Wednesday 29 February 2012
Hail Hail The End is Nigh!! A Flashback
To keep people on their toes, we have set up a piece of software that will be automatically and randomly drip-feed all 1000+ previous posts from the legendary Football is Fixed blog in Flashback form.
All posts will be cleansed of any libellous comment.
But here's one we prepared earlier when the Rangers Tax Case Hun Drum Scenario was in an infantile stage.
Of course, John Reid ended up letting us all down, just as he always did...
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Now doesn't it feel like decades ago that we blogged about the "issues" relating to Willie Collum refereeing the first Celtic/Rangers match of the season...?
Over the 980 blog posts that have appeared on the Football Is Fixed website over the years, none have been as key as the current Caledonian Referee Scandal Series.
More than that...
This is undoubtedly the biggest British footballing spectacle to have brushed the surface of the mainstream media in my lifetime.
We are dealing with the exposure, potentially, of decades of systemic institutional corruption primarily in the favour of one team.
The Hun should be grateful that FIFA are similarly institutionally challenged in the integrity department.
And brushed the surface is the key input here.
Cyclically in the MSM, there quantums into existence stories relating to competitive bidding to buyout and take over ownership of Glasgow Rangers FC.
'Tis a Sine Wave of Propaganda.
Compare and contrast with the refusal of the self same MSM to go anywhere near the Real Reality of the Dallasgate Scandal.
And which would be the more newsworthy of these quantums of news?
Now why might that be, girls and boys?
It wouldn't be because too many people have got their grubby fingers in an incredibly corrupted pie both north of the border and, dare I say it, south?
Now when Juve had Serie A titles removed from their trophy cabinet, they also were sentenced to a penance of two years in Serie B and an equivalent period of restricted access to transfer market as a result of which the majority of their best players left, understanding that half a decade of exclusion from the Champions League together with the shame of having been involved with tainted title triumphs would reduce future revenue streams.
Buffon and his two million euro betting slip elected to stay.
With the current Hun Financial Plight, any such punishment would demolish the entity that is Rangers FC - damaged goods, bankrupt stock, a busted flush, you get the drift...
With caveat emptor in mind, who in the right mind is going to hand over cash for such a product on the cusps of a Depression.
We are talking oblivion.
And it is, as has been pointed out, all in the hands of Dr John Reid.
If you are willing to countenance Extraordinary Rendition, Mashing the Hun is surely simply a few hours of work?
These are really exciting times and 'tis a pity that the MSM are choosing not to cover them - just like Al Megrahi all over again.
But MSM or not, there must be a Public Inquiry into the Caledonian Calciopoli - Dallasgate.
Friday 24 February 2012
JUSTICE
The release of the alleged bomber of Panam Flight 103 Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi from Scottish prison is the VERY BEST PIECE OF NEWS.
He is innocent of the crime.
Totally.
My friend Yvonne and her daughter Bryony were on Flight 103.
We all received our Christmas cards after learning of their deaths, like that should have any relevance to anything, but, in some small way, it did matter, and still does.
Nearly 21 years on...
My friend Lawrence Fitzgerald oversaw the establishment of the excellent memorial to the victims on Flight 103, now in the new Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
He liaised with Jim Swire representing the British families of those that had died to help put together the permanent exhibition that strongly questions whether justice was done with the imprisonment of Al Megrahi.
Last December, Jim founded the "Justice for Megrahi Campaign" to gain release for this wrongly convicted man.
Having just witnessed the BBC's shoddy news coverage of this very wonderful news, and listened in astonishment to the neurally challenged and odious Jack McConnell spouting some derivative nonsense, it needs to be pointed out that this is not about oil or Mandelson or the coming general election or the horrendous deaths of many loved individuals or US/British relations, it is about an entirely innocent man being allowed to return to his family in Libya, having been the victim of a "catastrophic miscarriage of justice" according to Tam Dalyell.
That is it.
It's about JUSTICE.
Al Megrahi was a scapegoat.
And yet again they show us the placcy bag...
...the transparent plastic bag with personal effects.
It must make good television because they always show it every pre-xmas anniversary.
The camera focuses in on a child's toy.
I hate the media.
They fail us.
Repeatedly.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
He is innocent of the crime.
Totally.
My friend Yvonne and her daughter Bryony were on Flight 103.
We all received our Christmas cards after learning of their deaths, like that should have any relevance to anything, but, in some small way, it did matter, and still does.
Nearly 21 years on...
My friend Lawrence Fitzgerald oversaw the establishment of the excellent memorial to the victims on Flight 103, now in the new Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
He liaised with Jim Swire representing the British families of those that had died to help put together the permanent exhibition that strongly questions whether justice was done with the imprisonment of Al Megrahi.
Last December, Jim founded the "Justice for Megrahi Campaign" to gain release for this wrongly convicted man.
Having just witnessed the BBC's shoddy news coverage of this very wonderful news, and listened in astonishment to the neurally challenged and odious Jack McConnell spouting some derivative nonsense, it needs to be pointed out that this is not about oil or Mandelson or the coming general election or the horrendous deaths of many loved individuals or US/British relations, it is about an entirely innocent man being allowed to return to his family in Libya, having been the victim of a "catastrophic miscarriage of justice" according to Tam Dalyell.
That is it.
It's about JUSTICE.
Al Megrahi was a scapegoat.
And yet again they show us the placcy bag...
...the transparent plastic bag with personal effects.
It must make good television because they always show it every pre-xmas anniversary.
The camera focuses in on a child's toy.
I hate the media.
They fail us.
Repeatedly.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
This Is A Happy House. We're Happy Here, In Our Happy House
"I am not a repulsive bloated racist holocaust-denying homophobic wobblejaw" claims Fat Fascist.
"Oh yes you are" shout the Plain People of England.
Well, it all came down to self interest at the end of the day...
Jack Straw and Margaret Hodge were able to add solidity to their gravy-train-for-life-for-nothing existences by putting a little clear water between the right wing free market New Labour project and the neo-fascists.
The BBC was able to gain huge amounts of free global media exposure and three times the normal number of viewers for a weekly chat show where filtered questions are used to attempt to illuminate the increasingly minor differences between our quorum of right wing political parties.
And, most importantly, The Irrational Right Wing Blubber Bloke With A Side Parting will have gained massively.
This was Griffin's 'Le Pen' moment - the crossover to pseudo-respectability.
How may the BNP be marginalised for their fascism when the EU Tories line up alongside fascists and homophobes from Central and Eastern Europe while New Labour cuddles up with Berlusconi and Bush and Extraordinary Rendition and That Sort Of Thing?
The issue on Thursday was not about freedom of speech - if Fat Fascist wants to speak a squiggly doogle then let him do so.
BUT, and this is a BIG BUT...
Let us level the playing field for media access.
In the whole of my life I have never seen Professor Noam Chomsky on British television.
I never saw Baudrillard, Derrida, Lyotard and I don't see Alain Badiou.
I saw Professor Slavoj Žižek once, although he was creatively edited, and I have vague memories of John Pilger on ITV in distant decades.
Others like Naomi Klein, Howard Zinn, Robert Fisk, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, Michael Moore, in fact, anybody with a lucid rational argument about the infeasibility of free market capitalism and with visions of an improvement to the state of the world, are simply never given any exposure on British mainstream television.
How many times has their been any exposure for those with Anarchist/Libertarian Socialist, Revolutionary Communist, Socialist, Anarcho-Environmental or Anti-Free Market Capitalist views?
Meanwhile, so many fascist voices...
...so much centrist shit.
I feel sorry for the fascists.
They are right to be angry.
And, on this level, they are vastly superior to those about whom Karl Popper once wrote: "Ignorance is not a simple and passive lack of knowledge, but it is an active stance, it is the refusal to accept knowledge, a reluctance to possess it; it is rejection."
Right wing reactionary rejectionism is a worse 'evil' than any utterances by those stupefied and bewildered by the Murdochratic white noise.
Unable to perceive Reality, these fear-ridden types attack anything in their vicinity that they perceive as different.
The Bangladeshi shopkeeper who works all hours, does not drink nor smoke and, consequently, has a rather nice motor car while we're on the dole and our house is not happy.
The investment bankers, brokers, Dark Pools, hedge funds, retail banks, private equity firms, offshore banking havens, the markets and products with names that make even the most determined of us glaze over at times, much harder to pin your hardship on these actual causes of your misery.
The BNP is to be rebranded.
In the bad old days when the RSPCA used to allow hunting on it's land, direct action sorts joined the organisation en masse, changed the constitution and Bob's your uncle.
