Fat Fucker's Footie Ground@St James' Park?
Let's Talk Rubbish With Local Politics For Local People
The odious leader of Leeds City Council, in his hilarious justification for creating the binmen's strike in the city, came up with a Scudamorism all of his own design: "We used outside consultants to tell us what we think is involved."
As you had evidently already determined the outcome, sir, we think that you are robbing the public purse.
Meanwhile, in suburbia, the Manchester Evening News tells us that there is "rebellion against the new bins" which conjures up all sorts of sci-fi and late capitalist visions of trauma and strife.
If you are going to rebel, good people of albion, then take on the environmental bins rather than the system.
How revolting is that?
Exactly?
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It's FA Cup or nothing now.
There is something deeply satisfying about injury time reversals, it is the extremities of emotions in a short time space.
And before anybody starts bemoaning the 'quality' that the Champions League is losing with the exit of Liverpool, the most fouliest teams in the midweek matches were Liverpool and FC Zurich with 24 apiece.
Still, it is good to see Rafa sticking to the FACTS as ever, that would be Fulham, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Tottenham and Sunderland.
What Is A Great Penalty, When It Is At Home?
Richard Keys said it and I heard it in the pub the other night - "And Ronaldinho scored a great penalty."
Did he take a Bob Willis-length run up before diving head first and flicking the ball into the top corner via a vicious whiplash with a loose dreadlock?
Or did he just hammer the ball into the goal from 12 yards?
What Is Our Great Leader Up To? Not Much!
It would be nice to think that when Our Great Leader is lying low, that he is taking it really horizontally somewhere, recharging the ol' batteries, thinking of new ways to refer to excessive debt and criminal ownership in glowing terms.
We would have to hope that Scudamore was indeed on a beach somewhere when he made the following announcement to the PR industry: "Scottish football is Scottish football. For a traditionalist like me, that's where the Old Firm should play."
Wowowowoooooo...
"... a traditionalist?"
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Who was it that pushed Scottish football over the edge, anyway?
Sky.
It matters more when there's money on it.
Public Schoolboys Attempt To Sound Human, Repeated Failure Results In Project Being Scapped
Those establishment sorts at Betfair, when not sniggering openly about the amount of commission that they charge their dutiful clients, don't really get the football thing.
The recent advertising campaign is proof.
The PR people are trying to market the "Fan versus Fan" message and the home page consequently offered a banner highlighting the major betting event of the day...
"We did the double on you last year" versus "What did you win? Champions, champions..." - Liverpool v Man Utd.
"We'll play our kids and we'll knock you out" versus "Now to start our season after United win" - Arsenal v Liverpool.
"Winning last week will kickstart our season" versus "These are the games we have to win" - Birmingham v Man City.
Thankfully the clipped accents have dropped the campaign for the Champions League Qualifiers.
Although we would have to ask why?
"Red Army! Red Army!" versus "Tak zyt' nielzia*" - Man Utd v CSKA Moscow [* "one cannot live like this."]
And, anyway, we don't speak like that, if I might very very briefly represent everyone north of Watford Gap.
"Oy! Scouser!! Are you on remand?" versus "Munich! Munich!"
Because that is how we all speak...
...all the time.
Accrington Stanley Avoid A Winding Up Order, And Good For Them Too; It Will Allow Them To Undertake A Little More Insider Betting Before Stanley Are Eventually Cremated
Southend United have until Friday to pay £2.135 million.
Otherwise, another one bites the dust, or at least starts the journey that results in dust eventually being taken in by the mouthful.
Luton, Rotherham, Stockport, Southampton, Bournemouth, Brighton, Leeds, Chester City, Bradford City, Accrington Stanley and not forgetting Portsmouth, Hull City, West Ham United, Newcastle United etc etc...
And anyway...
What is a winding up order?
And who gives them out?
This sounds like my sort of job...
Proper Football #275
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQPW2jC_URY
Dragan Stojkovic showing that he still has the class...
"What Shall We Do Today, Dad?" "Why Don't We Go To The Sportsdirect.com@St James' Park Stadium To Watch The Lads?!"
Some people do not have the decency to die soon enough - Mike Ashley is one such man.
There are three types of capitalism - shareholder, stakeholder and Essex capitalism.
By some distance, the latter is the worst, and you don't have to come from Essex as vast swathes of Cheshire will testify.
The only value he sees in brands and products is their financial value.
Nothing else matters.
A better name for the stadium?
The Fraudulent Fat Fucker's Footie Ground@St James' Park?
Let's Talk Rubbish With Local Politics For Local People
The odious leader of Leeds City Council, in his hilarious justification for creating the binmen's strike in the city, came up with a Scudamorism all of his own design: "We used outside consultants to tell us what we think is involved."
As you had evidently already determined the outcome, sir, we think that you are robbing the public purse.
Meanwhile, in suburbia, the Manchester Evening News tells us that there is "rebellion against the new bins" which conjures up all sorts of sci-fi and late capitalist visions of trauma and strife.
If you are going to rebel, good people of albion, then take on the environmental bins rather than the system.
How revolting is that?
Exactly?
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Wednesday 4 November 2009
Why Are FC Zurich Zooming And Will They Still Be Zooming After Tonight? #
In the Champions League Group Phase, considerable analysis is possible at the midway stage as all the teams have played each other once.
This allows proper analysis of form and the fundamentals, and allows us to determine if any of the events are 3 for 3 or 2 for 2 scenarios (teams sharing the points over the two games).
The remainder of this post is only for those of you who have been willing to put your grubby little hands in your even grubbier pockets to extract fifteen of your matriarch's pounds to enhance our vision of a Libertarian Socialist future for your children.
Who is going to qualify?
Who isn't?
Who cares?
NB. Apologies. We had to delay release on this post as we had a huge position on Milan versus Real Madrid being a draw.
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This allows proper analysis of form and the fundamentals, and allows us to determine if any of the events are 3 for 3 or 2 for 2 scenarios (teams sharing the points over the two games).
The remainder of this post is only for those of you who have been willing to put your grubby little hands in your even grubbier pockets to extract fifteen of your matriarch's pounds to enhance our vision of a Libertarian Socialist future for your children.
Who is going to qualify?
Who isn't?
Who cares?
NB. Apologies. We had to delay release on this post as we had a huge position on Milan versus Real Madrid being a draw.
* All posts labelled # are only available fully by subscription.
* Annual fee is £15 for 260 posts.
* Payment by Googlecart or PayPal.
* Contact us at footballisfixed@googlemail.com for further details of latter.
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Monday 2 November 2009
Cum On Feel The Noize #
Leading European bookmakers enjoy the 'revenge served cold' template of reactive rutting.
On a global level, this is not a strategy that is frequently an option due to the incredible degrees of dexterity demonstrated by the Asian layers - any tactic against the Far East is merely seen as an invitation to play.
But within Europe, power plays and wins for the leading operators.
Yesterday Brighton and Hove Albion sacked their manager, Russell Slade.
He had been in the job for just eight months, had helped to secure Brighton's League One place at the end of last season, was given a two year contract as a reward, but is now out of a job.
And entirely unfairly too.
These two hyperrealities are linked.
Regular readers will be aware of our bulging file on Anthony Grant "The Lizard" Bloom.
In the mid-nineties, Bloom represented Victor Chandler International in the first European foray into the Asian markets. Bloom was based in Bangkok for a couple of years and offered secure trading accounts (off the record of course) to discerning traders who wished to get involved in the Asian Handicap markets which, at that stage, were not available in Europe.
It was in this manner that we initially met.
At that time in Asia, the underground markets were pretty much the only option and these operations used to transfigure their neorealities at a pace. Different names (slightly), different territories, but the same characters behind the markets.
Backhanders secured passage to the safety of new trading environments - the links between the gambling industry and the police is particularly strong in Thailand, for example.
Think His Excellency, Dibble Shinawatra...
Unless you were able to furnish these bookmakers with primary level insider information, you were very liable to get ripped off.
Hence, Bloom's service was seen as a good option.
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Bloom managed to sustain his preferential links with Asia for a while, using a looped process whereby 'information' from Europe was swapped for privileged market access in Asia, which revealed 'knowledge' that was accordingly utilised for beneficial trading within Europe.
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I had several trading conversations with Bloom on the morning of one of these events and I asked him how he would deal with the tilting of the table against his interests.
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After reinventing himself as a property developer, Bloom took over at Brighton in the summer and we said at the time that he should expect shenanigans.
In Reality, Brighton and Hove Albion could stand 8 points better off in League One this season, on the fringe of the Play-Offs rather than on the periphery of oblivion.
The sacking of Slade is therefore in the kneejerk sub-sector of strategy.
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You do not take the piss out of the likes of these people.
Or, if you do, expect Mandelbrotian waves of self-harming self-similarity ad nauseum.
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On a global level, this is not a strategy that is frequently an option due to the incredible degrees of dexterity demonstrated by the Asian layers - any tactic against the Far East is merely seen as an invitation to play.
But within Europe, power plays and wins for the leading operators.
Yesterday Brighton and Hove Albion sacked their manager, Russell Slade.
He had been in the job for just eight months, had helped to secure Brighton's League One place at the end of last season, was given a two year contract as a reward, but is now out of a job.
And entirely unfairly too.
