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Κέρκυρα, 04.02.2012
10:50
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ILLEGAL THIRD PARTY OWNERSHIP OF PLAYERS AT LIVERPOOL AND WEST HAM UNITED

DIDI HAMANN - PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER AND PARASITE

A PROFESSIONAL REFEREE'S VIEW OF THE PGMOB

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Κέρκυρα, 03.02.2012
11:25
Harry Redknapp is a Bag of Shite
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Harry Redknapp lives in a £10 million mansion at Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset.
Sandbanks has, by area, the fourth largest land value in the entire world.
It is known as 'Britain's Palm Beach'.

Harry Redknapp is a low tier manager who had won nothing of consequence until a fixed FA Cup Final victory for Portsmouth in 2008. Managing clubs as mighty as Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Southampton and West Ham does not produce Palm Beach-style wealth.

Harry Redknapp, in consortia with #### #########, ##### ##### and ###### ######## #############, was involved in ####### ####### on EPL games over a number of seasons.

##### ######## was named by a whistleblower who used to work at Victor Chandler International in Gibraltar as having bet £12 million on Premier League matches in just one season (that is an average of over £30K on every match in the season). The response? A high court injunction courtesy of Max Clifford and the story never even gained an inch in the mainstream media columns.

Harry Redknapp is regarded by Clifford as the ideal mentor for Gareth Bale to fulfill his earnings potential. "It's the magic formula" stated Clifford. "With Harry Redknapp keeping a very careful eye on him, he could make £10m, £20m, something like that, over the next five years from image rights, endorsements, things like that."
Things like that...

Harry Redknapp claimed in court that he is "disastrous" in business and would rather pay more tax than less.

Harry Redknapp and his wife own Pierfront Developments, a controversial property development company with an extensive portfolio in various areas throughout the south of England.

Harry Redknapp, in response to the prosecutor Mr Black at Southwark Crown Court: "I’m not a greedy person ... I’m the most ungreedy person you’ve ever met in your whole life, Mr Black. Ever. Ever."

Harry Redknapp was accused by prosecutors of telling "a pack of lies" to a jury hearing his tax evasion case yesterday.
The information about the Monaco bank account only surfaced due to the Murdochracy investigating and Redknapp "letting the cat out of the bag".
Redknapp admits lying to the journalist.
Redknapp purports to be "insulted" by claims he lied during tax evasion trial.

Harry Redknapp, answering Prosecutor Black once again in his court case: "You think I put my hand on the Bible and told lies. That’s an insult Mr Black . . . I told no lies. I don’t do that."

Harry Redknapp has an obviously purely incidental and absolutely non-corrupt relationship with PGMOB match official Mike Dean. The match outcomes in Dean/Redknapp affairs are a collection of outliers of such remarkable nature that we have even postulated historically that the two might be having an affair.

Harry Redknapp, football manager, club agent, professional insider gambler, match fixer, property developer, media spokesman, offshore financier, just a loveable Eastender who writes like a two-year old.
He believes in the good lord and paying more tax, in being truthful and humble, generous and altruistic.
He's just this guy who loved his dog Rosie so much that he set up an offshore bank account in her name.
He even equates his wife with his late dog "If she [an anonymous French woman) was as nice as Rosie [the dog] they have got a good wife."

And you, sir, are going to get a good few months for fraud, lying in court and contempt of court.

Rosie 47 is merely the start of a story...

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Κέρκυρα, 02.02.2012
15:37
Harry Redknapp, a Mobile Phone and a Hand Over The Mouth
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Perhaps the Premier League might like to take a swift glance at the televised match between Wigan and Spurs on January 11th 2009 as both the BBC and a journalist at a British broadsheet have been in contact over this allegedly fixed game.

With the score at 0-0 shortly after half-time, Heurelho Gomes strained his hamstring taking a goalkick and made it quite clear that his movement was severely restricted and that he wished to be substituted.

Harry Redknapp, the Spurs manager, despite having a Spanish international goalkeeper on the bench decided to persist instead with the hobbling Heurelho.

Tottenham were then placed on the back foot with the outfield players being forced to compensate for the keeper.

Rather than barking out instructions on how to defend a point, Redknapp spent considerable time during the second half on his mobile phone.
His face when Wigan secured their 90th minute winner was a wobble to behold.

Obviously, Harry was merely ensuring that his missus had fed Rosie the Dog...
... but, if this was the case, why did he insist on covering his mouth with his hand during every conversation?

And anyway, in RedknappWorld, there is feeding Rosie the Dog and there is feeding Rosie the Dog.

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12:41
A Perfect Storm
» Football is fixed

How Insider Gamblers Profited from the Deaths of the Welsh Miners

The reverse fixture of this weekend's match between West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City was fixed.

The Football is Fixed prediction of a seriously brand damaging scandal within the British game this year is coming to fruition nicely - not just with Redknapp/Mandaric, Portsmouth FC and Rangers FC but with the occurrence of both "a betting accident live on tv" and the inappropriate control over the selection of match officials as well.

As previously posted, the Premier League match between Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion also possessed both extremely suspicious micro and macro betting patterns to the benefit of two firms of bookmakers associated with one club or its representatives, together with a performance by certain players on the pitch that, at the very least, unwittingly aided the landing of a colossal co-ordinated global gamble on the match.

The match was allegedly fixed by insiders for millions of pounds of proprietary profit.

Additionally, West Bromwich Albion have a relationship with one referee, Jonathan Moss, which is problematical twice over - his 'tilt' in decisions in favour of WBA and the number of occasions that WBA are able to secure his services for their matches.

We are dealing with the Stoke versus West Bromwich game in a more taxing place and so, for the purposes of this post, we wish to focus on the mechanisms whereby control of the selection of match officials might be utilised to corrupt match outcomes for private gain...
... and we wish to focus on the match this Saturday between West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City.

The public data available on a significant percentage of the PGMOB Select Group of referees is disturbing.
The private data is criminally significant.

In recent posts we have highlighted the Peter Walton/ Manchester United issue, the Mike Dean/Chelsea one, the Jonathan Moss/ West Brom one, the role of certain interested parties in placing Kipper Riley in control of the PGMOB, links between owners and referees, the three referees (one since demoted) involved in a match fixing ring involving some of the same parties involved in our main narrative, and, most disturbingly, occurrences of the above also involving bookmakers.

All of the above individuals (including those whose presence is only intimated) are upstanding pillars of a system...
... and any peculiar combination of information and knowledge that might cast doubt on their honesty, integrity, criminality is, surely, spurious.

But the data is exceptional.

The statistical likelihood, for example, of Peter Walton refereeing 22 matches involving the Manchester teams following the takeover of Man City by Shinawatra, and those games giving City no wins and United no defeats when the teams are of comparable stature is about as likely as winning the lottery.

And West Bromwich Albion have won all seven league matches refereed by Jonathan Moss.
In those games, he has given the Albion 4 penalties and three sendings off in favour with nothing for the opposition.
In his only appearance refereeing West Brom since being promoted to the Select Group in the summer, he gave them a penalty in a Carling Cup match against Everton that is being investigated by bodies policing match fixing (this match is particularly revealing as the gamble went wrong).
But, after next Saturday, out of 27 matches played by WBA this season, Mr Moss has been referee twice and 4th Official five times - 7 matches out of 27.

This too is exceptional data - only two appearances would be the norm.

Atmospherically there are further issues.
The West Bromwich Albion club agent is John Colquhoun and he has significant control over the activities of the Throstles - his client James Morrison taking over from his client Chris Brunt as captain during the latters' injury for example.

John Colquhoun has known Jonathan Moss for over twenty years since their time together as players at both Sunderland and Millwall (and, by the way, altering your Wikipedia site to disguise such contacts are not the actions of someone with nothing to hide, ### ####. Wikipedia maintain a historical record of all inputs!).
John Colquhoun is also, alongside his other careers, a professional gambler.

Now why does the PGMOB make the ridiculous claim that their selection of match officials is random?
Why are so many EPL realities outliers and Black Swans?
Corruption within the EPL hierarchy is endemic at many levels - one club owner has some/total control over 18 match officials past and present across Europe for instance.

We have been informed, off the record, that the EPL attempts 'white corruption' in games where rogue insider gambling is known to be taking place.
But, competitive corruption is a risk for all involved in a match fix and there will always be an incentive to eradicate such risk.

So let us take a look at the holistics of the match between West Brom and Swansea City on Saturday.
This is the first occasion this season that Jonathan Moss is refereeing a West Brom league game in the EPL (as opposed to standing next to Roy Hodgson on the touchline and communicating with the ref in his role as 4th Official).

The first meeting between the two teams was allegedly fixed.

We don't have full details on this particular match but we have been shown some betting activities of interest.
The match took place in the immediate aftermath of the death of the Welsh miners.
Swansea won the match 3-0 but it surely leaves a nasty taste in the mouth to think that certain insiders decided to profit out of a match held in commemoration of working class men dying while trying to earn a living down a privatised pit.

Anyway.
That is the sort of thing that antisocials do.

A major Asian broker described the match as a typical European three-for-three affair (where two teams share two victories over the season to maximise potential points within an extended cartel of clubs - one point for a draw not being deemed as useful obviously).

But wait...
... Saturday's match could be anything!

The cast is as follows: Colquhoun (club agent/pro gambler/ several West Brom players as clients), Moss (referee/ long history with Colquhoun/ an unconscious bias in favour of West Brom), two clubs exhibiting several inputs normally seen in a 3 for 3 duality, Bodog (offshore bookmakers/ West Brom shirt sponsors) and ### ###### (an offshore bookmaker with close links to Colquhoun).

Now, obviously, all these people do good things and pay their taxes and believe in integrity...
... but if they didn't, such a grouping could make the result on Saturday anything they wish.

Literally.

Obviously, one suspects a West Brom win if one reads the astrological signs but our only public prediction is this - the result of the match will be in the market prior to kick off and may be determined by both public pricing and by betting activities in the underground.

And that is a fix!

And, if people are slick, there are no paper trails.

Still fancy buying a ticket for the game?

The rapidly expanding wave of global consciousness about the extensive corruptions built into the very fabric of the free market model has produced a secondary impact - it is now beyond any doubt in the public eye that our beloved game has been bought off by bookmakers, insider bettors and global mafiosi involved in the fixing of football.
If capitalism is corrupt...
...then football is so and then some.

It is to the detriment of all involved in the administration of the British game that it is only HMR&C who are interested in taking on this systemic corruption in football. Only the Incomparable Michel Platini is similarly concerned for the future of the game.

Before we decided against being inside the loop of the British game, we met with numerous individuals in the UK and abroad.
Platini and Wenger aside, every other person was corrupt, very corrupt, turned a blind eye to corruption, slyly profited from corruption, accommodated corruption, eased the path of corruption or stayed blinkered to corruption while accepting the trickledown largesse of their criminal masters.
In most cases they boasted about it.
It was networking currency.

The HMR&C is an arm of state that, if not regressive, is justified.
If we must have a state then the relevant finances to sustain such entity need to be collected.
We may assure all concerned in match fixing in Britain that the HMR&C wants its slice of the action.
And the HMR&C are interested in the past as well as the present.

And if we are to regard postmodern football as a version of poker then A Royal Taxman beats A Squad of Crooks.

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09:04
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STAY HOME HONKY - Why John Terry should not be visiting Auschwitz

A BUSTED FLUSH - The collapse of the January Transfer Window

DESPITE HAVING THE "BEST ACCOUNTANTS IN THE COUNTRY"... - How long is Harry heading down for?