As soon as the BNP are forced to deal with ethnicities not including the word caucasian, they must be overrun with Bajans, Biharis, Bangladeshis, Bengalis, even the occasional Bolivian and renamed the BBBBBNP.
Then people from these "non-ethnically cleansed towns" may be educated.
At the end of last season, we ended our subscription to Setanta.
Prior to this season, we terminated all links to the Murdochracy.
In that it is not valid to provide funding to an organisation that solely promotes the politics of racism, capitalism and hate, we are no longer going to pay our licence fee either.
So there!
Put on Chomsky and we'll get the telly back out of the loft.
And the lack of this distorting mainstream media lens is why our house is so happy.
Read a book.
Hug a tree.
Bin BSkyB.
Bin the BBC.
In our warped world where cycle couriers morph into postie scabs, we do not have to wait until the BNP is forced to open it's ranks to all people of the world to start making a difference.
Check: http://bushcheney.tripod.com/bnp.html
Be patient as it takes a short while to load.
In front of your eyes you will now have the BNP Membership List with addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of those that require enlightenment.
Register with Skype and when bored, or awake in the night, or angry, or whatever, Phone-A-Fascist.
Ask them what they are frightened of?
Bankers or Buddhists?
Educate and organise.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
"Oh yes you are" shout the Plain People of England.
Well, it all came down to self interest at the end of the day...
Jack Straw and Margaret Hodge were able to add solidity to their gravy-train-for-life-for-nothing existences by putting a little clear water between the right wing free market New Labour project and the neo-fascists.
The BBC was able to gain huge amounts of free global media exposure and three times the normal number of viewers for a weekly chat show where filtered questions are used to attempt to illuminate the increasingly minor differences between our quorum of right wing political parties.
And, most importantly, The Irrational Right Wing Blubber Bloke With A Side Parting will have gained massively.
This was Griffin's 'Le Pen' moment - the crossover to pseudo-respectability.
How may the BNP be marginalised for their fascism when the EU Tories line up alongside fascists and homophobes from Central and Eastern Europe while New Labour cuddles up with Berlusconi and Bush and Extraordinary Rendition and That Sort Of Thing?
The issue on Thursday was not about freedom of speech - if Fat Fascist wants to speak a squiggly doogle then let him do so.
BUT, and this is a BIG BUT...
Let us level the playing field for media access.
In the whole of my life I have never seen Professor Noam Chomsky on British television.
I never saw Baudrillard, Derrida, Lyotard and I don't see Alain Badiou.
I saw Professor Slavoj Žižek once, although he was creatively edited, and I have vague memories of John Pilger on ITV in distant decades.
Others like Naomi Klein, Howard Zinn, Robert Fisk, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, Michael Moore, in fact, anybody with a lucid rational argument about the infeasibility of free market capitalism and with visions of an improvement to the state of the world, are simply never given any exposure on British mainstream television.
How many times has their been any exposure for those with Anarchist/Libertarian Socialist, Revolutionary Communist, Socialist, Anarcho-Environmental or Anti-Free Market Capitalist views?
Meanwhile, so many fascist voices...
...so much centrist shit.
I feel sorry for the fascists.
They are right to be angry.
And, on this level, they are vastly superior to those about whom Karl Popper once wrote: "Ignorance is not a simple and passive lack of knowledge, but it is an active stance, it is the refusal to accept knowledge, a reluctance to possess it; it is rejection."
Right wing reactionary rejectionism is a worse 'evil' than any utterances by those stupefied and bewildered by the Murdochratic white noise.
Unable to perceive Reality, these fear-ridden types attack anything in their vicinity that they perceive as different.
The Bangladeshi shopkeeper who works all hours, does not drink nor smoke and, consequently, has a rather nice motor car while we're on the dole and our house is not happy.
The investment bankers, brokers, Dark Pools, hedge funds, retail banks, private equity firms, offshore banking havens, the markets and products with names that make even the most determined of us glaze over at times, much harder to pin your hardship on these actual causes of your misery.
The BNP is to be rebranded.
In the bad old days when the RSPCA used to allow hunting on it's land, direct action sorts joined the organisation en masse, changed the constitution and Bob's your uncle.
As soon as the BNP are forced to deal with ethnicities not including the word caucasian, they must be overrun with Bajans, Biharis, Bangladeshis, Bengalis, even the occasional Bolivian and renamed the BBBBBNP.
Then people from these "non-ethnically cleansed towns" may be educated.
At the end of last season, we ended our subscription to Setanta.
Prior to this season, we terminated all links to the Murdochracy.
In that it is not valid to provide funding to an organisation that solely promotes the politics of racism, capitalism and hate, we are no longer going to pay our licence fee either.
So there!
Put on Chomsky and we'll get the telly back out of the loft.
And the lack of this distorting mainstream media lens is why our house is so happy.
Read a book.
Hug a tree.
Bin BSkyB.
Bin the BBC.
In our warped world where cycle couriers morph into postie scabs, we do not have to wait until the BNP is forced to open it's ranks to all people of the world to start making a difference.
Check: http://bushcheney.tripod.com/bnp.html
Be patient as it takes a short while to load.
In front of your eyes you will now have the BNP Membership List with addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of those that require enlightenment.
Register with Skype and when bored, or awake in the night, or angry, or whatever, Phone-A-Fascist.
Ask them what they are frightened of?
Bankers or Buddhists?
Educate and organise.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
When Is A Third Party Agreement Not A Third Party Agreement? - A Flashback
Nearly three years ago, we produced the below post on third party arrangements and the manner in which Richard Scudamore and those in control of his actions avoided the rules, the law, morals, ethics, integrity and normal practice in the interest of all shady shades.
ScudamoreWorld remains an Adhocracy within the Murdochracy.
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On Friday July 13th, Football Is Fixed posted that the Carlos Tevez transfer was a done deal with the only remaining obstacle being how to construct a "reality" that would accommodate the multifarious public stances taken by the protagonists. That the final resolution has taken until yesterday to complete was solely a result of further non-strategic foot dragging by the Premier League. The deceleration of this process has merely served to make both their posturing as an organisation and the incompetence of chief executive officer (CEO), Richard Scudamore, more apparent to more people, as the delay has merely produced more damning column inches that have allowed more individuals to discern the Premier League's truly Orwellian fabrication of crime and punishment.
Briefly looking at the overview of this blatant piece of spectacular society corruption, we'll take each of the key participants in turn.
We stated just a couple of days ago that Richard Scudamore has more than passed his sell-by date. His mismanagement of the English game both within the public arena and away from the prying eyes of probity has been abysmal. When one compares his decision making with the interests of the more crooked elements that are corrupting our game to its core, we find a far-too-revealing positive correlation (which obviously occurs entirely by chance). However, his psychic ability to parallel Premier League strategy with the black and grey market's agenda is one of those spooky coincidences that has to be resultant in unemployment if such individuals were accountable to watchdogs. But they're not. The Premier League's accountability axes lead to some rather unsavoury loci.
Scudamore has been the media face that has projected his and his organisation's incompetence onto the footballing public in the Carlos Tevez affair. They dug themselves into a hole and just kept digging when strategic oversight would have preferenced a negotiated settlement. In financial markets, a key behavioural factor is testosterone. The male-dominated marketplace repeatedly throws up instances of testosterone-driven individuals undertaking strategies that are to their own and their associates disadvantage rather than selecting alternative options that might produce a small gain for all. The Premier League have behaved similarly. One of the problems for the likes of Scudamore is when the spin gets out of control. The conjunction of a variety of separate media realities results in people getting cornered in nightmares of their own chaotic creation. So it is with Scudamore. Quest and bungs, the influence of Zahavi and Berezovsky, the takeovers by Shinawatra and Yeung, the Carlos Tevez transfer and the West Ham non-relegation, mismanagement or what? And this are only the tip of the iceberg that is available to public eyes. Insiders also are able to detect the other machinations that are totally undermining and destabilising the game to the financial advantage of a smallish number of very corrupt entities.
Specifically with regard to Tevez and West Ham. By clearing and, indeed, financially rewarding the Hammers for their corrupt practices related to third party agreements, the Premier League set in motion the very public decline of their executive authority. The crisis was spun from Day One as the Premier League sought to achieve their aims with an abusive template. The other parallel stories conspired to establish a typical damage limitation infrastructure where each of the options open to Scudamore's brigade was a losing position. The scenario whereby the third party contracts never existed legally would have been overturned in the High Court to the accompaniment of excessive public awareness of the Premier League's murkier activities = LOSE. Or the scenario where the third party agreements did exist and were legal calls into serious question how the Premier League could possibly not relegate West Ham = LOSE. Keeping the various plates spinning in a spectacular creation of endless contortions until the media loses interest = LOSE. Or, the choice that the Premier League eventually arrived at, reach an out-of-court settlement with all the parties. Despite the fact that this settlement is conclusive proof of the corruption undertaken by the Premier League on a range of different levels as they repeatedly break (and allow others to break) the rules that they are supposed to oversee, pretend that you are still in control of the process while avoiding any cross-referencing between the final solution and any of the executive decisions preceding it = LOSE.
