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Κέρκυρα, 14.05.2012
11:06
The Last Post
» Football is fixed

After 2012 days of blogging and over 1100 posts, Football is Fixed is no more.

We have attempted to mix the personal, the political and the holistics of corruption in football and beyond.

Having taken on Hobbesian psychopathy in all forms for over five and a half years, it is time for new ventures.

Thanks to everyone who has played any part whatsoever in this process.

You'll miss us now we're gone.

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11:06
High Level Consultancy For Sale
» Football is fixed

Football is Fixed is a marketing tool for a global underground cellular grouping of individuals from throughout the football industry known as Dietrological - based on the Italian word dietrologia, the science of what is behind something.

In addition to the blog, we undertake High Level Consultancy Projects for a wide variety of clients and we additionally trade on a proprietary basis in the Asian markets.

This blog is the mere tip of our iceberg of extensive competitive advantage.

Our mission is twofold - to make a reasonably honest living and to confront the corruption that is demolishing the sport of football.

To this end, we are in a position to offer a High Level Consultancy for the 2012/13 season as we have decided to conclude a current arrangement (with a Serie A side) after two very successful years helping our clients achieve enhanced managerial and player sabermetrics, providing them with absolute real-time holistics on the industry, and developing defensive strategies to protect our clients against the rapaciousness of the Dark Pool betting markets and organised corruptions within football.

What We Offer

* Enhanced Betting Market Analyses (Ante-Post, Pre-Match and In-Running)
* Analyses of Dark Pool and Offshore Betting Inputs and Impact on Events
* Risk Management, Hedging Strategies and Creative Arbitrage
* Scenario Analyses
* Pattern Recognitions at Speed
* Analyses of Institutional and Structural Corruptions
* Psychological Profiling of Match Officials; Analyses of Inappropriate Performance Correlations
* Real-Time Input from Asian Underground Brokerages
* Monitoring and Assessment of Insider Trading Events
* Access to High Level Inside Information
* Holistic Overview Plus Micro Analyses of Global Betting Market Patterns
* Enhanced Transfer Market and Managerial Sabermetrics
* Absolute Isolationism
* Our Trading Strategies Average 40% Return On Investment
* Our Club Consultancies Inflate Seasonal Points Totalisations by a Minimum of Between 5 and 15 Points (Dependent on Club Status)

Who You Are

* You will be either a Primary Level Global Market Maker/ Bookmaker or an Upwardly Mobile Equivalent
* Or a Top Tier Club in a Major Territory Seeking Defensive Strategies over Corruptions against Your Interests

The Deal

* A One Year Fully Contracted High Level Consultancy to begin in August 2012
* Rate to be decided based on Extent of Contract; 50% upfront, 25% after 6 months and 25% after 9 months

The Small Print

We have worked with wide array of bodies historically including teams from the Premier League, Serie A, the Hellenic Super League, La Primera Liga, Romanian Liga 1, Regulatory Bodies, Hedge Funds, Top Tier Market Makers, Football Agents, Government Departments and Investment Boutiques.

Our strategies are defensive - we will have no involvement in enabling the fixing of matches, rather we will demonstrate tactics, analyses, outputs, market strategies and appropriate reactions to real-time external breakpoints to enable the most optimised performance within the regulations.

Our High Level Consultancies provide long-term competitive advantage. Our robust strategies may be used long after the arrangement between us is completed - we are at the Warren Buffett end of the continuum rather than the day-trading one!

Market Makers, Clubs and Agents who have unsuccessfully approached us in the past need not reapply.

To register, email us at footballisfixed02@googlemail.com, providing us with name/organisation, contact number(s) and an email contact.

The closing date for applications is at close of business on May 31st 2012.

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11:06
Fractal Football and Gizan Geysers
» Football is fixed

The Pyramids of Giza serve as a graphic to help describe a simple 3-D model of corruption in football

The power pyramid on the left represents agents, betting, mafia.
The power pyramid on the right represents the ruling bodies, the national associations, major leagues.
The power pyramid in the centre represents the territory where these two other pyramids mingle - the upper part of the central pyramid is the white market, the lower half is the grey market and the underground is the underground.

Any organisation, cartel, consortia, committee, institution, and any of their tentacles of operation may undertake quantised interactions with any other entity in either of the side pyramids. These equilibria exist at various layers in the central pyramid depending upon their degree of opacity. Clusters frequently develop but swiftly disperse due to a bounty of proprietary (and often antisocial) agendas.

When we delve into the dire, diabolical, desperate, difficult, dangerous, dodgy world of the underground, one might discover that the same equilibria repeatedly develop.

Betting dominates the left hand power pyramid - that is where all the various interests choose to coincide.
Committee poisons the right hand power pyramid.
Their combination is disastrous for football.

Because the brand is everything, we are presented with a truly Orwellian world where bodies like UEFA and the EPL undertake 'white corruption' to undermine more serious forms of 'grey/black corruption'.
For UEFA, an East European team backed by gun running in Transdniestria or a dodgy penalty to the crappy French team?
For EPL, allow a mass insider cornered market on a Premier League game or take actions to challenge that criminality?

Because the brands cannot be tainted, they play with our neohyperrealities.

In the good old days of fixed football in the 90's, every so often a game would come up that was fixed - Juventus v Piacenza, say, after Gianni Agnelli's death.
Nowadays, there are very few top flight European league matches that don't have several competing power bases all believing that they have control of the event.

Total Football.
Forget that...
... what we are dealing on here, girls and boys, is Total Poker.

A number of insiders around a virtual table with Dark Pool inputs and individual operators controlling their bids. Player A looks comfortable with a midfielder and some injury information, while Player B is hoping that the 4th Official might influence the referee, but Player C owns a team and the opposing goalie and is piling on the chips.

Under Blatter, the global game has deteriorated to this gambling spectacle we witness today, as he and his cronies stuff the booty in their bags and run for cover.

To their credit (limited in certain cases, very limited in others), UEFA and the Amazing Mr Platini, Interpol, HMR&C, some European bookmakers and, most critically in the world of the middle pyramid, some Asian market makers are attempting to dislodge rogue consortia from the game.
All but the most psychopathic understand that the time has come to rein in the corruption - the general public are in no mood to countenance being ripped off by crowds of addicted shysters.
The EPL has finally discovered that the psychopathic template has its limitations
The system is not accepting further destabilisation.

This might not clean the game up in the medium term but at least we will have a classier form of fix!

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Κέρκυρα, 13.05.2012
20:03
The End of Manchester United As We Know It - A Flashback
» Football is fixed

A Post from January 5th 2012...
... before all the seriously organised sporting crime.
___________________________________________________________________________________

On the 23rd of October 2011, an idea for an app came to mind...
... the number nineteen on a red background would slowly morph into 1-6 on a sky blue background.

Less than a fortnight later and Steve Bruce and Wes Brown were needed to ensure that Sir Ferguson's 25th anniversary was marketed correctly.
The naming of the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand on that very date was the ultimate sell sign.

Manchester United are in terminal decline - there are no redeeming aspects.
Like Chelsea post-Mourinho, the fade from glory will see the occasional triumph but the days of dominance will fade into the mists of universal time.

Unable to get more than three draws against the might of Basel and Benfica, the financial cost of failing to reach the second phase of the Champions League is colossal.
Even more so when oodles of cash are needed to fund the interest payments on the leveraged buyout enacted by the Glazers in their medium term strategy of asset stripping par excellence, while grabbing some financial action themselves.

And the internal psychology of the club is in decline too.
Insider trading from within Manchester United accompanied both of their Champions League Final defeats to Barcelona (hardly an indication of a robust structure). United were not even competitive in either of these events.

Massive insider trading against United was also undertaken prior to the two most recent defeats against Blackburn (bottom of the table) and Newcastle (five points from 8 games prior to Man U). Very serious money indeed was traded against the mighty reds in both games.
You could get 30/1 on Blackburn winning!!!

The holistic is dire - Ferguson announcing three more years (and the timing) is a strategic weakness, the battling with an already declining Rooney is counter-productive, while chatting with Asian bookmakers is surely not what one should expect from a knight of the monarchy.

There is no waiting list for season tickets, and tickets are available for virtually all home games, the power structures behind Liverpool, Sunderland, Newcastle, Chelsea, Tottenham, Villa, Manchester City (especially) and even Stoke are more robust (only Arsenal are similarly self-harming), Ronaldo and Tevez haven't been replaced and there is no money available for anything other than low/mid tier transfers.
Worse still, the 'acclaimed' next wave of youth is not looking quite so promising anymore - they are certainly not Giggs, Scholes, the Nevilles and Beckham anyway.

And even worse still, the available squad in their current state of injuries, form and mind are simply not up to it.

De Gea is not der Sar.
Lindegaard's mentor is Roy Carroll to the delight of the laying community. Hence the media campaign against De Gea.

United don't have a right back, Jones is an incredibly amusing blundering buffoon - it is a little like watching Tommy Cooper on wiz as his three own goals this season outscore his one goal at the right end in his entire club career.
Ferdinand must have a good agent because he crossed the white finishing line a decade ago.
Vidic is out for an eternity and Smalling is injured. Evans is poor and only Evra is up to scratch in the defence.

Nani is not the player of last year, Fletcher is probably not going to play again, Giggs cannot juggle his sex life and the football for much longer, Carrick is useless, Gibson and Valencia haven't evolved and Anderson frustrates. Park is okay though.

Berbatov is a dodgy smoker, Rooney a loose cannon, the Little Pea has been podded and has lost some pace to boot, while Michael Owen has a Timeform squiggle next to his name.
So Welbeck is the only forward.

In comparison, City are stable.
Their owners have a long term strategy and are self-financing, so no payments to financial institutions.
City fit into the array of businesses that the Abu Dhabi Chaebol are assembling.
The psychology is positive. The sky is the limit. The best young kids are veering to City.
Tevez hasn't been missed and can be replaced by anyone they want as Champions League is no longer a distraction.

I was at Newcastle for Manchester City's 4-3 victory that gave the Sky Blues the title in 1968 - United imploded on the same day at home to Sunderland.
So it seems apt that City fans can start celebrating the next title on the night that United yet again imploded against a north eastern team.
And 44 years and 2 days on, City will be handed the EPL trophy as United no doubt implode once again against Sunderland on May 13th.

Knowing when to stop is the mark of a man.
Sir Ferguson is going on three years too far...
... for his legacy and for the club.

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20:03
Seriously Organised Crime Doesn't Always Pay
» Football is fixed

The Asian Sheikh defeats the King of the Premier League Underworld.

Proper Football backed by Petrodollars defeats the Insider Trading, Match Rigging, Referee Controlling, Transfer Fixing, Third Party ######, Money ##########, Masonic #########, Hyperreality Distorting, Horserace ######, Asian Bookmaker Befriending, Cyclical Cheating Knight of the Realm.

A Union Man...
... and All those Millions Stashed at Goldman Sachs Too.

Ferguson's desperate attempts to turn the English Premier League into the Ukrainian Premier League have failed beautifully.

For all our input aiding City to the title...
... we demand our Championship medal!!

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08:54
Sir Alex Ferguson - Bringing the Game into Disrepute
» Football is fixed

When we produced our series of blog posts entitled "What an Incredible Fluke", we were demonstrating that you don't have to make libellous comment to expose the corruptions within the English Premier League.

We particularly focused on the distortions in the EPL Title Race.

PGMOB Referees Webb, Foy, Marriner, Jones and Mason have exhibited a statistically significant but obviously unconscious bias in favour of Manchester United in their careers.

So shall we take a look at the selection of referees over the last few rounds of the handicap race?
Oh yes we shall...

Manchester United

Sunderland (Webb)
Swansea (Foy)
Man City (Marriner)
Everton (Jones)

Manchester City

QPR (Dean)
Newcastle (Webb)
Man Utd (Marriner)
Wolves (Mason - changed after pressure from Eastlands)
Norwich (Foy)

Dean excepted, spot any pattern?

But lets go further back on United 'matches'.

Prior to Aston Villa and Wigan, QPR (Mason), Blackburn (Webb), Fulham (Webb 4th Official to junior referee), Wolves (Webb 4th Official to junior referee), West Brom (Foy 4th Official to junior referee) - if you are a low level official making your way in the world, having PC Webb or PC Foy shouting into your ear most certainly has an influence on decisions!

In 9 of the last 11 matches of the season, United have had an official with historical bias in their favour controlling the decision-making!

In that the season began with 19 PGMOB officials, we would have to ask...
... Why?

And why has Foy got Stoke v Bolton today - the match that Bolton must win to keep QPR keen?

And why did the now-retired Peter Walton, in his last 22 matches officiating either City or United, produce NO City wins and NO United defeats?

If this was Russia, we would call it corruption.
If it was Italy, we would call it the mafia.

But it is England so it must be the Premier League Establishment!

Football is Fixed - the Arbitrageurs of the Neohyperrealities of Postmodern Football.

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08:32
Dark Pools Produce Black Swans, Black Pools Produce Black Holes (A Flashback Post)
» Football is fixed

...And Other Aesthetic Fetishisms Of The Hyperlate Capitalist Disorder

Incipit parodia...

There is a Russian saying - another's soul is a dark pool...

The infrastructure of financial markets is an inverted underground pyramid, which would seem apt for such a pernicious Ponzi scheme.

Firstly, we are presented with the public markets with their tenuous links to Reality but then there are the Dark Pools and, most importantly, deeper still the even Darker Pools (Black Pools?).

All investment banks operate their own proprietary Dark Pool out of sight of regulatory bodies and non-insider traders.

This is dodgy enough.

But these separate pools then conglomerate and trade off one another in even Darker Pools which effectively are the High Stakes Poker Tables that determine every hyperreality.

And who can blame an antisocial corporate body for behaving in such a psychopathic manner?

Would one rather place one's trade secretly and anonymously in non-regulated underground markets and earn the kudos of the brokerage (plus rewards) while gaming the release of this information to the public markets OR would one prefer going to the public markets, dealing with the Commitment of Traders Reports etc with the associated risks of all sorts of upsets from the loss of input price to getting cornered?

Before moving to a more specific evaluation of Dark Pools, Black Pools and Black Swans, let us focus for a moment on three aspects of the ongoing Depression - Quantitative Easing (QE), the banks and outsourcing.

QE has only been successful in blowing an equity bubble.
There is no credit growth in the remainder of the economy.
Effectively, the investment bankers have been betting on a certainty utilising our money as their trading bank, having lost their cash and assets in a previous gamble gone wrong.
There is no investment in the 'real' economy because these people understand that it is fucked.
Meanwhile all of our existences go to pot.

As Noam Chomsky says, we are dealing with "cognitive regulatory capture" by the banks, shadow markets and exchanges.

The Economist: "My main worry is that central banks are repeating the same mistake they have made for the last 25 years. They have intervened to support asset prices by cutting rates whenever markets faltered. This encouraged speculators to borrow money to buy assets, inflating one bubble after another. QE is just the logical endpoint of this process where central banks are cutting out the middleman and buying assets directly.
In the long run, however, asset values are constrained by the growth rate of the economy. Any attempt to maintain them artificially will either end in failure or will be successful only by inflating other prices until they come in line."

Phillip Stevens: "There are a couple of things to say about Britain's banks. They still pose a serious threat to the nation's long term stability and prosperity. They rely for their profits - for the huge bonuses paid to senior staff - on the fact that taxpayers are underwriting the risks. Thus public subsidy is turned into private profit."

Additionally, the competitive nature of neoliberal banking causes structural deficiencies on the road to anti-competitive monopolies or, if we are lucky, duopolies or cartels.

In Australia, meanwhile, the Big Four Banks are forbidden by bipartisan agreement to take each other over.
John Grimond: "That meant they [the banks] had no incentive to pump up their share price or earnings through dealing in dubious products."

But Oz is progressive in both taxation and welfare, at the opposite end of the continuum from the psychoregressive HyperImperium.

And it is the HyperImperium and its client states that are seeing the first serious contraction in the broad money supply in modern times.

Psychopathic short-termism pervades all aspects of this system.

Take outsourcing...

The fundamental stupidity of the globalising firms utilising outsourcing, offshoring and other psycho-fads was that by removing skilled employees, supply bases and infrastructure, distribution networks and sourcing plants from their home country, they had absolutely nothing to return to once the inevitable wage inflation took off in the outsourced territories.
They destroyed, in an act of selfish greed, in order to optimise short term returns to their shareholders.
Strategic this was not.

Through leaving externalities out of their system, the Friedmanists produce successions of Black Swan events, statistically unlikely eruptions in the system caused by chaos and stuff.

Naseem Taleb sums up the current financial crisis even if the imbecility of his concept of Anti-Fragility is just another ruse to continue with a system that has nowhere left to turn.
Super-systemic risk out-quantums evolutionary shock absorption any day of the week.

The current crisis has three causes:
a) an increase in hidden risk and exposure to low probability events (Black Swans). Too much debt was taken on and debt forces one to be very accurate in one's forecasts as a small error leads to ruin.
b) there were asymmetric incentives allowing traders to bet against the probability of events with other people's money leading to lots of rich traders and lots of poor investors.
c) There was a misunderstanding of the tail risks fostered by 'theories' such as Value at Risk which Taleb describes as "the biggest charlatanism in intellectual history" - What? Even bigger than Hayek. Having such models is worse than having no models at all.

His within-system solution is to have maluses as well as bonuses to prevent traders and executives gaming the system.

A deconstruction of the entire farcical edifice would, of course be, preferable.

But let us return to the pre-hypothesis of Anti-Fragility.

Being human, all of our market constructs share structural similarities - currency markets, the insurance industry, options and futures, bookmaking - effectively a hierarchy of psychopathic matrices that only vary to the degree that they are willing to sell their own grandmother.

Taleb's attempt at deep thought is simply myopic.
For sure, all systems are in a state of constant flux and benefit from the shocks and new templates that roller-coaster along their evolutionary paths.
Such equilibrium states are a conglomeration of these instabilities.
But this does not justify pushing aspects like man-made climate change to the limits as there is another level to evolutionary progress - a quantum one.

For the sake of the argument, look at football betting markets in-running.
As the action unfolds in front of our eyes and the roles of the participants become clear, the state of equilibrium is repeatedly disturbed by micro-events on the field of play.
As these motivational and manipulated inputs progress, there is a build up to a completely different quantum reality - the change from a 0-0 scoreline to 1-0.
Once the goal has been scored, the anti-fragility continues but at an entirely new level.

So it is with climate change - Taleb needs to get holistically Real!

Living in a world of state-based economic systems, it should not be surprising that statist structures mimic the Dark Pool/Black Pool template.
For example, Jean Claude Juncker (Chair of the Euro Group of Finance Ministers) has spoken of the need for "secret, dark debates in economic policy making."

Ah! Democracy...

Jack Rasmus: "On June 1, stock markets in New York and around the world declined in levels not seen since last summer 2010. Days and weeks immediately ahead will likely register even further significant market declines, as the obvious becomes increasingly evident: the U.S. and other major global economies are once again on the cusp of a significant slowdown."

The double-dip Cassiopeia-shaped Depression is alive and well with even Barclays Capital pondering that "Malthus may turn out to be right, but with broader implications than he may have imagined."

The degree of simulation is surreal - we are experiencing "the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal" according to Baudrillard.
In 'The Perfect Crime' he goes further...
"The only suspense that remains is that of knowing how far the world can derealise itself before succumbing to its reality deficit or, conversely, how far it can hyperrealise itself before succumbing to an excess of reality (the point when, having become perfectly real, truer than true, it will fall into the clutches of total simulation)."

Meanwhile Slavoj Žižek foresees a time when "money will finally become a purely virtual form of reference, no longer materialised in any particular object."

The Hegelian concept is to progress from the green immediacy of life to its great conceptual structure allowing us to mature without losing the origin.

Free market capitalism, in its psychopathic short-termist greed, has lost this plot big style...

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08:28
Manipulated Markets
» Football is fixed

All financial markets are gamed by insiders seeking cornered structures, collaborative manipulations and inappropriate competitive advantages.

The surprising factor is that human behaviouralism results in exactly the same corrupt edifices being constructed across the market continuum - Goldman Sachs betting against disinformational advice sold to clients, banks working together to manipulate the LIBOR (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate), football agents working to inflate the values of their clients, bookmakers working in unison to achieve the required outcomes in criminalised football matches...

The parallel simplicities of these corruptions are marked - due to minimal external enforcement of the rules and laws in existence, the perpetrators do not have to put much effort into covering their murky tracks.
So they don't.

In this post, we explore these parallels and the issues arising.

The Economist: "It [the LIBOR] is supposed to be constructed using banks' own honest estimates of what it costs for them to borrow money. But regulators around the world suspect that LIBOR... has been subject to manipulation."
Banks' individual borrowing costs prove to be remarkably similar considering their varied levels of risk.
The Economist continues: "The court documents suggest that a group of traders regularly contacted one another to discuss how to influence the Yen LIBOR rate."

And so it is with football betting markets and the player transfer markets.

Primary level betting organisations, taking their cue from the highly liquid underground Dark Pools that are the foundation of postmodern football, co-ordinate match prices between themselves to optimise returns from the event.
This disguises the hyperreality of corruption from the public eye.

Take a fixed match that is regarded by insiders as a certainty but the information leading to this outcome is not open source.
Market makers will price the event based on an array of inputs that maximises their combined returns - if one firm were to suggest that Team A should be priced at 1/100, the market would be destroyed.

This collaboration between the market makers works along competitive pricing in the micro ie the bookmakers want to rip off mugs primarily but their competitor firms secondarily and strategically.

Or take the transfer market.
Agents, club agents and club managers hold a series of private meetings whereby the value of a player is assessed.
But this 'value' is not real - it is an inflation on price to the benefit of the various agents and the club manager(s) involved in the deal.

Once again, football on the whole loses out so that insiders might take a much larger slice of the action via their percentage cuts and the variety of brown envelopes and briefcases changing hands.

The Economist prints the case filing on the LIBOR manipulation where one trader from a whistleblowing bank (Trader A) helps to manipulate the market with a Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) insider: "Trader A explained to one RBS IRD trader who his collusive contacts were and how he had and was going to manipulate Yen LIBOR. Trader A also communicated his trading positions, his desire for a certain movement in Yen LIBOR and gave instructions for the RBS IRD trader to get RBS to make Yen LIBOR submissions consistent with Trader A's wishes. The RBS IRD trader acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Trader A and the RBS IRD trader also entered into transactions that aligned their trading interests in regards to Yen LIBOR."

Or...