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Κέρκυρα, 01.02.2012
17:10
A Done Deal
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Firstly, if the money handed over to Harry Redknapp by Milan Mandaric was a gift then why did Mr Redknapp go to the trouble of secreting the cash away offshore in an account opened especially for the purpose and not utilised for any other transactions, and why did he not willingly declare the booty to the tax authorities?
If it was a gift, why not just put it into the current account?

Secondly, although gambling winnings are not enforceable under law and are not taxable, has Mr Redknapp ever disclosed his earnings from his extensive gambling activities to the HMR&C, particularly on events where his market access might be considered insider trading?

There have been recent discussions with lawyers over the legalities of making claims against individuals/ consortia who rig sporting markets for proprietary benefit.
Unsurprisingly, the range of potential claimants is large and is most certainly not simply restricted to traders, market makers and bettors.
Think television companies paying viewing rights, advertisers, teams abused by insiders, fans etc etc etc.

But it is a relief for all to hear Harry "To Be Honest" Redknapp state, once and for all, that "I've always paid my taxes" and we should offer heartfelt thanks that he utilised "the best accountants in the country" just so that he could pay extra tax on occasion due to his heightened levels of public-spiritedness.

Are you taking the fucking piss, pal?

Playing the Jolly Orange Giant wearing your comedy glasses might get a chuckle in court but this isn't funny, it's fraud.
You are accused of robbing the state not ripping off mug punters.
This is real in a way that your life rarely is...

25 years ago Lester Piggott got 3 years for avoiding paying tax on £3.25 million...
... pro-rata and taking account of inflation Redknapp should be out for the close of season.

"Before they open their mouths they're liars; they breathe lies" - Ahdaf Soueif.

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09:27
Peter Walton is a Red Bastard
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Last night Manchester City were denied two penalty shouts by Peter "Grandad" Walton.
So what? Referees are paid to make decisions.

But what is it that influences the decisions that Grandad makes?

In 21 matches refereeing Manchester United over eight seasons, the Reds have won 15, drawn 6 and lost 0.
In the same period, Walton has officiated 13 Manchester City games with only 3 ending in victory for the Citizens with 6 defeats.

But the last four years of refereeing from Mr Walton are even more revealing.

Manchester United 11 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats (15 matches 37 points)
Manchester City 0 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats (7 matches 3 points).

In 22 matches over four seasons, Man Utd have NEVER LOST with Walton in charge while City have NEVER WON.

Or take the last three seasons where the cumulative points difference between United and City is 27 points - fully 18 of these points are due to the supposedly unconscious biases of an old man.

It is this sort of thing that determines titles.

The fact that this knickpoint in performance by Walton coincides with the introduction of Shinawatra's stolen largesse leading onto the petro-dollars that made football in Manchester truly competitive is only a further point that requires a response from PGMOB/Walton.

Either this is just another collection of Incredible Flukes or the PGMOB and Peter Walton have some explaining to do over the bias, and it is a statistically significant bias, and over the reason the old bastard gets, on average, six games a season to 'favour' the Ferguson Reds.

Also, after United being presented with Chris Foy and Walton for the two post-crisis matches, Foy was once again 4th Official to a junior referee for the Stoke game last night .
This means, The Racism Derby aside, Ferguson has been given dominant referees of Foy (a false sending off and two penalty decisions), Walton (a penalty), Webb with five bookings of Arsenal players (remember Ryan Babel's tweet) and Foy again (two penalties) since Newcastle/Blackburn.

And so we have a Title Race...
... although it is more akin to a Handicap Hurdle with City carrying top weight.

Farcical!

Thank goodness Football isn't Fixed...
... It's Fucked.

NB There are a couple of cup matches in this list but for ease of argument in the time allowed, we totalise.

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Κέρκυρα, 31.01.2012
10:30
Redknapp's Going Down
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Is it allowable under FA rules for someone to manage the England team from Ford Open Prison?

The HMR&C campaign against different aspects of football fraud, tax avoidance, money laundering and, soon, illegal insider betting activity is parallelling along on numerous fronts - Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric, Rangers FC, Portsmouth FC, and other potential routes of investigation still to be unearthed via Quest and the News of the World scandals etc etc.

Football needs to get real as their 'in-the-loop' focus on untouchable hyperrealities is in for a continued rude awakening - the HMR&C are on a strategic medium-term drive to clean up black and black/grey market football.

Two of these issues reached a conjunction in Southwark Crown Court yesterday.

Harry Redknapp earned £3 million per year in 2002, increasing to £4.2 million per annum when Pompey reached the Premier League.
We know of NO OTHER FOOTBALL MANAGER IN THE WORLD who was receiving this level of wage at that time...
... not Ferguson, Capello, Mourinho, Sven-Goran Useless.

And for a second tier team initially!!

He obviously deserved the award of Freeman of the City of Portsmouth for the Fixed FA Cup Final victory over Cardiff City refereed by one Mike Dean.

But did he deserve it for taking so much money out of the club (asset stripping, we would call it), for the resulting sale of half a squad, for the decline that has seen six owners of various shades of criminality and from various global mafiosi mis-run the club in the last two years, for the rampant insider gambling undertaken at the club when he was manager, for the fact that the HMR&C issued a winding-up order against Pompey yesterday?

Telegraph: "Staff and players at Portsmouth will not receive their January wages on time... the club's bank account is now frozen."

An aside are the issues of the £## million bet by one ####### ###### ####### at one bookmaker in ######### in one season or the ##### property empire in the capital as these things are not illegal.

Mandaric, Redknapp and Storey are the primary reasons that Portsmouth FC is merely a shell of its former self.

But who needs enemies when your friends produce court narratives like the following from Mandaric:
"But I never had a relationship as I had with Harry."

We bet you didn't, sir!!!

And while we're at it, we are quite partial to $145K gifts for no reason whatsoever, if ever the money is burning a hole in your pocket...

Is it any wonder that Jamie Redknapp is looking so concerned?

When a result is needed (to put it in football parlance), the state and the judiciary work together - witness the four year jail term for the tweeting non-rioter from Northwich.
For the HMR&C to be taking on the likes of Redknapp, Murray and, in particular, Mandaric suggests that they mean business with The Business.
There is too much riding on the outcome with respect to HMR&C, Quest and the police investigation team, the EPL white corruption campaign, the pressure from the Astonishing Michel Platini and UEFA both on club debts and club illegalities, and even the BBC who aired the original Panorama programme that sparked the whole kaboodle.

"Ensuring tax is paid on time should be at the centre of a football club's business strategy just like any other business," said an HMR&C spokesperson.
"Anyone that regards paying tax as an optional extra, or that uses tax collected from employees or customers as working capital, is potentially heading for trouble."

A Tiny Tip Of An Immense Iceberg...

British Footballing Omerta Is Cracking - It Is Everyone For Themselves Amongst The Antisocials.

Truly.
Football Fans Should Be Happy.

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Κέρκυρα, 30.01.2012
10:18
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Κέρκυρα, 29.01.2012
13:51
What An Incredible Fluke IV!
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The FA Cup Draw gave us a one in three and a half thousand chance that The Racism Derbies (Liverpool v Man Utd and QPR v Chelsea) would be sequelled.

Amidst massive extra police costs and abundant blurtings of racism, the two teams associated with racist behaviour won via a dubious penalty and through one of the victims of racism making the mistake that produced the winner having been under intense racist and/or verbal abuse throughout the previous couple of hours.

In what way do the FA see this as a victory for the Kick It Out campaign?

But one in three and a half thousand!

What a weird fluke!

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Κέρκυρα, 28.01.2012
17:30
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10:18
Who Controls The Referees?
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A core problem locus in English football is the Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB).

This body, which oversees the management and appointment of referees and junior officials for matches, is simply not fit for purpose and needs to be deconstructed and reformed...
... with immediate effect.

The PGMOB was, of course, not fit for purpose under Keith Hackett but since the powers-that-be placed Mike 'Kipper' Riley in the hotseat, the organisation has become rancid.
The most obvious modus operandi, as seen externally, would be one where different corrupt power operators within the game bid for their selected match official to be appointed while the EPL moves in and imposes its own representatives on matches of consequence.
Of course, this cannot be true because Kipper tells us that the process is random.

But random this process is not...
... nor meritocratic.

This Stalinesque body that refuses to speak to the media, aside from when they are forced to justify stopping a gay referee from coming out, imposes Pavlovian discipline to disguise its misdmeanours. EPL managers have all learned (with the exception of Mick McCarthy) that if you complain about a blatantly amateurish performance by a match official then you will undoubtedly suffer to an even greater extent in the next match until you learn to stay quiet and 'respect my authority' as Cartman might put it.
The outcome for the fan is a bunch of dodgy games with dodgy happenings that nobody comments about for fear of future unemployment-inducing refereeing.

Simple.

The structures are so psychopathic at the PGMOB, and throughout the British game, that we don't need to risk libel in exposing information and data that is, quite frankly, beyond statistical likelihood or comprehension.

There is an arbitrage in reality at play here!!!

For example.

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.

We are absolutely not suggesting any conscious shenanigans by Jonathan Moss, he is no doubt just a twitcher who loves his throstles.
Mr Moss is a headmaster, he looks after our children. Our futures are in his hands.
He is undoubtedly a pillar of society.
He would not consciously act inappropriately.

But the data reveals an unconscious bias that, alongside the sheer quantity of appointments to WBA games, should be picked up on and handled and resolved by the PGMOB.
And if not by them, then by the EPL.

But all we have historically got from the EPL is 'Give the Refs Respect', 'Get on with the Ref, Get on with the Game' and other such meaningless monikers to disguise the murk.

Why is there such sloppiness about such a key area of the game?
Referees decide matches.
In Total Poker, control of the referee is only trumped by control of both goalkeepers or an agreed 3 for 3/2 for 2 event between the teams.

The PGMOB has to be reformed and the manner in which officials are selected must be radically altered.
Riley has to go and a randomised yet meritocratic process initiated.
There should be far more than 19 referees on the Select Group and the practice where the three top officials are able to cover 5 EPL games in one weekend (as ref or 4th official) is a matrix purely designed for corruption.

Three referees in charge of 5x £1 billion markets would set alarm bells ringing in any structure of integrity!

In Spain, Italy and the UEFA competitions, the listing of match officials are generally only released the day prior to the window and, additionally, the bodies that are making the appointments don't leak like a sieve.
That would be a start.
By releasing match officials early, the PGMOB allows a larger window for bribery, coercion or control to make their mark which is one of the primary reasons why over 90% of the very late changes in match officials in the major European leagues occur in England.

FIFA and UEFA 'own' the game.
FIFA is systemically corrupt and will remain so until a clean broom sweeps through.
Corrupt consortia and rogue officials only own discrete quantum realities within the game.
They are able to be peripheralised.

How we hear you ask?

i) By facing up to the fact that the global sport is endemically corrupted by insider gambling syndicates and operations and that the only way to stop this underground behaviour is to introduce legality into the highly liquid Asian betting markets that dominate the sport.

ii) Video replays for all contentious decisions - each manager getting three calls per game, for instance.

iii) Replacing Bettor Blatter with Someone Better ie the Very Remarkable Michel Platini.

Simple.

China is looking to move onto the next stage of economic advancement.
This is the stage where the centre of gravity moves from grey/black market state capitalism to grey market state capitalism.
You may rest assured that the Chinese powers-that-be will force this squillion dollar industry further within their control.

However the EPL/PGMOB choose to select strategy, their days of psychopathic templating are severely limited.

The days of the British hei shao (black whistle) are numbered.