In non-sophisticated sectors like football, the tone of the press releases following these type of tiffs are always revealing. The Premier League's entirely desperate attempt to paper over the chasms states: "The decision of the board, having received leading counsel's opinion, is that the agreement reached is compliant with the rules of the Premier League and consistent with the undertakings given by West Ham United to the Premier League board at various times since 27th April 2007".
No, the agreement is not compliant with the Premier League rules and what about undertakings given by West Ham United PRIOR to April 27th?
Sack the bastard...
When there is a very very big loser, there is usually more than one big winner. In this particular little scam, everybody wins big except the Premier League (who could not have played their hand less expertly) and Sheffield United. Disturbingly, two of the winners should, with judicial equivalence, actually be losers.
In the last two years, it is difficult to find any aspect of the business realities of West Ham United that have even approached the area of ethical behaviour. The illegal transfers of Tevez and Mascherano; the cosy ties with Brooking at the FA; the "interesting" choice of sector links - ask any market analyst; the takeover battle between MSI and Iceland's dodgiest businessman; the undermining of Pardew; the crowning of mr nice guy, Alan Curbishley; the £30 million payment as punishment; having the cheek to spend that money on transfers; accepting the £2 million pay-off from Manchester United that proves the illegality of their historical operations. And, yet, Magnusson's men march into the 2007/08 season in a very strong position with, approximately, £26.5 million worth of assets illegally gained. This is quite a weight advantage in the Premiership Handicap Chase 07/08.
As this tawdry affair has developed, there has been an ever-increasing amount of media flak thrown at the real winners of this confrontation, the really dodgy people - Joorabchian, Zahavi, Berezovsky, MSI Group Limited and Just Sport Inc (JSI). The Quest inquiry, the match fixing scandal at Corinthians and the money laundering charges in Brazil against Joorabchian and Berezovsky are all indicative of the sectors in which these people choose to operate. It is common practice in South America and Africa for slave-like contractual conditions to be the norm as players are tied to criminal operations. The fact that this particular operation has come to light is just another tip of just another iceberg. The football authorities, on the whole, accept this illegal trafficking in legally non-represented human beings - the contracts are heavily tilted in favour of the owners of the player's registrations. Looking at another iceberg - the one representing the financial gains to MSI and JSI - shows exactly how much these dodgy operators have profited from Tevez and Mascherano. Manchester United will pay £10 million to these people for loan playing rights for the next two seasons and then United will have an option to buy. MSI have consequently gained financially from these players at every step of their career entirely illegally and totally without internal policing within the game. And we won't even venture anywhere near the influence that these crooks have on the global football betting markets...
The only parties to have behaved with moral rectitude are Manchester United and Carlos Tevez, himself.
Throughout the process, Man Utd have remained as inside the legal boundaries as was feasible when one is dealing with a rotten edifice. Like Liverpool with Javier Mascherano in January, United have skillfully taken advantage of a slimy corruption to gain competitive advantage. The two year loan deal with an option on outright purchase is a gem of a deal. But, just a point, aren't Manchester United entering into an illegal third party agreement in establishing this loan deal? Just a point... We expect to see the hyper owners hovering around the corruptions, even those corruptions not directly under their influence, as a frequent backdrop to the future English Premiership.
Tevez is a bit of a hero. His life story from day one has entertained Maradona-esque escapades with his existence being anchored by his immense football talent. It is absolutely not only the financial terms of this deal which makes it so massive - Tevez is the business. He has already shown that he can hack it at speed in Argentina, at Corinthians (it is incredibly difficult for any Argentinian footballer to make an impact in Brazil both due to the difference in playing styles and their treatment from opponents, officials and, even, team-mates), for his country in the 2006 World Cup, for a relegation threatened bunch of scallies and, soon, no doubt on the premier footballing stages of Europe. This speedy adaptation to new and alien environments at great rapidity is the very hallmark of a top player. And, to achieve all this against a backdrop of corruption, uproar and criminality = astonishing... Tevez or Torres. Get a grip...
Unless the Premier League determines that another spectacular cataclysmic implosion might best serve their interests, the final word on this corruption should go to one of the biggest losers out of this affair, Neil Warnock. Following the High Court's decision to back the relegation of Sheffield United while acknowledging the efficacy of their legal position, Warnock stated: "so much for the integrity of the Premier League. So much for fairness and justice in English football". Fair dinkum...
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
ScudamoreWorld remains an Adhocracy within the Murdochracy.
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On Friday July 13th, Football Is Fixed posted that the Carlos Tevez transfer was a done deal with the only remaining obstacle being how to construct a "reality" that would accommodate the multifarious public stances taken by the protagonists. That the final resolution has taken until yesterday to complete was solely a result of further non-strategic foot dragging by the Premier League. The deceleration of this process has merely served to make both their posturing as an organisation and the incompetence of chief executive officer (CEO), Richard Scudamore, more apparent to more people, as the delay has merely produced more damning column inches that have allowed more individuals to discern the Premier League's truly Orwellian fabrication of crime and punishment.
Briefly looking at the overview of this blatant piece of spectacular society corruption, we'll take each of the key participants in turn.
We stated just a couple of days ago that Richard Scudamore has more than passed his sell-by date. His mismanagement of the English game both within the public arena and away from the prying eyes of probity has been abysmal. When one compares his decision making with the interests of the more crooked elements that are corrupting our game to its core, we find a far-too-revealing positive correlation (which obviously occurs entirely by chance). However, his psychic ability to parallel Premier League strategy with the black and grey market's agenda is one of those spooky coincidences that has to be resultant in unemployment if such individuals were accountable to watchdogs. But they're not. The Premier League's accountability axes lead to some rather unsavoury loci.
Scudamore has been the media face that has projected his and his organisation's incompetence onto the footballing public in the Carlos Tevez affair. They dug themselves into a hole and just kept digging when strategic oversight would have preferenced a negotiated settlement. In financial markets, a key behavioural factor is testosterone. The male-dominated marketplace repeatedly throws up instances of testosterone-driven individuals undertaking strategies that are to their own and their associates disadvantage rather than selecting alternative options that might produce a small gain for all. The Premier League have behaved similarly. One of the problems for the likes of Scudamore is when the spin gets out of control. The conjunction of a variety of separate media realities results in people getting cornered in nightmares of their own chaotic creation. So it is with Scudamore. Quest and bungs, the influence of Zahavi and Berezovsky, the takeovers by Shinawatra and Yeung, the Carlos Tevez transfer and the West Ham non-relegation, mismanagement or what? And this are only the tip of the iceberg that is available to public eyes. Insiders also are able to detect the other machinations that are totally undermining and destabilising the game to the financial advantage of a smallish number of very corrupt entities.
Specifically with regard to Tevez and West Ham. By clearing and, indeed, financially rewarding the Hammers for their corrupt practices related to third party agreements, the Premier League set in motion the very public decline of their executive authority. The crisis was spun from Day One as the Premier League sought to achieve their aims with an abusive template. The other parallel stories conspired to establish a typical damage limitation infrastructure where each of the options open to Scudamore's brigade was a losing position. The scenario whereby the third party contracts never existed legally would have been overturned in the High Court to the accompaniment of excessive public awareness of the Premier League's murkier activities = LOSE. Or the scenario where the third party agreements did exist and were legal calls into serious question how the Premier League could possibly not relegate West Ham = LOSE. Keeping the various plates spinning in a spectacular creation of endless contortions until the media loses interest = LOSE. Or, the choice that the Premier League eventually arrived at, reach an out-of-court settlement with all the parties. Despite the fact that this settlement is conclusive proof of the corruption undertaken by the Premier League on a range of different levels as they repeatedly break (and allow others to break) the rules that they are supposed to oversee, pretend that you are still in control of the process while avoiding any cross-referencing between the final solution and any of the executive decisions preceding it = LOSE.
In non-sophisticated sectors like football, the tone of the press releases following these type of tiffs are always revealing. The Premier League's entirely desperate attempt to paper over the chasms states: "The decision of the board, having received leading counsel's opinion, is that the agreement reached is compliant with the rules of the Premier League and consistent with the undertakings given by West Ham United to the Premier League board at various times since 27th April 2007".