Bookmaker A explained to Bookmaker B who his collusive contacts (bookmakers, players, agents, referees) were and how he was going to manipulate the match outcome. Bookmaker A also transmitted his trading positions, his desire for a certain result and gave instructions for Bookmaker B to get his organisation to use its contacts to enhance the match manipulation. Bookmaker B acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Bookmaker A and Bookmaker B also entered into transactions that aligned their trading interests in regards to the match outcome.

Or...

Agent A explained to Manager B who his collusive contacts (other agents, club agents, managers) were and how he was going to manipulate the transfer fee. Agent A also transmitted his player valuations, his desire for a certain minimum transfer fee and gave instructions to Manager B to use his contacts to inflate the price. Manager B acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Agent A, Manager B and other interested parties also entered into transactions that aligned their financial interests in regards to the inflated transfer fee.

All of which is illegal, although in football that matters little as there is no regulation and being bent is a core competency.

But this is short-termist and psychopathic.

Civil cases may be brought against the perpetrators.
* Large individual cases might be brought by either other bookmaking organisations or the club owners with respect to betting and transfer corruptions.
* Traders on the wrong side of manipulated bets or club employees suffering the consequences might bring class action suits.
* Traders whose winnings are limited or clubs who lose out on future transfer fees might also have a case if intent can be proved.
* Individual bettors can group together to create class action suits to reclaim losses on events manipulated by insiders.

The similarities in the forms of financial market manipulation is enhanced in a wired world where mass behaviouralisms become global consciousness 'wisdoms' at a pace while the individual manipulators believe that their omnipotence places them ahead of the curve.

When actually there is no robustness whatsoever in such rubbish in/rubbish out corruptions.
Just a symbiotic relationship between market makers and crime.

Still...
The criminals who manipulate financial, betting and transfer markets utilising the same tactics...
... some of them are even the same individuals/organisations.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 12.05.2012
09:11
Four Corrupt Consortia Sitting On The Fence
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Four Corrupt Consortia Sitting on the Fence
Four Corrupt Consortia Betting with some Pence
But if One Corrupt Consortium should suddenly see Sense
Billy Ng goes Home and the Huns are getting Tense.

Three Corrupt Consortia Sitting on the Fence
Three Corrupt Consortia Seeking Recompense
But if One Corrupt Consortium should do Due Diligence
Billy Miller goes Home and the Huns get more Tense.

Two Corrupt Consortia Sitting on the Fence
Two Corrupt Consortia - Asset Stripping Men
But if One Blue Knight Consortium should fall at the Final Fence
There'll only be one Saviour to stop Liquidation.

One Corrupt Consortium Sitting on the Fence
One Corrupt Consortium full of Craig Whyte's Men
But when Creditors pull the plug on the Duff Phelps Regimen
The Newco New Reality will be Clachnacuddin.

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08:52
In The Lap of the Big Bang - A Post from 2008
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Why Free Market Capitalism Cannot Work; Why It Is Pointless To Reform Something That Cannot Work; Why Nobody Believes In Free Markets Anymore Although We Want To Maintain Appearances; Why It Is Time For A New Equilibrium State

Fractally speaking, all of our existences are to be determined to a major extent by the Physics of the Big Bang.
For financial economists, this is a pretty large externality to have left out of your risk assessments!
And, yet, that is exactly how flimsy is the intellectual rigour underpinning Friedman, Hayek and the Chicago School so mighty in ObamaWorld.
Of course, all other externalities are stripped out of the pricing system too, in order that psychopathic growth may be achieved despite the production of Real Super-Systemic Risk.

Carcinogenic Capitalism.

Occurrences that have already happened, some in the dim and distant past, are affecting the dynamics, trends and movements in the financial markets today.

Behaviouralism and Darwinism are primary drivers of the financial markets and yet such structures as 'Moral Hazard' (where market operators take excessive risk safe in the knowledge that there is no personal downside to such risk) were built into the very fabric of the free market model.

None of this Fractal Mathematics, Psychology of Finance or Behaviouralism has been utilised by regulators, government or the financial system despite such knowledge having been freely available for half a century - Mandelbrot, Kahneman and Tversky published in the early sixties.

Benoît Mandelbrot: "Financial economics, as a discipline, is where Chemistry was in the 16th century: a messy compendium of proven know-how, misty folk wisdom, and unexamined assumptions and grandiose speculation."

Through the provision of a psychopathic regulation-lite template where individuals were rewarded for public displays of their psychopathy in action, we should hardly express surprise that the elevation of such antisocials up the economic, financial and political ladders has produced systemic psychopathy in the atmosphere of the system.
Short-termism leads to a lack of strategy which increases risk.
Refusal to accommodate externalities produces feedback loops that also engender systemic and super-systemic risk.

And while these characters were filling their pockets while we were all still focused on all that smoke and all those mirrors, they were basing their illusion on prehistoric 'science'.

Neo-classical economics is pre-Galilean in its simplicity. Multi-disciplinary it is not!
Then there are the chartists and the technical analysts, believing in their candlesticks and their head-and-shoulder formations, all blinkered to any Holistic Reality but following the same data, the same prices, the same (dis)information, plotting the same lines on the same charts utilising the same off-the-shelf software which, if it were of any Real value, would be being used in a proprietary trading environment for isolationist profit. Actually...
Then came the Idiot Physicists - Econophysicists - to spread disaster far and wide.
Holistically challenged, this new breed of trader possessed all the professional inadequacies of their predecessors but with a new twist - black boxes.
Algorithmic analysis has grown exponentially in the last decade.
Curiously enough, this neatly coincides with the onset of the Permanent Depression which, as we all know, began in 1997, or thereabouts.
Black boxes are perfect for shenanigans.
You feed in the inputs.
You train your black box to recognise patterns in this data.
You mock trade the black box.
You build the black box into your overall trading portfolio.
And cybernetics works, to an extent, but not if any econophysicists are involved it doesn't!

It is all dependent on the quality of the inputs.
There are many additional issues with relying solely on black box technologies for trading including different pattern relevance in different market phases and the impacts of Black Swans, for example.

The key charges laid on the Chicago doormat are damning in their veracity - archaic theory, non-multidisciplinary, no Real risk assessment, unsustainability as a core competency, belief in 'magic' technologies, an absence of any atmospheric analysis and engendering super-systemic catastrophe scenarios.
Meanwhile, our Chicago Economist In Chief, Barack Hussein Obama Himself, doesn't understand the basic concept of the price-earnings ratio, thinking it is termed the 'profit-earnings ratio' in a Friedmanian Slip.
This cannot be a good thing.

Before entirely deconstructing this nonsense, we need to take a closer look at the Real reasons why such a system can NEVER work.
Gosh! This is pretty exciting for a Monday morning, I can tell you :)

On October 19th 1987, Wall Street fell by 29.2% in the biggest daily decline in a century.
The probability of Wall Street falling this amount is 10 to the power of 50.
Mandelbrot: "You could span the powers of 10 from the smallest sub-atomic particle to the breadth of the measurable universe - and still never meet such a number."

Free market capitalism underprices risk.
In fact, it frequently excludes risk from the equation entirely.
The outcome of this blinkered approach to all of our Realities is that, in the words of Mandelbrot: "The odds of financial ruin in a free, global market economy have been grossly underestimated."

October 19th 1987 simply should not have occurred.
The 2008 Crash should never have happened either.
But they did and such Black Swans will continue to blight this myopic system until it is nicely deconstructed and put away in its box, under the bed.

Fractal Mathematics are the key here, obviously.
Butterflies flutter and hurricanes hit mainly Black areas, only to be ignored as an Unreality by government.
Decisions are made, systems developed, regulations changed, globalisation created, insider trading enacted, markets are cornered, monopolies allowed, cartels fragment, the state gets involved, new financial markets are established, private markets and Dark Pools established etc etc etc. Each of these quantums of influence set in process the fractal future.
Every single quantum Reality impacts on the future market price.

Behaviouralism cuts across all these feedback loops as a further fractal input.
As Slavoj Žižek states: "The problem is today when you have chaos or disorder, people lose their cognitive mapping."
Chaos reigns.

Take volatility.
There were more daily swings of 5% or more in the FTSE 100 in November 2008 than in total since the Second World War.
Were the market hyperrealities really more volatile in November or was Mass Psychology at play?
All fundamental, systemic, regulatory and cybernetic fractals are massively disordered by the impact of the Behavioural.
Although listed under their sub-sections of Gestalt or Psychoanalysis or whatever, there is a Darwinian dynamic to the manner in which markets evolve.
This, of course, brings us back to the 'animal spirits - psychopathy' doublespeak.

And this is why super-systemic risk is being so massively underpriced in the financial system.
While all of the free market ideologues and their apologists in the seats of power are shuffling the papers, printing the money, pretending that there is another boom-and-bust possibility in this game yet (which, unfortunately, there probably is) and extending this pretence to the territory of carbon markets and cap and trade schemes, each fundamentally flawed fractally in their Ponzi capitalism, there are super-systemic fractals that might just be worthy of closer inspection.
And not just by climate change scientists either...

Fractals are the most worrying aspect of the whole array of worrying factors that make up the subject of climate change.
If fractals can do 10 to the power of 50 with financial markets when destabilisation takes hold, imagine what fractals could achieve in an eco-system that is no longer in a sustainable equilibrium state!

Mandelbrot: "The two poles of human experience - deterministic systems of order and planning and the stochastic or random systems of irregularity and unpredictability."
The latter of these poles dominate the analysis today both in financial markets and in climate change.
Better frame the argument around the issue of bankers and their bonuses then...

Jean Baudrillard: "These systems, even when they are based on radical indeterminacy (the loss of meanings), fall prey, once more, to meaning. They collapse under the weight of their own monstrosity."

Andrew Haldane describes the inability to judge risk as "disaster myopia" - a lack of awareness of the network externalities in combination with misaligned incentives.
But this is merely the first layer of "disaster myopia".
The feedback loops, the fractals, the super-systemic risk, the quantuming between different equilibrium states would combine in a second layer - more "catastrophe myopia" really...

If free market snake-oil salespeople included the primary and secondary levels of externality in their pricing system, the entire edifice comes crumbling down under the weight of its own "monstrosity", a monstrosity based on inconsequence of intellectual input to the issue at hand.
There is no growth once externalities are built into the equation.
Once one takes the holistics into account, the trickledown effect, already entirely illusory, becomes, instead, a Cinderella-fantastic fairy tale of a neohyperreality.

There is no such entity as a sustainable Ponzi scheme.
And the weight of monstrosity is the gravity.
Every free market capitalist infrastructure is Pure Ponzi - from Albanian peasants to credit default swaps.

And, because the people who have been receiving excessive bonuses for the last quarter of a century made the selfish decisions that they did, even to the detriment of their own lines of offspring (psychopathy again), we are now in what Sun Tzu might have called the Worst Variety of Ground.
The fractals yet to be unleashed, the toxicity still to surface, the mass delusions and engendered mass psychologies yet to spiral out of rationality, will all come to fruition against the backdrop of a super-systemic lack of stable equilibrium.

So, a 'system' that produces negative growth if the externalities are included, produces this deficiency of utility on a foundation that spontaneously combusts repeatedly and fractally due to historical indiscretions.

These foundational externalities have been magnified by the Greed of the Great and the Good of the last centennial quartile.
They tell us that tax doesn't have to be taxing which, in self-application, would suggest that the Great and the Good would be more than willing to return all of their ill-gotten gains so that we all might start to implement a sustainable strategy that just might provide us with the remote feasibility of halting man-made climatic change.

Free market sorts, when still willing to defend their myths, frame their discussions around new regulation and innovation and growth and other words that have no directly Real meanings in our lives.
Free market sorts are enacting massive systemic ructions on the global financial architecture without any methodology or strategy whatsoever.
Big Butterflies produce Huge Hurricanes.
But their big thinking always stops short of being out-of-the-box; big ideas exist within the walled gardens of their illusory system.

We don't need tinkering.
We need deconstruction, thank you very much.
And sustainable negative growth, economic contraction, stopping breeding, the promotion of instincts for freedom, those sort of things...

But, in the meantime, to keep your pecker up, why not wander out into the spring sunshine and anarcho-happy-slap a banker today...

Arghhhh!!! The minutiae! Don't get wrapped up in the minutiae...

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08:49
Bookmakers Take Over England Team
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A Scotsman and a Dutchman react to the news that Roy Hodgson is the new England manager

As England have decided to continue to fail miserably with the appointment of Roy Hodgson, we have decided to bring up this post (originally blogged on April 8th this year).

To compare...

Fabio Capello managed Juventus, Roma, Real Madrid, AC Milan and England. In that time he has won 7 Serie A titles, 2 La Primera Liga titles, 4 Supercoppa Italiano titles, 1 European Super Cup and 1 UEFA Champions League title. In 603 matches as a manager, Capello has lost just 89 - he has only lost 25 matches in the last decade.

The only consequential tournament won by Hodgson in the last 23 years is the Danish Superliga in 2000/01.

You were warned...
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So Roy Hodgson wants the England job: "I could quite easily say there should be a clause in the [West Brom] contract that, if someone else wants me, compensation can be agreed."

This is not a good idea for England...
... it is only marginally better than appointing 'Onest 'Arry to the post.

When you appoint Hodgson, you get John Colquhoun too - Colquhoun has been the club agent to Hodgson at Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion.

Colquhoun has been in this position once before when he was agent for Steve McClaren when the talentless one was manager of England.

Players represented by Colquhoun were shamelessly promoted onto the international stage - there were matches, for example, where all three goalkeepers in the squad were on the books of Colquhoun (David James, Chris Kirkland and Scott Carson) - whether this was a good idea when Mr Colquhoun is a professional gambler is a moot point.

England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 through a mistake by Carson under the watchful gaze of Wally Brolly Man. But the real idiocy preventing qualification came in the arrangement of a friendly match in Austria just four days earlier. This was needless and tiring although it did provide one benefit - Michael Owen, the man with the Timeform Squiggle, was injured and missed the Croatia farce.

Bookmakers close to the Colquhoun Set Up were trading on a draw at Wembley. The Three Lions only needed a draw to qualify and there was huge patriotic mug money on the England win.
Playing with the markets cost England a place in the finals.

And Colquhoun is Scottish! He already has a similar arrangement with Craig Levein, the Scottish manager, resulting in the promotion of more of his clients onto the international stage - for example, James Morrison.

Stuart Pearce might have his managerial limitations but he is not corrupt...
... and in a world where Football is Fixed, that is as much as one can expect of your manager.

But...
One England squad, three goalkeepers on Key Sports' books, one manager on Key Sports' books and an agent with a propensity for insider trading...

What a weird fluke!

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08:40
Reality Is Big And Getting Bigger, Faster
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Kairos.

Reality.

The Mother of All Big Bangs.

An Omniverse of Singular Universes.

A Universe.
Infinitessimal Energy producing Matter in a Vacuum.
Massless.
Matter and Antimatter Primordial Symmetry.
The Higgs Field - Spontaneous Assymetry.
Cosmic Microwave Background.
Dark Matter.
Inflation.
Galactic Formation. A Supermassive Black Hole.
Occasionally A Quasar. Probabilistically Not.
A Star. A White Dwarf.
A Stellar Explosion, Supernova, Black Hole.
A Singularity.

A Coda.

A Singularity.
Rebirth.
A Big Bang.

A New Universe.

Universal Cascade to a Multiverse.

Parallel Universes.

Gravity.
Tipping Point.
Dark Energy.

A Big Crunch.
A Super Singularity.

A Super Coda.

A Super Singularity.
Rebirth.
A Super Bang.

A New Multiversal Super Cascade.

Eternal Inflation...

Chain Reactions.
Fractal Scaling.

No Need for Niche Abstraction...
... Evolving towards Unified.

At the 4th Level of the Multiverses.
Multiversal Consciousness.
Simulacra.
In Parallel.
Quantum In and Out of Effect.
Universality. Multiversality.

"The Simulacrum is never what hides the Truth - it is Truth that hides the fact that there is None. The Simulacrum is True" - Ecclesiastes.

Cosmology, Supersymmetry, Eternal Inflation, Quantum Mechanics under the 4th Level of the Multiverses.

Multiversal Ripples between Universes.
Interference Phenomena between Universes.
Quantum Computing between Universes.
Information Flow.
Knowledge Flow.

The Multiverses are a Continuum.

Omniversal Reality.
Omniversal Laws of Physics and Abstraction in Holistic Harmony.
Omniversal Consciousness.
Omniversality.

A Pandora's Box.
A Hall of Mirrors.
A Compendium of Games.

Harmonics.

Cyclical Entanglement.

16 (Not 17) Fundamental Particles in the Standard Model?
With the Higgs Boson from a Fifth Dimension Where Gravity Mainly Resides?

String Theory?

Time?

Space-Time.

Emergence, Coherence, Elegance, Simplicity, Creativity, Beauty.

Evolutionary Epistemology.

Metamorphosis.

Matriarchal.

Rebirth.

"The Evolution of Human Knowledge is the Evolution of the World's Self-Revelation" - Hegel.

in profectus

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Κέρκυρα, 11.05.2012
14:01
Power and Corruption
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Monitoring the evidence being given by Rebekah Brooks to the Leveson Inquiry is more than entertaining...
... the collusion in corruption between power and insiders is evident.

In the dim and distant past nearly two decades ago, I undertook a Ph.D in Economics - the title of my thesis was "The Impact of Conspicuous Money on Outcomes in British Horseracing Betting Markets".

In this thesis (which was sold on to a bookmaker as a High Level Consultancy), it was demonstrated that the results of horseraces were highly dependent on the money flows in the betting markets - off-course, in the ring and on the rails ie insiders rigged many many races.

Certain trainers and jockeys featured very prominently in the primary listing of suspect races.

Among these charlatans was horserace trainer, one Charlie Brooks...
... who, remarkably, is the husband of one Rebekah.

The same linkages may be shown to exist between, for example, certain mainstream media, some football managers, a range of bookmakers and a selection of referees in the Premier League...
... as we will prove to you prior to the conclusion of this blog on Monday next.

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10:36
The Premier League Title - The Winner Is...
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With Mike Riley and the PGMOB providing Howard Webb for Sunderland versus Manchester United and Chris Foy for Stoke City versus Bolton, Sir Ferguson evidently has not given up abusing the integrity of the title race.

Victory for Bolton will force QPR to remain keen and needing a draw at Eastlands - any other result in the Potteries and QPR effectively have nothing to play for.

The number of occasions that Walton (pre- disappearing act), Foy, Webb, Mason and Marriner have been selected for matches influencing the title race in the second half of this season is an outlier of some marked statistical significance.

Mike Dean officiates the City/QPR poker table...
... and this means that, despite the corruptions of the Reds, the winners of ScudamoreWorld 2011/12 are Manchester City.

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09:59
Three Days and Counting - A Freebie Bet
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In the good old days, Football is Fixed/Dietrological used to give out a freebie lump of money to readers, subscribers and the bewildered - this took the form of a free piece of market advice.

As one might expect, every single trade was a winner.
8 winners out of 8 advices.

As a parting gift, we're providing you with a gift horse whose mouth should not be ignored.

Championship Play Off Final: WEST HAM UNITED Outright (Prices in the vicinity of 1.55)

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09:03
Polychrysos - The Illusory Game of Exchange (A Flashback)
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Of course, we predicted the oncoming Recession/Depression and the causes in 2007 but this post was originally posted on January 13th 2009 and was written as a state of play at the time.
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The Illusory Game of Exchange, the Giant Poker Table where our Realities are determined...

In the previous post in our seasonal triptych, by focusing on the gathering Depression from the perspective of hedge-funds, Dark Pools, Behaviouralism, Darwinism and climate change, we outlined some of the reasons why a Deep Depression is our future.

Only time and space prevented us from venturing further into this systemic murkiness, and in the week since the post, there have been numerous further disturbing pieces of news that, under normal circumstances, would be headline-grabbing.
For example, the Bank of England reducing interest rates (and thereby eliminating its monetary options) to 1.5% - the lowest rate since the central bank was established 315 years ago. This is a statement of extreme historical weakness.
Or, the US economy losing more jobs (2.6 million) in 2008 than in any year since the 2nd World War.
Or the relentless conveyor belt of major job losses and fraud exposures on a daily basis (Alcoa, Satyam etc).

To begin this article, we intend looking at some of the other areas of non-sustainability that will guarantee the Deep Depression.

The Hyperreality (continued)

* Price-earnings (p/e) ratios - Bottom feeders are claiming that longer term investors are able to find value in the current market climate by taking advantage of the low p/e ratios in the marketplace. As stock prices have plummeted, earnings have, until recently, not fallen so far, as companies employ various accounting shenanigans to hide the true carnage from the balance sheets.
But earnings are about to go through the floorboards as the feedback loops and economic contagion poison the entire global economy.
Prices will follow.
The whole efficacy of p/e ratios as a potential measure of value in the marketplace is based on historical analyses and data.
Economists always look to the past for solutions, yet no economic hyperreality is replicable, which renders such research as quite pointless.
In a Depression, p/e ratios become an outmoded yardstick - systemic and super-systemic risk sees to that.
For this reason, there is not one global asset that might be thought of as offering sustainable value - any rebound is nothing more than an example of a dead cat bouncing...

Spokesperson for the Bank of England: "The world economy appears to be undergoing an unusually sharp and synchronised downturn."

* Ratings Agencies - All investors rely on the ratings bodies for a measurement of the level of risk within an organisation or a sector. These ratings are always inflated as any journey through the companies who either went into liquidation or were saved by governmental handouts in 2008 would demonstrate.
This is a systemic enigma built into the fake structure.
As the Economist states: "Although ratings are relied on by investors and regulators as impartial measures, the Rating Agencies are paid by those they rate for their judgments."
Think advertising - no newspaper contains negative editorial against its advertisers.
Think ratings - no Ratings Agency will downgrade an entity that is, in effect, paying the wages.
Some of the AAA/Aaa nonsenses standing proud at Standard and Poors and Moody's today, will seem just a trifle optimistic in less than twelve months time.

Jean Baudrillard: "... all current strategies boil down to this: passing around the debt, the credit, the unreal, the unnameable thing that you cannot get rid of."

* Private Equity - All the focus has been on the plight of the banks and the insurance companies, on the credit crunch and on the toxic assets, on targeting hedge-funds and on the state of the currency markets.
As attention has shifted to the 'real' economy (NB: it is our assessment that the ONLY Real economy is the informal one), the fake finance of private equity operations will come under increased scrutiny.
All firms under the yoke of private equity have been stripped of their assets and saddled with debt. With the current very real concerns about deflation this is very very bad news indeed.
When the Bank of England produced their Inflation Report on November 12th, the future spread of likely inflation rates projected negative values for the first time ever ie deflation.
Under a climate of deflation, indebted businesses (and households) will be more anxious to pay off loans and debts as soon as feasible.
How they are going to be able to achieve this is another problem entirely.