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Κέρκυρα, 27.01.2012
23:13
What An Incredible Fluke III!
» Football is fixed

Last Sunday, a policeman refereeing the City v Spurs game gave City a penalty, denied Spurs one and didn't send Balotelli off for something he quite evidently witnessed.

One week in court...

Friday night, an FA Cup tie with another policeman refereeing, in fact the same policeman who allegedly robbed Spurs at Stoke in December - Redknapp claiming that it was the worst refereeing performance he had witnessed in 30 years!

Keeping the pressure on.

The random selection of two policeman to ref the matches adjacent to the first week of Harry's case is a 1.74% chance.

What a weird fluke!

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20:32
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, the EPL and, most critically in the world of the middle pyramid, the 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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08:58
Today From Football is Fixed, We Bring You...
» Football is fixed

How John Colquhoun Unconsciously Helped Celtic Win A Title While Playing for Hearts

John Colquhoun Loves Jonathan Moss Loves Mike Riley

One Agent, Three Goalkeepers, One Offshore Bookmaker, Three Referees and Lots of Money

Football is Fucked Bet of the Day

To find out more visit our new multiverse at

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Κέρκυρα, 26.01.2012
22:15
Pay Me My Money Down
» Football is fixed

Introducing the brand new blog from those Football is Fixed people - Football is Fucked [footballisfucked.blogspot.com]

Think of it, if you must, as Football is Fixed without big words and without hope for the game.

Think of this as our Opening Ceremony.

If Football is Fucked were Art, We would be Spaceheads.

Pay Me My Money Down.

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22:13
Fat Wallet Got Us Under Its Thumb
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10:11
A Wobbly Club and a Wobbly Face
» Football is fixed

Two pieces of excellent news for the lovers of integrity in football.

I spent yesterday afternoon with two very senior officials from HM Revenue & Customs.
This was a most fruitful discourse.

Aside from matters relating to the current spheres of reality, off the record we touched on two other matters, Rangers FC and the trial of Honest Harry Redknapp.

In the former, it is regarded as an absolute certainty that Rangers will go into administration.
Good.
This is because of the nature of the Employee Benefits Trust (EBTs) used by the club.
An EBT may be legal or not and in the case of the Hun it would appear most definitely that the latter is the truth.

Even the club themselves realise this is the case as the following clip from the 'Rangers Tax Case' website reveals [rangerstaxcase.com]

"The problems for Rangers started with the fact that footballers and their agents would never be so daft as to trust a ‘nod and a wink’ from a football club executive. Amounts for salaries, bonuses, appearance fees- are all the subject of written contracts. These contracts (which are routinely available during tax investigations) provide the Rosetta Stone for tax investigators. I cannot discuss some of the other evidence against Rangers FC, but I understand that at least some of Rangers FC executives were aware that what they were doing was illegal."

The result is, according to my friends at the HMR&C is that the club won't even get the option of taking a points hit and a relegation (or two) but will, in fact, have to reform as Rangers King Billy 1692 or something similar in the amateur leagues.

And as icing on the cake, Murray the Former Property Baron turned up at the club on Tuesday and two potential 'Gers signings were instantly sent packing...
... no money you see.

And Jelavic is only going through the motions as he wants out.

Meanwhile in Southwark, the view of my esteemed friends is that the Cockney Rebel is also going down.

Firstly, the HMR&C are directly and significantly targeting the football industry with agents/bungs/betting being the primary focuses.
The shared view is that Redknapp/Mandaric are scapegoats.

Secondly, the Southwark 2 exist in a world where they have no idea where the boundaries of legality lie.

Thirdly, the insider HMR&C opinion is that there are many good lines of legal defence but that the following statement from Redknapp is not one of them.

"A bung don't come into it — it's a payment. A bung, that's a f*cking sick word. It's a bonus. If it was dodgy I would have gone and brought the f*cking money back in a suitcase."

Mmmm...
... "I didn't murder him, your honour, but I would have done if necessary..."

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Κέρκυρα, 25.01.2012
10:52
Police and Thieves
» Football is fixed

Mario Balotelli's agent, Mino Raiola, has criticised both Howard Webb and Harry Redknapp.

About Redknapp he said: "Don't make me speak about Redknapp because it will make me really mad. It's not normal what they do in England."

No it isn't normal at all...
... it is abnormal.

As as Benjamin, Millon and Davis and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology has been kind enough to inform us in the past, narcissistic personality disorder + antisocial personality disorder = psychopathic personality disorder.

This formula is true in the singular and en masse.

All individuals, consortia, cartels and others who seek absolute control of financial realities with no account of any societal downside are psychopathic.

English Football is Psychopathic.

And in response to his suggestion that Webb should be banned for life, the PGMOB issued a statement stating: "The integrity of our officials is beyond reproach."

Lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol - sidesplitting laughter rips round the office.

No Kipper Riley...
... the integrity of some of your officials is besmirched by rampant cr########y.

In fact, take a glance at matches involving ##### ######## and #### #### for instance, or #### ######.
Or goalkeepers from one agent, with one offshore bookmaker and certain match officials, for instance.

Kipper Chat Shit.

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Κέρκυρα, 24.01.2012
15:47
"To Be Honest" Its Snow Globe Time
» Football is fixed

Private market in Asia mockingly offering 1.47 that Redknapp either sent down or forced to reach an accommodation about his past income as well as his future revenue streams.

Rumour going around that bank acct Rosie 47 originally named 'Rosebud'...

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11:27
D'oh!
» Football is fixed

Even Homer could rig a football match more professionally than the British criminal classes.

It is little wonder that our sport, this game of football, is TOTALLY controlled by Asian underground bookmakers whose expertise on both the sport and the behaviouralisms of another culture show the crims up as the psychopathic antisocials they are.

One of the reasons that the Stoke v West Brom match was fixed at the weekend was the presence of Chinese New Year yesterday.
The tip-top Asian market makers all take an elongated break over the holiday either closing down their operations or allowing juniors to co-ordinate trading at much reduced volume.
The impact is both less professional money entering the world betting markets from Asia and, consequently, a greater ease for other consortia to attempt to corner a market.

With the police closing in on Harry Redknapp and Rosie 47 and tax evasion and the tip of the iceberg that is RedknappWorld, both UEFA and the English Premier League taking stances against the criminalised networks corrupting the sport (those below them in the feeding frenzy at least) and the new Interpol Whistle-blowing Telephone Line soon to be active, these are risky times for murkiness.

Saturday's match was just a shit gig, a casual criminality from antisocials who believe that they are so sophisticated that their crookery will not be spotted...
... or acted upon.

There are some key questions arising from the current state of play.

The EPL, some bookmakers, top trading organisations and, particularly, the Asian underground knew all about the Stoke v West Brom match prior to kick off.
The betting patterns are highly suspicious on the match.
Highly...

There are organisations and bodies like Early Warning GmbH and Interpol who are supposed to spot suspicious betting patterns and act on them. These people are supposed to be forensic in their examination.
Wouldn't one think that an obvious place to start looking are visually suspicious events where one team is linked to bookmakers that are, obviously unknowingly, profiting from the rogue match in question?
D'oh.

In any other area of criminal investigation, aside from the obvious one of racist murders, investigators use such links to build the picture.
Why not in the rampant corruption of football?
D'oh.

Some underground Asian firms were seeing million pound bets on the Stoke v WBA game.
Even Betfair saw some late £25K positions against Stoke.

And take Betfair, or any bookmaker for that matter.
They accept bets that they know are insider trading (John Colquhoun bet with Betfair when we were evaluating him and they didn't close his account or refer his positions to any external body. No they did not. They presumably utilised this knowledge as inside information and adjusted their market profile accordingly).
Every bet by an insider should be reported.
Why is this not the case?
D'oh.

Or take mainstream journalists.
Some of them talk with us and the scene created is one of insider information serving as an alternative currency in the newsrooms, as exposure in media and positive representation in media are associated with insider betting information.
Is it little wonder that no mainstream journalist is allowed to publish details of this endemic and systemic corruption?
D'oh.

Slick trading organisations are very particular about isolationism and leakage of information.
For the purposes of longevity of competitive advantage, trades are secreted away.
And these trades, at least in the case of our bunch, are based on careful analysis of all aspects of the game - we do cybernetics and pattern recognition at speed and we don't want anyone other than our broker knowing what we are doing, thank you very much.
We hedge at Betfair and elsewhere and trade on the peripheral markets or micro-adjust positions at best price in Europe...
... but this is just noise.

That people think that they are able to get away with Stoke v WBA-type scams shows either extreme stupidity (which we doubt) or a culture of anything goes cowboy poker on our beloved sport.
That would be very rich people, many of whom owe their huge wealth to football, who, not content with uber-wealth, wish to gain more opium for their offshore bank accounts by ripping off everybody else involved in the event.

What gives these criminals, for that is exactly what they are, the right to abuse the poor and the not-so-poor in this manner?
D'oh.

Interestingly, in the US, the super-super rich are reinventing themselves.
For instance, many sympathise with the Occupy movement according to the Economist and feel that capitalism has become too corrupt.
They revisit history to marginalise their own activities in criminal bodies to distance themselves from this altogether shoddier form of psychopathy.
It is even happening in Britain between the EPL and rogue consortiums over particular football matches.

From our perspective, strictly as traders and analysts, rogue consortiums are a pain in the neck.
Not only are they destroying the game, they are also undermining professional analysts from improving the efficiency of the markets - our one public good (aside from whistle-blowing, that would be).
Hyperreal Man-Made Black Swan events in football markets are a complete destruction of the integrity of the market.
Now why doesn't an operator who loses on a rigged match take legal action against the match-fixers?
D'oh.

It doesn't take a five sigma evaluation or an understanding of the fourth level of the multiverse to jigsaw together what we are dealing with here.
D'oh...

And.
Anyway.
Who Guards the Feckin' Guardians?
D'oh.

No-one.
That is exactly who.

Football is Fucked...
... which, incidentally, is the new blog where all posts will appear in brief from the not too distant future.

[footballisfucked.blogspot.com]

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Κέρκυρα, 23.01.2012
10:52
More Reasons to Shop Sorensen?
» Football is fixed

There are a number of questions that need to be aired over the English Premier League match between Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion.

The game was settled by two goalkeeping errors from Stoke's man with a Squiggle, Thomas Sorensen.

The man might be a Squiggly goalie...
... but is he a convincing actor?

Just to remind you - the first West Brom goal squirmed through Squiggly and was so amusing to the man that he was troubled with disguising his laughter. After a late Stoke equaliser, Squiggly once again went into sixth form drama class mode trying to make out that there were reasons why he made absolutely no attempt to save a ball, once again, almost directly at him, giving Albion victory.

It is our opinion that there were indeed reasons.

A common form of fixed football match features one agent bolstering another via players on opposite sides - remember the event between Fulham and Wigan Athletic when Andy Johnson knew that he was going to score his hundredth goal (despite not having scored for 6 months).
The Squiggly on that occasion was ##### ######## who, by chance, is a client of John Colquhoun/Key Sports.
Colquhoun is also club agent at WBA where he represents James Morrison, Chris Brunt, George Thorne and Saido Berahino.

The West Brom shirt sponsors are the Antiguan bookmakers Bodog.
At market opening, they offered a best price on the planet of Evens money on a Stoke victory - B-Win, a big European firm, in comparison, were offering 3/4 at opening while Ladbrokes went 4/5.
The only other firm on the planet to match Bodog's Evens were Bet Victor - a company known to have close links with John Colquhoun.