No, the agreement is not compliant with the Premier League rules and what about undertakings given by West Ham United PRIOR to April 27th?
Sack the bastard...
When there is a very very big loser, there is usually more than one big winner. In this particular little scam, everybody wins big except the Premier League (who could not have played their hand less expertly) and Sheffield United. Disturbingly, two of the winners should, with judicial equivalence, actually be losers.
In the last two years, it is difficult to find any aspect of the business realities of West Ham United that have even approached the area of ethical behaviour. The illegal transfers of Tevez and Mascherano; the cosy ties with Brooking at the FA; the "interesting" choice of sector links - ask any market analyst; the takeover battle between MSI and Iceland's dodgiest businessman; the undermining of Pardew; the crowning of mr nice guy, Alan Curbishley; the £30 million payment as punishment; having the cheek to spend that money on transfers; accepting the £2 million pay-off from Manchester United that proves the illegality of their historical operations. And, yet, Magnusson's men march into the 2007/08 season in a very strong position with, approximately, £26.5 million worth of assets illegally gained. This is quite a weight advantage in the Premiership Handicap Chase 07/08.
As this tawdry affair has developed, there has been an ever-increasing amount of media flak thrown at the real winners of this confrontation, the really dodgy people - Joorabchian, Zahavi, Berezovsky, MSI Group Limited and Just Sport Inc (JSI). The Quest inquiry, the match fixing scandal at Corinthians and the money laundering charges in Brazil against Joorabchian and Berezovsky are all indicative of the sectors in which these people choose to operate. It is common practice in South America and Africa for slave-like contractual conditions to be the norm as players are tied to criminal operations. The fact that this particular operation has come to light is just another tip of just another iceberg. The football authorities, on the whole, accept this illegal trafficking in legally non-represented human beings - the contracts are heavily tilted in favour of the owners of the player's registrations. Looking at another iceberg - the one representing the financial gains to MSI and JSI - shows exactly how much these dodgy operators have profited from Tevez and Mascherano. Manchester United will pay £10 million to these people for loan playing rights for the next two seasons and then United will have an option to buy. MSI have consequently gained financially from these players at every step of their career entirely illegally and totally without internal policing within the game. And we won't even venture anywhere near the influence that these crooks have on the global football betting markets...
The only parties to have behaved with moral rectitude are Manchester United and Carlos Tevez, himself.
Throughout the process, Man Utd have remained as inside the legal boundaries as was feasible when one is dealing with a rotten edifice. Like Liverpool with Javier Mascherano in January, United have skillfully taken advantage of a slimy corruption to gain competitive advantage. The two year loan deal with an option on outright purchase is a gem of a deal. But, just a point, aren't Manchester United entering into an illegal third party agreement in establishing this loan deal? Just a point... We expect to see the hyper owners hovering around the corruptions, even those corruptions not directly under their influence, as a frequent backdrop to the future English Premiership.
Tevez is a bit of a hero. His life story from day one has entertained Maradona-esque escapades with his existence being anchored by his immense football talent. It is absolutely not only the financial terms of this deal which makes it so massive - Tevez is the business. He has already shown that he can hack it at speed in Argentina, at Corinthians (it is incredibly difficult for any Argentinian footballer to make an impact in Brazil both due to the difference in playing styles and their treatment from opponents, officials and, even, team-mates), for his country in the 2006 World Cup, for a relegation threatened bunch of scallies and, soon, no doubt on the premier footballing stages of Europe. This speedy adaptation to new and alien environments at great rapidity is the very hallmark of a top player. And, to achieve all this against a backdrop of corruption, uproar and criminality = astonishing... Tevez or Torres. Get a grip...
Unless the Premier League determines that another spectacular cataclysmic implosion might best serve their interests, the final word on this corruption should go to one of the biggest losers out of this affair, Neil Warnock. Following the High Court's decision to back the relegation of Sheffield United while acknowledging the efficacy of their legal position, Warnock stated: "so much for the integrity of the Premier League. So much for fairness and justice in English football". Fair dinkum...
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
Thursday 9 February 2012
Ashes to Ashes
In Affectionate Remembrance
of
ENGLISH FOOTBALL,
which died at the Southwark Crown Court and the Football Association
on
8th FEBRUARY 2012,
Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing
friends and acquaintances
R.I.P.
N.B.—The body will be cremated and the
ashes taken to the Asian Underground.
"Well done, Constalks! Whipt us
Fair and square,
Was it luck that tript us?
Was it scare?
East London Land's 'Demon', or our own
Want of 'devil', coolness, nerve, backbone?"
(adapted from Punch, 9th September 1882)
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Every Little Cartel Helps
Welcome to the wild, wacky and wicked world of shareholder capitalism.
There are clear parallels between the cartels governing the English football industry and those covering other areas of the economy. These criminalised networks contort the system to the benefit of big business and to the inevitable detriment of everybody else.
In this post, we explore these cartelised entities in order to discover similarities of infrastructure and tactic. We also focus on the incentives that underpin this rampant roguery and suggest some suitable regulatory policing and reality templates.
Lyotard: "Power is self-legitimating".
The entire system is, of course, a sham and both self-legitimation and self-regulation have always been the basis of this system based on capital. The progression of generations and time mean that our collective economic consciousness forgets the slave ships, the robber barons and the imperialist agendas - none of us are able to correctly apportion years, numbers nor distance and historical economic atrocities are airbrushed selectively from the history books. Consequently, when we are presented with a societal spectacular indicating that all might not be well with the capitalist model, the autocratic media provides us with the Good and the Evil, the standard Hollywood format. Pseudo-trial by public allows the spectaclist agenda to reach fruition - the financial director of Enron is jailed and we may now all sleep more easily.
Nonsense. As Baudrillard states: "...it [capital] is a monstrous unprincipled enterprise, nothing more". Nixon wasn't a knobhead, he was the norm. All capital is corrupt and the preferred format of corruption in a maturing market is the cartel.
Until recently in Britain, the deep state via the tentacles of the civil service neatly avoided any regulation of the self-legitimised system. Until 1980, insider trading, for instance, was regarded as a perk of the job and, despite being illegal since this date, not one prosecution has yet been undertaken. So, we are expected to believe that no insider dealing has taken place in Britain in nearly three decades. This would be a surprise to anybody with a knowledge of trading financial markets as insiders drive the structure!
Recently, however, Britain has been shamed into taking a more assertive line. As ever, the little island state follows its think-tanking superior, the USA. Firstly, we had the Virgin v British Airways price fixing cartel, soon followed by the inflation of energy prices by the (formerly public) utilities and the masonic construction companies rigging auctions and bids for mutual benefit. Now we have the four main supermarkets rigging the markets. These firms are not peripheral antisocialites firmly esconced in the grey or black markets but global brands fighting it out in the hilariously entitled formal economy.
What the fuck is a "formal economy"? Assuming, as one surely must within the bounds of shareholder capitalism, that "formal" refers to a private "formal" rather than a centralised political one, the "formal economy" is primarily developed by cartel or monopoly behaviour. The system requires a mafiosi structure to increase its efficiency and performance while it is a complete hypocrisy for the government to target cartelised and monopolistic corruption since such corruption is an emanation of those self same authorities.
But appearances matter. Justice must be seen to be done.
Lets focus on the four big grocers for a paragraph or so. The Competition Commission explored, examined and questioned the Big 4 for two years before announcing on April 30th that all is fair and well in the world of grocery - the standard regulatory conclusion. Regulators like the Competition Commission are poorly paid (generally around 25% of what one might earn in the private sector), they have no teeth and, everybody having their price, are able to be bought off. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is utilising a very different strategy to target the cartels. It is based on incentives, as everything in the world of money and greed must be if one is to get anywhere near to the true picture of the hyperreality. Imported from America, the tactic is as follows. Allow whistleblowers from within the cartel total immunity for grassing on their accomplices in crime. Meanwhile, hand down very severe penalties (preferably meaning incarceration) for the other cartel members. This is a proper use of economic incentives against the standard shareholder capitalist psychopathic template. Cartels offer members a win-win situation where the only losers are those, other competitors and consumers, who are left out of the cosy little grouping. This OFT-derivative template twists the incentives against the criminals. Using standard Game Theory for each of the cartel members is revealing as, the longer the cartel succeeds in distorting the markets, the greater the incentive for one of the blowers to whistle. Immunity versus Imprisonment is the type of strategic choice that a psychopath can understand, relate to and game - risk and Russian roulette...
In Britain, big business is crying foul whereas, in the US, the strategy is already being seen as an area of potential competitive advantage. One tactic, for example, is to await the whistleblower's testimony and to pay the fine to society, prior to whistleblowing the same knowledge on a proprietary basis in other territories. This creates deferred market share through the gaming of a criminality.