Jean Baudrillard: "The illusion of the economic sphere lies in its having aspired to ground the principle of reality and rationality on the forgetting of this ultimate reality of impossible exchange."

* Deflation - With the indebted desperately trying to pay off their financial millstones, a deflationary world is trouble as there will not be enough cash-rich entities to offset the activities of the indebted. This produces a deadly mix of falling prices and high leverage, leading to a debt deflation of the type first postulated by Irving Fisher in the 1930s.
And don't even get us started on the fine balance between deflation/stagflation tipping over into hyperinflation...

Jean Baudrillard: "Here and now, the whole edifice of value is exchangeable for Nothing."

* Moral Hazard - Moral hazard got us into this mess, and moral hazard is the template of choice to cement the Depression.
Excessive leverage, fake mathematics and accounting, all neatly wrapped in a regulatory-lite environment with no downside to the taking positions of excessive risk. Plus ça change...
Last week in the Financial Times, the war criminal called Blair admits to mistakes in his stewardship of the economy, but pleads for any reactive regulation to be as feeble as possible so that the innovation might be allowed to continue.
What innovation?
Credit default swaps? Derivatives generally? Ponzi schemes at hedge-funds? All very fucking innovative but of absolutely no value to anybody other than the psychos with their fingers in the till.
If such innovation had been put into Real research in medicine, science, rather than the myopic minutiae of available knowledges that are allowed to be marketed in this shareholder capitalist poker game, we would not be in this situation.
Still, its great to hear that the war criminal called Blair has earned £12 million from after-dinner speeches since he gave up his full-time post in applied genocide.

Friedrich Nietzsche: "One must push what is already collapsing."

* Emerging Economies - The new paradigmists, a particularly stupid breed of capitalist, reckoned that the emerging economies would rescue the US, the EU and Japan once the Recession began to bite. Yet all economies are declining in lock-step.
Furthermore, the shareholder capitalist model that has been foisted onto numerous gullible territories has been shown to be invalid.
So, for example, China needs to undertake some financial restructuring and recapitalisation. As the Economist states: "It would once have been easy to argue that a market-driven system served up by big western banks could do a better job of this than government. When virtually every such institution has been given state support to stay in business, that case is much harder to make."

George Soros: "If you need systemic change, you might as well go for something that is vastly superior."

* Credit Crisis - Although the record amounts of public money that has simply been handed over to the greed architects of this Depression has succeeded in freeing up some of lack of confidence in the financial system, the Real solidity so created is mainly an illusion. The Real economy will continue to suffer (British retailers experienced their worst xmas ever in 2008 and banks are refusing to pass on the interest rate cuts to businesses and customers) and banks will create a cycle of contagion whereby the businesses that they do support will be undermined by the complete collapse of the rest of the economy, with associated bad debts and further risk of toxicity. we should expect more hedge-funds and banks to go under this year.

Mark Twain: "Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

* Governmental, Regulatory and Central Bank Errors - It is now generally accepted that allowing Lehman Brothers to go bust was a mistake.
It is now generally accepted that the ban on the short-selling of financial stocks was a short-sighted mistake.
It is now generally accepted that solely targeting the toxicity in the financial system was a mistake.
It is now generally accepted that the excessive financial support provided to insurance giant AIG was a mistake.
It is now generally accepted that the highly leveraged private equity model was a mistake.
It is now generally accepted that the lack of regulation in the free market was a mistake.
It is now generally accepted that the targeting of hedge-funds was a mistake.
It is now generally accepted that giving the Bank of England control over the setting of interest rates was a mistake.
It is not yet regarded as a mistake that interest rates have been slashed to historical lows.
It is not yet regarded as a mistake that the financial industry is rushing to create secretive Dark Pools.
There are more mistakes to come from a financial elite (sic) who see the financial world solely through the prism of their own self-interest.

Satyajit Das: "Markets placed great faith in the volume of money available to support asset prices and assist in alleviating shortages of liquidity. The perceived abundance of liquidity was, in reality, merely an illusion created by high levels of debt and leverage as well as the structure of global capital flows. As the financial system deleverages, it is becoming clear, unsurprisingly, that available capital is more limited than previously estimated."

Trust, Psychology, Psychopathy

* Trust is one key component in the current crisis - nobody trusts the banks any longer no matter what their government-sponsored advertising campaigns may claim.
All analysts must judge the security of their investments, savings and cash, and correctly apportion their monies accordingly.
Taking sports brokerage as an example, we set a limit on the degree of trust that we place in our routes to market. Once a threshold has been set, we maintain our cash levels with the said institution below these levels AND we build into our financial projections the probabilities of brokers reneging on our agreements.
We are now at the point where we place banks at the same level of risk as our second tier brokers ie below the level of trust that we have in our primary level Asian brokers.
This breakdown in trust will not be easily repaired.
We don't know them and we don't trust them.
And we don't trust their system either.
As the Depression begins to bite in earnest, many more individuals are going to be reaching this same conclusion.

As Sigmund Freud once observed: "Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."

* The Trickledown Effect - One of the great fallacies of shareholder capitalism is the trickledown effect, an illusory piece of fake mathematics that is solely dependent on the imaginary hyperreality of purchasing power parity (PPP). There is no trickledown other than in misery and psychopathy.
In a Depression, this Real trickledown effect is a downward spiral in the fake pyramid selling scheme that is our system.
The greed, the psychopathy and the mistakes were made at the top.
Our representatives bailed them out with huge handouts.
Moral hazard determines that the same greed, the same psychopathy and the same mistakes will be made at the top.
Psychopaths are unemotional and irrational - these two factors must go together as research by Antonio Damasio, professor of neuroscience at the University of Southern California, has shown.
There is a sufficiency of psychopathy among financial folk.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: "When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie."

* Conclusion - As the fallacious system runs on in its empty sameness, the illusion must be replaced by truth, otherwise there will not be eco-system in which to continue to peddle the propaganda and lies.

Satyajit Das: "In this current financial crisis, the quantum of available capital, the munificent resources of central banks and sovereign wealth funds, and the globalization of capital flows may be some of the accepted "facts" that are revealed to be grand illusions."

Michel Foucault: "There is a battle 'for truth'... It is necessary to think of the political problems of intellectuals not in terms of 'science' and 'ideology', but in terms of 'truth' and 'power'... 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth... The problem is not changing people's consciousnesses - or what's in their heads - but the political, economic, institutional regime of the production of truth."

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Κέρκυρα, 09.05.2012
22:55
Tangerine Tangerine Tangerine!!!
» Football is fixed

Foy and Moss!

The choice of the officials in this Birmingham/Blackpool event is akin to a rigged horserace.

Penalty denial against Ince at 0-0 and an offside goal for Zigic to lead to Brummie fightback.
Threatening to book Gilks for delaying goal kicks due to the shower of missiles.
Five minutes injury time for no injuries and 4 substitutions - where did those 3 minutes come from Moss...?
Ollie's instructions prevented any challenges by Pool in the penalty area forcing a degree of normality where a true outcome might reside.

But fuck you ######### with your fake degree and your match fixing.
Thinking you can play around with the sport just to add a few pennies to your mass of ill-gotten gains.
All other participants (fans, players, clubs, media, bookies) have to correlate reality with your private agendas.

Individuals are to be jailed in Italy for far less corruption than your psycho-shoddy operation.

And while we're at it #########...
How real is it to do the threats and menaces thing just because someone has rumbled your corruption?

Anyway...

Ollie Mourinho
Ollie Mourinho
Ollie Mourinho

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10:18
Scudamore The Psychopath
» Football is fixed

In the old days, there was humour about the state of corruption within Italian football.

Now the tittering is about the rampant corruption in ScudamoreWorld - the Premier League Theme Park.

Serie A, Serie B, the Bundesliga, La Primera Liga (to an extent), the Dutch Eredivisie, the Champions League, the Europa Cup, the leagues in Portugal, Denmark, Sweden and even Russia have taken institutional actions that target the match-fixers.

Different territories utilise different tactics to confront the corruption but conspicuous by their absence from the List of Integrity is the EPL - the most liquid and most criminalised of all the major global leagues.

Very late release of refereeing appointments, targeting the insider traders' market activity directly, addressing frontline bookmakers, confronting the various mafiosi involved in such a money laundering territory, the banning of miscreants, the outlawing of late season agreed draws and numerous other regulatory actions and exposures are severely limiting the match fixers.

We have worked with a middling outfit in Serie A over the last two years and, even though Italy has created Calciopoli and Calciopoli The Sequel, at least the Italian authorities are recognising the elephant in the room.

Of course, Richard Scudamore and his Omerta Brigade recognise this mammoth corruption too...
... but Mr Scudamore sees such activities as libertarian free market neo-conservative exploitation which is all well and good in his diseased mind.

For Mr Scudamore doesn't only condone the fixing of matches in the EPL, he actively energises such corruptions in a wide variety of manners.

In Italy this month, around 50 players from more than half of the Serie A teams will appear before a sporting tribunal in order to answer charges over the rigging of matches.
In parallel, the Italian game has prevented the usual end of season shenanigans whereby mid-table teams settle for a share of the points whilst betting on that outcome - you may have an agreed draw now but you cannot bet on it voluminously.

"Even if the game is riddled with gambling, corruption, bad refereeing and secret agreements, well, in Italy everyone is at it," wrote political scientist Ilvio Diamante. "Everywhere. In politics, business, at work. Why be scandalised? That's life."

And so it is in England...

We could present Scudamore with more than 60 players and more than half the Premier League teams who are equally involved in the fixing of match outcomes for proprietary financial enhancement.
We could tell him which referees work with which team(s) and which bookmaker(s).
We could point him in the direction of numerous agents involved in match fixing via their clients.
We could point out the Dark Pools and private markets where these individuals rip off the sport that pays their legitimate wages.
We could show him betting patterns on named accounts to prove this.

And.
You know what...
... Mr Scudamore wouldn't blink an eyelid because this is not news to him, for he is the Great Orchestrator earning £1.5 million a year for overseeing the destruction of your sport, your game.

ScudamoreWorld - The Theme Park for Psychos.

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09:23
Enter Peter Lawwell The Hero?
» Football is fixed

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Κέρκυρα, 08.05.2012
18:52
Five Days and Counting...
» Football is fixed

So how should Football is Fixed sign off after 5 1/2 years and 2012 days of blogging?

Detailing the links between certain Premier League referees and bookmaking organisations?
Detailing the threats and menaces made by an individual very close to Roy Hodgson?
Detailing the individuals who avoid paying tax on their underground betting activities?
Detailing betting patterns that demonstrate match-fixing by Premier League managers?
Detailing the international players who bet against England when playing?
Detailing the referees owned by one particular oligarch?
Detailing the match officials carrying out UEFA and FIFA hidden agendas?
Detailing referees owned by Barcelona, Real Madrid, Milan, Juventus and Inter?
Detailing the money laundering activities of certain agents and bookmakers?
Detailing the Premier League referee with links to a Russian bookmaker?
Detailing the Premier League manager with links to a Russian bookmaker?
Detailing the most criminalised offshore territories for match fixing?
Detailing our inside knowledge of the current Serie A match fixing scandal?
Detailing the clubs owned by major G14(18) clubs?
Detailing the clubs owned by other powerful operators eg Rangers?
Detailing the clubs that take Performance Enhancing Substances as a matter of course?
Detailing the shared results between certain clubs over the season?
Detailing which agents have inappropriate control over which clubs?
Detailing the gambling teams who underperform, if necessary, to engender betting market profits?
Detailing the role of private markets and Dark Pools in match fixing?
Detailing the 60 players from the Premier League who are involved in match fixing?
Detailing the links between bookmakers and clubs?
Detailing the British commentators and analysts and their links to bookmaking organisations?
Detailing insider gambling by club owners in both Premier League and Championship?

Or we might just focus on bifurcations in the housing market, psychopathy and the selfish gene, the multiverse, sousveillance against state monitoring, money laundering strategies, reputational risk and that sort of thing.

Who knows?

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09:30
Abusive Power Corrupts Absolutely
» Football is fixed

The decision has been made that, like the criminalised banks, Rangers FC are too big to fail.

As we posted yesterday, the outrage that Rangers will be allowed to continue (probably without ANY penalties) in the SPL will come to pass.

There will be no future points deductions.
There will be no continuing transfer embargo.
There will be no return of stolen trophies.
There will be no payments to creditors.
There will be no tax for the HMR&C.
There will be no convictions for fraud.

Rangers, in their omnipotence, refused to even attend the meeting of the SPL clubs yesterday to decide their future - they were in the Six Counties raising money in a friendly against fellow bigots Linfield FC...
... they did not need to attend as their negotiating position is being enacted to the letter by the SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster.

Doncaster is the equivalent of the Premier League's Richard Scudamore - the man makes up the decisions as he goes along, backing up his public stances with alleged legal opinion masquerading as legal advice.

Doncaster it was who announced firstly that the Rangers Newco entity did not have to reform in the lower leagues (the norm in such instances).
Doncaster it was who announced that the SPL has been given legal advice which says no points penalties could be imposed on a team re-entering the league in Newco form.
Doncaster it was who arbitrarily announced that there would need to be 5 objections to this reformation - as Rangers have a certain degree of control over five of the other SPL teams, this is a done deal.
Doncaster it was who persuaded the clubs to put financial well-being ahead of footballing integrity.

Doncaster: "I think that is entirely unfair on the owners who are concerned with the survival of their clubs..."

But...
... the clubs are only in financial straits because of Rangers abuse of the league, the cups, the transfer market, the betting markets and their ability to siphon off money from corruptions like throwing the Zenit St Petersburg UEFA Cup Final to continue to fund their illicit practices.

Ewing Grahame in the Telegraph: "There is, of course, some irony in a club who owe money throughout Europe for players they have signed but could not afford and who are being pursued by Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs for unpaid tax in the region of £90 million postponing a vote on this issue... This may give succour to Miller, who is so excited by his potential purchase that he has never visited Scotland. His reasons for wishing to own Rangers are unclear and it is not yet known whether or not he has any connection with the club’s discredited owner, Craig Whyte, the man who holds the floating charge over Ibrox Stadium and the training complex"

That will be the same Craig Whyte who used to run commercial projects with one of the administrators, Paul Clark.
And then there are rumours of Alastair Johnson in the background and, more criminal still, "the shadowy figure of Andrew Ellis has been a mostly unseen presence but he hasn't completely vanished from the reckoning yet."

Below are quotes from two lifelong Celtic fans on this massively corrupt situation (from kerrydalestreet.co.uk).
Fans across the remainder of the SPL are against the Doncaster Scam but they matter little.
The likes of Scudamore and Doncaster wish to get rid of the true fan and replace with the gullible, the addicted consumerist, the prawn sandwich, so that they might be able to continue to prise open illicit revenue streams without anything so discomforting as public scrutiny.

"Why pay any money to go and watch what is essentially a team following the rules versus the WWE XII whilst the rest of them sit back counting their 30 pieces of silver and wiping the sweat from their brows at the realisation their gravy train nearly came off the track? You would be subsidizing theft from our own shareholders and - by acquiescence - legitimising the biggest fraud in the history of football in Scotland."

"I always knew we were being cheated -- we all did -- but a great part of the joy of following the club was to be successful in the face of the sectarian cheating bastards. Bent refs and linesmen could disallow only so many goals, after all, and we continued to win trophies, though not nearly as many as we should have done, given the quality of the players we kept on producing. But there is a difference between knowing we were being cheated in the sense of being discriminated against, and finding out that the whole sport has been weighed up and formulated to make sure one team ALWAYS wins, which is what we now know to have occurred from the day and hour David Murray took over Rangers. We now know that the football authorities wilfully turned a blind eye when Rangers borrowed unsustainable amounts of money from a compliant bank -- financial doping -- in a desperate attempt to equal our two greatest feats. They achieved one of their aims. But if the rules of the very sport itself are now changed or ignored to facilitate the re-emergence of this disgusting, dead entity then I am done. This will be beyond cheating. This will be corruption on an industrial scale. If Celtic fight to face these bastards down, as Bob Kelly did in the Fifties, Big Jock did the Sixties, and MON did in the Noughties, then I will stand shoulder to shoulder with my beloved club. But if Celtic abstain or, unthinkably, vote for commercial reasons to allow this travesty to take place, then I will walk sadly into the night. I don't have that much time left that I can afford to waste it on wasters."

But we should expect nothing from certain characters at Celtic.
Pseudo-club agent John Colquhoun liquidated his music industry company with half a million pounds worth of debts and reestablished the company on the following day under a different name...
... with no debts and no creditors.

Although Rangers are criminalised beyond reconstruction, the tactic of ripping off the masses for proprietary financial gain is the modus operandi for influential individuals across football (Colquhoun is very close contractually to new England manager Roy Hodgson, equally close to Craig Levein and gambles on match outcomes professionally, for example).

A Sham and a Scam.
A Disgrace.

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Κέρκυρα, 07.05.2012
09:32
A Fixed Match in England This Week
» Football is fixed

We have been shown information suggesting that the match between Birmingham City and Blackpool in the Championship Play Off Second Leg is fixed AGAINST the interests of the Seasiders.

Some people who think they are powerful wish for the Brummies to reach Wembley.

A club agent with close links to Chris Foy and 4th Official Jon Moss (the refs on Wed) wants Brum to get to Wembley because he is lining up Chris Hughton for the West Brom job - inflate the price and the percentage as part of the Fleece Peace Strategy.
See historical Football is Fixed posts for details of Mr Moss and his agent friend...

The Pool are playing against more than a team.

This is not a surprise.

Up The Pool.

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09:03
Newco Rangers Will Remain in the SPL
» Football is fixed

From Henry Clarson, a colleague north of the border...

"A troubling thought.

"I'm hearing mixed messages from people with good connections to the board. There is no question that there will be a massive number of Celtic die-hards who will not renew their season tickets if the board do anything other than oppose NewHuns in the SPL.

"The board may have under-estimated that resolve. If they have, they've miscalculated enormously.

"I know blokes who have scarcely missed a match for decades. Home or away, domestic, European, pre-season friendlies, they've always been there. Guys who have been on first-name terms with successive managers and entire first team squads. THESE people are saying with absolute conviction that they won't renew if Celtic are in the same league as the NewHuns next season. These are people who wouldn't even consider that possibility, never mind vow to carry it out, unless they felt so strongly about the issue. If the board don't recognise that, they will lose far more money from the supporters than they could ever hope to gain from a TV deal."

Meanwhile, the boss man at one of Rangers' affiliate clubs ventures into the territory of honesty:
Step forward Michael Johnston, chairman of Kilmarnock FC (and boyhood Huns supporter) speaking to BBC Scotland at the weekend:
"Members see the commercial benefits of having Rangers, even as a newco," Johnston told BBC Scotland.
"The clubs are mindful of a sporting integrity aspect but the commercial benefits may outweigh that."

Money is more important than sporting integrity...
... it is our sport.

Are we happy with that?

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08:36
Rigging, Regionalism and Rubbish
» Football is fixed

The Sousveillance of Ghost Goals

Okay so...

The Liverpool 'goal', by the rules of the game, was a Real Goal.

According to the International Football Association, "a goal is scored when the whole of the ball passes over the goal line, between the goalposts and under the cross bar." The outside of the goal is determined by the outermost edge of the goal posts and cross bar. If the ball does not fully cross the plane created by these three bars, a goal is not awarded.

But.

Given that the decision was tight, why didn't Phil Dowd, with his historical biases, even stop play and consult with his assistant?

And why didn't Martin Atkinson (18 Chelsea games - 15 wins, no defeats) do the same in the Semi Final?

Power corrupts...
... absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Player of the Year

After the idiocy of Scott Parker winning the Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 2010/11, this year Robin van Persie was the recipient.

Why?

Neither team won a trophy via the influence of such a player.

The Football Writers need to occasionally head north out of their bars and casino and then they might witness Yaya Toure and Vincent Kompany.

Managerial Selection based on Who-You-Know and not Meritocracy

When the FA sacked Steve McClaren for being useless and, unwittingly or not, linked to the betting markets via his agent John Colquhoun, they considered replacing the English Wally with Jose Mourinho.

This would, meritocratically, have been the correct choice (if he had been willing to accept) but Fabio Capello was an excellent second choice.

Sensible strategy would then suggest undermining this manager in order to manufacture a return to mediocrity - the choice being between somebody who is fortunate not to be in jail and somebody who last won a tournament nearly a quarter of a century ago.

Ah! That winning mentality!

The fact that Roy Hodgson, unwittingly or not, is linked to the same John Colquhoun and the same betting markets is a deja vu of some clarity.

We predict Theo Walcott, Phil Jones, Jordan Henderson all to be in the England team or on the bench while Stuart Pearce will be pressured into ensuring Chris Brunt and James Morrison are in the Olympic squad.
There might even be a surprise recall for David James as an over age player.

And ###### ######## bookmakers will control the England betting markets.

Meanwhile, Steve McClaren yesterday celebrated his latest failure - he took over FC Twente when they were challenging for the Eredivisie title...
... they finished 6th, 16 points off Ajax.

Now that is meritocratic talent in motion.

The FA, like the Premier League, are compromised and not fit for purpose.

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Κέρκυρα, 06.05.2012
10:01
Gong!
» Football is fixed

After all the meetings, discussions, analyses, blogging and strategy, Football is Fixed/Dietrological warrant a Championship Medal if Manchester City overcome their handicap and pip the vastly inferior United to the title.

No shots on target at Eastlands, 1-6, the ###### of the FA Cup match refereed by Chris Foy - the ref at Old Trafford today...
... Ferguson risks bringing the game into disrepute in his desperate attempts to contort the blindingly obvious into a meta-criminal neohyperreality.

But remember, the Reds have 12 v 11 at Old Trafford...
... while the Blues face an extra man, away from home too.

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Κέρκυρα, 05.05.2012
20:31
A Recipe for Disaster - Liverpool FC
» Football is fixed

Take Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

Add Rafa Benitez, Roy Hodgson and Kenny Dalglish.

Mix in Damien Comolli and John Colquhoun.

Combine in an aesthetically and professionally displeasing dish including such sabermetric anomalies as Jordan Henderson, Stewart Downing, Jose Enrique, Craig Bellamy, Jose Reina, Steven Gerrard, Jay Spearing, Martin Skrtel, Daniel Agger, Glen Johnson and Luis Suarez.