Bodog held the tempting psychological price of Evens throughout the market while Bet Victor tempted even more money in their direction by drifting Stoke to 21/20. At any given time in the market, Bodog/Bet Victor were offering the best, joint best or almost the best value on a Stoke victory. The other leading European firms remained in the dark until the off although some of the slicker Asian outfits (including our backers) spotted the Squiggly in the making and were also looking to lay Stoke by the off.
An aside - despite the impact of Chinese New Year, Asian bookmakers are still streets ahead of the Euro-Bozos...
... that is why we work with them.

Now why did one firm from Antigua who sponsor West Brom and one bookie from Gibraltar with links to West Brom both feel so confident about the outcome on Saturday afternoon that they were willing to financially take on the might of the globe?
And by such a distance in value too.
If two of the biggest European firms were offering such markedly shorter odds, why once again was there such confidence in the Caribbean and in some stolen imperial afterthought in the Med?

Onto the game itself, James Morrison's value will have increased from the realisation that if he kept shooting, which he did, he was bound to score. He hit the woodwork more than once as well as scoring the first Squiggly goal.
Sorensen's body language needs to be mentioned at this point.
Our woman at the game (really) pointed out that Sorensen's reactions to tipping one of these shots on to a post were as psychologically uproarious as his reactions to the two goals.
It doesn't look good being angry at a good save and laughing after conceding a goal.

Now we are not saying that Thomas tanked the engine - his uselessness might just coincide by pure chance with a hyperreality and his reactions might be due to behavioural issues.
But the man is very high on our Squiggly list, including in Denmark games of yore, and he has got links to #### #########

Interestingly, as a clear indication of the fragmented cartel in European Match Fixing, there were those working against the Squiggly Scenario - indeed the efforts of gambling stable West Brom (and others including Stoke - owned by Bet 365) are frequently confronted by # #### ############ #########
There is being in the loop...
... and being in the loop.

In summation.
Two firms linked to West Bromwich Albion/John Colquhoun made a small fortune in a match where the gamble was landed only as a result of two incredibly unprofessional goalkeeping errors by a man who has previously enjoyed such correlations on more than one occasion.

The clear winners here are two bookmakers that are based offshore to avoid paying tax who have made oodles of money at no risk to themselves out of exploiting/fortunately benefiting from a Squiggly event to the continued demise of the sport we all love.
Everyone else is in what Sun Tzu might have termed Hyperreal Risk Territory and what ##################/ Dietrological/ Football is Fixed term Thirty Thirty Theory Territory.

Full text as ever is winging its way to Asia...
Kung Hei Fat Choi.

一本萬利

"May a small investment bring ten-thousandfold profits"

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Κέρκυρα, 22.01.2012
14:02
What An Incredible Fluke II!
» Football is fixed

After Manchester United lost to the combined might of Blackburn and Newcastle shipping six goals in the process, they were 'rewarded' with the selection of Chris Foy to referee the FA Cup tie at the Council Estate.

The rest is history.

For the next match against Bolton, Peter Walton was 'randomly' selected by the PGMOB to officiate.
He gave United a penalty which they proceeded to miss but ran out comfortable winners.

A not too unfamiliar scenario for Grandad Walton as the Red Devils are yet to lose in over 20 Premier League matches officiated by the old man.

For lovers of probability, there was a 1 in 342 chance of Man Utd being gifted these two referees in their hour of need.

And, historically, Foy and Walton have been the most pro-Man Utd of all the current refs.

What a weird fluke!

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13:56
What An Incredible Fluke!
» Football is fixed

In five weeks time, we have the Merseyside derby.

Liverpool midfielders Jordan Henderson and Steve Gerrard are both on the books of Wasserman Media Group.
So are Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard and midfielder Landon Donovan.

Are we alone in finding this interesting?

Good job Wasserman aren't a gambling agency...
... but, wait a minute, they've got Michael Owen and Tottenham 'Four Olympic Spying Arrests and an allegedly tax avoiding manager' Hotspur on their books!

What a weird fluke!

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10:33
The Fabrication of Reality and a Rigged Premier League Game
» Football is fixed

Newspapers are for news...
... not privatised profitable propaganda for one individual.

Football is for sport...
... not privatised profit on behalf on an insider ####### ##########.

First lets do journalism before moving onto its sibling, betting.

It always flushes out the murky does the January Transfer Window - with a business restriction of just one month within season, all manipulations, criminalities, envelope stuffing, bribing and pressurising are themselves pressured by time.

Good.
Such pressure increases the pascal, particularly on football agents.

John Colquhoun of Key Sports (and other extended tentacles of agentdom) has massive influence over the football output from the Guardian newspaper and this weekend is slightly over the top, even where his attitude to propaganda is concerned.

There are SEVEN articles or items that highlight his own clients or those clients that he ####### ####### ## #### ##### ##### ######

From the top, in 7/8 time, a one-two-three-four-five-six-seven...

Daniel Taylor (if he exists) writes an article on Ravel Morrison.
Morrison is the troublesome Man Utd youngster who spends more time in court than on the pitch (literally).
United want shut of him and the Guardian informed us that Newcastle had had a £500K offer rejected earlier in the week.
Ravel's Bolero skills produced a signing with John Colquhoun's Key Sport Management and he has now entered into a much more complicated ####### ### #### ### ##### ### #### ############# #### ####### ### ######### ########### ############# ### ##### ## ########## between ##### ###### ### #########

The article is no more than an advert for Morrison.

"But Morrison was alone, bar his solicitor... Things have turned nasty and someone is spinning the truth... behind the scenes they talk of him being as naturally gifted as Paul Scholes. Barcelona have asked about him... On the football pitch, he plays with finesse and confidence... Lesser players have moved up, which he has found hard to take... the district judge questioned whether the club were giving him the right care... This could be a £40m footballer in a few years..."

What a load of shite...

This is allegedly the second most read article on the Guardian site!

Oh come on! Confidence leads to Sloppiness!

Secondly, we are expected to believe that "Our Favourite Thing" for all Guardian journalists all week has been some pitiful output about Phil Jones (a Colquhoun client) being better in midfield than in defence when he is a speedy yet headless chicken in both - football is a team sport, it is not about running at pace prior to performing a random event.

Thirdly and fourthly, following a photo shot of Theo Walcott (one of Johnny's) celebrating the best of previous Man Utd v Arsenal games (one struggles to pick out one Walcott performance worthy of such focus), Dodgy Williams moans on about the frugality of Mr Wenger who, by absolute coincidence, is currently negotiating with Colquhoun over a new contract for the lad who has also perfected the unskill of running very fast with a random event on completion.
Fantastic journalism.

Fifthly, there was the weekly propaganda that is the Secret Footballer, the Secret Agent.
We lost count of the number of aliases that Mr Colquhoun used in communication with the various cells of our infrastructure!!

Sixthly, apparently the most important match in Europe this weekend according to the Guardian has been the victory by Twente Enschede against lowly Waalwijk in the Netherlands. Much bigger than the restart of the Bundesliga with Moenchengladbach beating FC Bayern or the most atmospheric derby in Europe (Real Betis v Sevilla) or Totti scoring two goals for Roma. Close friend and ######### ########## ## ### ######## ###### #### with Colquhoun is Steve McClaren who, by chance, is Twente's new manager.
After three awful failures in his last four jobs, this is McClaren's last chance in football having been rejected by all and sundry in the EPL or it is a "convincing comeback" according to the Guardian, takes your pick.
Fantastic journalism.

Seventhly, we have an unmention of a client of Key Sports.
James Morrison would normally have been lauded in the Guardian for scoring and having a good game against Stoke.
Ah! But...
... and Ah! But again.

"After the game, the Albion manager, Roy Hodgson, was forced to defend the scorer of his side's first goal, James Morrison, for an apparent gesture towards the home supporters. Morrison had wheeled away in celebration towards the Stoke fans, initially with his arms outstretched. However, perhaps reacting to a comment, he then quickly placed his left hand on his right upper arm and delivered an upwards fist-pump gesture. "Did he do that?" said Hodgson. "Blimey. You guys [the media] see everything. That gesture could be interpreted in a thousand ways.""

Journalists seeing everything eh Roy!? A thousand ways eh Roy!!?? - Colquhoun for the uninitiated is club agent at WBA.

There was even a mention of Colquhoun client Clarke Carlisle in an article in the paper about footballers with degrees, even though he doesn't have one.
Fantastic journalism.

SEVEN focuses/selective unfocus, and a spurious mention on one web page!
Thank goodness David James (another of Colly's) wasn't doing one of his fortnightly pieces on the site as well!

Key Sports rank their clients for us on their website - Theo Walcott, Phil Jones, Chris Brunt, Josh McEachran, David James, Francis Muamba, Ryan Bertrand, James Morrison...

Now then...
... what is the probability of that balance of coverage, girls and boys?

Q.E.D.

People are expected to take this as real, for feck's sake.
But there are other levels that are markedly more concerning.

As with another 'former' Key Sports client who features regularly on the Guardian site Jordan Henderson, Ravel Morrison has an interesting ownership structure ######### ######## ########### ### ########## ####### ###### ############### ##### ### ## ############## ######### ######### #######
## ### ### ##### ########## ######### ###############
########## ####### ######### ################# ### ## ######## #####

There is also the little matter of the match in which James Morrison scored against Stoke City yesterday - More Reasons to Shop ########. ########### ##### ## ### ###### ########## #### ############ #### ######### ############# ## ### ############## ####
##### ## ######## ### #### ######### ##### ## ################ ## #### ########## ## #### ################ #######
###### ########### ## ### ###### ######## ### ############## ######## ##### #### ### ###########

Somebody at West Bromwich very obviously knew about this pre-match as may be seen from certain betting patterns.
################## ## ######### ##### ###################### ### ########### ### ########## #####
Two linked firms of bookmakers took on the world (literally) in this Stoke v West Brom game offering the best price on a Stoke win for almost the whole market window - and one of them was the West Brom shirt sponsor, Bodog.
The other was ### ######
How come the confidence?
##### ###### ########### ### ####### ## ####### ########## ### ### #### ########### ### ### ###### # ####### ### ## #######
######## ####

Aren't journalists supposed to cover things like 3rd Party Ownership, Fixed Matches, Harry Redknapp's forthcoming trial, the Calciopoli II crisis in Italy, the takeover of Reading FC by a Russian consortium, the sixth illegal takeover of Portsmouth in 2 years, the 'control' of certain EPL events over xmas etc etc?
You know, real stuff of real interest about real things.

As Alan Rusbridger won't enter into conversation with us on the matter of Guardian football output and John Colquhoun/Key Sports, #### ## #### ###### ### ######### ###### ######### ## ### ##########
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Alas.
It will be up to our backers to decide.