In summarising the OFT's campaign against the Big 4 supermarkets in Britain, The Economist states: "This supermarket cartel seems to involve many different parties sharing information in complex and indirect ways".
Which rather neatly brings us to the English Premier League/ Premiership Illusion. At its highest levels, English football is entirely a gambling medium. The match outcomes are rigged and the market prices are fixed in a standard and typical cartel structure. There are "many different parties" sharing knowledge about events but, as in the wider capitalist ballpark, there are limits to the cartelised cooperation. There are occasions where it is in the interest of one party to choose a selfish route and there are other occasions where a more capitalist-collectivist strategy is the preferable choice. This dichotomous format makes the externalised regulatory analyses of these criminal ruses rather complex mathematically. Hence the importance of the whistleblower.
Football would appear to be severely lagging the main shareholder capitalist body with regards to self-regulation of its own massive corruption. Two years ago, a whistleblower from Victor Chandler International provided evidence that one Premiership manager had placed £12 million worth of bets on Premiership matches in just one season. The response? A high court injunction courtesy of Max Clifford and the story never even gained an inch in the mainstream media columns. We have stated this before but it is important - if one manager is placing an average of over £30,000 on EVERY single Premiership match, surely we have a right to know.
In the US, the Commitment of Traders Report forces executives and insiders to disclose their insider dealing. In England, certain south coast managers are able to short-sell their own team on the global betting markets and take their illicit profit in the full knowledge that the illegality will never rebound into an own financial goal.
Power always demands self-regulation or excessively weak or controlled external regulation. This freeform structure allows the marketing of the self-legitimation of power via a compliant media. It has to be the final nail in Milton Friedman's intellectual coffin that a competitive system based on allegedly free markets actually ends up with centralised planning from a cartelised and criminalised business elite. How free is that? Why should society, as a whole, trust these individuals when there is ample evidence to the contrary? If the government is willing to fund advertising campaigns to shop a dole fraudster, why not a similar dynamic regarding a financial fraudster?
When some Premiership games are grossing over £1 billion in betting turnover, there needs to be formed a regulatory body that is able to target the corruption. The OFT structure may be directly replicated within English football. We'll blow whistles, if you want, without any incentives!
Not that it will perform any long term usefulness. Cartels grow up into monopolies and monopolies don't do whistleblowers, well not living ones anyway. Monopolies totally control output, input, supply, demand, price and it is surely the perfect definer of the shareholder capitalist system that this end goal is the nirvana of capitalist psychopaths across the world.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
There are clear parallels between the cartels governing the English football industry and those covering other areas of the economy. These criminalised networks contort the system to the benefit of big business and to the inevitable detriment of everybody else.
In this post, we explore these cartelised entities in order to discover similarities of infrastructure and tactic. We also focus on the incentives that underpin this rampant roguery and suggest some suitable regulatory policing and reality templates.
Lyotard: "Power is self-legitimating".
The entire system is, of course, a sham and both self-legitimation and self-regulation have always been the basis of this system based on capital. The progression of generations and time mean that our collective economic consciousness forgets the slave ships, the robber barons and the imperialist agendas - none of us are able to correctly apportion years, numbers nor distance and historical economic atrocities are airbrushed selectively from the history books. Consequently, when we are presented with a societal spectacular indicating that all might not be well with the capitalist model, the autocratic media provides us with the Good and the Evil, the standard Hollywood format. Pseudo-trial by public allows the spectaclist agenda to reach fruition - the financial director of Enron is jailed and we may now all sleep more easily.
Nonsense. As Baudrillard states: "...it [capital] is a monstrous unprincipled enterprise, nothing more". Nixon wasn't a knobhead, he was the norm. All capital is corrupt and the preferred format of corruption in a maturing market is the cartel.
Until recently in Britain, the deep state via the tentacles of the civil service neatly avoided any regulation of the self-legitimised system. Until 1980, insider trading, for instance, was regarded as a perk of the job and, despite being illegal since this date, not one prosecution has yet been undertaken. So, we are expected to believe that no insider dealing has taken place in Britain in nearly three decades. This would be a surprise to anybody with a knowledge of trading financial markets as insiders drive the structure!
Recently, however, Britain has been shamed into taking a more assertive line. As ever, the little island state follows its think-tanking superior, the USA. Firstly, we had the Virgin v British Airways price fixing cartel, soon followed by the inflation of energy prices by the (formerly public) utilities and the masonic construction companies rigging auctions and bids for mutual benefit. Now we have the four main supermarkets rigging the markets. These firms are not peripheral antisocialites firmly esconced in the grey or black markets but global brands fighting it out in the hilariously entitled formal economy.
What the fuck is a "formal economy"? Assuming, as one surely must within the bounds of shareholder capitalism, that "formal" refers to a private "formal" rather than a centralised political one, the "formal economy" is primarily developed by cartel or monopoly behaviour. The system requires a mafiosi structure to increase its efficiency and performance while it is a complete hypocrisy for the government to target cartelised and monopolistic corruption since such corruption is an emanation of those self same authorities.
But appearances matter. Justice must be seen to be done.
Lets focus on the four big grocers for a paragraph or so. The Competition Commission explored, examined and questioned the Big 4 for two years before announcing on April 30th that all is fair and well in the world of grocery - the standard regulatory conclusion. Regulators like the Competition Commission are poorly paid (generally around 25% of what one might earn in the private sector), they have no teeth and, everybody having their price, are able to be bought off. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is utilising a very different strategy to target the cartels. It is based on incentives, as everything in the world of money and greed must be if one is to get anywhere near to the true picture of the hyperreality. Imported from America, the tactic is as follows. Allow whistleblowers from within the cartel total immunity for grassing on their accomplices in crime. Meanwhile, hand down very severe penalties (preferably meaning incarceration) for the other cartel members. This is a proper use of economic incentives against the standard shareholder capitalist psychopathic template. Cartels offer members a win-win situation where the only losers are those, other competitors and consumers, who are left out of the cosy little grouping. This OFT-derivative template twists the incentives against the criminals. Using standard Game Theory for each of the cartel members is revealing as, the longer the cartel succeeds in distorting the markets, the greater the incentive for one of the blowers to whistle. Immunity versus Imprisonment is the type of strategic choice that a psychopath can understand, relate to and game - risk and Russian roulette...
In Britain, big business is crying foul whereas, in the US, the strategy is already being seen as an area of potential competitive advantage. One tactic, for example, is to await the whistleblower's testimony and to pay the fine to society, prior to whistleblowing the same knowledge on a proprietary basis in other territories. This creates deferred market share through the gaming of a criminality.
In summarising the OFT's campaign against the Big 4 supermarkets in Britain, The Economist states: "This supermarket cartel seems to involve many different parties sharing information in complex and indirect ways".
Which rather neatly brings us to the English Premier League/ Premiership Illusion. At its highest levels, English football is entirely a gambling medium. The match outcomes are rigged and the market prices are fixed in a standard and typical cartel structure. There are "many different parties" sharing knowledge about events but, as in the wider capitalist ballpark, there are limits to the cartelised cooperation. There are occasions where it is in the interest of one party to choose a selfish route and there are other occasions where a more capitalist-collectivist strategy is the preferable choice. This dichotomous format makes the externalised regulatory analyses of these criminal ruses rather complex mathematically. Hence the importance of the whistleblower.
Football would appear to be severely lagging the main shareholder capitalist body with regards to self-regulation of its own massive corruption. Two years ago, a whistleblower from Victor Chandler International provided evidence that one Premiership manager had placed £12 million worth of bets on Premiership matches in just one season. The response? A high court injunction courtesy of Max Clifford and the story never even gained an inch in the mainstream media columns. We have stated this before but it is important - if one manager is placing an average of over £30,000 on EVERY single Premiership match, surely we have a right to know.
In the US, the Commitment of Traders Report forces executives and insiders to disclose their insider dealing. In England, certain south coast managers are able to short-sell their own team on the global betting markets and take their illicit profit in the full knowledge that the illegality will never rebound into an own financial goal.
Power always demands self-regulation or excessively weak or controlled external regulation. This freeform structure allows the marketing of the self-legitimation of power via a compliant media. It has to be the final nail in Milton Friedman's intellectual coffin that a competitive system based on allegedly free markets actually ends up with centralised planning from a cartelised and criminalised business elite. How free is that? Why should society, as a whole, trust these individuals when there is ample evidence to the contrary? If the government is willing to fund advertising campaigns to shop a dole fraudster, why not a similar dynamic regarding a financial fraudster?