Serve with a combination of agents having too much influence over team selection, inappropriate external linkages of core players and a propensity for ####### market activities.

This club is dysfunctional beyond belief.

A dessert of yet another Ghost Goal decision in favour of Chelsea by one of ##### referees, doesn't redeem a few poor courses.

The decline of a once great club.

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09:09
Manipulated Markets - The First Ever Post on Football is Fixed
» Football is fixed

This was our first blog from November 11th 2006.
It is dull!

Desperate for a pertinent question, how about "has anything changed in the five and a half years since?"

No!

Tessa Jowell proved to be ineffectual as did subsequent agents of the state - the acquittal of Harry Redknapp in February proving to be the final hyperreality on the power of the entirely non-regulated football industry.

But, on reflection, we feel that we misjudged the holistic in terms of the degree of corruption in the game.
It has proved to be markedly worse than we initially suspected!

"There are many honest people in the game" proved vastly optimistic!!

Organisations that hover between the white, grey and black markets were initially assessed as being beyond the pale when we explored potential collaborations.
But, that is as good as it gets in postmodern football for the simple reason that, when vast swathes of the industry are trundling around at the bottom of the barrel, one has to stretch the margins of integrity to compete.

Of course, this reward for psychopathy is one of the fundamental flaws with free market capitalism too...
... along with it being a Ponzi scheme in a non-sustainable planetary equilibrium.

We spent too much time seeking other entities similar to ourselves.
We were too naive and idealistic.

Socrates: "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."

In the end we have compromised and will continue to do so.
It is a shit industry but we'll take our small and peripheral part of that shit for our efforts.

And, on that very point, no responses should be expected to the Consultancy on offer until the end of the month as we are otherwise engaged [footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk]

Thank you.
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English Football is currently reeling from the impacts of the Stevens inquiry into the bung culture, the standard and ethics of referees and the revelation that Victor Chandler International allegedly took bets from some Premiership Managers and Players. The words “tip” and “iceberg” spring to mind.
I have traded professionally on global football betting markets for the past 15 years. In my experience, all the brokers, market makers and bookmakers that I have traded with take bets from insiders in the game. It is regarded as buying information. Undoubtedly, some of this exchange of information borders on the corrupt. The recent betting scandal in Germany and the uproar in Italy’s Serie A show that this isn’t merely a British problem.
Asian Market Makers regularly accept bets of greater than £1million without blinking (Gianluigi Buffon – the Juventus goalkeeper – was found with betting slips for several million euros in his possession during the Moggiopoli scandal). Inevitably, the liquidity of the Asian markets persuades some football people to enhance their earning capacities. To my knowledge, such individuals include players, managers, referees, bookmakers, agents and the criminal fringe. It isn’t just the Italian mafia centres of Napoli, Palermo and Reggio di Calabria that are actively involved in football markets!
To date, all attempts to clean up the game have been peripheral. In Germany, some selective sweeping under the carpet and wrist slapping went on in response to the referee Robert Hoyzer admitting that he took money to alter football match outcomes. But, I believe that there are other match officials in the Bundesliga who were merely demoted or, indeed, allowed to continue to officiate. In Italy, in the aftermath of calciocaos, two referees were suspended but the other six that were under investigation are still involved in Serie A.
Although there are many corrupt players, it is the match officials who are the key component of this crisis. Some have links to individual clubs, some to bookmakers and some to the underworld. There are also many honest people in the game who are just trying to do their jobs. However, until football cleans up its act, corruption will persist. Falling attendances in Italy and England are partially related to deficiencies in the sport on offer. Although the prawn sandwich brigade remain oblivious to anything, the true fans know when they are being short changed. The recent assertion by Graeme Souness that British football is “the most honest in Europe” is simply laughable.
Tessa Jowell, the Minister for Culture, is aiming to make Britain a clean and well regulated gambling environment. I fully support her and her Department’s efforts but such efforts must extend beyond the protection of the vulnerable and the targeting of company directors with criminal links.
The football authorities also need to take a lead in this area and not just in the betting arena. In the lead up to the last World Cup, there was a real concern within FIFA that Uzbekistan were going to make it to the finals. This would have been politically unacceptable. In the first leg of the Asian Play Off with Bahrain, the Uzbeks won 1-0 and had a penalty denied them by the Japanese official. FIFA ludicrously ordered the game to be replayed and a 1-1 draw resulted. Bahrain won through in the Second Leg on away goals – the official for that second game (obviously by chance in the light of recent occurrences) was a certain Mr Graham Poll!

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Κέρκυρα, 04.05.2012
16:30
Ten Days and Counting...
» Football is fixed

The Football is Fixed blog will be terminating on May 14th 2012.

Like Sir Ferguson, we had a rogue retirement on the day Redknapp defeated the state and the FA undermined a proper England manager.

But this time is for hyperreal.

Still...
Ten more days of mockery or marketing or whatever...

Football is Fixed - 2012 Days of blogging since November 2006.

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08:57
Scudamore Chats Shit
» Football is fixed

Richard Scudamore: "This [the Premier League] is what you get when you welcome in inward investment. Any other industry would be welcoming that inward investment. We should welcome it with open arms."

Being psychopathically inclined, Mr Scudamore does not get integrity...
... inward investment is not the issue, it is the sources of that investment that has ruined what he beautifully calls "his product".

Six owners and criminalised management at Portsmouth, the Icelandic Ponzi Scheme and 3rd Party Ownership at West Ham, 3rd Party Ownership at Man Utd and Liverpool, the sources of the money behind Birmingham, Reading, QPR, and Blackpool, Alisher Usmanov and other psycho-oligarchs with their vory, Stoke City/Bet365, West Brom/Bodog/Victor Chandler, Shinawatra and his blood money, the 'Cockney mafia' at Newcastle/Spurs, the 'Glaswegian mafia' throughout the league, the links between various clubs and Asian bookmakers, leveraged buy-outs yoking the game to the benefit of 'inward investment' for decades to come...

By the bookmakers, for the bookmakers...

Richard Scudamore is probably the worst thing that has ever happened to English football.
He is your very own Blatter.
And Dave Richards is his Jack Warner!

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08:40
Roy Who? Harry Who?
» Football is fixed

Roy Hodgson (36 years in management)
7 Allsvenskan Titles (Malmo/Halmstad) and 2 Svenska Cupen (Malmo) - all prior to 1990
1 Danish Super Liga (FC Copenhagen)
1 Danish Super Cup (FC Copenhagen)

Harry Redknapp (29 years in management)
1 FA Cup (Portsmouth)
2 Division Three Titles (Portsmouth/Bournemouth)
1 Inter Toto Cup (West Ham)
1 Associate Members Cup (Bournemouth)

Fabio Capello (25 years in management)
4 Serie A Titles (AC Milan)
1 Serie A Titles (Roma)
2 Serie A Titles (Juventus)
2 La Primera Liga Titles (Real Madrid)
1 Champions League (AC Milan)
4 Supercoppa Italiano Titles (AC Milan/Roma)
1 European Super Cup (AC Milan)
1 Coppa Italia Primavera (AC Milan)

Managerial Sabermetrics does not exist...
... mainstream media trash transforms your realities.

England - destined to fail again.

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Κέρκυρα, 03.05.2012
10:39
Harry Redknapp and Mike Dean - Still In Love
» Football is fixed

We have blogged many times historically about Harry Redknapp and referee Mike Dean.

Mike Dean refereed Bolton v Spurs last night.
The match-turning opening goal is described in The Guardian: "The opportunity came from a questionable corner won after Rafael van der Vaart's right-foot effort was repelled, and Sandro appeared to handle the ball. The referee saw nothing wrong."

Mike Dean is 4th Official to a junior referee in Tottenham's next match at Aston Villa.

Why?

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09:21
Pep Guardiola on Spanish Referees
» Football is fixed

Pep Guardiola: "Did the referees decide the league? The season has been very long, and a lot of things have happened. We've kept quiet, but the images are there."

Our Referee Bias Index judges the tilt for and against teams based on sendings off and penalties (for and against) and foul per booking ratio (plus miscellanea like ghost goals etc).

In the Big Three Leagues (La Liga, Serie A and Premier League) only two teams have achieved a Referee Bias Index of greater than 70 over the season...
... Real Madrid and Manchester United!

The two most powerful teams in the world getting the most help from the match officials!!

Football is Fixed!!!

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09:10
Scottish Style Justice
» Football is fixed

Below is a link to the transcript from the conversations between Neil Doncaster, Jim Spence and Jim Traynor on BBC Radio Scotland.

It is taken from the excellent blog by Paul McConville - Scots Law Thoughts [scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com]

As Paul says: "If I was a Rangers fan, what Mr Doncaster had to say would have had me jumping up and down with delight."

True.
Except that we are not convinced that Huns do delight.

More revealingly, our contacts tell us that the Celtic hierarchy do not want Rangers to be demoted as it will demolish cashflow and that, after all, is what football is about.

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09:03
Manipulated Markets
» Football is fixed

All financial markets are gamed by insiders seeking cornered structures, collaborative manipulations and inappropriate competitive advantages.

The surprising factor is that human behaviouralism results in exactly the same corrupt edifices being constructed across the market continuum - Goldman Sachs betting against disinformational advice sold to clients, banks working together to manipulate the LIBOR (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate), football agents working to inflate the values of their clients, bookmakers working in unison to achieve the required outcomes in criminalised football matches...

The parallel simplicities of these corruptions are marked - due to minimal external enforcement of the rules and laws in existence, the perpetrators do not have to put much effort into covering their murky tracks.
So they don't.

In this post, we explore these parallels and the issues arising.

The Economist: "It [the LIBOR] is supposed to be constructed using banks' own honest estimates of what it costs for them to borrow money. But regulators around the world suspect that LIBOR... has been subject to manipulation."
Banks' individual borrowing costs prove to be remarkably similar considering their varied levels of risk.
The Economist continues: "The court documents suggest that a group of traders regularly contacted one another to discuss how to influence the Yen LIBOR rate."

And so it is with football betting markets and the player transfer markets.

Primary level betting organisations, taking their cue from the highly liquid underground Dark Pools that are the foundation of postmodern football, co-ordinate match prices between themselves to optimise returns from the event.
This disguises the hyperreality of corruption from the public eye.

Take a fixed match that is regarded by insiders as a certainty but the information leading to this outcome is not open source.
Market makers will price the event based on an array of inputs that maximises their combined returns - if one firm were to suggest that Team A should be priced at 1/100, the market would be destroyed.

This collaboration between the market makers works along competitive pricing in the micro ie the bookmakers want to rip off mugs primarily but their competitor firms secondarily and strategically.

Or take the transfer market.
Agents, club agents and club managers hold a series of private meetings whereby the value of a player is assessed.
But this 'value' is not real - it is an inflation on price to the benefit of the various agents and the club manager(s) involved in the deal.

Once again, football on the whole loses out so that insiders might take a much larger slice of the action via their percentage cuts and the variety of brown envelopes and briefcases changing hands.

The Economist prints the case filing on the LIBOR manipulation where one trader from a whistleblowing bank (Trader A) helps to manipulate the market with a Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) insider: "Trader A explained to one RBS IRD trader who his collusive contacts were and how he had and was going to manipulate Yen LIBOR. Trader A also communicated his trading positions, his desire for a certain movement in Yen LIBOR and gave instructions for the RBS IRD trader to get RBS to make Yen LIBOR submissions consistent with Trader A's wishes. The RBS IRD trader acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Trader A and the RBS IRD trader also entered into transactions that aligned their trading interests in regards to Yen LIBOR."

Or...

Bookmaker A explained to Bookmaker B who his collusive contacts (bookmakers, players, agents, referees) were and how he was going to manipulate the match outcome. Bookmaker A also transmitted his trading positions, his desire for a certain result and gave instructions for Bookmaker B to get his organisation to use its contacts to enhance the match manipulation. Bookmaker B acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Bookmaker A and Bookmaker B also entered into transactions that aligned their trading interests in regards to the match outcome.

Or...

Agent A explained to Manager B who his collusive contacts (other agents, club agents, managers) were and how he was going to manipulate the transfer fee. Agent A also transmitted his player valuations, his desire for a certain minimum transfer fee and gave instructions to Manager B to use his contacts to inflate the price. Manager B acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Agent A, Manager B and other interested parties also entered into transactions that aligned their financial interests in regards to the inflated transfer fee.

All of which is illegal, although in football that matters little as there is no regulation and being bent is a core competency.

But this is short-termist and psychopathic.

Civil cases may be brought against the perpetrators.
* Large individual cases might be brought by either other bookmaking organisations or the club owners with respect to betting and transfer corruptions.
* Traders on the wrong side of manipulated bets or club employees suffering the consequences might bring class action suits.
* Traders whose winnings are limited or clubs who lose out on future transfer fees might also have a case if intent can be proved.
* Individual bettors can group together to create class action suits to reclaim losses on events manipulated by insiders.

The similarities in the forms of financial market manipulation is enhanced in a wired world where mass behaviouralisms become global consciousness 'wisdoms' at a pace while the individual manipulators believe that their omnipotence places them ahead of the curve.

When actually there is no robustness whatsoever in such rubbish in/rubbish out corruptions.
Just a symbiotic relationship between market makers and crime.

Still...
The criminals who manipulate financial, betting and transfer markets utilising the same tactics...
... some of them are even the same individuals/organisations.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 02.05.2012
14:59
Al-Fayed And His Money Are Soon Parted - A Flashback
» Football is fixed

Over the next couple of weeks, we might be selecting a range of historical posts from the Football is Fixed blog - the blog was established in November 2006 but over 90% of the posts are no longer publicly viewable.

The post addresses some nonsenses relating to the transfer market.
It first appeared on January 5th 2009.

The Holistic Sabermetrics Project became the Enhanced Sabermetrics Model and this entity has been utilised by teams in numerous primary and secondary tier European leagues to gain value for money in the marketplace.

We bet Hodgson wished that he had plumped for Champions League finalist and gladiatorial forward Mario Gómez!
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This January Transfer Window promises to be the most unusual (and analytically complex) market since the buying and selling of footballers became a restricted process.

The transfer market is already a highly inefficient marketplace as numerous key holistic parameters are not taken into account in the player evaluations.
So, for example, a ridiculous amount of weighting is given to sabermetrics - a pseudo-science based on player statistics - while virtually none is given to the impact of corruption on match outcomes (and, hence, player values).
It was this rampant market inefficiency that persuaded the Dietrological Trading Team to establish the Holistic Sabermetrics Project eighteen months ago.

As market analysts, we seek out inefficient markets ie markets where all the information is NOT in the price. In any mature market sector, virtually all markets are inefficient due to the corrupt natures of the market infrastructures.
So, football betting markets and football transfer markets are central to our portfolio.

Last year, we held discussions with several different British entities about our Holistic Sabermetrics Project, but each operation had organisational or individual limitations, either due to a lack of professionalism or a fondness for criminality. Or both.
As the state of the corruption in English football is cartelised, to a very large extent, we decided to look further afield for an operation that chooses meritocratic routes as opposed to corrupt ones.

And our patience has undoubtedly paid off.
We are working, on a trial basis it must be said, with a leading entity from another territory.
We are providing a range of high level consultancy services - basic player evaluation based on the fundamentals and the sabermetrics; the role of the betting markets in any assessment of a player value; enhanced scenario analysis relating to the state of the global financial system and its effect on future transfer windows; the impact of the Recession/Depression, now and in the future; issues relating to currency volatility; the development of hedging strategies to minimise risk.

We detail these aspects briefly below, before we go on to look at the current transfer market in England and the role of corruption in this market, as we complete the post with a basic fundamental player assessment, stripping away the fake layers to determine the Real value of the player concerned, rather than the neohyperreal market value.
We could have chosen virtually any players but, because we like a good wind-up, we have selected Andrew Johnson.

Using fundamental parameters is obviously a vital input to any player rating. But, such parameters are also of limited value unless treated as a big picture whole. Percentage of passes that are successful over different distances, and the fitness of players, for example, are key.
But, think about this for a moment.
If you are solely going to base evaluations on such data, what if there are systemic impacts that render the data as corrupted?
It is of minimal value to utilise the basic fundamental data, although some much more interesting sabermetric analyses may be undertaken utilising a more configurative approach. But, even with such laterally thought experimentation, the major impacts on the transfer values are omitted from the analytical process.

A Real player evaluation may only be determined with a holistic approach, and this is why our Holistic Sabermetrics Project has received such interest.
Nobody else has access to the proprietary databases that we possess, and consequently, they all compete using the same over-rated and expensive sabermetric services eg ProZone, Opta etc.

Equally important in these financial times are the scenario analyses both with respect to the football sector itself, and to the wider financial system.
The transfer market is characterised by short-termism and kneejerk reactions are generally what passes for a strategy.
By modelling the manners in which the markets, the sectors and the global template might progress, Holistic Sabermetrics are able to place all transfer activity into a continuum, allowing for the buying and selling to be undertaken at the most appropriate time.

The Recession/Depression is also an elephant in the transfer teashop.
Apart from the obvious basket case/ potential basket case issues eg West Ham United, Newcastle United, Portsmouth, Chelsea etc, strategic planners like Abu Dhabi United are able to purchase, at inflated prices it must be said, by taking a longer term perspective.
But the Recession/Depression is going to have far greater systemic impacts than the short-term winners and losers in this current transfer window.

For a start, there is a bubble in transfer evaluations which has parallelled the bull markets in stocks and housing. The recent evaluations have been a case of buying at the top of a market, and that is hardly a sensible basis on which to build a trading entity.
So Fulham spent £31 million in the summer - it is our estimation that those assets have since depreciated by nearly 50%. This is partly because only fundamental sabermetrics were utilised in the transfer evaluations, and partly because the market has dropped by 30% since the last transfer window.
30%!!!!
In 4 months...

And the Recession/Depression will have increasingly greater impact until the Great Depression MkII has played out its secular bear market phase - around 2017, on current projections.
Consequently, all player evaluations must incorporate an adjusted view of history, a present state of play, and a future of probabilistic scenario analyses, which, when combined, will provide the ultimate modular approach to assessing player values and the timing of purchase/sale.

Currency volatility, counter-party risk, toxic 'assets', a freeze in the payment mechanisms, the prospect of publicity for the criminalities that are widespread in the transfer markets (eg third party agreements, agents working for both club and player, bungs, suitcases of money away from taxing eyes, and the imposition of a virtual slavery conveyor belt in West Africa, in particular) etc etc add further levels of complexity to the transfer market when viewed in the longer term.

As does the impact of the gambling markets.
There is a dichotomous neohyperreality to a corrupt player who is involved in short-selling his teams matches for his and his agents proprietary gain. For, although the said player is of minimal value to his club, he is of maximal value to the corrupt agent.
The mainstream media is the acquiescent party that allows this fallacy to be maintained.
Regular readers will be aware of the players who have been repeatedly mentioned on Football Is Fixed as being dodgy.
Regular readers will also be aware that it is these self-same individuals, with the transfer rumours and the ghost-written newspaper columns, who are able to maintain a high profile in the public eye, entirely at odds with the Reality of the corruptions perpetrated on the pitch.

The model that we have created incorporates all of these inputs, and more, and is robust.
You would be astonished at some of the player values that appear as outputs.

In the summer, Fulham paid between £9 and £13 million for the Everton striker, Andrew Johnson, who arrived at Craven Cottage alongside Bobby Zamora, another forward from West Ham United.
Both of these purchases were poorly judged on every level.
Firstly, as we mentioned above, Fulham spent heavily on players at the top of the market, meaning that all of their transfer payments were inflated considerably.
Secondly, Bobby Zamora has played 17 Premiership matches to date, and has scored precisely one goal. 'Nuff said...
But, thirdly, and of far more interest, is the case of Johnson.

Lets check out the hindsight initially.
In three seasons in the Premiership for Crystal Palace and Everton, Johnson had scored 38 goals in 98 appearances, and it was this goal/game ratio of 0.39 that persuaded Roy Hodgson to purchase.
But this figure is a fallacy, for 13 of those goals were scored from the penalty spot.
One goal in every four games is most certainly not worth the transfer fee.
Additionally, Johnson had secured zero goals in his 8 appearances for England.

As a comparison, we'll look at Mario Gómez of Stuttgart, who Fulham were also rumoured to be interested in.
In the last three and a half seasons in the Bundesliga, Gómez has scored 39 goals in open play from 66 games, and his market value was said to be around £15 million in the summer.
The club evidently made the incorrect choices.
Mind you, they also acquired Pascal Zuberbuhler who is, by some distance, the worst goalkeeper that I have ever set eyes on, so we should not be surprised at such nonsenses...

But the Real situation is worse than this.
In his first five games of the current campaign, Johnson failed to score.
In the next match (the internally corrupted match against Wigan, where Johnson 'presciently' wore a '100 goals' vest to celebrate this milestone, even though this was his first goal in over six months!), Johnson netted two pseudo-goals as the match was rigged.

So, in Reality, Johnson has scored 2 goals in fifteen appearances since moving south.
This evidently displays the dangers of i) trusting agents and ii) using simplistic sabermetrics.
For when we apply a Holistic Sabermetric template to Andrew Johnson, our model suggest that a true current value would be £3 million.
And, Zamora is worth even les...
As for Zuberbuhler.........

If they didn't have Jimmy Bullard and Brede Hangeland in their team, Fulham would be West Bromwich Albion.

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Κέρκυρα, 01.05.2012
19:07
On The Square
» Football is fixed

Is Roy Hodgson the first freemason to manage England?

Oh! I don't think so.

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18:14
You Couldn't Make It Up!
» Football is fixed

Howard Webb on Newcastle v Man City.

Chris Foy on Man Utd v Swansea.

United have won the league.

If this had happened in Italy, it would be called corruption.

We'd like to offer our congratulations to Sir Ferguson and Mike Riley on their stunning triumph.

A team unable to defeat FC Basel, Athletic Bilbao or Benfica in 6 games, beaten by Wigan, Crystal Palace and Blackburn, slaughtered by City and Newcastle is still good enough to win yet another tainted title triumph.

Spectacular...
... and Neohyperreal too.

NB Although City proved unstoppable, it is an outrage that this control over the selection of match officials exists in the first place.

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09:22
Premier League Referee Announcement Delay
» Football is fixed

The Premier League, via the PGMOB, announces the referees and assistants for the matches on the following weekend on Monday afternoon at 16:00.

This occurs regardless of the presence, or not, of a Monday night match.