These two hyperrealities are linked.
Regular readers will be aware of our bulging file on Anthony Grant "The Lizard" Bloom.
In the mid-nineties, Bloom represented Victor Chandler International in the first European foray into the Asian markets. Bloom was based in Bangkok for a couple of years and offered secure trading accounts (off the record of course) to discerning traders who wished to get involved in the Asian Handicap markets which, at that stage, were not available in Europe.
It was in this manner that we initially met.
At that time in Asia, the underground markets were pretty much the only option and these operations used to transfigure their neorealities at a pace. Different names (slightly), different territories, but the same characters behind the markets.
Backhanders secured passage to the safety of new trading environments - the links between the gambling industry and the police is particularly strong in Thailand, for example.
Think His Excellency, Dibble Shinawatra...
Unless you were able to furnish these bookmakers with primary level insider information, you were very liable to get ripped off.
Hence, Bloom's service was seen as a good option.
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Bloom managed to sustain his preferential links with Asia for a while, using a looped process whereby 'information' from Europe was swapped for privileged market access in Asia, which revealed 'knowledge' that was accordingly utilised for beneficial trading within Europe.
It was this last section of the loop that remains problematic to Mr Bloom to this very day.
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##############################################, Ladbrokes, also didn't take too well to Bloom reaching the Finals of the Ladbrokes Million Poker Tournament on two separate occasions.
I had several trading conversations with Bloom on the morning of one of these events and I asked him how he would deal with the tilting of the table against his interests.
He had no plan.
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After reinventing himself as a property developer, Bloom took over at Brighton in the summer and we said at the time that he should expect shenanigans.
In Reality, Brighton and Hove Albion could stand 8 points better off in League One this season, on the fringe of the Play-Offs rather than on the periphery of oblivion.
The sacking of Slade is therefore in the kneejerk sub-sector of strategy.
Check this...
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Better blame Slade then.
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You do not take the piss out of the likes of these people.
Or, if you do, expect Mandelbrotian waves of self-harming self-similarity ad nauseum.
* All posts labelled # are only available fully by subscription.
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Friday 30 October 2009
1. Why The Markets Are Going To Do What The Markets Are Going To Do
In financial markets, as in sex, humour and volleying a ball home from just outside the area, timing is everything.
The superslick who are way ahead of the curve self-compress their future profits through their inability to appropriately time market entries and exits.
The bewildered who are reactive to the curve simply exist to provide the rest of us with our future cash.
So it is with blogging about markets.
We never release information that we are currently utilising to make gains in the markets unless we are sharing knowledge and information on a Consultative level.
We just do not write about certain matters.
Until the time is right.
And, the time is now most definitely right for the release of the second half of our dichotomous Xmas Freebie Bet.
The first, the opposition to Liverpool having even the remotest chance of winning the Premier League this season is already a winner.
If we had delayed the release of this particular Freebie, the price (and any value) would have long since disappeared - short-selling Liverpool around 5/2 (3.50) pays the bills; short-selling at 100/1 doesn't.
Timing again...
The remainder of this post should be read in conjunction with the earlier deconstruction of the free market capitalist system contained in the post "In The Lap Of The Big Bang".
Much of That Stuff underpins This Stuff.
Yesterday, it was officially announced that the Recession is over.
On an important day for hyperreal news, it was also announced that Cinderella is to become president of the EU, Barack Obama antihumously was beatified by the pope, and Dirk Kuyt reckoned that the United win will have fired Liverpool's title chances.
The Recession is not over.
It has hardly begun.
From the "green shoots of recovery" nonsense all the way through to "the recession is over" garbage, we are dealing with a purely psychological market here.
This has been a journey of pure psychology.
There are virtually no fundamentals supportive of this pseudo-recovery.
And, until a year ago, the majority of neoclassical economists denied that behaviouralism had any impact on the markets at all.
We, ie myself and my trading colleagues, used to think of ourselves as market analysts.
Then things became too hyperreal for such a job description and we all simultaneously became scenario analysts, as Reality no longer had any part to play in the new phase of the image.
Then even the scenarios became Dali-esque in their perturbations and bifurcations and what-not, and behavioural psychologists within a psychopathic system became the new name written on our brass plates, so to speak.
Self similarity mathematics ensured that the 'financial nuclear waste' buried away below ground, from earlier exercises in market hyperreality, would leak and worse over time in a repeated tsunami of Mandelbrot waves, as we became Fractal Chaotists.
And all this then must be set against the various super-systemic risks associated with man-made climate change.
So we are now Behavioural Market Analysts and Strategists, attempting to predict Fractal Scenarios, with Ecosystemic risk.
We are Arbitragers of the Hyperreality!!!
The people who created this Depression are those selected to lead us out from it too.
Take Gordon Brown, the British Depression Creator General.
The champion of the "light touch" regulation that he established with the FSA, he gave bank bosses plenty of room provided they seemed to know what they were doing.
The resultant "slightly heavier hand of regulation" is still attached to the same people.
Quantitative Easing (QE) has been the Harry Potter/Hank Paulson Magic Solution.
QE has never worked - in Weimar Germany, it led to hyperinflation, in Japan, stagflation, and in Zimbabwe, neohyperinflation and a chance for the British Isles to revisit the glories of imperialism.
Let us use an analogy by Dave Ransom at Wainwright Economics.
Quoting from The Economist: "Cars need two types of oil; petrol for fuel and engine oil for lubrication. The liquidity that the central banks inject is engine oil; without it, the engine would seize up but put in too much oil and you get problems too. It is not, however, petrol and does not make the car/economy go any faster."
Too much oil is misallocated and leaks all over the pavement, and produces inefficiencies and exhaust pollution, before eventually flooding the engine.
The Bear Market Bounce is a Fake Thing.
It began with professionals closing out their short positions against the system itself and it warped into a media-inspired construct of irrational thinking that was based on the intellectually flimsy foundation that the printing of an extra few trillion dollars is actually a good thing.
But the Real State of the financial system was already parlous.
As Mike Platt of Blue Crest HF) stated at the time: "It [QE] is the only policy option left."
The toxicity remains in the system as this jobless pseudo-recovery grinds to an engine seizing halt.
Some estimates reckon that there might be as much as $1.4 quadrillion of toxicity just waiting to surface.
Let us examine the psychology of the bankers who hold onto these toxic assets.
The banking industry, as well as being the cause, is acting as a magnifier of the Recession in free markets.
As one investment banker slithered earlier in the year: "Capital is like heroin, once you go down the capital intensive route, you can't go back."
Addiction drives the psychopathy.
And toxicity is the opiate residue mainlining around the life stream of the system.
The Economist evaluated the self-interested psychology of the banker earlier in the year: "A good bank will have recognised the problems of the really toxic assets and marked them down on their balance sheets accordingly; a bad bank will not. So if the bad bank sells assets into the scheme, it may be forced into making a write-down in capital; the last thing it wants at the moment... The whole scheme seems to assume that the problem in the markets is liquidity - these assets are priced at artificially low levels - rather than insolvency - that these assets are largely worthless."
And still in the system, waiting to erupt in a series of Mandelbrot waves of the next phase of the Depression.
This crisis is catastrophic because it infects the top poker table of the Rampant Ponzimonium that is Friedman's nightmare system.
But systemic banking crises elsewhere in the pyramid scheme are commonplace.
The IMF estimates that there have been 124 systemic banking crises since 1970.
These are episodes in which bad debts soared across the economy and much of the banking sector was insolvent.
And that's where we have to leave it for today, boys and girls, as I have to do my proper job.
The remainder of our latest deconstructions of the free market edifice will be trichotomous in their triptychity.
* 2. Swipe On The Moment
A Diary Of The Disaster To Date. How Market and Media Disinformation fed the Psycho-Bubble. Why Markets can never be Efficient. Forget Fama.
* 3. And Forget Friedman Too
"We've Murdered the Soul with Dismal Anguish" - Scrap the Free Market Capitalist System under the 'Clash For Clunkers' Scheme.
* 4. The Future Depends On Knowing
A Diary Of The Disaster To Come - What The Markets Are Going To Do In Neohyperreality.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from Football Is Fixed and redistribute by email or post to the web.
The superslick who are way ahead of the curve self-compress their future profits through their inability to appropriately time market entries and exits.
The bewildered who are reactive to the curve simply exist to provide the rest of us with our future cash.
So it is with blogging about markets.
We never release information that we are currently utilising to make gains in the markets unless we are sharing knowledge and information on a Consultative level.
We just do not write about certain matters.
Until the time is right.
And, the time is now most definitely right for the release of the second half of our dichotomous Xmas Freebie Bet.
The first, the opposition to Liverpool having even the remotest chance of winning the Premier League this season is already a winner.
If we had delayed the release of this particular Freebie, the price (and any value) would have long since disappeared - short-selling Liverpool around 5/2 (3.50) pays the bills; short-selling at 100/1 doesn't.
Timing again...
The remainder of this post should be read in conjunction with the earlier deconstruction of the free market capitalist system contained in the post "In The Lap Of The Big Bang".
Much of That Stuff underpins This Stuff.
Yesterday, it was officially announced that the Recession is over.
On an important day for hyperreal news, it was also announced that Cinderella is to become president of the EU, Barack Obama antihumously was beatified by the pope, and Dirk Kuyt reckoned that the United win will have fired Liverpool's title chances.