When some Premiership games are grossing over £1 billion in betting turnover, there needs to be formed a regulatory body that is able to target the corruption. The OFT structure may be directly replicated within English football. We'll blow whistles, if you want, without any incentives!
Not that it will perform any long term usefulness. Cartels grow up into monopolies and monopolies don't do whistleblowers, well not living ones anyway. Monopolies totally control output, input, supply, demand, price and it is surely the perfect definer of the shareholder capitalist system that this end goal is the nirvana of capitalist psychopaths across the world.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological
Monday 6 February 2012
Death and The Fix
Jonathan Moss, as regular readers will understand, is a Premier League Select Group referee, one of nineteen referees who are allowed to officiate in EPL games.
John Colquhoun is a friend of Jonathan Moss of 20 years standing and, as regular readers will understand, is West Bromwich Albion club agent, Key Sports Management joint-owner, tv presenter, journalist, professional gambler and ambassador for the Scottish tourism industry.
Victor Chandler International/Bet Victor, as regular readers will understand, are the offshore and onshore wings of the Chandler betting entity with close ties historically to John Colquhoun.
Now then girls and boys...
...time for some forensics.
Traders compare prices from major firms with stances taken by bookmakers known to have contacts with clubs to determine when such layers are taking a market position.
So SBOBET and West Ham, Bodog and West Brom, Bet365 and Stoke City etc...
For the sheer hell of it, we thought we would run through the 22 matches that Mr Moss has refereed since his promotion to the Select Group last summer.
In twelve matches the Victor Chandler operation were neutral with respect to the AMLP and a few of the top Asian firms.
In the other 10 matches, Chandler took a position in the market against the AMLP companies and Asia.
We list these games below together with result, outcome for Chandler (VCI) and any key breakpoints that influence the outcomes.
Bristol Rovers v TORQUAY UNITED 1-2 VCI WIN - 1 penalty in favour of Torquay.
Ipswich v SOUTHAMPTON 2-5 VCI WIN.
NOTTINGHAM FOREST (Draw No Bet) v Leicester 2-2 VCI BREAKEVEN - 1 penalty and 1 sending off in favour of Nottm Forest.
Blackpool v CARDIFF CITY (+0.0,0.5) 1-1 VCI WIN.
Wimbledon v BARNET (+0.5) 1-1 VCI WIN.
Swansea v FULHAM 2-0 VCI LOSE.
DERBY v West Ham 2-1 VCI WIN - 5 West Ham players booked/ 0 Derby players booked.
MACCLESFIELD (+1.0) v Bolton 2-2 VCI WIN.
Millwall v BIRMINGHAM CITY 0-6 VCI WIN - 2 sendings off in favour of position.
West Brom v SWANSEA 1-2 VCI WIN.
So, in the 10 matches refereed by Jonathan Moss where Victor Chandler have taken an extreme market position, 8 have produced oodles of money to the Public Schoolboy Bookie, one was a breakeven despite the benefit of two major decisions in favour of the Chandler position and the other stance was a loser.
8 Wins.
1 Loss.
5 Penalties and Sendings Off in Favour.
We have been closely following the Chandler entity since the mid-nineties when, under the tutelage of head trader Tony Bloom (now owner of Brighton and Hove Albion), they were the first European firm to venture into the Asian markets.
Bloom moved from Gibraltar to Bangkok to establish the presence.
This first mover advantage was extremely profitable for both the Victor Chandler organisation and Mr Bloom, now a 'property mogul'.
The next time the Chandler entity popped into our view was when a whistleblower from the company went public with the fact that one Premier League manager had bet £12 million at Chandler in just one season.
There are other data and information that we are not willing to release in this place because it is not in the public domain and we need to ensure that we are protected against any future eventualities.
This data is just an aperitif.
But it should not come as any surprise that similar structures may be seen with many other leading bookmaking organisations and various individuals who are coerced, bribed or persuaded to do Fat Wallets' bidding.
We have made the decision to release this partial picture today, after extensive discussions and legal advice.
Over the weekend, Nottingham Forest owner Nigel Doughty died of a heart attack.
When people are examining the causes of the stress that led to Mr Doughty's untimely demise, they might wish to focus on the role played by John Colquhoun both during and in the aftermath of the Steve McClaren sacking, with his various stinging attacks on Doughty by sources via the anonymity of his Guardian Football Section control and the pressurisation that helped to force Doughty to relinquish the chairmanship of the club he saved.
Additionally, it somehow seems sadly apt that the Nottingham Forest shirt sponsors are one Victor Chandler International.
Seymour Pierce were brought in to advise the club on takeovers following Doughty's removal.
Two months later, Seymour Pierce were given the largest ever fine by the AIM exchange for the breaking of the exchanges rules.
Nigel Doughty, the Forest saviour, was effectively ousted in a media-orchestrated hostile takeover - a money grab.
Doughty not only saved Forest from oblivion with £75 million of his own cash (well it was from private equity, but you understand what we mean), he also put aside a further £25 million for future eventualities.
Although the arrangements for the eventual repayment of this money are unknown perhaps it would be a wonderful gesture by the Immensely Rich Victor Chandler and the Getting Richer Every Day John Colquhoun if they were to cover this sum themselves.
For the good of the game that they profit from and ###.
Otherwise this just reeks of robbery and a cause-and-effect version of corporate ############.
Sunday 5 February 2012
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Next Fiddles
Yesterday Football is Fixed were able to prevent a fixed match in the Premier League between West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City by exposing the criminality earlier this week (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/2012/02/perfect-storm.html).
There were simply too many prying eyes on the fiddle.
Well, we almost prevented a fix!
As we said in the original post, the match structure was such that the key participants could make the outcome anything they wished. "... our only public prediction is this - the result of the match will be in the market prior to kick off and may be determined by both public pricing and by betting activities in the underground."
So, although we prevented any reenactment of the standard template when these usual suspects are involved in corrupt manoeuvrings, the match was still fixed.
And as we predicted, the money was in both the public and underground markets pre-match...
... and that is a fixed match.
Offshore bookmaker ### ###### (also ennobled as ###### ######## #############) and their connections with certain individuals in control at West Bromwich Albion create a psychopathic control grid for the rigging of matches.
And, if there is one thing that the labyrinth of psychopathy cannot abide, it is being rumbled by justice as, in their diseased matrices, power should always trump justice.
A match result should be dependent on what occurs competitively on the pitch and not on what occurs competitively in the betting markets.
But this is not so!
Let's take a closer look at the financial incentives associated with Saturday's match at the Hawthorns.
The initial fix would have seen WBA move two places higher in the EPL - and two places equals an extra £1.6 million in the EPL Merit Money Handicap Stakes at the end of season.
But a bet or a market positioning can make such a paltry amount appear insignificant.
At market opening and at kick off ### ###### were offering the best price on the planet on a West Brom victory ie they were out to lay the home side as they were confident that Albion were not to be victorious.
Much more than £1.6 million will have been created by both this market stance and, much more importantly, by transferring this criminalised knowledge into the Asian Dark Pools where squillions might be raised.
So the incentive to the riggers is always biased to betting rather than integrity as there is simply not enough competitive reward for mid-table teams to take competitive football as seriously as they take competitive betting.
Only when career changing prizes like titles or relegation are on offer is this balance disturbed.
This is the absolute equivalent of British horseracing where ALL non Class 1 races are dominated by the impact of betting money - the 2:15 at Ludlow offering £3,000 prize money to the winner or markedly more than that from a bookmaker for racing accordingly.
Money is piggy-backed and a far greater profit made by the consortium.
Furthermore, by losing in a poor fashion, the markets will offer a larger prize on the next race as the horse is regarded as a squiggle, and, consequently, the insiders clean up once again on the next race.
This is what the EPL and numerous other European leagues have become - next match, West Brom will be better value to insider bettors.
And this is already apparent in both public and underground markets.
WBA's next match is at Wolves and, despite yesterday's results, insider money has already surfaced AGAINST Wolves.
Irrational...
... but, then again, not.
And lives are undermined by these criminalities.
Yesterday, Nottingham Forest owner Nigel Doughty was found dead at his home.
RIP.
Unlike certain pseudo-Socialists associated with the club, Doughty was one of those rare people in football who isn't just addicted to cash.
The recent personal and orchestrated media pressure imposed on Doughty via certain people and organisations not unfamiliar to these pages was inappropriate.
Doughty realised earlier in the season that he should never have appointed Steve McClaren as manager, describing the decision as "a very poor one".
The fall-out from this has been out of order.
Pressure and stress leads to death.
And guess who has a major impact on transfers at Nottingham Forest?