For the first time this season (aside from Easter), no such announcement was made yesterday afternoon prior to the Manchester derby - the Championship Play Off, League One and League Two officials were released, so someone was in the office!
The referees have even been announced for the Blue Square Premier Play Offs next Monday.

If there are no announcements soon, the cheques won't have time to clear and it will be brown envelope time :)

Any sane bookmakers would have already closed the book on the probability of Sir Ferguson having a little chat on the phone this morning with PGMOB supremo, Mike "Kipper" Riley.

And talking of "any sane bookmakers", Fred Done!!!!!!!
Twice!
Ah! The true cost of marketing...
... possibly.

Let us see who Fergy chooses for Old Trafford and St James's Park this weekend.

But you can't trust Kipper...
... he's two-faced, slippery and he stinks.

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08:29
Make May Day Haywire for May!
» Football is fixed

1st May 2012 - MAYday!! The UK government wants to store all our e-mails in a huge database? OK, we'll save them the trouble by cc-ing the Home Secretary on every e-mail we send for a whole day.

In fact, why stop at May Day...
... make them a permanent cc (totally open source and nothing to hide) - the extraordinary renditioning, insider trading, unemployed abusing, warmongering, job destroying, arms dealing, disability targeting, offshore financing, regressively taxing, outsourcing, expenses grabbing, granny taxing, gerrymandering, power centralising, sneaky surveilling, people hating, Bullingdon bullying, wunch of bankers' friends.

Extended list of targets below...

parliamentaryteam@homeoffice.g
si.gov.uk
Ministers.HO@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
privateoffice.external@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
mayt@parliament.uk,
sharkeyj@parliament.uk,
office@maidenheadconservatives.com,
public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

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Κέρκυρα, 29.04.2012
22:01
Bookmakers To Take Over England Team
» Football is fixed

A Scotsman and a Dutchman react to the news that Roy Hodgson is the new England manager

As England have decided to continue to fail miserably with the appointment of Roy Hodgson, we have decided to bring up this post (originally blogged on April 8th this year).

To compare...

Fabio Capello managed Juventus, Roma, Real Madrid, AC Milan and England. In that time he has won 7 Serie A titles, 2 La Primera Liga titles, 4 Supercoppa Italiano titles, 1 European Super Cup and 1 UEFA Champions League title. In 603 matches as a manager, Capello has lost just 89 - he has only lost 25 matches in the last decade.

The only consequential tournament won by Hodgson in the last 23 years is the Danish Superliga in 2000/01.

You were warned...
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So Roy Hodgson wants the England job: "I could quite easily say there should be a clause in the [West Brom] contract that, if someone else wants me, compensation can be agreed."

This is not a good idea for England...
... it is only marginally better than appointing 'Onest 'Arry to the post.

When you appoint Hodgson, you get John Colquhoun too - Colquhoun has been the club agent to Hodgson at Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion.

Colquhoun has been in this position once before when he was agent for Steve McClaren when the talentless one was manager of England.

Players represented by Colquhoun were shamelessly promoted onto the international stage - there were matches, for example, where all three goalkeepers in the squad were on the books of Colquhoun (David James, Chris Kirkland and Scott Carson) - whether this was a good idea when Mr Colquhoun is a professional gambler is a moot point.

England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 through a mistake by Carson under the watchful gaze of Wally Brolly Man. But the real idiocy preventing qualification came in the arrangement of a friendly match in Austria just four days earlier. This was needless and tiring although it did provide one benefit - Michael Owen, the man with the Timeform Squiggle, was injured and missed the Croatia farce.

Bookmakers close to the Colquhoun Set Up were trading on a draw at Wembley. The Three Lions only needed a draw to qualify and there was huge patriotic mug money on the England win.
Playing with the markets cost England a place in the finals.

And Colquhoun is Scottish! He already has a similar arrangement with Craig Levein, the Scottish manager, resulting in the promotion of more of his clients onto the international stage - for example, James Morrison.

Stuart Pearce might have his managerial limitations but he is not corrupt...
... and in a world where Football is Fixed, that is as much as one can expect of your manager.

But...
One England squad, three goalkeepers on Key Sports' books, one manager on Key Sports' books and an agent with a propensity for insider trading...

What a weird fluke!

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21:44
Manipulated Markets
» Football is fixed

All financial markets are gamed by insiders seeking cornered structures, collaborative manipulations and inappropriate competitive advantages.

The surprising factor is that human behaviouralism results in exactly the same corrupt edifices being constructed across the market continuum - Goldman Sachs betting against disinformational advice sold to clients, banks working together to manipulate the LIBOR (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate), football agents working to inflate the values of their clients, bookmakers working in unison to achieve the required outcomes in criminalised football matches...

The parallel simplicities of these corruptions are marked - due to minimal external enforcement of the rules and laws in existence, the perpetrators do not have to put much effort into covering their murky tracks.
So they don't.

In this post, we explore these parallels and the issues arising.

The Economist: "It [the LIBOR] is supposed to be constructed using banks' own honest estimates of what it costs for them to borrow money. But regulators around the world suspect that LIBOR... has been subject to manipulation."
Banks' individual borrowing costs prove to be remarkably similar considering their varied levels of risk.
The Economist continues: "The court documents suggest that a group of traders regularly contacted one another to discuss how to influence the Yen LIBOR rate."

And so it is with football betting markets and the player transfer markets.

Primary level betting organisations, taking their cue from the highly liquid underground Dark Pools that are the foundation of postmodern football, co-ordinate match prices between themselves to optimise returns from the event.
This disguises the hyperreality of corruption from the public eye.

Take a fixed match that is regarded by insiders as a certainty but the information leading to this outcome is not open source.
Market makers will price the event based on an array of inputs that maximises their combined returns - if one firm were to suggest that Team A should be priced at 1/100, the market would be destroyed.

This collaboration between the market makers works along competitive pricing in the micro ie the bookmakers want to rip off mugs primarily but their competitor firms secondarily and strategically.

Or take the transfer market.
Agents, club agents and club managers hold a series of private meetings whereby the value of a player is assessed.
But this 'value' is not real - it is an inflation on price to the benefit of the various agents and the club manager(s) involved in the deal.

Once again, football on the whole loses out so that insiders might take a much larger slice of the action via their percentage cuts and the variety of brown envelopes and briefcases changing hands.

The Economist prints the case filing on the LIBOR manipulation where one trader from a whistleblowing bank (Trader A) helps to manipulate the market with a Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) insider: "Trader A explained to one RBS IRD trader who his collusive contacts were and how he had and was going to manipulate Yen LIBOR. Trader A also communicated his trading positions, his desire for a certain movement in Yen LIBOR and gave instructions for the RBS IRD trader to get RBS to make Yen LIBOR submissions consistent with Trader A's wishes. The RBS IRD trader acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Trader A and the RBS IRD trader also entered into transactions that aligned their trading interests in regards to Yen LIBOR."

Or...

Bookmaker A explained to Bookmaker B who his collusive contacts (bookmakers, players, agents, referees) were and how he was going to manipulate the match outcome. Bookmaker A also transmitted his trading positions, his desire for a certain result and gave instructions for Bookmaker B to get his organisation to use its contacts to enhance the match manipulation. Bookmaker B acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Bookmaker A and Bookmaker B also entered into transactions that aligned their trading interests in regards to the match outcome.

Or...

Agent A explained to Manager B who his collusive contacts (other agents, club agents, managers) were and how he was going to manipulate the transfer fee. Agent A also transmitted his player valuations, his desire for a certain minimum transfer fee and gave instructions to Manager B to use his contacts to inflate the price. Manager B acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Agent A, Manager B and other interested parties also entered into transactions that aligned their financial interests in regards to the inflated transfer fee.

All of which is illegal, although in football that matters little as there is no regulation and being bent is a core competency.

But this is short-termist and psychopathic.

Civil cases may be brought against the perpetrators.
* Large individual cases might be brought by either other bookmaking organisations or the club owners with respect to betting and transfer corruptions.
* Traders on the wrong side of manipulated bets or club employees suffering the consequences might bring class action suits.
* Traders whose winnings are limited or clubs who lose out on future transfer fees might also have a case if intent can be proved.
* Individual bettors can group together to create class action suits to reclaim losses on events manipulated by insiders.

The similarities in the forms of financial market manipulation is enhanced in a wired world where mass behaviouralisms become global consciousness 'wisdoms' at a pace while the individual manipulators believe that their omnipotence places them ahead of the curve.

When actually there is no robustness whatsoever in such rubbish in/rubbish out corruptions.
Just a symbiotic relationship between market makers and crime.

Still...
The criminals who manipulate financial, betting and transfer markets utilising the same tactics...
... some of them are even the same individuals/organisations.

What a weird fluke!

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11:58
Occupy Football
» Football is fixed

Football is Fixed/Dietrological attacks on two wings - we expose to the public some of the blatantly surreal data that indicates the degree to which football is criminalised and we transform the game from within by working alongside other bodies who possess an interest in saving the sport.

This post deals with the former.

The Occupy Movement is preparing a Global Spectacular for May Day.

Manchester, a historical centre of revolutionary verve, is hosting the derby between Manchester City and United tomorrow evening.

United will avoid defeat at Eastlands and the title will be all but won.

We have previously exposed the extensive control that Manchester United have both over Mike Riley and the PGMOB and the selection of referees, plus the remarkable biases in decision-making by some of those selected officials.

For example, Marriner (tomorrow's ref), Foy, Walton, Jones, Mason combined give us 53 United Wins, 16 Draws and 2 Defeats...
... 2 losses in 71 matches!!

As the mainstream media avoids any mentions of the extensive corruptions underpinning the Premier League, the voices of the frustrated have been restricted to fan websites and blogs...
... peripheralised in other words.

But the hyperrealised spectacle needs a media platform, namely BSkyB.

Although the EPL can (and do) control what happens on the pitch, they are in a more fallible position when it comes to controlling the people who are paying their hard-earned cash to watch the criminalities live.

Now, Citeh fans, we would not suggest anything so uncouth as pitch invasions but direct action will make a difference.

Chants, Spectaculars, Banners, Flags, Mancunian Mockery.

The public data is overwhelming...
... use it.

Occupy Football

Noam Chomsky: "Occupy came along at a time which was ripe, and the strategy I thought was brilliant. If I had been asked I wouldn’t have advised it. I never thought it was going to work. Fortunately I was wrong. It worked very well. Two major developments took place I think, and if it can be sustained and expanded it’ll be extremely important. One was just changing the discourse, putting things on the public agenda that were simmering in the background but were never articulated in a focused fashion -- like inequality or financial corruption and the shredding of the democratic system, the collapse of a productive economy. These things just became common coin. That’s very important.
"The other thing that happened, which is hard to measure, is the creation of communities. The Occupy communities were extremely valuable. These were communities that just kind of spontaneously developed out of mutual support, public interchange and the kinds of things that are very much lacking in an atomized society like ours’, where people are kind of alone. The social unit that the business world strives for is a dyad, a pair. You and your television or you and your computer screen. That was broken by the Occupy movement in a very significant way. Just the possibilities of cooperation, solidarity, mutual support, public discussion, democratic participation is a model which should inspire people. A lot of people did participate, at least peripherally."If these two developments could be sustained and expanded there could be a long-term impact. It’s not going to be easy and there are major challenges. Tactics will have to be readjusted as always, but it was a real breakthrough. If you think about what’s happened in just a few months it’s quite startling."
Time to Startle Ferguson and Sky

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11:16
Sir Minty, a Dodgy Bank, a Shady Company and a Goat-Bothering Brotherhood
» Football is fixed

Interesting connections-

Gavin Masterton, former boss of the Bank of Scotland and close friend of David Murray, retired from BoS in 2001 and started up a company called Stadia Investments Group. All SPL clubs at that time were BoS customers (except Celtic) and they almost all needed major improvements to their grounds which, coincidentally, were provided by SIG.

This was good for the business of Murray International Metals whose book value was bumped up just in time to be sold for £125 million when the new BoS bosses didn't like the look of Murray's enormous bank debt and pressed him to do something about it.

SIG was liquidated in around 2004 or 2005 with debts of £25-28 million.

The relationship between Masterton and Murray seems to have been consistently helpful to Murray to an excessive degree.

Masterton is still a director of Dunfermline FC who famously lay down in their final match of the 2003 season at Ibrox, allowing the Huns to win the SPL title on goal difference.

It also appears that Murray's takeover of the Huns in 1986 was made possible by Masterton's guarantee, on behalf of BoS, to underwrite the £6million which Murray needed at that time. Ever since, the two of them appear to have been - how shall we put it? - as thick as thieves . .

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Κέρκυρα, 28.04.2012
20:37
They Did It Their Way!
» Football is fixed

Tomorrow sees the final ever Auld Firm match between Celtic and Her Majesty's Rangers & Crooks (HMR&C).

"We've loved, We've laughed and cried.
We've had our fill; our share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
We find it all so amusing...

"For what are men, what have they got?
If not themselves, then they have naught.
To say the things they truly feel;
And not the words of those who kneel.
The record shows we took the blows -
And did it Our Way!"

When Celtic are given back the seven stolen titles, the score is Celtic 50 Rangers 47.

The Battle is Over...
... the Rebels have Won

Hail Hail!!

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06:57
The Fixing of Glasgow Rangers v Zenit St Petersburg - A Flashback
» Football is fixed

The post below was originally published on the Football is Fixed blog on October 5th 2008.

The questions remain - whereabouts did the money end up in both Glasgow and Munchen?
And, in the former case, was tax paid to the HMR&C?

Another criminal hyperreality hidden away in the corridors of power.

For security, isolationism and avoidance of libel, certain parts of this post are masked from view.
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"The Guardian economics editor, Larry Elliott, has written that the Prime Minister 'resembles a tragic hero in a Hardy novel: an essentially good man brought down by one error of judgement'. What is this one error of judgement? The bank-rolling of two murderous colonial adventures? No. The unprecedented growth of the British arms industry and the sale of weapons to the poorest countries? No. The replacement of manufacturing and public service by an arcane cult serving the ultra-rich? No. The Prime Minister's 'folly' is 'postponing the election last year'." - John Pilger.

When truth is replaced by silence," said the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "the silence is a lie."

The Guardian is similarly silent when confronted with the global menace of underground football betting markets and matches rigged by teams, players or match officials.
So, while everybody else was discussing the dreadful standard of refereeing in the Premiership last weekend, the leading left-of-centre (sic) comic gave us "We Should Treat Our Referees Like Gods" by Steven Wells, a man who is evidently celebrating life in another solar system.
Journalistic abdication at its lowest ebb...

If you were diligent and observant, you may have spotted a brief glimpse of the most major footballing story of the week in The Guardian - it was online for a few hours before the hyperreal news took over.
So, while The Guardian focused on the critical newsworthy significance of a grown man swearing at journalists in a press conference, the Real news was absent.
Silence.
Apart from repeated coverage of the swearing - firstly, the breaking news, then, the transcript, followed by the video and the whole hyperreal farce being nicely terminated by a piece discussing the "awful lot of fuss there's been about Joe Kinnear's cussing".
How far up their own backsides do these people wish to venture?

Anyway.
Real news.
It is alleged that Zenit St Petersburg bought last year's UEFA Cup via bribery, affecting both the Semi Final against Bayern Munchen and the Final in Manchester against Rangers.
While resisting the urge to utter "shame" in the latter case, this is not really the done thing.
Damn Russki's buying matches - that's Communism for you.

This story isn't just some gossipy bit of nonsense - its the Real McCoy.
Leading Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzón, famous for investigating Pinochet and Argentinian war criminals, Henry Kissinger and American war criminals in Guantanamo, has had 20 members of the leading and global Russian underworld gang, Tambovskaya-Malyshevskaya, arrested in Spain. They have been held since June.

Garzón has phone intercepts where Gennadios Petrov, the gang leader, discussed the buying of the Semi Final 2nd Leg against FC Bayern.
Petrov is known to have links with Zenit and El Pais stated: "... that the organisation of Petrov had interests in Zenit, is manifestly clear."
Meanwhile, ABC said that Petrov boasted of spending €20-40 million buying match outcomes in the latter stages of last year's UEFA Cup. A further part of the tape reveals that "50 million" had been paid to the Bavarian side to lose the Second Leg of the Semi Final in Leningrad.

Garzón has asked German prosecutors to help with an investigation. FC Bayern are evidently shocked that this Reality has come to light - the media responses have been reactive and revealing.
Eventually, a Bavarian spokesperson settled on the statement that FC Bayern have "no knowledge of such suspicions", followed by a rather defensive conclusion that they would respond more fully once they had seen the degree of the leak.
Excellent.
Build your defence around the gaming of the potential case against you.

Meanwhile, Zenit deny dishonesty and are threatening all sorts of shenanigans in response. They would be wise to wait for the release of the conversations on the Operation Troica tapes before adding buffoonery to their alleged criminality.

UEFA plan to investigate.
UEFA spokesperson, William Gaillard, stated with resolve: "We are going to look at this closely."
What?
As closely as you looked into Dynamo Tbilisi and Panionios, or the final Albanian Euro 2008 Qualifiers, or Liverpool v Besiktas in the Champions League or etc etc etc etc etc.
The same fate awaits all such investigations - bureaucratic burial at headquarters.
Bad for the brand, you see...

Early Warning GmbH are the 'police force' that UEFA utilise to investigate suspicious betting patterns.
They might as well as have used a latter day Inspector Clouseau.
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In the Semi Final First Leg, there was a clear agenda against Zenit - the match was refereed by leading UEFA light, Ľuboš Micheľ.
He gave Bayern a penalty which they proceeded to miss, he booked Zenit players with uncanny targeting, in that three of the four bookings resulted in key players missing from the Second Leg, including Andrei Arshavin. The suspensions meant that the Russian side went into the second match with only two fit and eligible defenders.
FC Bayern received no bookings, despite 13 fouls.
Indeed, Bayern would have won had not Lucio scored an improbable own goal to level things up.

In the First Leg, Bayern were rated at 76 by our Trading Team (100 = maximum; 0 = minimum).
In the Second Leg, Bayern fell to a slightly unbelievable 33.
4-0 Zenit triumphed.
Henning Øvrebø officiated and there was nothing in his performance to suggest that he was involved with the alleged corruption. Indeed, he booked Pogrebnyak leading to the star striker missing the Final.
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So, what about the Final itself, that glorious day when half of Glasgow vomited profusely in Manchester, in order to demonstrate their evolutionary zeal?

Well, once again, there was nothing in the performance of the match referee Frojdfeldt to imply involvement in illicit activities.
This would leave the bribery of opponents as the only feasible route to ensure victory.

One of the features of the Final was the unusual linkage between the participants, represented to public perceptions by former Rangers manager, the incompetent Dick Advocaat, being manager of the victorious Russians.
Usually, when we start sousveillance for motives, we seek out financial need rather than straight greed - it is a higher threshold of need that creates the incentives to bend Realities for personal gratification.
It is a known fact that Rangers chairperson, Sir Murray, had, and still has, credit-crunchitis as his property empire crumbles away.
Surely a Loyal Team with Loyal Supporters would not act with such treachery?

So far, so believable, if still slightly fuzzy.

There are some questions that are raised by the mainstream media's lack of willingness to publicise this massive story and by UEFA's inability to eradicate the menaces of gambling and match fixing.

Firstly, if Zenit did buy the Final AND Rangers had nothing to do with the illegalities, why aren't the British press jumping up and down, and generally raising a racket?
It was a European Final.
'Gers were potentially robbed of glory.
This most certainly isn't on the level of the Panionios game!
You also might think that a rabidly anti-Russian press in Britain might just have run with this story...

Secondly, in the words of one of our readers, "The Guardian don't really like let on about fixed matches, do they?"
That's what being pally with the bookies does for your journalistic integrity...

Thirdly, where exactly are Early Warning looking for match fixing? Because, in our humble opinion, it cannot be in the right locations.
Large numbers of matches are fixed at all phases of the three flagship UEFA tournaments.
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As it currently stands, we know of certain market operators who trade one way in the early phases of the market in order to engender the required response from Early Warning, before coming in with late liquidity in the opposite direction. UEFA are none the wiser.

Of course, by Monday morning, this story will never have happened.
It is an invalid Reality. It cannot be reported.

If UEFA want to resolve the issue of integrity in football, they are going to have to team up with FIFA and go after these private markets.

There you go, Early Warning, investigate it...

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Κέρκυρα, 27.04.2012
16:19
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09:09
What An Incredible Fluke LVII!
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Ally McCoist "disgusted" by threats from Rangers fans.

The rest of football "disgusted" by Ally McCoist.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 26.04.2012
12:48
What An Incredible Fluke LVI!
» Football is fixed

The PGMOB Select Group of referees for Premier League games features the ludicrously small number of just 18 officials.

This is a structure seemingly primed for corruption.

But the hyperreality is worse still.

Stuart Attwell has been demoted due to the poor standard of his officiating.
Peter Walton was forced to retire early following disclosures about his alleged biases - he is no longer in the country.
Martin Atkinson has been overlooked since he gave the ghost goal to Chelsea in the FA Cup Semi Final (presumably 18 Chelsea matches without refereeing any defeats has finally been noticed).
Although, hilariously, Atkinson has been given the Europa Cup Semi Final at Bilbao this evening!
Howard Webb, Mark Clattenburg together with Atkinson are away in Turkey training for Euro 2012 from next Monday.

This leaves just 13 referees for the key matches next week with Webb and Clattenburg being forced to squeeze in a match before flying out.

Serie A has 32 top flight referees, the Bundesliga has 22 and La Liga 19.

The result of such a select Select Group is that rookie referee Mike Jones, for instance, is going to be a busy man.
His diary?

Thu: Athletic Bilbao v Sp Lisbon (AAR)
Sat: WBA v Aston Villa (4th Official)
Sun: Spurs v Blackburn (Referee)
Mon: Man City v Man Utd (4th Official)

As the standard of officiating in the Premier League is truly dire, what on earth are the justifications for having such a miniscule number of match referees?

The Premier League integrity is Graphene thin...

What a weird fluke!

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09:39
What An Incredible Fluke LV!
» Football is fixed

Lord Redknapp of The Sandbanks or Woy The Hedge or Stuart Pearce?

A colleague has had an entertaining conversation with a senior HMR&C official and was informed that the police found copious amounts of ###### ############ ######## when the mansion of a certain individual was raided.

But.

Someone made a dog's breakfast of the paperwork on the case resulting in the pitiful Rosie 47 Spectacle.