The Recession is not over.
It has hardly begun.
From the "green shoots of recovery" nonsense all the way through to "the recession is over" garbage, we are dealing with a purely psychological market here.
This has been a journey of pure psychology.
There are virtually no fundamentals supportive of this pseudo-recovery.
And, until a year ago, the majority of neoclassical economists denied that behaviouralism had any impact on the markets at all.
We, ie myself and my trading colleagues, used to think of ourselves as market analysts.
Then things became too hyperreal for such a job description and we all simultaneously became scenario analysts, as Reality no longer had any part to play in the new phase of the image.
Then even the scenarios became Dali-esque in their perturbations and bifurcations and what-not, and behavioural psychologists within a psychopathic system became the new name written on our brass plates, so to speak.
Self similarity mathematics ensured that the 'financial nuclear waste' buried away below ground, from earlier exercises in market hyperreality, would leak and worse over time in a repeated tsunami of Mandelbrot waves, as we became Fractal Chaotists.
And all this then must be set against the various super-systemic risks associated with man-made climate change.
So we are now Behavioural Market Analysts and Strategists, attempting to predict Fractal Scenarios, with Ecosystemic risk.
We are Arbitragers of the Hyperreality!!!
The people who created this Depression are those selected to lead us out from it too.
Take Gordon Brown, the British Depression Creator General.
The champion of the "light touch" regulation that he established with the FSA, he gave bank bosses plenty of room provided they seemed to know what they were doing.
The resultant "slightly heavier hand of regulation" is still attached to the same people.
Quantitative Easing (QE) has been the Harry Potter/Hank Paulson Magic Solution.
QE has never worked - in Weimar Germany, it led to hyperinflation, in Japan, stagflation, and in Zimbabwe, neohyperinflation and a chance for the British Isles to revisit the glories of imperialism.
Let us use an analogy by Dave Ransom at Wainwright Economics.
Quoting from The Economist: "Cars need two types of oil; petrol for fuel and engine oil for lubrication. The liquidity that the central banks inject is engine oil; without it, the engine would seize up but put in too much oil and you get problems too. It is not, however, petrol and does not make the car/economy go any faster."
Too much oil is misallocated and leaks all over the pavement, and produces inefficiencies and exhaust pollution, before eventually flooding the engine.
The Bear Market Bounce is a Fake Thing.
It began with professionals closing out their short positions against the system itself and it warped into a media-inspired construct of irrational thinking that was based on the intellectually flimsy foundation that the printing of an extra few trillion dollars is actually a good thing.
But the Real State of the financial system was already parlous.
As Mike Platt of Blue Crest HF) stated at the time: "It [QE] is the only policy option left."
The toxicity remains in the system as this jobless pseudo-recovery grinds to an engine seizing halt.
Some estimates reckon that there might be as much as $1.4 quadrillion of toxicity just waiting to surface.
Let us examine the psychology of the bankers who hold onto these toxic assets.
The banking industry, as well as being the cause, is acting as a magnifier of the Recession in free markets.
As one investment banker slithered earlier in the year: "Capital is like heroin, once you go down the capital intensive route, you can't go back."
Addiction drives the psychopathy.
And toxicity is the opiate residue mainlining around the life stream of the system.
The Economist evaluated the self-interested psychology of the banker earlier in the year: "A good bank will have recognised the problems of the really toxic assets and marked them down on their balance sheets accordingly; a bad bank will not. So if the bad bank sells assets into the scheme, it may be forced into making a write-down in capital; the last thing it wants at the moment... The whole scheme seems to assume that the problem in the markets is liquidity - these assets are priced at artificially low levels - rather than insolvency - that these assets are largely worthless."
And still in the system, waiting to erupt in a series of Mandelbrot waves of the next phase of the Depression.
This crisis is catastrophic because it infects the top poker table of the Rampant Ponzimonium that is Friedman's nightmare system.
But systemic banking crises elsewhere in the pyramid scheme are commonplace.
The IMF estimates that there have been 124 systemic banking crises since 1970.
These are episodes in which bad debts soared across the economy and much of the banking sector was insolvent.
And that's where we have to leave it for today, boys and girls, as I have to do my proper job.
The remainder of our latest deconstructions of the free market edifice will be trichotomous in their triptychity.
* 2. Swipe On The Moment
A Diary Of The Disaster To Date. How Market and Media Disinformation fed the Psycho-Bubble. Why Markets can never be Efficient. Forget Fama.
* 3. And Forget Friedman Too
"We've Murdered the Soul with Dismal Anguish" - Scrap the Free Market Capitalist System under the 'Clash For Clunkers' Scheme.
* 4. The Future Depends On Knowing
A Diary Of The Disaster To Come - What The Markets Are Going To Do In Neohyperreality.
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Wednesday 28 October 2009
Marriner All At Sea, Fans Left Feeling Sick #
Was Sunday's match a fix?
How come the markets knew the outcome of the Liverpool versus Manchester United match before the event started?
Which of the Top Four were most favoured by match officials in 2008/2009?
Why did Riley, Webb and Dean get 36% of the live televised matches last season?
Why has Andre Marriner been given the most live televised events this season?
Is there a witchhunt against Sir Ferguson?
Which competition are Liverpool now focusing on for 'glory'?
The answer to these questions would have landed in your email in-tray this morning if you had been a subscriber to Football Is Fixed.
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© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
How come the markets knew the outcome of the Liverpool versus Manchester United match before the event started?
Which of the Top Four were most favoured by match officials in 2008/2009?
Why did Riley, Webb and Dean get 36% of the live televised matches last season?
Why has Andre Marriner been given the most live televised events this season?
Is there a witchhunt against Sir Ferguson?
Which competition are Liverpool now focusing on for 'glory'?
The answer to these questions would have landed in your email in-tray this morning if you had been a subscriber to Football Is Fixed.
* All posts labelled # are only available fully by subscription.
* Annual fee is £15 for 260 posts.
* Payment by Googlecart or PayPal.
* Contact us at footballisfixed@googlemail.com for further details of latter.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
Tuesday 27 October 2009
Celtic And Rangers Share A City, Shirt Sponsorship And An Aptitude For Financial Incompetence #
OMG I am part of the 60,943,912 block of humanity that owns 43.5% of Glasgow Rangers and nobody told me.
Disinvest me.
I don't wish to own any part of a stock that I would rather make a strategic short selling position upon.
This is a distressed stock.
All the playing staff are on the transfer list and it is rumoured that failed property developer, Sir Murray, was ousted from his eyrie by bankers.
I don't want to own 0.0000714% of this outfit.
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Meanwhile, the situation at Glasgow Celtic is equally dire.
Our internal analysis of the match data over the opening three rounds of the Europa Cup matches shows that the only team worse than Celtic is CSKA Sofia.
48 teams, and the Bhoys are in 47th place.
There are internal ructions between players and management, appallingly inept performances on the field of play (Theo Guardian, who obviously have an interest in such matters, reckon that it is crazy that there are already question marks against Tony Mowbray. Really?), the club have now managed to lose three Champions League home ties as Fortress Parkhead has deteriorated into a Half Empty Shell Of Mass Discontent, players repeatedly arguing with one another on the pitch, and people like The Warmongering Dwarf, The Bookmaking Specialist, Lie-Well and The John Colquhoun Experience in the boardroom.
Yesterday, the British government stepped in over fears that the banks supporting Rangers might tip the esteemed club over into the depths of administration. This would mean points deductions.
And things like that.
It seems fair enough for HBOS to be concerned about the money owed, particularly in the light of the rampant exploitation of the Scottish Premier League by BSkyB.
We, as citizens of these islands, should also be concerned that public money is supporting the unsupportable.
How many other fake entities are enjoying our help in these Depressing Times?
When BSkyB targeted Setanta, the writing was on the wall.
And on this blog too...
Less money above the line in a waterlogged vessel was never likely to turn out well.
Desperate stares into the future envisage an Atlantic League (well at least Rangers and Celtic might overwhelm teams from the Faroe Islands) or acceptance into ScudamoreWorld.
The Scottish teams need to do some joined up thinking on their options here.
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* All posts labelled # are only available fully by subscription.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
Disinvest me.
I don't wish to own any part of a stock that I would rather make a strategic short selling position upon.
This is a distressed stock.
All the playing staff are on the transfer list and it is rumoured that failed property developer, Sir Murray, was ousted from his eyrie by bankers.
I don't want to own 0.0000714% of this outfit.
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Meanwhile, the situation at Glasgow Celtic is equally dire.
Our internal analysis of the match data over the opening three rounds of the Europa Cup matches shows that the only team worse than Celtic is CSKA Sofia.
48 teams, and the Bhoys are in 47th place.
There are internal ructions between players and management, appallingly inept performances on the field of play (Theo Guardian, who obviously have an interest in such matters, reckon that it is crazy that there are already question marks against Tony Mowbray. Really?), the club have now managed to lose three Champions League home ties as Fortress Parkhead has deteriorated into a Half Empty Shell Of Mass Discontent, players repeatedly arguing with one another on the pitch, and people like The Warmongering Dwarf, The Bookmaking Specialist, Lie-Well and The John Colquhoun Experience in the boardroom.