And guess who orchestrated the appointment of McClaren?
And guess who utilised his psychopathic control of The Guardian football ouput to repeatedly besmirch Doughty in the media after McClaren was sacked?
And guess which bookmaker sponsors the shirts?
And guess who will be at the funeral doing the mock grief thing?
Es una puta barbaridad.
These people are simply sociopathic scum...
... which is exactly what the HMR&C think too.
Off the record of course...
© Football is Fixed 2006-2012
Saturday 4 February 2012
Today From Football is Fucked, Our Sister Website...
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Friday 3 February 2012
Harry Redknapp is a Bag of Shite
Harry Redknapp lives in a £10 million mansion at Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset.
Sandbanks has, by area, the fourth largest land value in the entire world.
It is known as 'Britain's Palm Beach'.
Harry Redknapp is a low tier manager who had won nothing of consequence until a fixed FA Cup Final victory for Portsmouth in 2008. Managing clubs as mighty as Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Southampton and West Ham does not produce Palm Beach-style wealth.
Harry Redknapp, in consortia with #### #########, ##### ##### and ###### ######## #############, was involved in ####### ####### on EPL games over a number of seasons.
##### ######## ### ##### # ############### ############## ### #### ## ## ######## ############ ############ ########### #### ## ######## ## Premier League matches in just one season (#### ## ## ####### ## ##### ## ####### ## ## #####). The response? A high court injunction courtesy of Max Clifford and the story never even gained an inch in the mainstream media columns.
Harry Redknapp is regarded by Clifford as the ideal mentor for Gareth Bale to fulfill his earnings potential. "It's the magic formula" stated Clifford. "With Harry Redknapp keeping a very careful eye on him, he could make £10m, £20m, something like that, over the next five years from image rights, endorsements, things like that."
Things like that...
Harry Redknapp claimed in court that he is "disastrous" in business and would rather pay more tax than less.
Harry Redknapp and his wife own Pierfront Developments, a controversial property development company with an extensive portfolio in various areas throughout the south of England.
Harry Redknapp, in response to the prosecutor Mr Black at Southwark Crown Court: "I’m not a greedy person ... I’m the most ungreedy person you’ve ever met in your whole life, Mr Black. Ever. Ever."
Harry Redknapp was accused by prosecutors of telling "a pack of lies" to a jury hearing his tax evasion case yesterday.
The information about the Monaco bank account only surfaced due to the Murdochracy investigating and Redknapp "letting the cat out of the bag".
Redknapp admits lying to the journalist.
Redknapp purports to be "insulted" by claims he lied during tax evasion trial.
Harry Redknapp, answering Prosecutor Black once again in his court case: "You think I put my hand on the Bible and told lies. That’s an insult Mr Black . . . I told no lies. I don’t do that."
Harry Redknapp has an obviously purely incidental and absolutely non-corrupt relationship with PGMOB match official #########. The match outcomes in #########/Redknapp affairs are a collection of outliers of such remarkable nature that we have even postulated historically that the two might be having an affair.
Harry Redknapp, football manager, club agent, ############################, ###########, property developer, media spokesman, offshore financier, just a loveable Eastender who writes like a two-year old.
He believes in the good lord and paying more tax, in being truthful and humble, generous and altruistic.
He's just this guy who loved his dog Rosie so much that he set up an offshore bank account in her name.
He even equates his wife with his late dog "If she [an anonymous French woman) was as nice as Rosie [the dog] they have got a good wife."
Rosie 47 is merely the start of a story...
© Football is Fixed 2006-2012
Thursday 2 February 2012
A Perfect Storm
How Insider Gamblers Profited from the Deaths of the Welsh Miners
The reverse fixture of this weekend's match between West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City was fixed.
The Football is Fixed prediction of a seriously brand damaging scandal within the British game this year is coming to fruition nicely - not just with Redknapp/Mandaric, Portsmouth FC and Rangers FC but with the occurrence of both "a betting accident live on tv" and the inappropriate control over the selection of match officials as well.
As previously posted, the Premier League match between Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion also possessed both extremely suspicious micro and macro betting patterns to the benefit of two firms of bookmakers associated with one club or its representatives, together with a performance by certain players on the pitch that, at the very least, unwittingly aided the landing of a colossal co-ordinated global gamble on the match.
The match was allegedly fixed by insiders for millions of pounds of proprietary profit.
Additionally, West Bromwich Albion have a relationship with one referee, Jonathan Moss, which is problematical twice over - his 'tilt' in decisions in favour of WBA and the number of occasions that WBA are able to secure his services for their matches.
We are dealing with the Stoke versus West Bromwich game in a more taxing place and so, for the purposes of this post, we wish to focus on the mechanisms whereby control of the selection of match officials might be utilised to corrupt match outcomes for private gain...
... and we wish to focus on the match this Saturday between West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City.
The public data available on a significant percentage of the PGMOB Select Group of referees is disturbing.
The private data is criminally significant.
In recent posts we have highlighted the Peter Walton/ Manchester United issue, the Mike Dean/Chelsea one, the Jonathan Moss/ West Brom one, the role of certain interested parties in placing Kipper Riley in control of the PGMOB, links between owners and referees, the three referees (one since demoted) involved in a match fixing ring involving some of the same parties involved in our main narrative, and, most disturbingly, occurrences of the above also involving bookmakers.
All of the above individuals (including those whose presence is only intimated) are upstanding pillars of a system...
... and any peculiar combination of information and knowledge that might cast doubt on their honesty, integrity, criminality is, surely, spurious.
But the data is exceptional.
The statistical likelihood, for example, of Peter Walton refereeing 22 matches involving the Manchester teams following the takeover of Man City by Shinawatra, and those games giving City no wins and United no defeats when the teams are of comparable stature is about as likely as winning the lottery.
And West Bromwich Albion have won all seven league matches refereed by Jonathan Moss.
In those games, he has given the Albion 4 penalties and three sendings off in favour with nothing for the opposition.
In his only appearance refereeing West Brom since being promoted to the Select Group in the summer, he gave them a penalty in a Carling Cup match against Everton that is being investigated by bodies policing match fixing (this match is particularly revealing as the gamble went wrong).
But, after next Saturday, out of 27 matches played by WBA this season, Mr Moss has been referee twice and 4th Official five times - 7 matches out of 27.
This too is exceptional data - only two appearances would be the norm.
Atmospherically there are further issues.
The West Bromwich Albion club agent is John Colquhoun and he has significant control over the activities of the Throstles - his client James Morrison taking over from his client Chris Brunt as captain during the latters' injury for example.
John Colquhoun has known Jonathan Moss for over twenty years since their time together as players at both Sunderland and Millwall (and, by the way, altering your Wikipedia site to disguise such contacts are not the actions of someone with nothing to hide, ### ####. Wikipedia maintain a historical record of all inputs!).
John Colquhoun is also, alongside his other careers, a professional gambler.
Now why does the PGMOB make the ridiculous claim that their selection of match officials is random?
Why are so many EPL realities outliers and Black Swans?
Corruption within the EPL hierarchy is endemic at many levels - one club owner has some/total control over 18 match officials past and present across Europe for instance.
We have been informed, off the record, that the EPL attempts 'white corruption' in games where rogue insider gambling is known to be taking place.
But, competitive corruption is a risk for all involved in a match fix and there will always be an incentive to eradicate such risk.
So let us take a look at the holistics of the match between West Brom and Swansea City on Saturday.
This is the first occasion this season that Jonathan Moss is refereeing a West Brom league game in the EPL (as opposed to standing next to Roy Hodgson on the touchline and communicating with the ref in his role as 4th Official).
The first meeting between the two teams was allegedly fixed.
We don't have full details on this particular match but we have been shown some betting activities of interest.
The match took place in the immediate aftermath of the death of the Welsh miners.
Swansea won the match 3-0 but it surely leaves a nasty taste in the mouth to think that certain insiders decided to profit out of a match held in commemoration of working class men dying while trying to earn a living down a privatised pit.
Anyway.
That is the sort of thing that antisocials do.
A major Asian broker described the match as a typical European three-for-three affair (where two teams share two victories over the season to maximise potential points within an extended cartel of clubs - one point for a draw not being deemed as useful obviously).
But wait...
... Saturday's match could be anything!
The cast is as follows: Colquhoun (club agent/pro gambler/ several West Brom players as clients), Moss (referee/ long history with Colquhoun/ an unconscious bias in favour of West Brom), two clubs exhibiting several inputs normally seen in a 3 for 3 duality, Bodog (offshore bookmakers/ West Brom shirt sponsors) and ### ###### (an offshore bookmaker with close links to Colquhoun).