You have to develop some level of respect for Lord Redknapp - no matter how heavy, how powerful, how underworld, how mafiosi, how taxing his associates and enemies, the man with the wobbly face holds his own.

As for the next England manager...
... makes no difference as there are enough criminalised players in the side to ensure that the English bookies will never have to pay out on anything so irritating as an English success.

But hey...
... somebody messing up on the paperwork.

What a weird fluke!

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08:51
What An Incredible Fluke LIV!
» Football is fixed

So.
Paul Clark of Duff Phelps, the Rangers administrators, is strongly critical of the decision to impose a transfer embargo on the club and he is absolutely beside himself that his old work colleague Craig Whyte has been fined and banned for life from Scottish football.

Firstly, Whyte should be imprisoned.

Meanwhile Ally McCoist makes assertions regarding the SFA Judicial Tribunal: "Who are these people? I want to know who these people are.”
All three members of this panel have subsequently received threats and are under high level police protection.

Interestingly, so are we.

Is this what British football has descended into?
Death threats, menaces, insider gambling, third party ownership, fixed matches, police protection - we could, if we so desired, entirely demolish the careers and reputations of some very senior individuals in both Scottish and English football...
... but we strategically elect not to do so.

Moreover, previous owners need to explain spectacles like the Zenit St Petersburg Fixed Final.

And Dick Advocaat, the man who began the financial shenanigans and who also benefited in a range of ways from the ZSP farce, should act as the threshold date-wise beyond which all unfairly won Scottish Premier League titles since 1998 are returned to the rightful owners, Celtic FC.

But.
Whyte and Clark being former project colleagues...
... and Clark putting the interests of his friend criminally high on his hidden agenda.

What a weird fluke!

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00:39
What An Incredible Fluke LIII!
» Football is fixed

There were 13 players from the Primary Tier G14(18) power lobby teams one booking away from missing the Champions League Final.

Between them they accumulated 16 fouls and three players will miss the game in Munchen.

Chelsea had 5 players one booking away from missing the showcase.
These players committed 4 fouls.
The result being that all four miss the Final.

Put another way...
... The G14(18) teams committed 47 fouls and received 9 bookings in total, while Chelsea committed 10 fouls and were given 6 bookings and a sending off and a penalty against them.

Luiz Gustavo alone committed 9 fouls!!

Three points.

Firstly, not one Real Madrid or Barcelona player who was in danger of being banned even fouled during the 210 minutes of football.

Secondly, Roman Abramovich needs to extend his already considerable array of vory and krysha to be treated equitably by UEFA.

And, thirdly, as the Spanish season is now effectively over, the odds on a Spain Euro 2012 triumph should shorten after tonight.

Not one non-G14(18) team has won the Final since the Champions League was formed...
... we see no reasons for that sequence to be broken this season.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 25.04.2012
11:58
What An Incredible Fluke LII!
» Football is fixed

There are very strong rumours emanating from some key underground Asian market makers that John Terry was allegedly the footballing equivalent of a non-trier in horseracing last evening.

The betting turnover on the match globally was the most voluminous we have ever seen...

But surely the Club Captain, Former England Captain and Alleged Celebrity Racist would not be involved with his associates betting against his own team...
... surely!

But.
If he was.

What a weird fluke!

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10:35
What An Incredible Fluke LI!
» Football is fixed

Over £5 billion of conspicuous professional insider trading went down the pan when Fernando Torres equalised for Chelsea in injury time last evening.

Now that is some way to start repaying your £50 million transfer fee!

For once Fantastic Football Fucked The Frigging Fixers.

What a weird fluke!

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08:14
What An Incredible Fluke L!
» Football is fixed

The solutions to the major end-of-season Champions League events are always truly holistic.

First we had Mourinho sending through Art of War strategies to help Chelsea against Barcelona.

Second we had both Barcelona and Bayern Munchen utilising their G14(18) power webs to energise the excellent refereeing performance from Cuneyt Cakir - Chelsea committed 10 fouls (just two more than Barca) had 6 bookings, a sending off, a penalty against them and the result that four of the punished players are banned from the final...
... in Munchen.
For comparison, Tuesday's three matches in Serie A and Premier League produced 82 fouls and 9 bookings!

Thirdly we finally realise what a fantastic decision it was by West Bromwich Albion to replace Roberto di Matteo with an Omerta Outfit.

And, fourthly, having disgraced themselves, the victims and football in general by their behaviours during the minute silence for the people murdered at Hillsborough by South Yorkshire police, we are now able to look forward to that same level of evolved rationale for a match in Germany against either Mourinho or, worse still, Germans.

Still 82 fouls and 9 bookings...
... or 10 fouls and 6 bookings and 1 sending off.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 24.04.2012
11:15
Manipulated Markets
» Football is fixed

All financial markets are gamed by insiders seeking cornered structures, collaborative manipulations and inappropriate competitive advantages.

The surprising factor is that human behaviouralism results in exactly the same corrupt edifices being constructed across the market continuum - Goldman Sachs betting against disinformational advice sold to clients, banks working together to manipulate the LIBOR (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate), football agents working to inflate the values of their clients, bookmakers working in unison to achieve the required outcomes in criminalised football matches...

The parallel simplicities of these corruptions are marked - due to minimal external enforcement of the rules and laws in existence, the perpetrators do not have to put much effort into covering their murky tracks.
So they don't.

In this post, we explore these parallels and the issues arising.

The Economist: "It [the LIBOR] is supposed to be constructed using banks' own honest estimates of what it costs for them to borrow money. But regulators around the world suspect that LIBOR... has been subject to manipulation."
Banks' individual borrowing costs prove to be remarkably similar considering their varied levels of risk.
The Economist continues: "The court documents suggest that a group of traders regularly contacted one another to discuss how to influence the Yen LIBOR rate."

And so it is with football betting markets and the player transfer markets.

Primary level betting organisations, taking their cue from the highly liquid underground Dark Pools that are the foundation of postmodern football, co-ordinate match prices between themselves to optimise returns from the event.
This disguises the hyperreality of corruption from the public eye.

Take a fixed match that is regarded by insiders as a certainty but the information leading to this outcome is not open source.
Market makers will price the event based on an array of inputs that maximises their combined returns - if one firm were to suggest that Team A should be priced at 1/100, the market would be destroyed.

This collaboration between the market makers works along competitive pricing in the micro ie the bookmakers want to rip off mugs primarily but their competitor firms secondarily and strategically.

Or take the transfer market.
Agents, club agents and club managers hold a series of private meetings whereby the value of a player is assessed.
But this 'value' is not real - it is an inflation on price to the benefit of the various agents and the club manager(s) involved in the deal.

Once again, football on the whole loses out so that insiders might take a much larger slice of the action via their percentage cuts and the variety of brown envelopes and briefcases changing hands.

The Economist prints the case filing on the LIBOR manipulation where one trader from a whistleblowing bank (Trader A) helps to manipulate the market with a Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) insider: "Trader A explained to one RBS IRD trader who his collusive contacts were and how he had and was going to manipulate Yen LIBOR. Trader A also communicated his trading positions, his desire for a certain movement in Yen LIBOR and gave instructions for the RBS IRD trader to get RBS to make Yen LIBOR submissions consistent with Trader A's wishes. The RBS IRD trader acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Trader A and the RBS IRD trader also entered into transactions that aligned their trading interests in regards to Yen LIBOR."

Or...

Bookmaker A explained to Bookmaker B who his collusive contacts (bookmakers, players, agents, referees) were and how he was going to manipulate the match outcome. Bookmaker A also transmitted his trading positions, his desire for a certain result and gave instructions for Bookmaker B to get his organisation to use its contacts to enhance the match manipulation. Bookmaker B acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Bookmaker A and Bookmaker B also entered into transactions that aligned their trading interests in regards to the match outcome.

Or...

Agent A explained to Manager B who his collusive contacts (other agents, club agents, managers) were and how he was going to manipulate the transfer fee. Agent A also transmitted his player valuations, his desire for a certain minimum transfer fee and gave instructions to Manager B to use his contacts to inflate the price. Manager B acknowledged these communications and confirmed that he would follow through. Agent A, Manager B and other interested parties also entered into transactions that aligned their financial interests in regards to the inflated transfer fee.

All of which is illegal, although in football that matters little as there is no regulation and being bent is a core competency.

But this is short-termist and psychopathic.

Civil cases may be brought against the perpetrators.
* Large individual cases might be brought by either other bookmaking organisations or the club owners with respect to betting and transfer corruptions.
* Traders on the wrong side of manipulated bets or club employees suffering the consequences might bring class action suits.
* Traders whose winnings are limited or clubs who lose out on future transfer fees might also have a case if intent can be proved.
* Individual bettors can group together to create class action suits to reclaim losses on events manipulated by insiders.

The similarities in the forms of financial market manipulation is enhanced in a wired world where mass behaviouralisms become global consciousness 'wisdoms' at a pace while the individual manipulators believe that their omnipotence places them ahead of the curve.

When actually there is no robustness whatsoever in such rubbish in/rubbish out corruptions.
Just a symbiotic relationship between market makers and crime.

Still...
The criminals who manipulate financial, betting and transfer markets utilising the same tactics...
... some of them are even the same individuals/organisations.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 23.04.2012
17:34
What An Incredible Fluke XLIX!
» Football is fixed

Andre Marriner is the appointment for the Manchester derby.

In 14 Man Utd matches that he has officiated, the Reds have won 12, drawn 1, lost 1.

The 4th Official is Mike Jones who was described as "rubbish" by David Moyes after the game with Everton yesterday. When a referee, United have not lost one game out of the 9 that he has refereed.

So the two key officials appointed by Red Riley have overseen one Man Utd defeat in 23 games.

Integrity or what?

What a weird fluke!

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13:52
What An Incredible Fluke XLVIII!
» Football is fixed

On May 16th 2009, we produced a post about which currently serving referee should take over running the referee's body, the PGMOB, when Keith Hackett retired that summer.

We suggested that, for an array of reasons suiting the powers-that-be, Mike Riley would be selected...
... and so he was.

Riley has presided over the most corrupted window in Premier League history.

Take the bias in favour of Manchester United - why does Sir Ferguson have such control over the selection of referees for games involving both Manchester clubs?

Well, Mike Riley's last four years as a referee should provide you with an answer.

On Manchester United matches, Riley helped the Reds to 11 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats.
On Manchester City matches, Riley gave the Blues 1 win, 1 draw and 6 defeats.

So the man who selects Red referees for Red matches is himself a Red.

What a weird fluke!

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08:57
What An Incredible Fluke XLVII!
» Football is fixed

Five hyperrealities to dwarf your weekend...

1) So who will referee the Manchester Derby? Webb, Atkinson and Clattenburg are away on a training session for Euro 2012 on Monday. Red Walton has been forced to retire early. Lee Mason has been removed from refereeing two of the last three Man City games. Chris Foy, Mike Jones (described as "rubbish" by David Moyes at Old Trafford yesterday) and Anthony Taylor are merely 12th men for Ferguson. Mark Halsey is prohibited due to refereeing the penultimate match at Old Trafford.
Which leaves Mike Dean - a referee who has been anti-Mancunian teams generally - Phil Dowd (with whom City have only won 7 out of the last 22 matches that he has officiated) or Andre Marriner (14 United games, 12 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat) as the only valid officials.
Marriner for Referee?
There will be Red control.

2) Robin van Persie, who had absolutely nothing to do with the agreed draw with Chelsea on Saturday, was named PFA Player of the Year on Sunday.

3) As we posted last week, Reading and their promotion are backed by hot money. As Matt Scott says in the Telegraph: "The man [Chris Samuelson] fronting the Russian takeover at Reading has been accused in US court papers of being the subject of multiple high-profile money-laundering investigations."
In a statement before US bankruptcy courts: "Most prominent were the probes by the French Central Office for Combating Grand Financial Offences (OCRGDF) a principal French governmental agency investigating major financial frauds, and the Economic Investigation Service (FIOD/ECD), the Netherlands money laundering watchdog.
“In the early 2000s Samuelson was also investigated by the FBI in connection with the Bank of New York money laundering scandal.”
And Football is Fixed can reveal that there is a Gibraltar-based bookmaking organisation involved in this collection of criminalities.
Last week Richard Scudamore referred to Reading's promotion as "fantastic".

4) Juventus manager Antonio Conte is refusing to talk about the fixed match between Novara and Siena last season when he was manager of the latter.
Former Siena midfielder Filippo Carobbio, who now plies his trade with Spezia, told La Gazzetta dello Sport on Saturday that Conte knew Siena's 2-2 draw with Novara last season was being rigged.
Juventus moved three points clear at the top of Serie A on Sunday night via a penalty and the early sending off of Roma's keeper, Stekelenberg.

5) As we predicted when the choice was made, the appointment of Undiano Mallenco as 12th man for Real Madrid against Barcelona was the title decider. Real Madrid have bought La Liga title through rampantly biased refereeing over the season.

So, five illicit manipulations against the integrity of the sport and five winners rewarded for such manipulation.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 22.04.2012
11:22
What An Incredible Fluke XLVI!
» Football is fixed

The PGMOB have removed Lee Mason from his second Manchester City match in three games this afternoon - Lee Probert will now referee the Wolves event after Kevin Friend took over for the West Brom one.

Presumably nothing to do with the decisions that Mr Mason made in the Man Utd/QPR game nor the fact that United are yet to lose when he officiates nor the opinions expressed by Roberto Mancini on Friday.

There have been six changes to match referees or assistant referees over this weekend in the Premier League...
... that is more changes than there have been in the Bundesliga in the last decade and a half.

In one weekend!!

What a weird fluke!

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09:28
What An Incredible Fluke XLV!
» Football is fixed

ARSENAL V CHELSEA WAS A FIX.

The Premier League match between Arsenal and Chelsea yesterday was fixed...
... it was an agreed draw, an outcome that suited both sides.

We were informed by our primary Asian brokers of the fix yesterday morning and the professional insider money took on the mug money throughout the day.

Mr Wenger found it "a strange game" while Robin van Persie opened his mouth too wide in the matchday programme with "We have to win, it's as simple as that, and I can promise you that we will go for it. We have everything that it takes to put in another very good performance."

Really?

Numerous individuals, match officials, club officials and agents were investing in the match outcome.
The betting patterns are very revealing.

Still...
... those of you buying a ticket, or subscribing to Sky, or betting on the match like it was real, your lives are irreparably poorer for yet another experience of ScudamoreWorld criminality.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 20.04.2012
16:02
What An Incredible Fluke XLIV!
» Football is fixed

In his Friday press conference, Roberto Mancini spoke out about the refereeing bias that has accompanied Manchester United's tainted title triumph.

"... after some of the situations I saw in the last three or four weeks, I think it is really difficult for us... The rules are not the same for everyone... When I was in Italy I always thought here there were the best referees. My idea has changed."

Previous posts have reported on the tilts in decision-making in favour of Man Utd by Chris Foy, Lee Mason, Howard Webb and, in particular, the recently retired Red Walton but, in this post, we wish to focus on the Big Games that Mr Webb referees involving Manchester United - matches against Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City.

From season 2006/07 when Webb first started regularly getting the Big Games, he has been referee at 17 such events.

v Arsenal - 3 Wins 1 Draw 1 Loss
v Chelsea - 2, 2, 0
v Liverpool - 2, 0, 1
v Man City - 2, 0, 1
v Spurs - 2, 0, 0

Totalling 11 Wins 3 Draws 3 Losses.

Eight Penalties/Sendings Off in Favour of Utd, Two Against.

"The rules are not the same for everyone."

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 19.04.2012
18:37
What An Incredible Fluke XLIII!
» Football is fixed

Martin Atkinson, who gave Chelsea the ghost goal and elected not to send off Petr Cech for last man challenge, has refereed 16 matches in the Premier League featuring Chelsea.

Chelsea have won 13, drawn 3 and lost zero.

Chelsea have also won both FA Cup Semi Finals under Mr Atkinson's tutelage.

18 major games with 15 wins and no defeats.

What a weird fluke!

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11:08
What An Incredible Fluke XLII!
» Football is fixed

These structures should not exist - are there not enough countries with no involvement in the Champions League Semi Finals!?

FC Bayern/Real Madrid - English Referee
Chelsea/Barcelona - German Referee

What a weird fluke!

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09:57
What An Incredible Fluke XLI!
» Football is fixed

Reading are promoted.
Leafy Berkshire town to bring greater variety to the Premier League.

Reading are rumoured to be owned by Russian 'businessman' Boris Zingarevich although his son Anton is the public face - this is the identical structure to Portsmouth when Gaydamak Senior and Junior orchestrated the asset stripping of a proud football club.

John Madejski referred to "the Zingarevich family" in his promotion euphoria...

The website 'Russian Mafia' details Boris Zingarevich and his methods of doing business.
See the collection of newspaper articles detailing alleged murders and other behaviouralisms that should not be welcome in the Premier League at [www.rumafia.com]

Thames Sport Investment (TSI) is the company behind Reading's promotion.
As Matt Scott says in the Telegraph: "TSI is not a company or limited-liability partnership incorporated in the UK, making inquiries less straightforward...Chris Samuelson, who has so far been the public face of TSI, is a director of Mutual Trust SA, a financial-services firm based in the Swiss canton of Vaud specialising in incorporating discreet investment vehicles in offshore jurisdictions."

Richard Scudamore needs to pretend that we have a fit and proper persons ruling.

He has spoken: ""All of a sudden Reading came through in the last three or four months - the run they've been on has been brilliant and they've done it with a couple of matches to spare, which is fantastic."

As long as they have money, they will be welcome into Scudamore's Betting Parlour, no matter what the source of the money or the manner of its secretion.

Still.
A Berkshire town...
... and a St Petersburg mafia man.

What a weird fluke!

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09:30
What An Incredible Fluke XL!
» Football is fixed

When Roy Hodgson and John Colquhoun were turfed out of Liverpool for Northampton and Konchesky and for playing like Fulham, Colquhoun used his links with Jeremy Peace to get Roberto di Matteo removed from his post as manager of West Bromwich Albion so that Mr Hodgson and his good self might be installed.

And so it came to pass...

Now.
West Brom are a bog standard lower division side whose manager will only commit to a new contract if there is a clause allowing him to leave if a better offer comes along.

And.
Di Matteo has taken over at one of the biggest teams in the world - won 10 drawn 2 and lost only one of 13 matches since taking over, including beating the best side in the world.
And Di Matteo is always true to his contract.
Like Guardiola.
Like all good managers.

Still...
Getting sacked by West Brom and having one foot in the Champions League Final.
Where is the managerial sabermetrics?

It doesn't exist.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 17.04.2012
10:02
What An Incredible Fluke XXXIX!
» Football is fixed

Goal line technology is not enough and the repeated mainstreaming of the state of play in the development of this limited technology every time there is a colossal (and public) travesty of justice in football is becoming somewhat hackneyed.

The mainstream media are also responsible for the framing of this technology argument - the limited msm exposure for Wenger's views on video technology across the field of play (as opposed to merely goal line) being merely the latest example.

The key aspects being addressed here are the numerous occasions where the outcome of football matches are being directly decided by incorrect applications of the rules of the game by referees.
The aim, surely, in any balanced sport is to eradicate these frequent errors to return some semblance of integrity to the sport.

Well, no...
... that is not the strategy as it happens.
The strategy is rather to be dragged kicking to the repeatedly delayed start date for the limited use in some leagues of goal line technology by 2013/14 season while protesting that even this small concession will destroy the game as we know it.

But the game as we know it nowadays is a gambling extravaganza - a £10 million bet on a EPL game on the day of match is par for the course in the Asian underground markets.
The volume on some major turnover events is several billion pounds - this is the crux of the matter.

It is an unfortunate hyperreality that referees have become the conduit of choice for the fixing of matches but their field-of-play omnipotence made them the obvious target. Across the world, various tactics are being used to offset these fixes - changing referee late on, only announcing appointments close to kick off, using foreign officials etc.

Video technology across the pitch with each manager having three calls per game would transform the sport into the competitive spectacle it once was. For it is not just the 'seeing' of events on the pitch that matters but also the incorrect interpretations of the rules of the game.
All communications should be on open-mike and the selection of match officials needs to be randomised having taken into account any inappropriate linkages recognised in the patterns of previously refereed matches.

The only losers are the clubs and bookmaking organisations that control match officials and the vast array of insider gamblers and consortia that benefit from the contorting of your footballing realities for their criminalised and proprietary profit.

Still, football being the sport most corrupted by the influence of insider betting...
... and the insiders in football being the slowest to react to the benefits of video technology to prevent such criminality.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 15.04.2012
21:29
What An Incredible Fluke XXXVIII!
» Football is fixed

The Guardian could not have timed their spurious ill-founded and disinformational campaign in support of the referees any more poorly - three articles in one week is not balanced journalism...

Martin Atkinson with a ghost goal and a non-sending off in the biggest English match of the day.
Mark Halsey with two entirely incorrect decisions regarding penalties in the biggest Premier League game.
Euan Norris with two assymetric decisions that decided a Scottish Cup semi final.
And Chris Foy starting the weekend off with a Favour for Fergie by booking Tevez for diving rather than giving the penalty.

Quality.

With Atkinson's historical favouring of Chelsea, the PGMOB bias to Man Utd, Mr Norris and his tilt to Rangers and Foy's 14 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss on Man Utd games, the mistakes were par for the course!!!

As The Guardian told us Roy Hodgson had said, the English referees are "probably the best in Europe" - at what exactly?

Hodgson's West Brom gained a victory at the weekend with pet ref Jon Moss in control - perhaps that is good officiating in Hodgson's myopia.

Meanwhile Willie McKay's Doncaster Rovers were relegated from the Championship. Doncaster manager Dean Saunders blamed all four goals his side conceded on poor decisions and questioned whether referee Mick Russell should be allowed to officiate again.

Arsene Wenger believes it is time football embraces the assistance video replays would provide for referees, as has been done in cricket, tennis and rugby league.
"We need to assess the global situation and I think all of the football authorities need to sit together and see how we can improve it," Wenger said.
"It's time for us to help the referees and all be united and have a less conservative approach. And opt for video because video will help the referees.
It will not question their authority, it will give them more credit, more authority and less mistakes.
"(Video replays) would not stop the game. Sometimes it will give an even more flow to the game.
"We have to accept that we have the most conservative approach compared to any other sport. It can be a strength. But on the refereeing side, I think it's a weakness."

Can't see the bookmakers and the other power-brokers in the game allowing that...

Still four big televised games on Grand National Weekend altered by seemingly random decision-making - "hoping and guessing" as Mark Hughes said...