Yesterday, the British government stepped in over fears that the banks supporting Rangers might tip the esteemed club over into the depths of administration. This would mean points deductions.
And things like that.
It seems fair enough for HBOS to be concerned about the money owed, particularly in the light of the rampant exploitation of the Scottish Premier League by BSkyB.
We, as citizens of these islands, should also be concerned that public money is supporting the unsupportable.
How many other fake entities are enjoying our help in these Depressing Times?
When BSkyB targeted Setanta, the writing was on the wall.
And on this blog too...
Less money above the line in a waterlogged vessel was never likely to turn out well.
Desperate stares into the future envisage an Atlantic League (well at least Rangers and Celtic might overwhelm teams from the Faroe Islands) or acceptance into ScudamoreWorld.
The Scottish teams need to do some joined up thinking on their options here.
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And do it before the clubs are 'sold' to the betting markets.
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© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
Monday 26 October 2009
Pompey Chimes? Pompey Crimes! A Sorry Storrie Story #
This post, which is not for the eyes of you freeloaders, discloses the Real new owner of Portsmouth FC.
Just like that...
And, for excellent measure, we have a good old moan about Richard Scudamore, Our Great Leader, as well.
And we make some jokes, a couple of which are quite funny...
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Just like that...
And, for excellent measure, we have a good old moan about Richard Scudamore, Our Great Leader, as well.
And we make some jokes, a couple of which are quite funny...
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Thursday 22 October 2009
THE RIGGING OF PREMIER LEAGUE MATCHES BY INSIDERS, CONSORTIA AND BOOKMAKERS - A FOOTBALL IS FIXED FILE
This post represents the first in our series of Exclusive Football Is Fixed Files - High-Level Consultancy Documents that focus on Alpha in the football betting markets.
In these Files, we release the data, analyses and other inputs necessary to profit from the massive corruptions that underpin the Premier League.
This information is primary level.
That is, these data and analyses are frontline tools for our Trading Team at Dietrological.
We hold nothing back.
Obviously, the pricing structure reflects this Reality.
Consequently, clients will be market makers or brokers or top tier traders or administrators or officials or government.
The first Exclusive Football Is Fixed File is outlined below.
The cost is £250,000.
The deal is first-come-first-served.
If you require further details of the Football Is Fixed File, you may purchase a Précis of the Consultancy Document for £2500.
In this holistic overview, we provide some background and infrastructure to the insider knowledge and scenario analyses outlined below.
Should you feel that either the Précis or the High Level Consultancy Document itself might be of value to you or your organisation, please contact me at footballisfixed@googlemail.com.
Exclusivity creates value.
The market analyses and structures that we will be releasing are cutting edge and we know of no other location globally where such value may be purchased.
And at such a reasonable price.
FOOTBALL IS FIXED FILE #1 - THE RIGGING OF PREMIER LEAGUE MATCHES BY INSIDERS, CONSORTIA AND BOOKMAKERS
* The File details 10 of the major consortia and other illicit operations that corrupt Premier League match results for personal or company profit.
* The File details the specifics of each of these criminal bases - who is involved on a market making, rigging and overseeing level.
* The File details these criminalities via the utilisation of inside information, contacts, data analyses and scenario analyses.
* The File details the corruption as it stands today. Additionally, we will support the High Level Consultancy Document with 2 x Market Reports on each relevant trading day for a period of twelve months. This will allow the File to take account of the evolution of the corruptions.
* The File details how to evaluate the trading strategies of these 10 operations in real-time as the market unfolds.
* The File details the network effects of these corruptions.
* The File details the various disguises utilised by the match manipulators to hide their criminalities.
* The File details how these attempts at opaqueness evolve with time.
* The File details, most importantly, how these different criminal groupings interact on specific events, as the vast majority of Premier League matches now have more than one externalised and criminalised influence. When these strategies clash, the market solutions become much more interesting.
* The File details how to take defensive positions against this market corruption.
* The File details how it would seem impossible for the Premier League and the Professional Game Match Officials Board to be unaware of this mass corruption, particularly as the statistical likelihood of some of the administrative input is astronomical and then some.
* The File details the Big Picture Overview, the template that allows the purchaser to see the interaction between these different groups of match-riggers with regard to specific matches.
* The File details how a knowledge of the templates utilised by the riggers allows the best price to be achieved on one's own market input.
* The File details the betting markets where these operations place their positions.
* The File details are very cheap at the price.
A quarter of a million for the quintessential market solution for a quasi-ScudamoreWorld?
Gimmee some of that!
If interested, please do get in contact at footballisfixed@googlemail.com.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
In these Files, we release the data, analyses and other inputs necessary to profit from the massive corruptions that underpin the Premier League.
This information is primary level.
That is, these data and analyses are frontline tools for our Trading Team at Dietrological.
We hold nothing back.
Obviously, the pricing structure reflects this Reality.
Consequently, clients will be market makers or brokers or top tier traders or administrators or officials or government.
The first Exclusive Football Is Fixed File is outlined below.
The cost is £250,000.
The deal is first-come-first-served.
If you require further details of the Football Is Fixed File, you may purchase a Précis of the Consultancy Document for £2500.
In this holistic overview, we provide some background and infrastructure to the insider knowledge and scenario analyses outlined below.
Should you feel that either the Précis or the High Level Consultancy Document itself might be of value to you or your organisation, please contact me at footballisfixed@googlemail.com.
Exclusivity creates value.
The market analyses and structures that we will be releasing are cutting edge and we know of no other location globally where such value may be purchased.
And at such a reasonable price.
FOOTBALL IS FIXED FILE #1 - THE RIGGING OF PREMIER LEAGUE MATCHES BY INSIDERS, CONSORTIA AND BOOKMAKERS
* The File details 10 of the major consortia and other illicit operations that corrupt Premier League match results for personal or company profit.
* The File details the specifics of each of these criminal bases - who is involved on a market making, rigging and overseeing level.
* The File details these criminalities via the utilisation of inside information, contacts, data analyses and scenario analyses.
* The File details the corruption as it stands today. Additionally, we will support the High Level Consultancy Document with 2 x Market Reports on each relevant trading day for a period of twelve months. This will allow the File to take account of the evolution of the corruptions.
* The File details how to evaluate the trading strategies of these 10 operations in real-time as the market unfolds.
* The File details the network effects of these corruptions.
* The File details the various disguises utilised by the match manipulators to hide their criminalities.
* The File details how these attempts at opaqueness evolve with time.
* The File details, most importantly, how these different criminal groupings interact on specific events, as the vast majority of Premier League matches now have more than one externalised and criminalised influence. When these strategies clash, the market solutions become much more interesting.
* The File details how to take defensive positions against this market corruption.
* The File details how it would seem impossible for the Premier League and the Professional Game Match Officials Board to be unaware of this mass corruption, particularly as the statistical likelihood of some of the administrative input is astronomical and then some.
* The File details the Big Picture Overview, the template that allows the purchaser to see the interaction between these different groups of match-riggers with regard to specific matches.
* The File details how a knowledge of the templates utilised by the riggers allows the best price to be achieved on one's own market input.
* The File details the betting markets where these operations place their positions.
* The File details are very cheap at the price.
A quarter of a million for the quintessential market solution for a quasi-ScudamoreWorld?
Gimmee some of that!
If interested, please do get in contact at footballisfixed@googlemail.com.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
Wednesday 21 October 2009
We Beg Your Pardon (Pardon Our Analysis) #
THIS POST, WHICH IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, DISCLOSES AND DISCUSSES THE RIGGING OF PREMIER LEAGUE MATCHES BY CONSORTIA, BOOKMAKERS AND INSIDERS, WITH NO OPPOSITION FROM THE FOOTBALLING AUTHORITIES IN SCUDAMOREWORLD.
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* Annual fee is £15 for 260 posts.
* Payment by Googlecart or PayPal.
* Contact us at footballisfixed@googlemail.com for further details of latter.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
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Monday 19 October 2009
"Outside Agent" Defeats Liverpool; "Outside Agents" Defeat Football #
Today's post, which is for subscribers only, looks at why the Premier League only utilises 15 match referees, why the latest three additions to the roster are compromised, why there was a late change of referee at the Villa versus Chelsea match, why things will get worse from January, and why the whole league is dependent on the goodwill of the banks and the black market.
And we conclude with our internal conundrum...
WE HAVE, IN OUR POSSESSION, TWO INFORMATIONAL ANALYSES THAT WOULD BRING THE HOUSE OF CARDS OF SCUDAMOREWORLD TUMBLING DOWN.
WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN SUPPORTIVE DATA FROM THE ############ BETTING MARKETS.
WE HAVE THE FULL PICTURE - NAMES, BOOKMAKERS, INSIDERS, REFEREES.
WE MEET THIS WEEK TO DECIDE WHERE WE GO FROM HERE.
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* Annual fee is £15 for 260 posts.
* Payment by Googlecart or PayPal.
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And we conclude with our internal conundrum...
WE HAVE, IN OUR POSSESSION, TWO INFORMATIONAL ANALYSES THAT WOULD BRING THE HOUSE OF CARDS OF SCUDAMOREWORLD TUMBLING DOWN.
WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN SUPPORTIVE DATA FROM THE ############ BETTING MARKETS.