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Κέρκυρα, 18.01.2012
13:31
... A Coda
» Football is fixed

... the blackmail gone wrong, the betting slip, the former drug dealer, a peripheral company with a grudge, the jilted girlfriend, the jilted boyfriend, Gigi Becali, a private bank collapse, that bitter enemy, a money laundering court case, the state choosing to tax the sector, Berezovsky about Abramovich, the secretary who really didn't appreciate that grope at the xmas party, mainstream journalists choosing to write truth rather than absolute shite, a dropped player, Poland/Ukraine informational leak, a phone hack, the nosey neighbours of a Robbie Savage type avatar, an email hack, a private bookmaker to gain market share, a burglary, that hidden camera, a robbery, that cash pile photographed as it was being placed in the envelope, a maverick, the abused daughter, UEFA exercise their grudge against the EPL, a sacked employee, France, that guy with the bullet mike in that silver van across the way, Eire, an IT man who just happened to leave a sleeping cookie on the machine, Wales, the woman in the next hotel room, Scotland, Jeremy Clarkson to sell a feckin' book of reactionary garbage, Germany, a French postmodernist with an aptitude for the spectacular, Jamaica, a pitch invader/streaker, a goalscorer on his t-shirt, India, a Black Swan, GamCare, a cornered market, a hyperreal illusionist, Pakistan, a high class call girl, an accidental 'cc', Zimbabwe, somebody who has discovered Nietzsche or Zizek or Chomsky or Baudrillard, someone in the right casino but at the wrong time, Haiti, an ex-insider who finds God or Morals or Both or Whatever, the EU, Putin (he got the World Cup, what must he know?), bin Hammam or Warner, a coup de grace, that Labour MP who looks 12 and comes from Leigh, someone disclosing some of the 3rd Party Club Ownerships at the top of the game, a former wife, a Gibraltan employee, a bonded employee from Macau, a FIFA shakedown, Interpol doing something, a broker or market maker with a grudge, the Asian underground choosing to release information in collusion with, the Chinese government, Richard Scudamore's horseracing contacts, a private detective, jealousy from other European leagues if/when the 50% tax barrier is lowered, a discovered alias, the hidden dictaphone, a former PA, GCHQ, the owner of that gay club, an angry stepchild, the Campaign for Racial Equality, Mario Balotelli in form other than a Tweet, Cantona, a Ryan conquest, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, John Pilger, Chavez or Castro, an eavesdropper, the cleaner who rifles the bins, an overheard row, and last but not least, someone who combines many of these inputs together, Rupert Murdoch and The Murdochratic Team.

Oh! The Fragmented Cartel...

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Κέρκυρα, 17.01.2012
21:37
The Fine Arts of War and Whistle-blowing
» Football is fixed

The timing of intuitions are markedly more accurate if one is dealing with a range of scenario evaluations utilising an atmospheric analysis of a core competency.

Or...
... you can time things better if you know your stuff.

Welcome to the Football is Fixed Guide to Creative Strategy and Grassing.

First things first.

Across the world, corruption and match fixing in football is being paraded through the courts.
Plus.
FIFA is endemically corrupt.
Plus.
A significant percentage of match officials in Europe are linked directly or indirectly, with their knowledge or without, to the global betting markets where over $2.5 billion a game is the common market on major European matches.
Plus.
Italy has already reached the stage of the sequel - the Return of Calciopoli - the one where 18 high level players are arrested (making 37 in total) last December around the date that Silvio Steps Aside - Silvio Stepping Aside Day as it will be celebrated across Europe for centuries to come.

Ah! But in England, isn't it all so hunky dory, so it is.

But not for long.
We all got around and had this little chat in December and in our collective esteemed estimations, there is a 30% chance that a seriously brand-damaging scandal will erupt around the English Premier League in the next 30 active rounds.
We have called it the Thirty Thirty Theory (30/30Th).
And, unlike those End-Of-The-World-Merchants, by not confining ourselves to a certainty, we will, as usual, be correct either way - yup, we predicted the arrest of a **************** so we did/ we were 70% certain that the game would remain clean for the period so we were.
Takes you pick...

Suddenly everyone is on about the Art of Whistle-blowing - that peripheral Art where you reveal that your government are actually crooks in suits and end up spending 400+ days in solitary confinement for your troubles/ in Sweden awaiting extradition so that you too might also be introduced to the wonders of self ad nauseum in the HyperImperium.
Takes your pick...

But Obama encouraged whistle-blowing...

Or how about the whistle-blower who exposed the insider trading by the wife of the [ex] president of the Swiss National Bank, Philipp Hildebrand - The Economist: "A straw poll this week suggested that a majority of the Swiss public views whistle-blowing as no excuse to breach bank secrecy, and regrets the departure of Mr Hildebrand."

At Football is Fixed, we learned very early on not to do the whistle-blowing thing - a few chats with government figures, regulators, administrators, officials, managers, players, criminals, police, lawyers, media, woodlice and last (but least) agents, made it quite clear that we are dealing with a fragmented cartel here.

It was like when cuddly bumpkin Gordon Strachan was being paid to utter inanities during a recent televised betting occasion. He was referring to racism but he could have been banging on about any part of the game. He suggested that racism wasn't a problem in football because it wasn't a problem amongst his insider peer group - that would be the expert analysts, the ex-players, the commentators, presenters, or, further back, the board of directors, the financiers, the legal team, the strategists and Dermot Desmond.
Strangely enough racism isn't an issue in any of these circles because there isn't a non-white face available to be racist towards.

There are more people with red hair in the Celtic FC hierarchy than there are Black referees, Black administrators, Black managers, Black owners, Black chief executives combined in the entire British game.

The complacency behind such bumpkinness is one reason why, at some point very soon, someone is going to push their luck too far in the rigged match world.

As Quantum Mechanics should tell us: In a loop + Out of touch = Danger.

Confidence leads to Sloppiness.

And when the game is sitting on an administrative and insider mass malfeasance of neohyperreal proportions, there are just too many weak spots for an unpleasant major truth to erupt.
Someone being threatened or coerced, someone seeking police protection, a Mario Balotelli Tweet, someone feeling desperate, someone seeking political gain, someone telephoning the Interpol whistle-blower line soon to be set up, someone seeking a power shift, someone wishing for creative destruction, an Anarchist, someone with a penchant for mockery, a do-gooder, Mike Newell, a jealous colleague not in on the scam, forensic analysis of sloppy administration, an investigative journalist, a betting 'accident' live on tv, a suicide note, a mafia killing, some overseer or politician actually doing their job, that sort of thing...

That's an awful lot of bases for a fragmented cartel to keep covered.
And the EPL is hardly Goldman Sachs.

Careless corruption always breaks.
The EPL is a slow motion accident waiting to happen.

Sun Tzu, when translated into corporate psycho-babble, offers the following advice in windows of turmoil.
Develop a Complex Layered Strategy able to respond at speed to Black Swan Uproars (both threatening and rewarding) and undertake repeated probabilistic assessments of various Scenario Analyses as the Simulacra Unfolds.
Share knowledge only in the General and never the Specific and adjust lines of Security and Isolationism.
Observe and Take Advantage.

Twice recently sports betting market anomalies/criminalities have featured on the Financial Times homepage.
There is more serious interest being taken in betting corruption but we will deal on that one in the next post in this series.

But, in the meantime, let us hope that the English game has a Javi Poves out there.

Poves is the Sporting Gijon central defender who retired last year at the age of 23 due to the amount of corruption in the Spanish game.

"Football is cash and corruption. It's capitalism. And capitalism is death."

So it is.

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Κέρκυρα, 07.01.2012
13:01
King Kenny is the Missing Link
» Football is fixed

For transitional fossil Kenny Dalglish, it is surely time to evolve.
Last nights racist abuse of Tom Adeyemi is purely the fault of the Liverpool Football Club.

Dalglish and his players are heroes to some very very stupid people.
These neuronically moronic pick up mass hysterias that allow them to shroud their inate fear and weaknesses with the misplaced sense of hyper-power that is racism.

Racism.

The wearing of Suarez support t shirts, club media spokesperson Alan Hansen thinking Black people are coloured, the "All Together" mosaic featuring Suarez on the back of the Kop, the refusal to apologise for the institutional racism enveloping the club - the owners, management and players should be ashamed.

Why hasn't Dalglish got the capacity to face up to the fact that he is out of touch, out of date, out of his depth and both wrong and racist?

Slavery ended ages and ages and ages ago...
... just prior to Liverpool's last title win, in fact.
The world has moved on since Us Mancs had to build the Manchester Ship Canal to help that process on its way, while also neatly sidestepping your tariffs, your monopolies, your port cartels and your sectarian employment practices of yesteryear.

It is not valid to call someone "a negro".
Not once.
Never mind seven times.

Suarez is hardly the most kosher individual to stand up for anyway.
The man has form.

Known as the "Cannibal of Ajax" for biting Otman Bakkal (of Moroccan origin), Mr Suarez was banned for seven games.
The previous season he had been suspended for fighting with mixed heritage Ajax teammate, Ibrahim Afellay.
The year prior to that, Suarez fought with previous club FC Groningen over his transfer to Ajax. Despite taking his club to the KNVB, he lost his case.
Then there was the middle-fingered salute at Fulham.

In the words of Marco van Basten: "Luis is unpredictable."

Suarez earns a lot of money and when in Rome...

Ah!
But that is the rub of it.
From the perspective of Mr Suarez, why am I being punished for being racist in a country where my teammates, my team manager, my employers, the Premier League, the League Management Association, the BBC, the Prime Minister and the Queen's husband and late motherfucker are all renowned for differentiating on race?

England is still not that much different from the Rhodesia it spawned.

The recent rise in racist murders and attacks in the country, the hijacking of government agenda by the intellectual wing of the EDF, institutional racism in the police, the ghettoisation of our major cities, Kiaran Stapleton feeling comfortable enough with his crime to name himself "Psycho Stapleton" when appearing in court to be charged with shooting Anuj Bidve in the head on Christmas night, and yet the demand goes out from the BBC and all Right-minded people that Diane Abbott MP should apologise for insinuating that the UK is a nasty racist little entity founded on slavery and the workhouse, run by white people who utilise divide and rule as a primary tool of power.

It is all the same shit.

People who see Hillsborough but not Heysel also only see racist stereotypes.

It is time for King Kenny, his players, Richard Scudamore, John Henry and Luis Suarez to stand in front of the Kop and explain why it is time to evolve.

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Κέρκυρα, 05.01.2012
11:51
The End of Manchester United As We Know It
» Football is fixed

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 11th.

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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Κέρκυρα, 31.12.2011
10:30
Third Party Ownership, Control of Referees, Firms of Agents Working Together to Fix Games in the Premier League
» Football is fixed

Players and Fans are the two key ingredients that make football the beautiful game.
The skill and the atmosphere, the suspense and the uncertainties, sometimes even a randomness of poetic and physical forms.

Football will always be this but there are some parts of the game that now exist in a parallel universe to the game/play outlined above.

This is the football world of agents and 3rd Party Ownership, rigged matches controlled by cartels and consortia from various strata of the global underworld, doping without any valid testing regime, criminalised referees and players, referees owned by bookmakers, clubs, organisations, gangs, mafia...

The current football corruption trials in China reveal much of the format of the fixing of games - (incidentally China is also the primary foundation of much of the fixing in the big European leagues hence the pressure of more and more late morning/lunchtime kick offs in Europe's major leagues eg Spain and Italy starting at 10:30 and 11:00 GMT on Sunday matches this season).

The Chinese even have expressions for the types of corruption that we witness weekly in the EPL - "Hei Shao" means 'Black Whistle' (and the EPL has more black whistles than the Burkino Faso National Whistling Orchestra), while "Da Giaqiu" represents 'playing fakeball'!
There are numerous other expressions eg for matches controlled by two separate firms of agents that might effectively control up to half of the players on the pitch, for agreed draws and the annual sharing of points etc etc.

The beautiful game is infested with leeches sucking it dry of any nuances of integrity or sport, postmodern football is becoming a parody of the artform.

We have been provided with information regarding two firms of football agents active in the EPL who not only undertake shared third party ownership structures for individual players but who also work together to fix matches (sometimes with help from certain match officials).

We are not willing to reveal the firms, the agents, the players, the match officials or the clubs - only my work colleagues and professional advisers have been made aware of the murkiness.