Now, obviously, all these people do good things and pay their taxes and believe in integrity...
... but if they didn't, such a grouping could make the result on Saturday anything they wish.
Literally.
Obviously, one suspects a West Brom win if one reads the astrological signs but our only public prediction is this - the result of the match will be in the market prior to kick off and may be determined by both public pricing and by betting activities in the underground.
And that is a fix!
And, if people are slick, there are no paper trails.
Still fancy buying a ticket for the game?
The rapidly expanding wave of global consciousness about the extensive corruptions built into the very fabric of the free market model has produced a secondary impact - it is now beyond any doubt in the public eye that our beloved game has been bought off by bookmakers, insider bettors and global mafiosi involved in the fixing of football.
If capitalism is corrupt...
...then football is so and then some.
It is to the detriment of all involved in the administration of the British game that it is only HMR&C who are interested in taking on this systemic corruption in football. Only the Incomparable Michel Platini is similarly concerned for the future of the game.
Before we decided against being inside the loop of the British game, we met with numerous individuals in the UK and abroad.
Platini and Wenger aside, every other person was corrupt, very corrupt, turned a blind eye to corruption, slyly profited from corruption, accommodated corruption, eased the path of corruption or stayed blinkered to corruption while accepting the trickledown largesse of their criminal masters.
In most cases they boasted about it.
It was networking currency.
The HMR&C is an arm of state that, if not regressive, is justified.
If we must have a state then the relevant finances to sustain such entity need to be collected.
We may assure all concerned in match fixing in Britain that the HMR&C wants its slice of the action.
And the HMR&C are interested in the past as well as the present.
And if we are to regard postmodern football as a version of poker then A Royal Taxman beats A Squad of Crooks.
Wednesday 1 February 2012
A Done Deal
Firstly, if the money handed over to Harry Redknapp by Milan Mandaric was a gift then why did Mr Redknapp go to the trouble of secreting the cash away offshore in an account opened especially for the purpose and not utilised for any other transactions, and why did he not willingly declare the booty to the tax authorities?
If it was a gift, why not just put it into the current account?
Secondly, although gambling winnings are not enforceable under law and are not taxable, has Mr Redknapp ever disclosed his earnings from his extensive gambling activities to the HMR&C, particularly on events where his market access might be considered insider trading?
There have been recent discussions with lawyers over the legalities of making claims against individuals/ consortia who rig sporting markets for proprietary benefit.
Unsurprisingly, the range of potential claimants is large and is most certainly not simply restricted to traders, market makers and bettors.
Think television companies paying viewing rights, advertisers, teams abused by insiders, fans etc etc etc.
But it is a relief for all to hear Harry "To Be Honest" Redknapp state, once and for all, that "I've always paid my taxes" and we should offer heartfelt thanks that he utilised "the best accountants in the country" just so that he could pay extra tax on occasion due to his heightened levels of public-spiritedness.
Are you taking the fucking piss, pal?
Playing the Jolly Orange Giant wearing your comedy glasses might get a chuckle in court but this isn't funny, it's fraud.
You are accused of robbing the state not ripping off mug punters.
This is real in a way that your life rarely is...
25 years ago Lester Piggott got 3 years for avoiding paying tax on £3.25 million...
... pro-rata and taking account of inflation Redknapp should be out for the close of season.
"Before they open their mouths they're liars; they breathe lies" - Ahdaf Soueif.
If it was a gift, why not just put it into the current account?
Secondly, although gambling winnings are not enforceable under law and are not taxable, has Mr Redknapp ever disclosed his earnings from his extensive gambling activities to the HMR&C, particularly on events where his market access might be considered insider trading?
There have been recent discussions with lawyers over the legalities of making claims against individuals/ consortia who rig sporting markets for proprietary benefit.
Unsurprisingly, the range of potential claimants is large and is most certainly not simply restricted to traders, market makers and bettors.
Think television companies paying viewing rights, advertisers, teams abused by insiders, fans etc etc etc.
But it is a relief for all to hear Harry "To Be Honest" Redknapp state, once and for all, that "I've always paid my taxes" and we should offer heartfelt thanks that he utilised "the best accountants in the country" just so that he could pay extra tax on occasion due to his heightened levels of public-spiritedness.
Are you taking the fucking piss, pal?
Playing the Jolly Orange Giant wearing your comedy glasses might get a chuckle in court but this isn't funny, it's fraud.
You are accused of robbing the state not ripping off mug punters.
This is real in a way that your life rarely is...
25 years ago Lester Piggott got 3 years for avoiding paying tax on £3.25 million...
... pro-rata and taking account of inflation Redknapp should be out for the close of season.
"Before they open their mouths they're liars; they breathe lies" - Ahdaf Soueif.
Peter Walton is a Red Bastard
Last night Manchester City were denied two penalty shouts by Peter "Grandad" Walton.
So what? Referees are paid to make decisions.
But what is it that influences the decisions that Grandad makes?
In 21 matches refereeing Manchester United over eight seasons, the Reds have won 15, drawn 6 and lost 0.
In the same period, Walton has officiated 13 Manchester City games with only 3 ending in victory for the Citizens with 6 defeats.
But the last four years of refereeing from Mr Walton are even more revealing.
Manchester United 11 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats (15 matches 37 points)
Manchester City 0 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats (7 matches 3 points).
In 22 matches over four seasons, Man Utd have NEVER LOST with Walton in charge while City have NEVER WON.
Or take the last three seasons where the cumulative points difference between United and City is 27 points - fully 18 of these points are due to the supposedly unconscious biases of an old man.
It is this sort of thing that determines titles.
The fact that this knickpoint in performance by Walton coincides with the introduction of Shinawatra's stolen largesse leading onto the petro-dollars that made football in Manchester truly competitive is only a further point that requires a response from PGMOB/Walton.
Either this is just another collection of Incredible Flukes or the PGMOB and Peter Walton have some explaining to do over the bias, and it is a statistically significant bias, and over the reason the old bastard gets, on average, six games a season to 'favour' the Ferguson Reds.
Also, after United being presented with Chris Foy and Walton for the two post-crisis matches, Foy was once again 4th Official to a junior referee for the Stoke game last night .
This means, The Racism Derby aside, Ferguson has been given dominant referees of Foy (a false sending off and two penalty decisions), Walton (a penalty), Webb with five bookings of Arsenal players (remember Ryan Babel's tweet) and Foy again (two penalties) since Newcastle/Blackburn.
And so we have a Title Race...
... although it is more akin to a Handicap Hurdle with City carrying top weight.
Farcical!
Thank goodness Football isn't Fixed...
... It's Fucked.
NB There are a couple of cup matches in this list but for ease of argument in the time allowed, we totalise.
© Football is Fixed 2006-2012
So what? Referees are paid to make decisions.
But what is it that influences the decisions that Grandad makes?
In 21 matches refereeing Manchester United over eight seasons, the Reds have won 15, drawn 6 and lost 0.
In the same period, Walton has officiated 13 Manchester City games with only 3 ending in victory for the Citizens with 6 defeats.
But the last four years of refereeing from Mr Walton are even more revealing.
Manchester United 11 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats (15 matches 37 points)
Manchester City 0 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats (7 matches 3 points).
In 22 matches over four seasons, Man Utd have NEVER LOST with Walton in charge while City have NEVER WON.
Or take the last three seasons where the cumulative points difference between United and City is 27 points - fully 18 of these points are due to the supposedly unconscious biases of an old man.
It is this sort of thing that determines titles.
The fact that this knickpoint in performance by Walton coincides with the introduction of Shinawatra's stolen largesse leading onto the petro-dollars that made football in Manchester truly competitive is only a further point that requires a response from PGMOB/Walton.
Either this is just another collection of Incredible Flukes or the PGMOB and Peter Walton have some explaining to do over the bias, and it is a statistically significant bias, and over the reason the old bastard gets, on average, six games a season to 'favour' the Ferguson Reds.
Also, after United being presented with Chris Foy and Walton for the two post-crisis matches, Foy was once again 4th Official to a junior referee for the Stoke game last night .
This means, The Racism Derby aside, Ferguson has been given dominant referees of Foy (a false sending off and two penalty decisions), Walton (a penalty), Webb with five bookings of Arsenal players (remember Ryan Babel's tweet) and Foy again (two penalties) since Newcastle/Blackburn.
And so we have a Title Race...
... although it is more akin to a Handicap Hurdle with City carrying top weight.
Farcical!
Thank goodness Football isn't Fixed...
... It's Fucked.
NB There are a couple of cup matches in this list but for ease of argument in the time allowed, we totalise.
© Football is Fixed 2006-2012
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