What a weird fluke!

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14:39
Who's Comolli Now?
» Football is fixed

One of the core problems with inbred structures is that new thought takes longer to evolve.
So it is with applying science to football.

In recent years, the pseudo-science of sabermetrics has been introduced into football - a sport for which it is patently not suitable. At best, sabermetric inputs are peripheral to any player evaluation, at worst they are useless.

Developed in baseball, sabermetrics has value in sports where we are dealing with a continuum of discrete events eg cricket.

Football is real-time.

Arrigho Sacchi: "This philosophy marked the difference between me and Silvio Berlusconi tactically speaking. He thought that football was a beautiful game played by skilled individuals. I thought - and I still think - that it is a beautiful game played by a team collectively."

Football is an integrated team-sport in real-time.

Pattern recognition at speed is the key skill both on the pitch and off it.
That is why the New York Yankees employ over twenty statisticians.

And that is why Lionel Messi is, by some distance, the best player that we have ever seen...
... or are ever likely to see.

The first 234 goals of Lionel Messi's phenomenal career are shown in the fifteen minute clip above.
Two things stand out - firstly, no two goals are the same, all are choreographed, all improvised, frequently around a theme (take his replicas of Maradona's two goals against England in the Malvenas Encounter). It is jazz football, the man is a dancer, the best that we have ever seen. Priceless.
Secondly, the beauty of Messi is a team process - an interaction between Messi and his colleagues that creates the space, the angles and opportunities for goals to be scored.
That is why he is so much more devastating with Barcelona than Argentina.

The Enhanced Sabermetrics Project (ESP) is an Holistic Process with a variety of inputs that has been developed to provide a true current evaluation of any footballer.
Our aim is to improve the efficiency of the transfer market as the opportunities for arbitrage within the inefficiencies on offer at the moment are significant - the differential between true price and market price can be as high as $25 million!

The whole Moneyball concept when applied to football is nothing more than reductionism.
The wrong things are still being measured and when, by chance, the right things are being observed, it is generally not for the correct reason!

There is always a problem when academics get involved in football or footballers get involved in academia.
There is obsessive focus on the micro often without even being aware of the macro.
No lateral vision, no innovation, no intuitive consciousness.
How can one possibly do the holistic?

Football Moneyball is a scam like Freakonomics or Econometrics - no scientific overviews of a scenario but rather a simplistic niche cause and effect in just one small piece of the jigsaw and a belief that such a slant equates with some form of reality.

To truly evaluate the value of a footballer we need to move into the territory of abstraction and decontextualisation...
... but that will have to wait for another day.

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Κέρκυρα, 14.04.2012
19:52
Piermario Morosini RIP
» Football is fixed

The day after Fabrice Muamba collapsed with heart related issues, a Third Division Spanish player Sergio Granero also collapsed from a heart attack during a match.

Now less than a month later Piermario Morosini has died of a multiple heart attack playing for Livorno.

The ages of these players 24, 21 and 25.

The Economist: "It [erythropoietin] can be used to boost the number of these [red blood] cells in anaemic patients to healthy levels. But WADA officials knew that because red blood cells carry oxygen to muscles, having more of them increases endurance. The side-effect of thicker blood, though, is increased risk of cells clogging blood vessels, which can cause a stroke or heart failure - a chance many dopers would be willing to take in return for superior performance."

Muamba's collapse was during a critical FA Cup Quarter Final while Granero's team are challenging for promotion and the Pescara/Livorno match in which Morosini died was important at both ends of the table.

The players below have all died on the field of play/ training ground due to heart failure in the last 3 seasons - Daniel Jarque (Espanyol), Maurizio Greco (Guldenstern Stade), Endurance Idahor (Al-Merreikh), Batholomew Opoku (Kessben FC), Goran Tunjic (Mladost FC), Ambrose Wleh (Invincible Eleven), Wilson Mene (Prek Pra Keila), Lokissimbaye Loko (FC Beaumontois), Naoki Matsuda (Matsumoto Yamaga), Bobsam Elejiko (Merksem SC), D Venkatesh (Bangalore Mars) and now Morosini.

Is the complete absence of any robust testing regime leading to risks being taken and lives lost?

Piermario Morosini RIP.

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09:39
What An Incredible Fluke XXXVII!
» Football is fixed

Barcelona are going to be mugged at Levante this evening.

Next week it is Real Madrid.

Tonight's referee is Texeira Vitienes - the man whose last 7 key match-changing decisions ie sendings off and penalties in Barca games have been against the Catalunyan side.
Fully 47% of all such decisions against Barcelona in La Liga in this window have been made by this one man!!

Dropped points would be perfect for the Madrilenos but otherwise we predict a sending off and a ban and/or that any of the Barcelona players one booking away from a ban will be cautioned (Valdez, Adriano, Dani Alves, Fabregas, Thiago are all in the squad).

Buying Bookings on the Spreads is probably a nice little earner if you are into that sort of thing...

'Tis the footballing equivalent of the tactics used by the generalissimo.

Still...
Every time there is a red card or penalty against Barca, there is virtually a 50% chance that it is Sr Vitienes blowing the whistle.

What a weird fluke!

NB A tough game, a penalty apiece, the only foul committed by any of the above was a booking (and a ban) and if you bought bookings, you will be quids in...

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Κέρκυρα, 13.04.2012
09:44
Reality Is Big, Like, Really Big
» Football is fixed

Kairos.

Reality.

The Mother of All Big Bangs.

An Omniverse of Singular Universes.

A Universe.
Infinitessimal Energy producing Matter in a Vacuum.
Massless.
Matter and Antimatter Primordial Symmetry.
The Higgs Field - Spontaneous Assymetry.
Cosmic Microwave Background.
Dark Matter.
Inflation.
Galactic Formation. A Supermassive Black Hole.
Occasionally A Quasar. Probabilistically Not.
A Star. A White Dwarf.
A Stellar Explosion, Supernova, Black Hole.
A Singularity.

A Coda.

A Singularity.
Rebirth.
A Big Bang.

A New Universe.

Universal Cascade to a Multiverse.

Parallel Universes.

Gravity.
Tipping Point.
Dark Energy.

A Big Crunch.
A Super Singularity.

A Super Coda.

A Super Singularity.
Rebirth.
A Super Bang.

A New Multiversal Super Cascade.

Eternal Inflation...

Chain Reactions.
Fractal Scaling.

No Need for Niche Abstraction...
... Evolving towards Unified.

At the 4th Level of the Multiverses.
Multiversal Consciousness.
Simulacra.
In Parallel.
Quantum In and Out of Effect.
Universality. Multiversality.

"The Simulacrum is never what hides the Truth - it is Truth that hides the fact that there is None. The Simulacrum is True" - Ecclesiastes.

Cosmology, Supersymmetry, Eternal Inflation, Quantum Mechanics under the 4th Level of the Multiverses.

Multiversal Ripples between Universes.
Interference Phenomena between Universes.
Quantum Computing between Universes.
Information Flow.
Knowledge Flow.

The Multiverses are a Continuum.

Omniversal Reality.
Omniversal Laws of Physics and Abstraction in Holistic Harmony.
Omniversal Consciousness.
Omniversality.

A Pandora's Box.
A Hall of Mirrors.
A Compendium of Games.

Cyclical Entanglement.

16 (Not 17) Fundamental Particles in the Standard Model?
With the Higgs Boson from a Fifth Dimension Where Gravity Mainly Resides?

String Theory?

Time?

Space-Time.

Emergence, Coherence, Elegance, Simplicity, Creativity, Beauty.

Evolutionary Epistemology.

Metamorphosis.

Matriarchal.

Rebirth.

"The Evolution of Human Knowledge is the Evolution of the World's Self-Revelation" - Hegel.

in profectus

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Κέρκυρα, 12.04.2012
19:35
What An Incredible Fluke XXXVI!
» Football is fixed

April 11th 2012: Football is Fixed post a blog about the lack of scientific basis to Damien Comolli's methods of evaluating footballers.

April 12th 2012: Damien Comolli sacked.

Mr Henry should have a chat with us.

What a weird fluke!

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11:17
What An Incredible Fluke XXV!
» Football is fixed

The final call of the charlatans when dealing with corruption in football is that such shenanigans even out over the season.
Really.

Below are the tilts in the decisions of referees in the Premier League for season 2011/12 based on the following formulation.
We'll call it the Referee Index.

Referee Index calculated as follows: Key Penalty or Sending Off +/-1 (only valid if relevant, ie a Penalty awarded in 90th min at 0-4 down is irrelevant); Ghost Goal +/-1; Foul/Booking Average >10 +0.5; Foul/Booking Average <5 -0.5; Penalties and Sendings Off not given -/+1; Penalties and Sendings Off mistakenly given +/-1. Each match is totalised and cumulated over the season and the Referee Index = (Total Integer in Favour of Club/ Total Seasonal Integer) x 100.

The figure in brackets represents the current league position.

1. Manchester United - Referee Index 73 (1)
2. Fulham 68 (9)
3. Tottenham 66 (4)
4. Bolton 61 (18)
5. Swansea 60 (14)
6. Everton 55 (7)
7. Man City 56 (2)
8. Stoke 54 (12)
9. Aston Villa 53 (15)
10. Chelsea 52 (6)
11. Blackburn 51 (19)
12. Sunderland 48 (11)
13. QPR 47 (16)
14. West Brom 46 (13)
15. Liverpool 46 (8)
16. Arsenal 45 (3)
17. Newcastle 44 (5)
18. Norwich 40 (10)
19. Wigan 33 (17)
20. Wolves 22 (20)

* Until the match between Wigan/Man Utd last evening, the two clubs treated most harshly were in the bottom two positions.
* The most favoured team, the Manchester Manipulators, are top on both counts.
* Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City, Norwich and Newcastle would be in a stronger position with more egalitarian refereeing.
* Blackburn, Swansea, Fulham, Bolton and Stoke are very lucky boys.

No conspiracy theories.

It is not conspiratorial to declare that when Foy, Walton or Mason have been refereeing Manchester Utd Premier League games, the most powerful team in the land have only been defeated once in 47 games.
This isn't an angle 'tis public data.
Check it.

As is the performance of Mr Walton in games involving the Manchester teams after Shinawatra took over - out of 22 Premier League games refereed by Walton, City never won and United never lost.

We are just arbitrageurs of the neohyperrealities of postmodern football.

Still...
The Manchester Manipulators receive the most help from referees and are top of the table...
... Wolverhampton Wanderers are punished excessively by referees and are bottom!

What a weird fluke!

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09:22
What An Incredible Fluke XXXIV!
» Football is fixed

In less than one week...

The PGMOB were forced to take Lee Mason off the Man City/WBA match last night fearing a crowd reaction to his dire performance on the Man Utd match at the weekend.

Alex Ferguson following the Wigan game: "I thought Phil Dowd had a disappointing night, I must say."

Kenny Dalglish refers to "inexcusable" and "unexplainable" decisions against his side.

Mohamed Al Fayed says referees are "too easily influenced by the more powerful clubs and individual owners", and wants to let the public know "the transparency of the processes by which referees are allocated to games".

Mark Hughes: "We are desperately disappointed with the performance of the referee... Managers have lost faith in referees."

Roberto Martinez: "I go to a lot of football and I don't want to go to a game and see that the wrong calls are given so clearly." He went on to describe the performance of the officials as "disgusting" and "horrific".

The Guardian on Arsenal/Man City: "Mario Balotelli should be off after a horrendous leg-breaker of a challenge on Alex Song... Presumably Martin Atkinson didn't see it."

The Guardian on Spurs/Norwich: "To the vein-bulging fury of Lambert, though, there was no penalty award. He sprinted down the tunnel to remonstrate with Phil Dowd."

The Guardian on Fulham/Chelsea: "Mark Clattenburg was well positioned and awarded the penalty instantly, though not for Murphy's studs-up challenge but instead for Kelly's vague misdemeanour. All were confused and Fulham deeply aggrieved."

Football is Fixed exposes the full extent of the 'bias' in favour of Manchester United from three PGMOB referees Chris Foy, Peter Walton and Lee Mason, who, between them, have only overseen 1 Man Utd defeat in 47 matches.

...

Meanwhile Roy Hodgson utilises The Guardian to inform us that Premier League referees are "probably the best in Europe."
The PGMOB have given West Brom Jonathan Moss as referee again next weekend (see below).

And Marina Hyde in the same rag attacks the people complaining about the state of refereeing with the following nonsense: "But I can't bring myself to feel that it's anything other than a cocktail of misplaced victimhood and low-level bullying – the unsporting pique of the poor loser, doled out by people who demand respect at every turn but see no reason to afford it to others."
And we can't bring ourselves to take seriously anyone who is so in awe of power that she has worked for Murdoch and accommodated Piers Morgan.

Furthermore...
The Guardian output is overseen by the West Brom club agent John Colquhoun - rubbish in, rubbish out.

And on the subject of Jonathan Moss, this is from our blog post of January 28th...

"Take the previously mentioned Jonathan Moss - the 'coincidences' regarding the number of West Bromwich Albion games that he gets to officiate and the immensely peculiar tilt in his decision-making in those matches.

Since being promoted to the PGMOB Select Group in the summer, Mr Moss has been referee or 4th Official six times in 26 West Brom matches.
In the light of his historical decision-making in West Brom matches, is this valid or wise?
Seven times Mr Moss had refereed WBA, 7 victories, 4 penalties in favour and none against, 3 sendings off in favour and none against. Then on his first Select Group appearance refereeing the Throstles, he gave them a penalty in a highly suspicious Carling Cup Tie at Everton."

But...

Football en masse thinking one thing...
... and the professional gamblers associated with The Guardian stating another.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 11.04.2012
20:30
What An Incredible Fluke XXXIII!
» Football is fixed

Several of our team are in the process of developing a robust model for the evaluation of players in the transfer market as the current market is both highly inefficient and analyses undertaken by the Moneyball Brigade are simplistic in the extreme.

Some clubs wish for a better system of valuing transfer targets.

Although the vast majority of such research is proprietary ie it pays our bills, we have made the decision, with the approval of our backers, to focus on one area of major concern - namely, club agents.

Club agents destroy the standing of the club that employs them for personal financial gratification.

By bringing in players that they represent directly, represent via 3rd party arrangements or gain from in extended mutual beneficial structures, these agents devalue the overall quality of the team.

Furthermore, as it is in their personal interests to inflate transfer fees (and hence their percentage), they jolly well do!

These negativities are markedly enhanced when the club agent and club management are in cahoots.
Think Portsmouth!

To prove our point, we are going to focus on Liverpool FC.

Under Rafa Benítez, Liverpool finished 5th, 3rd, 3rd, 4th, 2nd and 7th in the Premier League with a Champions League triumph and losing final thrown in for good measure.

When Roy Hodgson with club agent John Colquhoun took over for the 2010/11 season, the impact was disastrous as players were purchased on highly skewed reasonings.

The outcome?
The manager/agent pair were sacked after half a season with Liverpool sitting in 12th position having only won seven out of 20 league games and having been knocked out of the FA Cup by Man Utd and the League Cup by the might of Northampton Town.

Although, in many ways, Kenny Dalglish was the correct choice to rescue the club from this abyss, Damien Comolli brought in entirely invalid valuation methods - how many Liverpool supporters really believe that the club have got value for money out of Jordan Henderson, Stewart Downing and Charlie Adam, for example?

Last season's 6th position is a distant dream with the currently devalued squad.

The key idiocy in this whole process is attempting to utilise the Billy Beane Moneyball strategy for a sport for which it is evidently not suited.

Baseball is like cricket - a conveyor belt of discrete events that might be analysed in accumulation or singly.
Football is a team sport where it is the performance of the entire team entity that is the key configurative parameter.

The data tells you everything you need to know.

Liverpool FC under a reasonably astute manager averaged 4th position in the Premier League and won the Champions League.
Liverpool FC under Hodgson/Colquhoun were placed 12th.
Liverpool FC under Dalglish/Comolli are averaging 7th position.
And Champions League qualification is off the agenda.

What a weird fluke!

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09:00
What An Incredible Fluke XXXII!
» Football is fixed

On Sunday morning (to suit the Asian betting markets of course), Levante met Atlético Madrid.

El Rojiblanco were already running on empty following their Europa League assertions of just two and a half days earlier in Hannover when they were 'welcomed' by Iglesias Villaneva, the match referee.

During the mis-match, Atlético committed 13 fouls, below the average in La Liga, yet were greeted with 7 yellow cards and a sending off.
Two of the bookings (Salvio and Mario Suarez) resulted in a ban as, obviously, did the sending off of Miranda.

This means that Atlético will be short of three key players for the match tonight against Real Madrid.

The manipulations in favour of Mourinho's men don't stop there however.

Yesterday it was announced that Undiano Mallenco will be reffing El Clásico at the Camp Nou on April 21st.
Barcelona are already at a major disadvantage in that their two Champions League Semi Finals are just three days from the event while Franco's men have two four-day gaps but the selection of Mallenco is Fergusonesque in its direness.

Only two match officials are less supportive to Barca and none are more favourable to Real!

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 10.04.2012
10:18
What An Incredible Fluke XXXI!
» Football is fixed

Tomorrow evening Manchester City are playing West Bromwich Albion.

The Referee is Lee Mason.
The 4th Official is Chris Foy.

Lee Mason on Manchester United Premier League games - 6 Wins, 1 Draw, 0 Losses (103 points seasonal extrapolation).
Chris Foy on Manchester United Premier League games - 14 Wins, 4 Draws, 1 Loss (92 points seasonal extrapolation).

Only one Man Utd defeat between them in their entire careers.

Well Red.

Ferguson wants to secure the title when United visit Eastlands and is distorting the integrity of the sport in so doing.

Indeed, if you add in the recently retired Red Walton to the List of Shame (15 Man Utd Wins, 6 Draws, 0 Losses in his career), these three referees who make up one-sixth of the PGMOB roster are totalising 35 Wins, 11 Draws and 1 Loss on Manchester United in the EPL!!!

Just one defeat in 47 Premier League matches!!!

And guess who is the referee for City's match against Norwich at the weekend?
Chris Foy!!!

Of course, none of this really matters anymore as City could 'be allowed' to win their next three games, while United could post two draws out of the next three matches and the Manchester Manipulators will still wrap up the title with a victory at Eastlands.

But be wary of trading on historical information...
... and that applies also to the ludicrous selection of Mr Jonathan Moss on the West Brom/QPR poker hand at the weekend - this allows John Colquhoun and his Set to make the outcome whatever they desire.

What a weird fluke!

NB The PGMOB, under pressure, pulled Lee Mason from the City/WBA game at 15:00 on day of match. Replaced by Kevin Friend.

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09:32
What An Incredible Fluke XXX!
» Football is fixed

When bookmaking organisations see no benefit in allowing a market on a match to exist eg agreed draws at the close of the Serie A season in Italy or very overwhelming insider trading on non top-tier matches where liquidity issues prevent the options of hedging and/or balancing the books (never mind turning an honest profit), the market is suspended or terminated.
Or, at the very least, there are restrictions on volume.

Evaluating such stances across the bookmaking world is revealing.

For example.
The team that global bookies refuse to price up most frequently in the Championship in England is Peterborough United.

They are, of course, managed by Darren Ferguson, son of the Great Manipulator Himself!

A Casino Chip off the Old Block.

What a weird fluke!

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09:17
What An Incredible Fluke XXVIX!
» Football is fixed

As part of our enhanced security, we monitor the individual locations and IP addresses of the many tens of thousands of hits that Football is Fixed receives each week.

As one might expect for a blog that exposes corruption and criminality in the major European football leagues (with a particular emphasis on England), the accumulated totals of hits from territories such as England, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Eire, Portugal, France and Brazil feature strongly.

Similarly, English speaking countries with some interest in football are also very evident eg USA, Canada and Australia.

Beyond this it gets interesting.

The following territories are also prominent - Israel, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Saudi Arabia, Iceland, Finland, Hong Kong, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Bahamas, British Virgin Isles (BVI), Indonesia, Russia, Nigeria, India, Vietnam, Singapore, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Jersey, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Anguilla, Antigua, Jamaica, Romania, Albania, Poland, Turkey etc etc.

Although a few of these countries are footballised, the remainder are offshore environments and/or gambling centres where, by complete coincidence, the world's more dodgy bookmaking and professional trading organisations gravitate.

Indeed, adjusted for population, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Singapore, Hong Kong, Israel, Finland, BVI, Cayman Isles, Bahamas, Jersey. Anguilla and Antigua are the territories that are most interested in what our team has to say.

Major centres of offshore bookmakers and shell companies are, per head of population, our primary audience!
Sunny places for shady people!!

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 09.04.2012
09:06
What An Incredible Fluke XXVIII!
» Football is fixed

Hail Hail!!
Against all the early season odds, Glasgow Celtic were crowned Scottish Premier League Champions on Saturday.
A true Easter Uprising!

Without going for the Schadenfreude/Fr Ted Crilly/Bjørge Lillelien angle on hyperrealities, the Hun Boys took one hell of a beating.

But in the land of Dallasgate, there were dark forces working against the Celtic triumph as ever.

Take leading Scottish referee Willie Collum (the one who walks out for the second half actually in the midst of the Rangers team).

Since becoming a SPL official, Collum has shown a marked bias in favour of Rangers.
Looking at the key match-changing sendings off and penalties that Collum has handed out, Rangers have a 15-1 tilt in their favour while Celtic have a 2-3 tilt against.
These decisions included a remarkable penalty in one Auld Firm game that could only have been seen through Collum's extra pair of eyes in the rear of his head.
Oh! And then there was the fixed Scottish League Cup Final between Celtic and Kilmarnock.

Why is this sort of stuff not spotted and acted upon?

Collum, as we are repeatedly told in apparent justification of his bias, is a religion teacher at a Roman Catholic school.
Poor kids.

God certainly appears to move in mysterious ways in favour of the goat-bothering brotherhood north of the border.

And while we're at it...
... where did all the money go that Rangers FC received for throwing the 2007/08 UEFA/Europa Cup Final against Zenit St Petersburg?

And why aren't Celtic being given the 7 corrupted titles won by Rangers since Advocaat started the financial shenanigans?
Milan got it and they were as guilty as Juve...
... so why not Celtic?

But, Celtic managing to win the title in one of the most criminalised leagues in Europe...

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 08.04.2012
20:05
What An Incredible Fluke XXVII!
» Football is fixed

Most entertainment industries, and football is no longer a competitive sport but rather a corrupted spectacle, select their best actors for the major theatrical extravaganzas.

Ah! But the Premier League is different.