But, for example, there is an event this weekend in the EPL in which the two firms of agents in question own ##### key players and ### of the refereeing team.
For one of the major big city EPL derbies, one firm alone owns ### central midfielders from one team and the goalkeeper and a ################################ on the other.
Just imagine the possibilities if you were a very naughty boy?!!?!

From the perspective of you the reader/fan, the key point is surely this - if these individuals are corrupt then these matrices allow the rigging of games for massive global profit running into the tens of millions of pounds in the underground betting markets.
It completely destroys the game.

One thing is certain in postmodern football - if a corrupt loophole exists or if one may be carefully constructed (even if it requires duopolistic combinations), there are those out there only too willing to exploit the opportunities.

Socrates (the one with the ciggies and the ball skills): "Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy."

The good die young while Doug Ellis gets a knighthood, while Liverpool and Chelsea Fcs are proud to be racist, while child traffickers who think Black people are coloured slice the action all over the place...
... if you think the public face of your sport is tawdry, the iceberg is markedly murkier under the surface.

Happy New Year.

Enjoy the Fakeball.

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Κέρκυρα, 20.12.2011
20:15
Proël Not Doël
» Football is fixed

Solstice greetings from Jerry and the other assorted bodies involved in this sublime object of desire.

If you are lucky over xmas, you will receive posts on Flimsy Sabermetrics, The Art of War and Whistleblowing, and one on the non-existence of time, the existence of multiverses, eternal inflation, cosmological rebirth, dark matter, the Higgs boson and the Standard Model (oh and the problem with gravity and people).

If you are really really lucky, you won't have to put up with anything...

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Κέρκυρα, 19.12.2011
12:00
Riley Out - He's Two-Faced, Slippery and He Stinks
» Football is fixed

In March 2010, we produced a post on a peculiar bias in the decision making of Jon Moss, a then Football League Referee - "Doing A Little Deal Down The Moss" [footballisfixed.blogspot.com]

The post is reproduced in part below.
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"Yesterday, Jonathan Moss, a bog-standard referee from the wrong side of the Pennines, gave a fallacious penalty (the infringement occurred outside the penalty area) that allowed West Bromwich Albion to defeat Blackpool by 3 goals to 2.

Blackpool manager, Ian Holloway, was furious about the decision.

And why is this of any concern to the likes of you?
Well, Mr Moss should never have been allowed to officiate on this match in the first place.

Below we list all of the occasions where Moss has refereed either West Brom or Blackpool during his five year Football League tenancy.

Scunthorpe 1 Blackpool 0

WBA 3 Luton 2

Norwich 1 WBA 2

Blackpool 3 Scunthorpe 1 - despite having Brandon sent off by Moss after 38 minutes.

Blackpool 0 Plymouth 0

WBA 4 Ipswich 0

Peterborough 0 WBA 3 - a penalty and sending off in favour of the Throstles.

Hull 2 Blackpool 2 - Sent off Kaspar Gorkss of Blackpool.

Blackpool 1 West Brom 3 - Gave West Brom their equalising penalty.

Burnley 2 Blackpool 0 - A penalty to seal the Hillbilly victory.

Blackpool 0 Watford 2

Blackpool 1 Nottingham Forest 1 - Ian Evatt sent off after 68 minutes.

Blackpool 2 Newcastle 1 - must be because it helped West Brom!

Scunthorpe 1 West Brom 3 - two sendings off and a penalty when the game was one-all sorted out this particular affair.

WBA 3 Blackpool 2 - gives Albion fake penalty for winning goal.

So, what are the scores on the doors?

West Bromwich Albion matches with Mr Moss blowing the whistle:

7 matches.
7 wins.
4 penalties in favour of West Brom and none against.
3 sendings off in favour of West Brom and none against.

Blackpool matches with Moss's sides:

10 matches.
2 wins and 5 defeats.
0 penalties in favour of Blackpool but two against.
0 sendings off in favour of Blackpool but three against.

How exactly do the Football League reach the decision of who referees whom?"
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It was with an air of inevitability that it was noticed that Mr Moss had been promoted to the PGMOB Select Group of match referees for the current season.

His close 'relationship' with West Bromwich Albion is now enhanced since new club agent John Colquhoun was appointed (along with Roy Hodgson following the Anfield Fiasco) by his friend Jeremy Peace.
We have been reliably informed that Colquhoun and Moss were first acquainted in the early nineties when Colquhoun was a player at Sunderland/Millwall while Moss was on the Academy teams.
Moss was already qualified as a referee but did not focus on dressing up in strange outfits and exerting authority over groups of men until he gave up playing in the late nineties (like Colquhoun).

Moss has already had involvement in four West Brom matches this season as either referee or 4th official (an increasingly influential role in the world of microphone contact and television replays).

In total, Moss has officiated in 10 matches and four of them have involved WBA!
On the one occasion he was refereeing Albion, Moss gave them a penalty in a highly suspicious collection of betting patterns against Everton in the Carling Cup. West Brom still blew it causing Hodgson to memorably rip off his expensive Italian jacket and throw it to the Goodison turf.

How exactly does Mike "Kipper" Riley at the PGMOB reach the decision of who referees whom?

One of my colleagues contacted the Premier League about the selection of referees and the seeming control that various clubs have over the choice of match officials.
Their response alleged randomness so we did a statistical analysis of the PGMOB selections and random it is most definitely not.
Interestingly, the Premier League have now removed all historical information on the match refereeing team appointments from their website in a truly Stalinesque example of transparency.

Why is it illegal to print this information elsewhere?
Why?
What is it about the appointment of match officials that leads to such secrecy from the Premier League?
What is it about the appointment of match officials that leads to Spanish referees only being made public at 00:00 hrs on the day of the event?
What is it about the appointment of match officials that leads to UEFA delaying release until the day before Champions League and Euro 2012 matches?
What is it about the appoinment of match officials that leads to a representative of the Polish Presidency of the EU pleading for greater co-operation to tackle corruption, including reforming member states' legal codes and giving referees short notice on which matches they are due to officiate?

Corruption!??!!?!

Is this the same corruption referred to by Pierre Cornu, the lawyer tasked with fighting corruption in football on behalf of UEFA.
We have quoted the man here before: "I don't think that we will be able to eradicate this problem. We don't pretend. It's just everywhere. It's like drug trafficking. There will always be drug addicts. The only way to not bring people to court is the legalise drug trafficking."
He continued that corruption risks damaging "the very soul of sports" and will jeopardise funding for football. Cornu claims that the criminalities are arranged via corrupt match officials.

We are not saying that Jonathan Moss is involved in corruption.
He might just get carried away by the airing of the word "Albion" or perhaps throstles are his thing. Who knows?
But some referees most definitely are very very very corrupt indeed and if it is possible for clubs to place match officials on key events, we are looking at horseracing rather than the beautiful game.

A Game Theorist might suggest three solutions to this systemic problem.
i) Vastly increase the number of match officials - 18 isn't enough for 'the biggest league in the world' especially when a number of them hardly ever officiate and when the leading lights are involved in two matches most weekends (one as referee and one as 4th official).
ii) Randomise the selection process.
iii) Bring in video replays for ALL contentious decisions.

The Bundesliga is markedly cleaner than the big three leagues of England, Spain and Italy when it comes to the corruption inflicted on the game by match officials.
When a rogue official did surface in Germany he was dealt with and imprisoned.
Is it any coincidence that attendances are markedly higher in the Bundesliga and tours of real English football fans make their way over there for a real football experience?

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Κέρκυρα, 13.12.2011
11:33
Tales Of Two Olde English Scoundrels
» Football is fixed

In and of themselves, David could not be more different than Henry.
One a neo-con toff (in more ways than one) and one a neo-con con.

On Sunday, Henry was cuffed by the law of the realm, as a serving police officer not only repeatedly fined Henry but also mocked him in so doing.
This does not augur well for Henry's January appearance in a court of law on charges of tax evasion.
The state are evidentally collecting their booty already.
Henry might even be required to sell of one of his thousand castles in capital. Who knows?

It must be considered that Henry will be spending more time with lawyers than enjoying a game of Wii around the log fire with his doting family this Christmas.

Peculiarly, Henry does not complain about Michael or ####### who exhibit repeated selective perception in favour of Henry.

Henry had asked that the decision on who should replace Fabio as King of Jingo be delayed until the summer, but Sunday's developments suggest that Henry will never now become King of the Neo-Con Cons.

David is a neo-con nugget too.
He has "embarked [Britain] on a populist journey whose destination even the government cannot know."
By additionally defending to the hilt a bunch of elitist criminals, a wunch of bankers, from a tax that might have gone some way towards recompensing people for money stolen, he makes yet a further statement of war on the classes who were not enforced to endure ritual power-buggery in their childhood.

And by selling out to the populist right, David missed a trick on imposing further misery on those living in abject poverty/insecurity.
The deal on the table in Brussels is regressive in extremis.

Buttonwood: "... euro zone leaders have been hinting quite broadly that the banks can take that money from the ECB at 1% and invest the proceeds in government bonds, and earn a very nice yield premium along the way. This is a sort of back door QE, or perhaps bank door QE is the better name for it. In the early 1990s, the Fed deliberately engineered an upward-sloping yield curve to allow US banks to rebuild their balance sheets after the savings & loan crisis; borrowing at 3% and investing in Treasury bonds at 6-7%.

Of course, this bargain is on a cynical view, like two drowning men hanging on to each other; bankrupt banks supporting bankrupt governments. The taxpayer stands behind both, of course, but this kind of deal is designed to create an implicit commitment on the part of taxpayers without making the costs explicit to voters."

Hey Hey.
An earner for the bankers.
Austerity for the 99%.

To finish on a note of optimism...
... the Greek population may be consumed with ease within one year by either Eric Pickles or Ken Clarke saving the ECB and associated pseudo-funds oodles of euros in the process.
Surely this would bring Britain and Europe closer together.

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Κέρκυρα, 07.12.2011
09:02
Ohi! Ohi! Ohi!
» Football is fixed

On Saturday lunchtime, Mike Dean shamelessly distorted the hyperreality in Chelsea's aided 3-0 victory at Newcastle - an outcome only a surprise to those utterly outside the loop.
Last night Mr Dean was in Dortmund in a heavily and obviously rigged Champions League match against Marseille.

On the final rounds of matches in UEFA and FIFA competitions when qualification is dependent on the outcome of two separate matches, the authorities insist on coincident kick off times to ensure no team(s) possesses an advantage in time.
Now while there are Cosmologists who will inform you that time doesn't exist, for the purposes of this scammed scenario, we'll assume that it jolly well does...

When Mr Howard Webb and co-defendant Mr Michael Dean eventually co-ordinated to allow the game to go ahead, Olympiacos and Arsenal had already been in motion for three minutes.
These minutes, m'lud, proved to be significant.

An aside to describe the crime scene - Champions League Qualifying Group F.
Dortmund had to defeat Marseille heavily and hope that Arsenal prevented Olympiacos from winning.
Marseille had to perform to remain one point ahead of the Greeks.

By half-time in Greece, Olympiacos were leading Arsenal 2-0 and as they departed the pitch, Marseille were 0-2 behind in Dortmund. With an extra minute of first half injury time, Marseille pulled a goal back and the second half in Germany began fully four minutes after the Greek match.

When Olympiacos scored their third goal, guaranteeing victory (3-1) over Arsenal, there were six minutes remaining in Dortmund.
To qualify, Marseille needed to score twice.
And score twice they did...
...before less injury time was added than should have been the case and the French side were through.