WE HAVE THE FULL PICTURE - NAMES, BOOKMAKERS, INSIDERS, REFEREES.
WE MEET THIS WEEK TO DECIDE WHERE WE GO FROM HERE.
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* Annual fee is £15 for 260 posts.
* Payment by Googlecart or PayPal.
* Contact us at footballisfixed@googlemail.com for further details of latter.
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Saturday 17 October 2009
Steamers, Hillbillies, Arms Dealers, Warmongers And Draws #
Who Was The Premier League Manager Behind The Gamble On Harry Redknapp Being The Next Manager To Lose His Job?
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The Burnley Hillbillies - You're Just A Small Town Near Blackpool
Burnley is the sort of town where significant time in court may be taken to determine how far it is possible to spit at Turf Moor with the help of the wind whipping in off the Pennines.
A quarter of the town's population watch the football team.
It is a challenging place to be a visiting supporter, particularly when stood in the Burnley end trying to suppress your glee after Andy Preece had scored to give the Mighty 'Pool a 1-0 victory.
Thanks to Mick Whyte, a Critical Theorist who is obviously looking at the correct strata of hyperreality, we would like to prelude tomorrow's Blackburn Rovers versus Burnley Rumble In The Shire with the very excellent "A Dingle Goes To A Small Town Near Blackpool" from YouTube.
Check it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YyihwV8kl8&feature=related.
You should worry.
We have to live near these people.
And near Barnsley too.
Redknapp Exposes Who The Real Owner Of Portsmouth FC Was Before It Become Whoever It Is At This Moment, At This Time
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Giving It Up The Ass, Taking It Up The Nose, Injecting It In The Lips; Why Maradona Is Proper And Pele Isn't
Please let the best ever footballer be able to continue his reign as the worst ever football manager for next years finals in South Africa.
Argentina were never going to be allowed to win the trophy due to the political hue in power there, and with the Argentinian FA taking on major media interests, there is some serious undermining to be undertaken.
But at least it will be fun while it lasts.
And the rig is on the way.
The share price in Desire Petroleum plc has ceased to rise as the machine source of the future earnings slowly journeys around the globe to Las Malvinas.
The buzz share is trading on speculation and psychology alone.
Which got us to thinking about the geopolitical systemic risk with the taking of any longer term investment in such disputed waters.
And if arbitration is ever required, we suggest that the following YouTube link be utilised as part of the case for the return of the Falkland Islands to their rightful owners.
There are simply too many highlights in the video to highlight anything.
Excellent stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDgO6NIXe0A&feature=player_embedded#
Data And Lies
Theo Guardian ran a report breathlessly telling us that there have only been 9 draws in the 76 matches in the Premier League prior to this weekend.
Thus ScudamoreWorld, the entity that puts pseudo-entertainment ahead of Reality, gives us just 12% of tied events while Serie A is currently offering one in three as equilibrium markets.
Just wait til the Murdochracy sorts that out.
But far more interesting than the raw data is the fact that i) in the first 66 matches, only four were drawn, ii) in the last round of matches, just after the news was first 'broken', five out of ten games were tied.
Just How Real?
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The Burnley Hillbillies - You're Just A Small Town Near Blackpool
Burnley is the sort of town where significant time in court may be taken to determine how far it is possible to spit at Turf Moor with the help of the wind whipping in off the Pennines.
A quarter of the town's population watch the football team.
It is a challenging place to be a visiting supporter, particularly when stood in the Burnley end trying to suppress your glee after Andy Preece had scored to give the Mighty 'Pool a 1-0 victory.
Thanks to Mick Whyte, a Critical Theorist who is obviously looking at the correct strata of hyperreality, we would like to prelude tomorrow's Blackburn Rovers versus Burnley Rumble In The Shire with the very excellent "A Dingle Goes To A Small Town Near Blackpool" from YouTube.
Check it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YyihwV8kl8&feature=related.
You should worry.
We have to live near these people.
And near Barnsley too.
Redknapp Exposes Who The Real Owner Of Portsmouth FC Was Before It Become Whoever It Is At This Moment, At This Time
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Giving It Up The Ass, Taking It Up The Nose, Injecting It In The Lips; Why Maradona Is Proper And Pele Isn't
Please let the best ever footballer be able to continue his reign as the worst ever football manager for next years finals in South Africa.
Argentina were never going to be allowed to win the trophy due to the political hue in power there, and with the Argentinian FA taking on major media interests, there is some serious undermining to be undertaken.
But at least it will be fun while it lasts.
And the rig is on the way.
The share price in Desire Petroleum plc has ceased to rise as the machine source of the future earnings slowly journeys around the globe to Las Malvinas.
The buzz share is trading on speculation and psychology alone.
Which got us to thinking about the geopolitical systemic risk with the taking of any longer term investment in such disputed waters.
And if arbitration is ever required, we suggest that the following YouTube link be utilised as part of the case for the return of the Falkland Islands to their rightful owners.
There are simply too many highlights in the video to highlight anything.
Excellent stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDgO6NIXe0A&feature=player_embedded#
Data And Lies
Theo Guardian ran a report breathlessly telling us that there have only been 9 draws in the 76 matches in the Premier League prior to this weekend.
Thus ScudamoreWorld, the entity that puts pseudo-entertainment ahead of Reality, gives us just 12% of tied events while Serie A is currently offering one in three as equilibrium markets.
Just wait til the Murdochracy sorts that out.
But far more interesting than the raw data is the fact that i) in the first 66 matches, only four were drawn, ii) in the last round of matches, just after the news was first 'broken', five out of ten games were tied.
Just How Real?
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© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
Thursday 15 October 2009
A Brother Karamazov Wins Man Of The Match #
If ever two rounds of FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 Qualifiers demonstrated the utter and complete fake of the whole charade, these last two rounds were it.
The icing on an incredibly corrupt cake inevitably occurred at the Mall.
David Beckham performs no more than adequately for 32 minutes as a substitute, publicly displaying his new self-adhesive Dostoyevskian facial hair, and Steve Bruce, the man who still seems to think that Rio Ferdinand has his nose on the job, gives Our National Treasure the Man of the Match award.
Fabio Capello is correct to compare this nonsense to the Nobel Peace Prize given to the man who is about to authorise illegal bombing raids on Iran, after the necessary mainstream media psy-op's, of course.
Not only was this award plainly ludicrous - when Beckham's four best inputs were highlighted after the match, two of the passes failed to reach their target, one was made into a viable pass only by the recipient, and the other was a poor scuffed shot against the post - some people were financially compromised.
Anybody who entered the last ten minutes with a betting slip indicating Peter Crouch as Man of the Match was probably already spending their winnings when Bruce stepped in to give the bookies 100% of the book.
Exactly how many punters had bet on a substitute being Man of the Match?
Exactly.
One of my colleagues was so astonished on hearing the news, he insisted on phoning around other trading rooms in clarification.
But this is an idea that should be expanded upon.
When there is a dull and pointless show of xenophobia on the park, add some shine with an enhanced Man of the Match.
Where would England be without Sir Bobby Robson?
Include him on the roster.
Where would we all be without the Red Army and the Polish Resistance?
Sign up them too.
And if some X Factorette sends us victorious like a lark ascending via the national anthem, let her be involved as well.
In fact, monetise the whole process further by having a punter phone-in (fake obviously) so that we might all register our thoughts.
Before Steve Bruce hands over a blank cheque to the bookmakers.
But we should feel sorry for the layers as they have, after all, had rather a rough few days as insider trading spiralled entirely out of control in the Blattersphere.
Take Bulgaria.
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Now what is the reaction of FIFA and UEFA to such shenanigans?
And, how about the mainstream media?
Well, the former pair prefer focusing on criminalities lower down the hierarchy, a fact supported by the ongoing case against Macedonian side NK Pobeda, which has now reached the Court for Arbitration in Sport.
Bulgaria, like Romania, are in the EU and are geopolitically critical with regards to the gas pipelines being created to replenish our energy needs.
If their mafia rig football matches, who cares?
Ours do too.
Meanwhile the Daily Telegraph informs us in headline, not once but twice, that Berbatov scored a hat-trick for Hungary last night.
Finger on the pulse, as ever...
All of the following matches incorporated insider gambling that was successful in these final World Cup Qualifiers:
Ukraine v England
England v Belarus
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Lithuania v Serbia
In this last affair, it was a Bulgarian referee, Mr Genov, who gave the Lithuanians their two match winning penalties.
Or, in Baku, who exactly was so confident that Russia wouldn't win that they were willing to drive the market from -2.0 supremacy, all the way down to just three-quarters of a goal differential?
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We look forward to the administrative bodies exploring who was behind these betting coups.
But we suspect that the same pyramid of myopia will exist as occurs in other areas of the sport.
Take racism.
Prior to these final rounds of matches, the Serbian FA were informed that there would be points reductions for any further examples of racist chanting.
This had everything to do with Blatter's absolute determination to rid the game of racist abuse and nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that France were sitting in 2nd place.
Similar threats were not made to, for example, the Spanish FA or the Ukrainian FA.
Arbitrary rules, changed as the needs be, in order to create the necessary marketing paradigm.
What is the point in these qualifiers if FIFA are going to pick and choose anyway?
And, while we are at it...