On a day with huge global television coverage due to both the holidays and the absence of many other leagues, the EPL gave us Lee Mason to ruin one game (Mason lives just fifteen minutes from Old Trafford and is yet to referee a Man Utd defeat - his performances on United matches scaled up over a season would result in a total of 103 points!) and PC Martin Atkinson who, in his old day job, could have arrested Mario Balotelli three times in the first half for actual bodily harm but chose instead to try to keep his beloved Chelsea's 4th place hopes alive instead of applying the rules of the game.

Once the match was a done deal, it was time to return to form.

For in the last three seasons, out of the last 26 sendings off in the EPL perpetrated by PC Atkinson, only 5 have been white English players.
11 of the victims have been Black.

Institutional racism in the British police force overflows into the English game.

What a weird fluke!

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09:04
What An Incredible Fluke XXVI!
» Football is fixed

So Roy Hodgson wants the England job: "I could quite easily say there should be a clause in the [West Brom] contract that, if someone else wants me, compensation can be agreed."

This is not a good idea for England...
... it is only marginally better than appointing 'Onest 'Arry to the post.

When you appoint Hodgson, you get John Colquhoun too - Colquhoun has been the club agent to Hodgson at Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion.

Colquhoun has been in this position once before when he was agent for Steve McClaren when the talentless one was manager of England.

Players represented by Colquhoun were shamelessly promoted onto the international stage - there were matches, for example, where all three goalkeepers in the squad were on the books of Colquhoun (David James, Chris Kirkland and Scott Carson) - whether this was a good idea when Mr Colquhoun is a professional gambler is a moot point.

England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 through a mistake by Carson under the watchful gaze of Wally Brolly Man. But the real idiocy preventing qualification came in the arrangement of a friendly match in Austria just four days earlier. This was needless and tiring although it did provide one benefit - Michael Owen, the man with the Timeform Squiggle, was injured and missed the Croatia farce.

Bookmakers close to the Colquhoun Set Up were trading on a draw at Wembley. The Three Lions only needed a draw to qualify and there was huge patriotic mug money on the England win.
Playing with the markets cost England a place in the finals.

And Colquhoun is Scottish! He already has a similar arrangement with Craig Levein, the Scottish manager, resulting in the promotion of more of his clients onto the international stage - for example, James Morrison.

Stuart Pearce might have his managerial limitations but he is not corrupt...
... and in a world where Football is Fixed, that is as much as one can expect of your manager.

But...
One England squad, three goalkeepers on Key Sports' books, one manager on Key Sports' books and an agent with a propensity for insider trading...

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 07.04.2012
12:59
What An Incredible Fluke XXV!
» Football is fixed

'Club Bias Integrity' due to certain PGMOB referees, as mentioned in the previous post, impacts both positively and negatively on the leading teams in the country.

The list below yields the positive and negative biases on such clubs without disclosing which referees are up to what (+ = bias in favour; - = bias against).

Arsenal ---+
Aston Villa -
Chelsea ++++
Everton -
Liverpool ++
Man City --+
Man Utd -+++
Spurs ++
West Brom ++
West Ham ++

* The major London clubs ALL receive positive treatment across the board apart from Arsenal.
* The Northern bunch of problematical referees do not just show 'alleged' bias in favour of teams from their regions.
* Furthermore, some referees have links to more than one club.
* Additionally, collective bias impacts upon realities eg the state of Wolverhampton Wanderers (see historical posts).
* This sort of corruption decides titles and relegations, cup winners and losers, job longevity and dole.
* Mr Scudamore is one of two things - imbecilically idiotic or calamitously corrupt. Which is it Dickie Boy?

It is not difficult to prevent such biases.
If the PGMOB were not criminalised then fans would not have to be abused by the powerful teams in this manner.

But.
Worse still.
Of the 19 PGMOB Select Group referees, more than half show a further even more disturbing bias...
... 'Bookmaker Bias Integrity'.

Onshore and offshore bookies from your septic isle liaise with referees to a degree that completely undermines the integrity of the game.

One match referee is even linked to a leading Russian bookmaker.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 06.04.2012
21:32
What An Incredible Fluke XXIV!
» Football is fixed

Our global team of trading professionals are aware of 11 English referees whose performances on the field of play (and off it in certain cases) are problematical in the department entitled 'Club Bias Integrity'.

Actually we know of another but Red Walton has retired and been rewarded for his 'alleged' bias in favour of Manchester United by being appointed as general manager of the Professional Referee Organisation (PRO) in North America - a gift from the Glazers one should assume.

The geographical locations of the Corruption XI are revealing - not one of them lives south of the West Midlands!!

Indeed...
... 10 of them are based in the North where they help to make life grimmer than it already is.

With 35% of the Premier League teams being managed by individuals born within administration distance of Glasgow and 90% of the problematical match officials being from the North, we suggest that Southern Softies get their act together or get a dodgy East European oligarch who cannot afford a razor.

Still...
... yet another reason why Arsenal never win anything.

What a weird fluke!

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20:09
What An Incredible Fluke XXIII!
» Football is fixed

For the live BBC tv match between Barnsley and West Ham United this afternoon, the PGMOB selected Anthony Bates to referee.

Mr Bates has officiated West Ham games twice this season.

The first the Hammers won 1-0 against Peterborough via a penalty.
The second the Hammers won 2-1 against Nottingham Forest via 2 penalties.

In 12 other Championship matches that Master Bates has officiated, he has only given 1 penalty in total all season.

His performance in the first half of the Barnsley game is of such a standard that it is astonishing that he is not on the PGMOB Select Group - the whistleblowers who carry out orders from above in the Premier League.

Mr Bates didn't even give a free kick against the Hammers until the 25th minute when the visitors were already 2-0 ahead despite an early two footed challenge and numerous other potential fouls.

We cannot find any other Championship match this season where the visitors have lasted so long without committing a foul in the eyes of the referee.

And who was behind the colossal global gamble on West Ham in the hour leading up to kick off?
86% of the total pre-match money was on a Hammers victory!!

Mind you, the Hammers have been given Jonathan Moss for their next match against Birmingham.
Cue joyous delight for Chris Hughton, the Brummie manager (another member of the John Colquhoun Set - see numerous previous posts).

For, Mr Moss has given Brum a last minute match-saving penalty and two sendings off in favour in a 6-0 win in his two Brummie outings so far this season.

It seems that clubs nowadays are able to literally bid for the required match official...
... and the impact that these types of shenanigans have on insider trading in the betting markets is simply aggregated corruption and fraud.

But.
Three penalties for West Ham in 2 games...
... and 1 for the remainder of the division all season.

What a weird fluke!

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10:55
What An Incredible Fluke XXII!
» Football is fixed

The three core referees whose match performances exhibit (obviously unintentional) bias in favour of Manchester United continue to be utilised in favour of the Red Devils despite the retirement of Red Walton.

Having been given Howard Webb as referee or dominant 4th official to a very junior referee in the last three Premier League games, the EPL have made Chris Foy the 4th official for the next match at Eastlands versus West Bromwich Albion.

This is key for two reasons.

Firstly, even though Fred Done has paid out on a United triumph, the combination of Arsenal away and Foy on the Albion should neatly terminate interest.

Secondly, any sendings off or players reaching the level of a ban for bookings will mean such individuals miss the Manchester derby.

Ferguson wants more revenge and continues to be willing to bring the game into disrepute in so doing.

In 2012, City have not won any match where one of the Old Trafford Three are in charge.

What a weird fluke!

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10:06
What An Incredible Fluke XXI!
» Football is fixed

Two seasons ago, the English Premier League declared war on UEFA both over financial fair play and the programming of EPL matches to coincide with ones from the Champions League.

The bookmakers, as ever, were most grateful for such impact as the success of the English teams over the previous four seasons had been immensely poor for the bottom line.

So check the data.

From seasons 2006/07 to 2009/10, the number of semi finalists in the Champions League/Europa Cup from England was 11.
Fully 34% of all semi slots were filled by English teams.
Spain came second with 22%.

For the last two seasons, England has provided just 12.5% of semi finalists slipping behind Spain (44%), Portugal (25%) and Germany (19%).

At the very least, this makes it difficult to maintain the 'best league in the world' marketing fallacy.

The data above are revealing...
... but what is it that they reveal?

Either a marked decline in the competitive standard of English football within Europe...
... or that UEFA directly targets miscreant organisations.

Or a bitterly brewed blend of both.

But yet another hyperreality that aids the EPL and the bookmakers to the detriment of the supporter and fan.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 04.04.2012
08:36
What An Incredible Fluke XX!
» Football is fixed

In the two decades since the European Cup morphed into the Champions League, every single winner has been a member of the allegedly defunct G14 group of teams (there are actually eighteen teams in this inner group).

The trophy has been shared around 12 of these teams but more startling still are the semi finalists.

In the last decade and excluding Chelsea, who are a power base due to Roman's legions, only three out of 40 semi final teams have NOT come from the G14(18) cartel.

Additionally, of the 20 G14(18) winners of the competition, 16 of the winners are from the top tier of the G14(18) ie the most institutionally powerful clubs.

Of course, the G14(18) was supposedly dispanded years ago in favour of the UEFA Strategy Group and then the ECA.

But when does power ever voluntarily relinquish control?

But a cartel controlling the Champions League...

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 31.03.2012
08:44
What An Incredible Fluke XIX!
» Football is fixed

In February we prevented a fixed match between West Brom and Swansea by exposing the links between bookmakers, the referee and the West Brom club agent, John Colquhoun (see - [footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk]

In the light of the West Brom/Stoke fix the previous month, we thought that the insiders were pushing their fortunes (see - [footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk]

Also in February, we exposed the rampant biases in the refereeing of Peter Walton in favour of Manchester United and against Manchester City, particularly in the period from when Thaksin Shinawatra took over City - 22 matches with no City wins and no United defeats (see - [footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk]

Well, we've achieved our aim once again.
Walton has only refereed one EPL match since he last mugged Man City at Everton in January.

And the rumour going around is that the very fixed match between Everton and, guess who, West Brom this afternoon will be Grandad Walton's swansong in the Premier League.
Our contact tells us that Walton selected the Everton/West Brom game himself for his final appearance (Walton and Colquhoun go back a long way).

Is it within the EPL rules that referees might, on occasion, select the games that they wish to officiate?

Still...
... one rogue referee and three rogue West Brom insider betting events in the League of Integrity - the EPL.

What a weird fluke!

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08:34
What An Incredible Fluke XVIII!
» Football is fixed

Why do the Premier League via the PGMOB insist on giving absolute control to such a small number of referees?

Out of the ten EPL matches this weekend, seven games are under the control of just five officials (the usual suspects being Webb, Dean, Atkinson, Dowd and Marriner).
Each of these referees has two appointments over the window!

From the top (Ref/4th Official)...
Fulham v Norwich - Taylor/MARRINER
Man City v Sunderland - DOWD
QPR v Arsenal - DEAN
Wolves v Bolton - Moss/WEBB
Newcastle v Liverpool - ATKINSON/DOWD
Spurs v Swansea - MARRINER/DEAN
Blackburn v Man Utd - WEBB/ATKINSON

In the overview of our team of global traders, we believe that the true outcomes of ALL these matches will be affected towards negative integrity via these appointments.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 27.03.2012
09:09
What An Incredible Fluke XVII!
» Football is fixed

An Addendum to the Previous Post:

Guess who screamed at Michael Oliver when Carrick brought down Murphy for what what would have been a last minute equalising penalty (plus a sending off) for Fulham last night...
... Howard Webb, that is who.

And guess who is referee for Manchester Utd match at Blackburn next weekend...
... Howard Webb, that is who.

Following his 4th Official spot in the previous match against Wolves, that is three United games on the trot for Webb!!
THREE!!!

How come Howard Webb has been appointed as the key match official in three consecutive Man Utd matches?

And City v Stoke in between!!!!

City must have Ferguson worried.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 25.03.2012
10:09
What An Incredible Fluke XVI!
» Football is fixed

Why Manchester City Will Not Win The Title

Since Man Utd lost to Blackburn and Newcastle, things have changed...

We have previously blogged that Peter Walton, in the last 22 matches where he has refereed City or United, has produced 0 City victories and 0 United defeats, but there are two (possibly three) other PGMOB referees with a marked bias in decision making in favour of the Old Trafford club - Chris Foy, Howard Webb and Anthony Taylor are the men in question.

In the 11 league matches since Newcastle/Blackburn (including the City/Utd FA Cup tie as it is pertinent to the argument), Manchester United have been given Walton, Webb, Foy or Taylor (WWFT) as referee/4th official for 8 of those matches.
WWFT gives United 6 wins 1 draw 0 defeats with Fulham to come!!!

We list these matches, results and match decisions at the end of this blog.

In the same period, Manchester City have won 8 out of 9 league matches when not subjected to any of the WWFT team.

On the three occasions where WWFT have intervened, City lost at Everton, drew at Stoke and were mugged by Foy in the FA Cup match.
City 8 wins 0 draws 1 defeat without WWFT versus City 0 wins 1 draw 2 defeats with WWFT!!!

This is not normal.

And the match decisions merely enhance our case that the 2011/12 Premier League title is a sham.

Man Utd Matches Refereed By WWFT Since Newcastle/Blackburn

Man City Won (Sending Off in Favour of United) Foy - referee.
Bolton Won (Penalty in Favour of United) Walton - referee.
Stoke Won (2 Penalties in Favour of United) Foy - 4th official to junior referee.
Chelsea Drew (2 Penalties in Favour of United) Webb - referee.
Liverpool Won Taylor - 4th official.
West Brom Won (Sending Off and Penalty in Favour of United) Foy - 4th official to junior referee.
Wolves Won (Sending off in Favour of United) Taylor - referee; Webb - 4th official.
Fulham on Monday night - Webb - 4th official to junior referee.

Two points.
One - referees should not show bias.
Two - referees should not be repeatedly given the opportunity to exhibit such bias.

There are 19 PGMOB Select Group officials, what mechanism allows WWFT to be repeatedly selected for United/City key matches in this title run-in?
Referees should officiate each team three times per season (either as ref or 4th official), Webb is currently enjoying two United games in a week neatly sandwiching his refusal to prevent Stoke's brutalities last evening.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 21.03.2012
10:34
What An Incredible Fluke XV!
» Football is fixed

After Roberto Mancini lost Manchester City any chance of the title with his views on ScudamoreWorld yesterday, his damning appraisal of the Premier League Product not looking after the health of players due to cost should be added to the list of how ScudamoreWorld has utterly and totally destroyed British football.

The prosecution alleges that, over the course of two decades, ScudamoreWorld - The Premier League Theme Park has deliberately and determinedly destroyed the sport in order to create the Product.

* Bookmakers (both onshore and offshore) in control of clubs.
* Rampant illegal Third Party Ownership of players.
* Billion pound betting markets manipulated by competitive operations.
* Ownership of referees by clubs, bookmakers and other bodies.
* The creation of a fragmented cartel where both co-operative and exploitative corruption is facilitated.
* Illicit transfer payments and bungs.
* Premier League clubs controlled by agents.
* Repeated antagonism towards FIFA and UEFA to the detriment of England and club teams in UEFA competitions.
* Premier League clubs controlling other Premier League clubs.
* Players on second contracts.
* Starving the grassroots.
* The asset-stripping of clubs.
* Fit and Proper Persons being irrelevant as long as money appeared to be brought to the table.
* Ownership of clubs by both local and global mafiosi.
* The corruption of both match and tournament outcomes.
* Offshore connections abound even if sometimes appearing to be onshore.
* Exported the murk to other British leagues particularly the Scottish Premier League.
* Excessive tax avoidance.
* And, most important currently, the failure to provide either frequent or adequate medical screening for players.

In response to this last issue, Richard Scudamore slimed: "We will do everything we can to make sure we reduce [Fabrice Muamba-type incidents] to the point of elimination, things like that."

Things like that...

Scudamore has used family connections to orchestrate the morphing of football into a hyperreal version of horseracing.
For doing so, he should be knighted.

Then we would have two knights of the realm running a massive global criminal enterprise.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 20.03.2012
22:06
What An Incredible Fluke XIV!
» Football is fixed

"Just because a tile falls off a roof, there is not necessarily someone underneath it at the right moment: that would be too good to be true" - Jean Baudrillard

Is this the end of Sir Dave Richards?

Has the psycho buffoon with his serial business failings and his ludicrous knighthood been removed from spoiling the FA on behalf of the Premier League??

Richard Scudamore: "But the reality is he's done his stint at the Premier League, he's done a fantastic job."

Is this a fit and proper manner for Scudamore to back his No 2???

Is this a sacking????

Whatever happened to Omerta?????

Still, though. Sir Dave Richards, some little Engerlander obscenties, a water feature and a career going down the spout.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 18.03.2012
17:32
What An Incredible Fluke XIII!
» Football is fixed

As part of the unedifying series of spectacles featuring Manchester United frequently playing with a 12th man, Anthony Taylor referees this afternoon's game at Wolverhampton.

Mr Taylor is from Manchester.

So he's either a Red or a Blue.

Half-time: Wolves 0 Man Utd 3 (Wolves 3 fouls - one sending off and one booking plus Jarvis denied a penalty at 0-0; Man Utd 5 fouls - no bookings).

He's a Red!

What a weird fluke!

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11:09
"A Fabrice, un collega che purroppo è stato male"
» Football is fixed

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10:30
What An Incredible Fluke XII!
» Football is fixed

The Referee Bias Index (100 = Total Bias in Favour of Team; 0 = Total Bias Against) is revealing with regard to football clubs that are systemically targeted over seasons within their leagues.

Take Arsenal.

In the last 7 seasons in the Premier League, Arsenal have not once achieved the average total of 50.
Arsenal's average index for this window is 38.

In the same period Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester City have fallen below the 50 threshold on just four occasions...
... in total!
Between them!!

Out of 35 occurrences for the Big Five, 31 resulted in a positive bias.
Out of 7 seasons for Arsenal, not one did.

Chelsea average 61.
And Liverpool 64 which makes it even more remarkable that they struggle even to qualify for the Champions League.

This level of bifurcation is significant.
It is not possible to win titles carrying the Arsenal handicapping weight - in our databases, there are no instances in any major European league over the last decade and a half where the title has been won with a Referee Index below 40.

What a weird fluke!

NB Referee Index calculated as follows: Key Penalty or Sending Off +/-1 (only valid if relevant, ie a Penalty awarded in 90th min at 0-4 down is irrelevant); Ghost Goal +/-1; Foul/Booking Average >10 +0.5; Foul/Booking Average

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Κέρκυρα, 17.03.2012
12:19
Reality is Big, Like, Really Big
» Football is fixed

Kairos.

Reality.

The Mother of All Big Bangs.

An Omniverse of Singular Universes.

A Universe.
Infinitessimal Energy producing Matter in a Vacuum.
Massless.
Matter and Antimatter Primordial Symmetry.
The Higgs Field - Spontaneous Assymetry.
Cosmic Microwave Background.
Dark Matter.
Inflation.
Galactic Formation. A Supermassive Black Hole.
Occasionally A Quasar. Probabilistically Not.
A Star. A White Dwarf.
A Stellar Explosion, Supernova, Black Hole.
A Singularity.

A Coda.

A Singularity.
Rebirth.
A Big Bang.

A New Universe.

Universal Cascade to a Multiverse.

Parallel Universes.

Gravity.
Tipping Point.
Dark Energy.

A Big Crunch.
A Super Singularity.

A Super Coda.

A Super Singularity.
Rebirth.
A Super Bang.

A New Multiversal Super Cascade.

Eternal Inflation...

Chain Reactions.
Fractal Scaling.

No Need for Niche Abstraction...
... Evolving towards Unified.

At the 4th Level of the Multiverses.
Multiversal Consciousness.
Simulacra.
In Parallel.
Quantuming In and Out of Effect.
Universality. Multiversality.

"The Simulacrum is never what hides the Truth - it is Truth that hides the fact that there is None. The Simulacrum is True" - Ecclesiastes.

Cosmology, Supersymmetry, Eternal Inflation, Quantum Mechanics under the 4th Level of the Multiverses.

Multiversal Ripples between Universes.
Interference Phenomena between Universes.
Quantum Computing between Universes.
Information Flow.
Knowledge Flow.

The Multiverses are a Continuum.

Omniversal Reality.
Omniversal Laws of Physics and Abstraction in Holistic Harmony.
Omniversal Consciousness.
Omniversality.

A Pandora's Box.
A Hall of Mirrors.
A Compendium of Games.

Cyclical Entanglement.

16 (Not 17) Fundamental Particles in the Standard Model?
With the Higgs Boson from a Fifth Dimension Where Gravity Mainly Resides?

String Theory?

Time?

Space-Time.

Emergence, Coherence, Elegance, Simplicity, Creativity, Beauty.

Evolutionary Epistemology.

Metamorphosis.

Rebirth.

"The Evolution of Human Knowledge is the Evolution of the World's Self-Revelation" - Hegel.

in profectus

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10:27
What An Incredible Fluke XI!
» Football is fixed

In the current Real Madrid hierarchy, Jose Mourinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe, Angel di Maria, Fabio Coentrao and Ricardo Carvalho are all represented by agent Jorge Mendes of Gestifute.

The only reason that Real did not sign Kun Aguero in the summer is that he was not willing to change agent from Bruno Satin to Gestifute - a transfer deal had already been agreed.

In the current Real Madrid hierarchy, Nuri Sahin, Hamit Altintrop and Mesut Ozil are all represented by agent Reza Fazali.

8 of the Madrileno squad in the hands of two agents...
... Oh! And the manager too.

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 16.03.2012
11:17
What An Incredible Fluke X!
» Football is fixed

David Moyes: "It was a better situation 10 years ago. Back then, I looked abroad at the way agents had control of the players, and in some cases the clubs, and you thought that couldn't happen in Britain. You thought the chairmen of clubs wouldn't be daft enough for agents to be doing the deals, or telling them what deals they should be doing. That seems to be happening now in some cases, and it seems players are more easily controlled by agents instead of doing what's right for their own game. That's a change for the worse."

Kenny Moyes, David's brother, is an agent.
He represents Charlie Adam.
Kenny Moyes chaotically tried and failed to orchestrate a move for the Blackpool captain during the 2011 January transfer window, and thereafter Adam was a shadow of his former self (check the OPTA stats) and Blackpool were effectively relegated because of Kenny Moyes.

"... and it seems players are more easily controlled by their agents instead of doing what's right for their own game."

Still.
David, with his views on agents, having a brother who is an agent.

What a weird fluke!

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