The fact that both Dortmund and Marseille are/were members of the G14(18) group of power clubs that allegedly no longer exists, allegedly no longer matters...

Not saying that Webb/Dean were directly involved in a criminal scam but the late start and early finish in favour of the scam shows that, at the very least, the two men didn't inhibit it!
And with their previous...

If, beyond the stretch of all rational probability, Webb/Dean accidentally added time to the equation - fair dinkum.
But what if UEFA 'allowed' this advantage to the two G14(18) sides?
Would UEFA ever allow such an advantage for teams from Serbia or Belarus? Yeah right...

The imposition of a template primed for corruption also affects the 65,590 people who paid to witness the Dortmund v Marseille match and anyone paying out to watch the event on television.

In that football mimics politics, the conference to save the Euro is taking place in the city of Marseille this week.

But the hyperreality is parallel.

In 2002/03, the Germans were the first EU country to break the threshold in the stability pact and no action was taken.
They elected not to punish themselves.
Like you do...

Fast forward to the recent past and the constant German/French carping about the irresponsible Greeks and their irresponsible borrowing.
But for every irresponsible Greek borrower there is an irresponsible German bank lending.
It takes two to tango to Depression.
They really cannot have it both ways - normal people exploit moral hazard and they should be victimised; bankers really exploit moral hazard and they should be supported with the money of the victimised people.

So the French/German axis demolishes Greece twice over - in politics and in football.
The Germans should try lecturing to my Corfiot friends on the morals and ethics of power - Kerkyra used to have a thriving Jewish quarter, m'lud.

But back to the footie...

As football is so fixed, it is imperative to maintain the illusion of integrity in order that little pieces of evidence don't quantum into the public sphere.
UEFA and/or Webb/Dean have let us all down in the incompetence of their contorting of our neohyperrealities.

We rest our case.

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Κέρκυρα, 01.12.2011
18:41
The Gleasga Kiss Brigade
» Football is fixed

Sir Ferguson (Man Utd), born Glasgow.
Eric Black (Sunderland caretaker manager), born Bellshill, 9 miles outside Glasgow.
Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool), born in Glasgow.
John Colquhoun (West Brom Club Agent and Strategic Orchestrator), created in Stirling just 23 miles from Glasgow.
Alex McLeish (Aston Villa), born in Glasgow.
Paul Lambert (Norwich City), devised in Glasgow.
Owen Coyle (Bolton), Glasgow-born.
Steve Kean (Blackburn), born in Glasgow.
Joe Jordan (Tottenham), born in Cleland, 10 miles outside Glasgow.
David Moyes (Everton), born in Glasgow.

And downward...
Dougie Freedman (Palace), from Glasgow.
Willie McKay (Doncaster Rovers club agent), born in Milton of Campsie just outside Glasgow.
Darren Ferguson (Peterborough), Glasgow silver-spooned.
Derek McInnes (Bristol City), born in Paisley, a mere 7 miles from Glasgow.
Malky Mackay (Cardiff City), came out of Bellshill 9 miles from Glasgow.

50% of all Premier League teams as well as 15 of the 44 teams in the two top flights of the English hierarchy have absolute or considerable management control by an individual from Glasgow and its environs.

In comparison, Manchester has no managers or significant others in the top two leagues and no senior input at all in the EPL although David Platt (Assistant at Man City) was born in Oldham, Barnsley manager Keith Hill hails from Bolton (the poor bastard) and newly appointed Michael Appleton at Portsmouth has managed to escape his birth in Salford.

Glasgow 15 Manchester 0.

The top two teams in the Premier League are Mancunian.
The most successful team ever in the top flight is Man Utd.

Rangers and Celtic and, indeed, Scottish football in general are shit.

So, dubious connections aside, why are there so many Glaswegian managers and their like at the top of English football?
You don't see Dutch managers running huge swathes of the Bundesliga or a French foreigh legion in Spain.
So, why?

We suspect that there be a rank rotten reekin' pish pundit behind it all!!

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Κέρκυρα, 29.11.2011
10:36
Bookmakers Cause And Cash In On Suicide
» Football is fixed

Almost two years to the day since Robert Enke took his life by jumping from a bridge in front of an onrushing train, Gary Speed similarly took his own life.

Whatever the reason(s) behind Speed's decision, it will probably never become public.

Tributes have rightly come from across the footballing and political worlds including tweets from Michael Owen and Robbie Savage.
That two such high profile criminalised (former) players were so quickly 'out there' on this is interesting in itself.

Even more interesting is the decision by William Hill bookmakers to give their annual book prize to a book detailing the background to Enke's suicide.

With the other hand of omerta, William Hill employs Mr Savage to provide serial disinformation on upcoming football matches.
This disinformation results in punters losing money leading potentially to financial difficulties - one of the two primary causes of suicidal tendencies.
Meanwhile Mr Savage and William Hill bookmakers pocket the cash, pay lip-service to integrity and jump on the mourning bandwagon in order to disguise their roles in the demise of another human being.

And, meanwhile, the Secret Footballer, known in these circles for his threats against myself and my property, pens a Guardian article on the morning of Speed's death on player depression and suicide.
How prescient is that?

And, no doubt, they will all be at the funeral, paying fake respects to a great loss of life while treating the 'event' as a networking possibility for future criminalities.

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Κέρκυρα, 08.11.2011
12:10
A Post on the Secret Footballer with No-Balls
» Football is fixed

If bowling three no-balls deliberately results in some of the participants receiving 2 1/2 year jail terms, just imagine how many concurrent life sentences would aggregate from equivalent individuals systemically affecting the results of major football matches to the benefit of their insider trades in the underground betting markets!

Although the three Pakistani cricketers have been fingered together with their agent who, as in the murky world of football, orchestrated the criminalities, the real crooks remain untouched in Mumbai sitting on their betting market riches. These markets are illegal and underground. They pay no tax. They coerce, threaten and, as Bob Woolmer and Hansie Cronje found out, often take their mafiosi activities further.

The estimated annual betting turnover on cricket matches in the shadow Indian markets is estimated as $50 billion annually...
... on a peripheral sport globally like cricket.

In comparison, the illegal territories involved in the massive corruption of football spreads much wider - China, Antigua, Gibraltar, Tel Aviv, London, Moscow, Thailand, Macau, Eire, Georgia, Denmark, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam etc etc etc.
Furthermore, one major match in one of the top leagues might gross $2.5 billion in the underground.
The annual global figure must run into TARP proportions...
... on a sports betting market.

Additionally, from the point of view of the fan, it doesn't greatly matter whether a particular delivery is a no-ball or not.
It doesn't influence the match result - it is the equivalent to John Colquhoun's boast about making money on the spread markets by arranging for the ball to be kicked into touch straight from the kick off having sold seconds on the time of the first throw-in on the spread markets.

No, in football the major corruption is based on the match result and, to a lesser extent, the total goals market.

The impact of this criminality is massive.
In a court of law, numerous parties would have claim against the perpetrators of match-fixing - fans, leagues, authorities, other clubs, legal betting companies, tv broadcasters, other bettors and the advertisers who have their products besmirched by the greed of the great and the good.

But don't take our word for it, listen to Pierre Cornu, the lawyer tasked with fighting corruption in football on behalf of UEFA.
He states: "I don't think that we will be able to eradicate this problem. We don't pretend. It's just everywhere. It's like drug trafficking. There will always be drug addicts. The only way to not bring people to court is the legalise drug trafficking."
He continued that corruption risks damaging "the very soul of sports" and will jeopardise funding for football. Cornu claims that the criminalities are arranged via corrupt match officials although, at a club and English international level, it is agents and players alongside referees who are the orchestrators of the deconstruction of the beautiful game.

Exactly who regulates companies like Goldchip (a betting vehicle targeting England games fronted by Steve Smith and Michael Owen)?

Michal Krejza, head of sport unit at the European Commission, claimed he is powerless to act because he has "very limited intelligence" on the problem and is hamstrung by treaties which ban the EU from dictating nations' sports rules.
This is how FIFA under Blatter, Warner, bin Hammam, Blazer etc are able to corrupt globally to the advantage of their own wallets and it is how Richard Scudamore at the Premier League is able to market his corrupted product without any fear of external regulation.

According to the Telegraph (which broke the Cornu revelation), "These extraordinary admissions came minutes after a representative of the Polish Presidency of the EU pleaded for greater co-operation to tackle corruption, including reforming member states' legal codes and giving referees short notice on which matches they are due to officiate."

This would have a major impact.
A major fiddle was attempted on a Carling Cup match this season.
One club via their primary agent controlled both the opposing goalkeeper and the match referee and money from the corruption surfaced at the betting company that sponsors the dodgy team abusing all other participants or observers of the event.
Despite a penalty being given, the manipulators were left with Bad Egg on their faces.
Although we have much information on this match, including some from somebody who has knowledge of the scam, to whistleblow to the FA, UEFA, the PGMOB (who 'allowed' the match official to be placed) would be fruitless.

The criminalised club obviously have some considerable control over the choice of match officials as the above official has also been given the influential 4th Official slot at EPL games involving the said club on two occasions already this season.
In total our official has had appointments at five matches involving EPL teams this season - three of these matches involve our criminalised club!
And the man's historical decision-making on matches involving this club have been detailed on these pages in the past.

Of course, it is merely the same as the world of international finance.

Last week, MF Global became the biggest financial collapse since Lehman Brothers.

The Economist: "MF's demise comes less than two years after it was intentionally transformed from a dull instituitional broker to an ambitious investment bank" by ex-Goldman Sachs operative Jon Corzine.
Mr Corzine was even spoken about as a prospective treasury secretary under Obama, following in the footsteps of the two ex-Goldman Sachs mercenaries who would have been his predecessors.

There was a staggering 40-fold leverage on the speculative activities of MF Global- this is equivalent to getting your bookmaker to offer you $4 million exposure to the markets on a cash security of just 100K.

And, inevitably, over $700 million has disappeared never to be found again.
The Economist: "That a primary dealer could be so leveraged may well prompt questions about the New York Fed's scrutiny of firms it routinely deals with."

That certain allegedly respected individuals in the British game could be so corrupt may well prompt questions about the Premier League's and the FA's scrutiny of clubs and individuals it routinely deals with...

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Κέρκυρα, 17.10.2011
22:57
Kraut Kaputs County and Knicks Your Cash
» Football is fixed

We'd like to tell you a brief story.

After two relegations in a row Stockport County appointed former German international Didi Hamann as manager three months ago.

And it is already looking as though a third demotion from the Conference National is on the cards as County are level on points with Lincoln City who occupy the fourth relegation slot currently.

That is if the club don't go out of existence in the meantime.

And the decline is getting worse - Stockie have won only one of their last 14 games and the last five matches have yielded 16 goals against and just one point.

Now Mr Hamann is a bit of an operator.
He also doubles as Pro Punter at the Soccerbase site where he hands out tips to the unwitting, the bewildered, the gullible and the naive.

Just take his last 10 advices...

Werder Bremen to beat Dortmund - LOST
Doncaster to draw with Leeds - LOST
Portugal to beat Denmark - LOST
Belgium to beat Germany - LOST
Russia to beat Slovakia - WON
Spain to beat Czech Republic - WON
Charlton to beat Brentford - LOST
Scunthorpe to beat Oldham - LOST
Huddersfield to beat Bradford - LOST
Kaiserslautern to draw with Stuttgart - LOST

2/10!!!

If the befuddled had placed a hundred quid on each of the tips, they would now be 579 pounds down - a return on investment (ROI) of -72%.