What is the point of Qualifying matches being run as private betting markets?
And what is the point of giving the Man of the Match award to an overrated has-been, who can't hack it on the soccer fields of the HyperImperium, but who is vital to the World Cup Marketing Dream and England's 2018 bid?
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© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
The icing on an incredibly corrupt cake inevitably occurred at the Mall.
David Beckham performs no more than adequately for 32 minutes as a substitute, publicly displaying his new self-adhesive Dostoyevskian facial hair, and Steve Bruce, the man who still seems to think that Rio Ferdinand has his nose on the job, gives Our National Treasure the Man of the Match award.
Fabio Capello is correct to compare this nonsense to the Nobel Peace Prize given to the man who is about to authorise illegal bombing raids on Iran, after the necessary mainstream media psy-op's, of course.
Not only was this award plainly ludicrous - when Beckham's four best inputs were highlighted after the match, two of the passes failed to reach their target, one was made into a viable pass only by the recipient, and the other was a poor scuffed shot against the post - some people were financially compromised.
Anybody who entered the last ten minutes with a betting slip indicating Peter Crouch as Man of the Match was probably already spending their winnings when Bruce stepped in to give the bookies 100% of the book.
Exactly how many punters had bet on a substitute being Man of the Match?
Exactly.
One of my colleagues was so astonished on hearing the news, he insisted on phoning around other trading rooms in clarification.
But this is an idea that should be expanded upon.
When there is a dull and pointless show of xenophobia on the park, add some shine with an enhanced Man of the Match.
Where would England be without Sir Bobby Robson?
Include him on the roster.
Where would we all be without the Red Army and the Polish Resistance?
Sign up them too.
And if some X Factorette sends us victorious like a lark ascending via the national anthem, let her be involved as well.
In fact, monetise the whole process further by having a punter phone-in (fake obviously) so that we might all register our thoughts.
Before Steve Bruce hands over a blank cheque to the bookmakers.
But we should feel sorry for the layers as they have, after all, had rather a rough few days as insider trading spiralled entirely out of control in the Blattersphere.
Take Bulgaria.
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Now what is the reaction of FIFA and UEFA to such shenanigans?
And, how about the mainstream media?
Well, the former pair prefer focusing on criminalities lower down the hierarchy, a fact supported by the ongoing case against Macedonian side NK Pobeda, which has now reached the Court for Arbitration in Sport.
Bulgaria, like Romania, are in the EU and are geopolitically critical with regards to the gas pipelines being created to replenish our energy needs.
If their mafia rig football matches, who cares?
Ours do too.
Meanwhile the Daily Telegraph informs us in headline, not once but twice, that Berbatov scored a hat-trick for Hungary last night.
Finger on the pulse, as ever...
All of the following matches incorporated insider gambling that was successful in these final World Cup Qualifiers:
Ukraine v England
England v Belarus
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Cyprus v Bulgaria
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Lithuania v Serbia
In this last affair, it was a Bulgarian referee, Mr Genov, who gave the Lithuanians their two match winning penalties.
Or, in Baku, who exactly was so confident that Russia wouldn't win that they were willing to drive the market from -2.0 supremacy, all the way down to just three-quarters of a goal differential?
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We look forward to the administrative bodies exploring who was behind these betting coups.
But we suspect that the same pyramid of myopia will exist as occurs in other areas of the sport.
Take racism.
Prior to these final rounds of matches, the Serbian FA were informed that there would be points reductions for any further examples of racist chanting.
This had everything to do with Blatter's absolute determination to rid the game of racist abuse and nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that France were sitting in 2nd place.
Similar threats were not made to, for example, the Spanish FA or the Ukrainian FA.
Arbitrary rules, changed as the needs be, in order to create the necessary marketing paradigm.
What is the point in these qualifiers if FIFA are going to pick and choose anyway?
And, while we are at it...
What is the point of Qualifying matches being run as private betting markets?
And what is the point of giving the Man of the Match award to an overrated has-been, who can't hack it on the soccer fields of the HyperImperium, but who is vital to the World Cup Marketing Dream and England's 2018 bid?
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© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
Tuesday 13 October 2009
The Shape Of Things To Come #
No major firm of bookmakers anywhere in the Far East is willing to price up the Asian Handicap on tomorrow's England versus Belarus FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 Qualifier.
Now, why would that be the case now?
Our primary Hong Kong broker will enlighten you.
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Our broker makes the following comparison.
The England versus Belarus match is equivalent, analytically, to Italy versus Cyprus - neither side has anything to play for other than pride and FIFA Rankings.
The underground markets opened at -2.0 for each match (ie the markets believe that England and Italy are two goals superior with home advantage).
Italy, another territory famed for insider trading although nowhere near as corrupted as England, yet, is seen as a safer market by Asia as there is far less of this insider corruption.
The markets on the Italy game are open, intriguing and dynamic, while those for the England match remain firmly shut less than thirty six hours before the match.
Other similar matches are fully operative on the Asian markets eg Azerbaijan v Russia, Kazakhstan v Croatia, Turkey v Armenia, so what is it structurally that makes the England match so different?
Belarus are known to enjoy a little flutter on the horses, so to speak, and any match involving the MinskMen is likely to be a lively betting affair.
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So any market position entered into by the MinskMen is, by necessity, highly speculative.
England, on the other hand, in total control of the market, are able to make the match anything they wish it to be - particularly now Wayne Rooney is out.
Our broker suggests that the Gang of ############# and their associates in the private markets, and on the fringes thereof, are omnipotent with regard to the Manipulation at the Mall.
And that, boys and girls, is why the Asians are refusing to price up your 'competitive' match.
As soon as the Gang of ############# show their hand, the markets will poker up.
And while we are on the subject of fixed England matches, the most interesting outcome from the Ukraine match at the weekend was the performance of Perform/Kentara - the free market antisocials who put their own interests above those of everybody, and I mean everybody, else in pursuit of profit.
Allegedly 500,000 of the bewildered signed up to watch the match although with some of these, eg the armed forces, it was compulsory (war = football, again). Perform/Kentara are refusing to release detailed figures for two reasons.
Firstly, only a quarter of a million actually put their hands in their pockets to be fleeced by Ferdinand. This is considerably less than the one million 'limit' established by the firms.
Secondly, detailed figures would help fans game the auction in any future bidding process. And this is private information.
Perform/Kentara abused the template at the weekend.
Initially, fans were informed that the cost would be £4.99 rising to £11.99 on the day of the match. What they didn't inform you was that there was a graduation to this process - for instance, on Thursday the price had inflated to £7.99.
Why are fans, however bewildered, allowed to be psychologically abused by such a bidding process?
And, more importantly, as it effects those of us who choose not to be bewildered, although Perform/Kentara are claiming that there were no technical issues, there were.
Indeed, we know of a couple of trading operations who are considering suing for loss of earnings after the British internet framework creaked as the switch on occurred.
Furthermore, the bewildered complained of slow streaming speeds - this particularly affected those betting on the match as thirty seconds or more of action would have elapsed in some weird tertiary state of hyperreality.
"Hello, Betfair? I'd like £500 on Ukraine to win."
"You'll have to wait until the penalty has been taken, sir."
"What penalty?"
"The penalty that you are about to witness, sir."
"Wooohhhhhhhhh! How do you do that? Do you control time or Rio?"
Perform/Kentara insisted that the highlights package that they sold onto the BBC not be advertised until after the Ukraine match was finished in a further fit of rampant antisocial behaviour.
So the BBC could only promote their soiled product after 7pm.
That they chose to release this incredibly exciting news, so I'm told, during the equally fallacious Strictly Cum Dancing, is an utter and total triumph of the Fake.
Breathless BBC voice: "After watching these fake dancers dance badly, why not watch our fake footballers corrupt badly?"
In some future fake Engerland event, the internet-only coverage is going to bring the entire network down. Saturday was a warning. If Perform/Kentara or their ilk are going to profit through a Railroading Strategy in future, they should prime their legal department for a considerable backlash.
But just one final question?
Why is a private firm allowed to compromise the infrastructure of the internet in search of profit?
When the Russians do this it is termed a 'denial of service' attack...
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Now, why would that be the case now?
Our primary Hong Kong broker will enlighten you.
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Our broker makes the following comparison.
The England versus Belarus match is equivalent, analytically, to Italy versus Cyprus - neither side has anything to play for other than pride and FIFA Rankings.
The underground markets opened at -2.0 for each match (ie the markets believe that England and Italy are two goals superior with home advantage).
Italy, another territory famed for insider trading although nowhere near as corrupted as England, yet, is seen as a safer market by Asia as there is far less of this insider corruption.
The markets on the Italy game are open, intriguing and dynamic, while those for the England match remain firmly shut less than thirty six hours before the match.
Other similar matches are fully operative on the Asian markets eg Azerbaijan v Russia, Kazakhstan v Croatia, Turkey v Armenia, so what is it structurally that makes the England match so different?
Belarus are known to enjoy a little flutter on the horses, so to speak, and any match involving the MinskMen is likely to be a lively betting affair.
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So any market position entered into by the MinskMen is, by necessity, highly speculative.
England, on the other hand, in total control of the market, are able to make the match anything they wish it to be - particularly now Wayne Rooney is out.
Our broker suggests that the Gang of ############# and their associates in the private markets, and on the fringes thereof, are omnipotent with regard to the Manipulation at the Mall.
And that, boys and girls, is why the Asians are refusing to price up your 'competitive' match.
As soon as the Gang of ############# show their hand, the markets will poker up.
And while we are on the subject of fixed England matches, the most interesting outcome from the Ukraine match at the weekend was the performance of Perform/Kentara - the free market antisocials who put their own interests above those of everybody, and I mean everybody, else in pursuit of profit.
Allegedly 500,000 of the bewildered signed up to watch the match although with some of these, eg the armed forces, it was compulsory (war = football, again). Perform/Kentara are refusing to release detailed figures for two reasons.
Firstly, only a quarter of a million actually put their hands in their pockets to be fleeced by Ferdinand. This is considerably less than the one million 'limit' established by the firms.
Secondly, detailed figures would help fans game the auction in any future bidding process. And this is private information.
Perform/Kentara abused the template at the weekend.
Initially, fans were informed that the cost would be £4.99 rising to £11.99 on the day of the match. What they didn't inform you was that there was a graduation to this process - for instance, on Thursday the price had inflated to £7.99.
Why are fans, however bewildered, allowed to be psychologically abused by such a bidding process?
And, more importantly, as it effects those of us who choose not to be bewildered, although Perform/Kentara are claiming that there were no technical issues, there were.
Indeed, we know of a couple of trading operations who are considering suing for loss of earnings after the British internet framework creaked as the switch on occurred.
Furthermore, the bewildered complained of slow streaming speeds - this particularly affected those betting on the match as thirty seconds or more of action would have elapsed in some weird tertiary state of hyperreality.
"Hello, Betfair? I'd like £500 on Ukraine to win."
"You'll have to wait until the penalty has been taken, sir."
"What penalty?"
"The penalty that you are about to witness, sir."
"Wooohhhhhhhhh! How do you do that? Do you control time or Rio?"
Perform/Kentara insisted that the highlights package that they sold onto the BBC not be advertised until after the Ukraine match was finished in a further fit of rampant antisocial behaviour.
So the BBC could only promote their soiled product after 7pm.
That they chose to release this incredibly exciting news, so I'm told, during the equally fallacious Strictly Cum Dancing, is an utter and total triumph of the Fake.
Breathless BBC voice: "After watching these fake dancers dance badly, why not watch our fake footballers corrupt badly?"
In some future fake Engerland event, the internet-only coverage is going to bring the entire network down. Saturday was a warning. If Perform/Kentara or their ilk are going to profit through a Railroading Strategy in future, they should prime their legal department for a considerable backlash.
But just one final question?
Why is a private firm allowed to compromise the infrastructure of the internet in search of profit?
When the Russians do this it is termed a 'denial of service' attack...
* All posts labelled # are only available fully by subscription.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
Monday 12 October 2009
War Mongering House Negro Rewarded For Militaristic Aggression And Historical Revisionism
The House Negro's first act on assuming presidency of the HyperImperium was to authorise an illegal bombing raid into Northern Pakistan.
This followed on swiftly from his precarious silence on the Israeli slaughter (in the usual 100:1 ratio) of 1300 Gazans, utilising high-tech US weaponry especially delivered for the genocide-to-be.
And, prior to being the latest branded pseudo-leader of the free world (sic), the carefully crafted personality declared that, once installed as president, he would recognise the Turkish slaughter of Armenians in 1915 as an act of genocide. Once the votes had been delivered, the hyperreality of trade and military geopolitics took over and the 'G' word never parted company with his lips.
So, the US president ignores genocide, supports war crimes and, indeed, instigates them.
So what?
Well, obviously, in a neohyperreality of universal magnitude, the House Negro has only been given the Nobel Peace Prize!!!
Now when people choose to add extra letters before and after their names, we are obviously in the arena of fake - think Sir David Richards, Baroness Thatcher, Sir Alan Sugar, Professor Niall Ferguson.
But just how fake do they wish it to be?
Very.
Obviously, again...
Three other US presidents have been awarded the Peace Prize - Woodrow Wilson, laughably, Theodore Roosevelt, hilariously, and Henry Kissinger, incredibly!!!
Did he get it for Laos?
And we know that he wasn't formally president...
...and you think Ronald Reagan was?
As Howard Zinn stated about Kissinger, "[Kissinger] who matches the definition of a war criminal very accurately."
But the Establishment reward one another for their acquiescence and compliance.
Always have done.
It is probably the Armenian issue that provides the best overview.
Robert Fisk: "In the autumn of 1915, an Austrian engineer called Litzmayer, who was helping build the Constantinople-Baghdad railway, saw what he thought was a large Turkish army heading for Mesopotamia. But as the crowd came closer, he realised it was a huge caravan of women, moving forward under the supervision of soldiers.
"The 40,000 or so women were all Armenians, separated from their men - most of whom had already had their throats cut by Turkish gendarmerie - and deported on a genocidal death march during which up to 1.5 million Armenians died.
"Subjected to constant rape and beatings, some had already swallowed poison on their way from their homes in Erzerum, Serena, Sivas, Bitlis and other cities in Turkish western Armenia. "Some of them," Bishop Grigoris Balakian, one of Litzmayer's contemporaries, recorded, "had been driven to such a state that they were mere skeletons enveloped in rags, with skin that had turned leathery, burned from the sun, cold, and wind. Many pregnant women, having become numb, had left their newborns on the side of the road as a protest against mankind and God." Every year, new evidence emerges about this mass ethnic cleansing, the first holocaust of the last century; and every year, Turkey denies that it ever committed genocide. Yet on Saturday - to the horror of millions of descendants of Armenian survivors - the President of Armenia, Serg Sarkissian, plans to agree to a protocol with Turkey to re-open diplomatic relations, which should allow for new trade concessions and oil interests. And he proposes to do this without honouring his most important promise to Armenians abroad - to demand that Turkey admit it carried out the Armenian genocide in 1915."
Or take Nagorno-Karabakh.
From Ryszard Kapuściński, quoting an Armenian imprisoned within his own land: "Our question is, How do we survive? It has been weighing on Armenians for hundreds of years. For centuries already we have had our own culture, our own language and alphabet... But our culture has a passive character, it is the culture of the ghetto, of a defensive fortification."
The House Negro was the third successive US president to promise the Armenian diaspora that he would recognise the 20th century's first example of a holocaust, only to backtrack under the glare of realpolitik.
And, as ever, the fake worlds of geopolitics and football repeatedly brush up against each other as UEFA and FIFA co-ordinate agendas to a political template.
The first trade-thawing between Armenia and Turkey occurred with dual presidential attendance at the World Cup Qualifier in Yerevan last year, and following Saturday's deal, Armenia travel to Turkey for the final match in the Group on Wednesday.
And, in Armenia's Group, Turkey were one part of a triumvirate of tilted playing fields in the penultimate round of matches at the weekend.
In tournaments where the rules are not made up as you go along ie not the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010, a key meritocratic input to the conclusion of the Groups is that matches kick off concurrently.
This stops any advantage to the team/nation kicking off later.
So, why were Turkey allowed to start 2 hours 45 minutes after Bosnia Herzogovina?
And with both matches having Italian referees too!
As it happened, it was irrelevant as Estonia weren't up to giving the Bosnians a game, but the template existed.
Or take Portugal.
The marketing desperation to get Cristiano Ronaldo to the World Cup took precedence over fair play as the Portugal match began as the one between Denmark and Sweden ended.
Even more outrageously, Israel unilaterally altered the kick off time, delaying their match for an hour so that it started half an hour after the Greece versus Latvia event.
Once again, the Greek victory undermined the advantage but the tilt still existed.
That Turkey and Israel were two of the three countries favoured in this way is rather indicative, we think.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
This followed on swiftly from his precarious silence on the Israeli slaughter (in the usual 100:1 ratio) of 1300 Gazans, utilising high-tech US weaponry especially delivered for the genocide-to-be.
And, prior to being the latest branded pseudo-leader of the free world (sic), the carefully crafted personality declared that, once installed as president, he would recognise the Turkish slaughter of Armenians in 1915 as an act of genocide. Once the votes had been delivered, the hyperreality of trade and military geopolitics took over and the 'G' word never parted company with his lips.
So, the US president ignores genocide, supports war crimes and, indeed, instigates them.
So what?
Well, obviously, in a neohyperreality of universal magnitude, the House Negro has only been given the Nobel Peace Prize!!!
Now when people choose to add extra letters before and after their names, we are obviously in the arena of fake - think Sir David Richards, Baroness Thatcher, Sir Alan Sugar, Professor Niall Ferguson.
But just how fake do they wish it to be?
Very.
Obviously, again...
Three other US presidents have been awarded the Peace Prize - Woodrow Wilson, laughably, Theodore Roosevelt, hilariously, and Henry Kissinger, incredibly!!!
Did he get it for Laos?
And we know that he wasn't formally president...
...and you think Ronald Reagan was?
As Howard Zinn stated about Kissinger, "[Kissinger] who matches the definition of a war criminal very accurately."
But the Establishment reward one another for their acquiescence and compliance.
Always have done.
It is probably the Armenian issue that provides the best overview.
Robert Fisk: "In the autumn of 1915, an Austrian engineer called Litzmayer, who was helping build the Constantinople-Baghdad railway, saw what he thought was a large Turkish army heading for Mesopotamia. But as the crowd came closer, he realised it was a huge caravan of women, moving forward under the supervision of soldiers.
"The 40,000 or so women were all Armenians, separated from their men - most of whom had already had their throats cut by Turkish gendarmerie - and deported on a genocidal death march during which up to 1.5 million Armenians died.
"Subjected to constant rape and beatings, some had already swallowed poison on their way from their homes in Erzerum, Serena, Sivas, Bitlis and other cities in Turkish western Armenia. "Some of them," Bishop Grigoris Balakian, one of Litzmayer's contemporaries, recorded, "had been driven to such a state that they were mere skeletons enveloped in rags, with skin that had turned leathery, burned from the sun, cold, and wind. Many pregnant women, having become numb, had left their newborns on the side of the road as a protest against mankind and God." Every year, new evidence emerges about this mass ethnic cleansing, the first holocaust of the last century; and every year, Turkey denies that it ever committed genocide. Yet on Saturday - to the horror of millions of descendants of Armenian survivors - the President of Armenia, Serg Sarkissian, plans to agree to a protocol with Turkey to re-open diplomatic relations, which should allow for new trade concessions and oil interests. And he proposes to do this without honouring his most important promise to Armenians abroad - to demand that Turkey admit it carried out the Armenian genocide in 1915."
Or take Nagorno-Karabakh.
From Ryszard Kapuściński, quoting an Armenian imprisoned within his own land: "Our question is, How do we survive? It has been weighing on Armenians for hundreds of years. For centuries already we have had our own culture, our own language and alphabet... But our culture has a passive character, it is the culture of the ghetto, of a defensive fortification."
The House Negro was the third successive US president to promise the Armenian diaspora that he would recognise the 20th century's first example of a holocaust, only to backtrack under the glare of realpolitik.
And, as ever, the fake worlds of geopolitics and football repeatedly brush up against each other as UEFA and FIFA co-ordinate agendas to a political template.
The first trade-thawing between Armenia and Turkey occurred with dual presidential attendance at the World Cup Qualifier in Yerevan last year, and following Saturday's deal, Armenia travel to Turkey for the final match in the Group on Wednesday.
And, in Armenia's Group, Turkey were one part of a triumvirate of tilted playing fields in the penultimate round of matches at the weekend.
In tournaments where the rules are not made up as you go along ie not the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010, a key meritocratic input to the conclusion of the Groups is that matches kick off concurrently.
This stops any advantage to the team/nation kicking off later.
So, why were Turkey allowed to start 2 hours 45 minutes after Bosnia Herzogovina?
And with both matches having Italian referees too!
As it happened, it was irrelevant as Estonia weren't up to giving the Bosnians a game, but the template existed.
Or take Portugal.
The marketing desperation to get Cristiano Ronaldo to the World Cup took precedence over fair play as the Portugal match began as the one between Denmark and Sweden ended.
Even more outrageously, Israel unilaterally altered the kick off time, delaying their match for an hour so that it started half an hour after the Greece versus Latvia event.
Once again, the Greek victory undermined the advantage but the tilt still existed.
That Turkey and Israel were two of the three countries favoured in this way is rather indicative, we think.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
Sunday 11 October 2009
"I Don't Have To Sell My Soul. He's Already In Me" #
The moment that England's chances of winning the 2010 World Cup ended came in the fifteenth minute in Dnepropetrovsk yesterday.
At that time, for the second occasion this season in England internationals, Rio Ferdinand, already well versed in defensive shenanigans at Old Trafford, did huge favours for David "Calamity" James, Key Sports agents and bookmakers throughout the land.
And in Gibraltar too...
For at that second, when Ferdinand was dreaming of ############################, the long ball through the nasal passage of what is allegedly a functioning central defensive partnership, led to the dismissal of one of the few totally legitimate keepers at the top of the English game, Robert Green.
In his place came Calamity, and out of the window went all those dreams, all those hopes...
Of course, as Arcesilaus said, "Nothing is certain, not even that", and stuff happens.
James might get injured in the remainder of the season.
Somebody might inform Fabio Capello of ###########################################
One of the other limited options might blossom.
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Okay, that last one was a joke.
People basing their existences on the mainstream media are like all those dolphins or the disappearing bees - they are fucked up by modern communications.
The very very very worst thing that can happen to an English bookmaker is for an England team to win the World Cup.
Patriotic money is an issue in all Engerland matches, but spirals out of control when words like "glory", "waves" and "slavery" start being sung repeatedly.
As England, hypothetically of course, advance through South Africa 2010, the betting turnover increases exponentially.
It is put to the punter as a duty.
Your bookmaker/country needs you.
Back Engerland to go all the way.
We might only be a satellite state of the USA, less significant than California, but we are going to overcome Spain and Brazil, and it will all be like the World Wars again, and '66, and Three Lions, and there will be this huge collective shared orgasm throughout the land.
Except, of course, there won't.
Because after 15 minutes yesterday, on the western limits of another Imperium, Mr Ferdinand did his own particular duty.
So, how do we make money out of this?
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There is always the hope for you excitable islanders that one of the other options becomes a superhero in the meantime.
Forget Kirkland and Carson as ######################################################
Robinson and Foster are both better than the press declares, although the latter like Green has an issue with crosses.
The Birmingham keeper Joe Hart is not only the best option currently, he is the best option fullstop.
Largely responsible for getting the Under-21's to the Final of the UEFA tournament, he missed the loss to Germany in the Final through a ban, he has also performed superbly for Birmingham City so far this season - only Chelsea have let in less goals than Brum in the Premier League Handicap.
And that is your only hope.
Unless one of the superior 'foreign' keepers can be persuaded to do the decent thing...
James has shown his loyalty to Portsmouth by declaring that he is moving to Tottenham in the January transfer window.
As it is Spurs and Pompey, he will probably move back to the south coast again before returning to north London before the end of the month.
These percentage slices add up after all.
As John Colquhoun is in the process of finding out, "vsievo mira nie piereyebiosh!", and the whole strategy of his company is totally dependent on both David James and Theo Walcott making it to the Cape of Good Hope.
The injuries, the returns, the external assistance both in the media and on the field of play, the transfers, the PR campaigns, everything is geared to partial success in South Africa.
Partial success for the nation that would be.
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At that time, for the second occasion this season in England internationals, Rio Ferdinand, already well versed in defensive shenanigans at Old Trafford, did huge favours for David "Calamity" James, Key Sports agents and bookmakers throughout the land.
And in Gibraltar too...
For at that second, when Ferdinand was dreaming of ############################, the long ball through the nasal passage of what is allegedly a functioning central defensive partnership, led to the dismissal of one of the few totally legitimate keepers at the top of the English game, Robert Green.
In his place came Calamity, and out of the window went all those dreams, all those hopes...
Of course, as Arcesilaus said, "Nothing is certain, not even that", and stuff happens.
James might get injured in the remainder of the season.
Somebody might inform Fabio Capello of ###########################################
One of the other limited options might blossom.
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Okay, that last one was a joke.
People basing their existences on the mainstream media are like all those dolphins or the disappearing bees - they are fucked up by modern communications.
The very very very worst thing that can happen to an English bookmaker is for an England team to win the World Cup.
Patriotic money is an issue in all Engerland matches, but spirals out of control when words like "glory", "waves" and "slavery" start being sung repeatedly.
As England, hypothetically of course, advance through South Africa 2010, the betting turnover increases exponentially.
It is put to the punter as a duty.
Your bookmaker/country needs you.
Back Engerland to go all the way.
We might only be a satellite state of the USA, less significant than California, but we are going to overcome Spain and Brazil, and it will all be like the World Wars again, and '66, and Three Lions, and there will be this huge collective shared orgasm throughout the land.
Except, of course, there won't.
Because after 15 minutes yesterday, on the western limits of another Imperium, Mr Ferdinand did his own particular duty.
So, how do we make money out of this?
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There is always the hope for you excitable islanders that one of the other options becomes a superhero in the meantime.
Forget Kirkland and Carson as ######################################################
Robinson and Foster are both better than the press declares, although the latter like Green has an issue with crosses.
The Birmingham keeper Joe Hart is not only the best option currently, he is the best option fullstop.
Largely responsible for getting the Under-21's to the Final of the UEFA tournament, he missed the loss to Germany in the Final through a ban, he has also performed superbly for Birmingham City so far this season - only Chelsea have let in less goals than Brum in the Premier League Handicap.
And that is your only hope.
Unless one of the superior 'foreign' keepers can be persuaded to do the decent thing...
James has shown his loyalty to Portsmouth by declaring that he is moving to Tottenham in the January transfer window.
As it is Spurs and Pompey, he will probably move back to the south coast again before returning to north London before the end of the month.
These percentage slices add up after all.
As John Colquhoun is in the process of finding out, "vsievo mira nie piereyebiosh!", and the whole strategy of his company is totally dependent on both David James and Theo Walcott making it to the Cape of Good Hope.
The injuries, the returns, the external assistance both in the media and on the field of play, the transfers, the PR campaigns, everything is geared to partial success in South Africa.
Partial success for the nation that would be.
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