And Hamann's expertise are supposed to be German and lower league English football - his performance here is 0 out of 8 and a highly impressive ROI of -100%
It takes some doing to be that shit unless you are being deliberately economic with the truth.

Perhaps if Mr Hamann concentrated on his proper job rather than on fleecing numpties, County might actually play some decent footie and stuff.

Worse still, Soccerbase are linked to the rogue Isle of Man company Sportmarket who encourage punters to deposit tens of thousands of pounds so that such bettors might take advantage of the option of placing up to 25 grand on matches with no winning accounts closed.
Unfortunately, once again only the pathologically altruistic would take advantage of such a scam as Sportmarket not only don't have an office but also don't provide a phone contact.
As we have mentioned previously, we emailed them asking them how we might speak with a representative.
We received no reply.

Crap manager.
Crooked punter.
Corrupt company.

Sack the bastard.

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Κέρκυρα, 16.10.2011
11:07
Why Fixing Footie is Feckin' Flawed
» Football is fixed

We all understand that agents, and indeed all middle people, are leeches on the sport of football, grabbing their inflated percentages while skirting between the black and grey markets, bribing and threatening people and corrupting the game.
They force players to adhere to certain match data as basic sabermetrics measures the obvious, they enter into third party arrangements and other forms of disguised dual ownership of players to confuse both the footballing authorities and the tax regime, they control aspects of the media sometimes psychopathically so, and many persuade players to underperform so that insider gambles may be achieved on what the fan thinks is an authentic football match.

Nothing to see there then...

The structure is identical to the current spot fixing trial involving Pakistani cricketers - an agent strikes a deal with an underground bookmaker to create a fake reality and then bribes or coerces his player to act accordingly.
But there are two key differences.
Firstly, it is facile to target cricketers from the sub-continent. What about the Australian, English and South African players who undertake the same murkiness?
And, secondly, there is a slight difference between bowling three no-balls and altering the outcome of an allegedly competitive sporting event.

But every time a professional footballer plays poorly so that money may be illicitly made in the betting markets in the immediate term, their strategic value plummets.
Although this is offset by the potential of post-retirement disinformational media work, would a player really prefer to go down in history as a Bobby Charlton or a Robbie ######?

In the past we have frequently blogged about John Colquhoun of Key Sports Management.
This leading agent is not only utterly honest but additionally he is superbly talented as a look at the current season demonstrates.

Taking the achievements from the top...

Closely linked with Scotland manager Craig Levein, JC has been very vocal in person and through his contacts and ghost writing in his support of a manager who has utterly failed in the easiest of the Euro 2012 Qualifying Groups. Only defeating Liechtenstein in a home match in the 7th minute of injury time, playing 4-6-0 away to the Czechs in the game that ultimately destroyed any hopes of qualification, moaning on about refereeing decisions against the Scots while ignoring equally ridiculous decisions in the opposite direction and selecting players who do not have the best interests of the international team at heart.
Little wonder that the man has grown a beard to disguise himself...

Then there was persuading Liverpool to pay 20 million for a sub-standard reserve player, Jordan Henderson. If Henderson is worth 20 mill then Charlie Adam is worth fifty. And he's not. Liverpool owner John Henry already recognises that he has overpaid.

Then there is that talented runner Theo Walcott who is repeatedly eulogised in the sports pages of The Guardian, JC's prime media outlet. 16 million for a player who can't pass, can't shoot and is now behind both Gervinho and Oxlade-Chamberlain in the pecking order.

Then there is his role as club agent at West Brom. Having messed up with Roy Hodgson on the Liverpool post, the pair have taken WBA to the heights of third bottom in the Premier League.

Then there are the close links with Steve Bruce and Sunderland who currently lie fifth from bottom in ScudamoreWorld.

Or how about his protege Steve McClaren who having been sacked by Wolfsburg (and mocked by their fans), was denied the Villa job via a fan revolt before taking Nottingham Forest to 2nd bottom in the Championship before being sacked (or resigning depending on your version of reality).

The only team below Forest are Bristol City whose goalkeeper has a column ghost-written on his behalf by JC in The Guardian newspaper.

But probably worst has been the performance at Celtic where, despite both Dallasgate and Rangers being skint, he has helped to oversee a title loss, a ten point deficit already this season and a futile Europa Cup campaign that is both undeserved and distracting - FC Sion were robbed and better.

And, of course, there is the Secret Footballer ruse, where JC pretends to be a current international so that he might defend his failures in The Guardian paper - the Secret Footballer is a Secret Agent.

And it is The Guardian newspaper that is a the foundation of this nonsense - The Guardian, the paper for the acquiescent who would like to believe that they are alternative.

As John Pilger writes regarding this rag of a paper and Julian Assange: "Books have been published, movie deals struck and media careers launched or kick-started on the assumption that he is fair game and too poor to sue. People have made money, often big money, while WikiLeaks has struggled to survive. On 16 June, the publisher of Canongate Books, Jamie Byng, when asked by Assange for an assurance that the rumoured unauthorised publication of his autobiography was not true, said, “No, absolutely not. That is not the position … Julian, do not worry. My absolute number one desire is to publish a great book which you are happy with.” On 22 September, Canongate released what it called Assange’s “unauthorised autobiography” without the author’s permission or knowledge. It was a first draft of an incomplete, uncorrected manuscript. ““They thought I was going to prison and that would have inconvenienced them,” he told me. “It’s as if I am now a commodity that presents an incentive to any opportunist.”

The editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, has called the WikiLeaks disclosures “one of the greatest journalistic scoops of the last 30 years”: indeed, this is part of his current marketing promotion to justify raising the Guardian’s cover price. But the scoop belongs to Assange not the Guardian. Compare the paper’s attitude towards Assange with its bold support for the reporter threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act for revealing the iniquities of Hackgate. Editorials and front pages have carried stirring messages of solidarity from even Murdoch’s Sunday Times. On 29 September, Carl Bernstein was flown to London to compare all this with his Watergate triumph. Alas, the iconic fellow was not entirely on message. “It’s important not to be unfair to Murdoch,” he said, because “he’s the most far seeing media entrepreneur of our time” who “put The Simpsons on air” and thereby “showed he could understand the information consumer”.

The contrast with the treatment of a genuine pioneer of a revolution in journalism, who dared take on rampant America, providing truth about how great power works, is telling. A drip-feed of hostility runs through the Guardian, making it difficult for readers to interpret the WikiLeaks phenomenon and to assume other than the worst about its founder. David Leigh, the Guardian’s “investigations editor”, told journalism students at City University that Assange was a “Frankenstein monster” who “didn’t use to wash very often” and was “quite deranged”. When a puzzled student asked why he said that, Leigh replied, “Because he doesn’t understand the parameters of conventional journalism. He and his circle have a profound contempt for what they call the mainstream media”. According to Leigh, these “parameters” were exemplified by Bill Keller when, as editor of the New York Times, he co-published the WikiLeaks disclosures with the Guardian. Keller, said Leigh, was “a seriously thoughtful person in journalism” who had to deal with “some sort of dirty, flaky hacker from Melbourne”.

JC makes considerable money from his use of The Guardian to promote and, more usually, to defend his clients.
But what is in this for Rusbridger?
We tweeted to ask him but, quite reasonably, received no response.

Aside from the corruption and the ruination of the best game on earth, the strategy of JC and his ilk is short-termist in the extreme - a total neo-con money grab.
If JC were strategic, people in the game would work with him into the future whereas individuals like Wenger, Dalglish, Henry and Lawell are hardly likely to repeat the past failures again.

And, as an aside, corruption doesn't always pay.
In one Carling Cup match this season, some insiders had absolute control - the referee and the opposing goalkeeper were owned by the manipulators.
And yet they still messed it up and ended up losing their bets and the match.

There is only one thing worse than being corrupt...
...and that is being corrupt and stupid.

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Κέρκυρα, 09.07.2011
12:59
Football Is Fixed On Twitter
» Football is fixed

People

Virtually all of our current output is on Twitter.
If you haven't checked it out, you should because it is preferable to ignorance.

Go to [twitter.com]

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Κέρκυρα, 23.04.2011
19:48
Exposing The Rigged Match Today At The Stadium Of Light
» Football is fixed

The journalist, the British broadsheet newspaper, the agent, the manager, the on-pitch operators, the amount bet, the profit and the bookmaker...

In a functioning sector, we could send this information and evidence to the Premier League but such entities are unwilling to deal with corruption so we have forwarded it to a senior official within UEFA instead.

The remainder of this post is for our traders only.

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Κέρκυρα, 06.04.2011
11:34
Masonic Manipulation
» Football is fixed

The manipulation of match outcomes in England is generally under the control of the rogue institutions, operations and individuals frequently monitored on these pages historically.

Fascinatingly, our team of traders have discovered an addenda to this format at the lower levels of corruption - freemasonry.
As we are like that, we have always logged masonic handshakes whenever and wherever our mits are massaged.

Applying analytical techniques to both this template and certain criminalised structures within the English game produces degrees of matching that can only mean one thing.

Football Is Fixed.
And some of the fixers are "on the square".

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Κέρκυρα, 28.02.2011
17:27
Trading On The Cricket World Cup
» Football is fixed

If you are trading on the ICC Cricket World Cup (and after England's 'efforts' in their opening 'match' versus the Netherlands, who wouldn't be?), you should be aware that there is a varying delay in time between the action taking place on the Indian sub-continent and the hyperreality being put on your screens by the Murdochracy.

And we are talking significantly longer than a few seconds.

We had already understood that this was the case as one of the trading team had a conversation with an Indian broker during a match but the issue became farcical this morning when the batsman arriving at the crease to replace Kieran Pollard in the West Indies/Netherlands match 'appeared' to have been but a few metres away anticipating the wicket if we are to believe our eyes on the Murdochratic output.

And why does this matter?

Just think of the massive benefit to the bookmakers on the short-term markets (runs in the over etc) if they were to be able to access images that, in our world, have not yet happened.

A latter day advancement of the video taped horse race in the inner city bookies of yesteryear.

Thank goodness that the state stands up to the likes of Julian Assange rather than Rupert Murdoch.

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Κέρκυρα, 27.02.2011
19:32
Bet Not So Fucking Fair After All (A Refrain)
» Football is fixed

We have only ever utilised Betfair for peripheral staking enhancement and hedging - all Real positions go through our broker.

Last year we decided to undertake a little experiment.
We placed a whole series of winning positions but at very low stakes to see what would be the response of the London company to winning accounts.

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What should people expect from a company that utilises the incredibly non-corrupt Paul Nicholls for their horseracing marketing and the equally non-sexist Andy "Smash It" Gray for the equivalent in football?

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19:11
Bet Not So Fucking Fair After All (A Refrain)
» Football is fixed

We have only ever utilised Betfair for peripheral staking enhancement and hedging - all Real positions go through our broker.

Last year we decided to undertake a little experiment.
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What should people expect from a company that utilises the incredibly non-corrupt Paul Nicholls for their horseracing marketing and the equally non-sexist Andy "Smash It" Gray for the equivalent in football?

If we had both the time and any longer term interest in trading with this company, we would be having a little chat with our lawyers.
Life's too short.

If you are a professional and are thinking of utilising Betfair, get in contact and we'll advise you how to protect yourself against their maliciousness.

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11:35
The Guardian Newspapers' Secret Footballer Is A Secret Agent
» Football is fixed

Hey Hey Hey...
...well somebody is desperate for cash after fucking up on the Liverpool role.

If only this person had understood the analytical significance of Enhanced Holistic Sabermetrics, it would have been himself rather than Damien Comolli creaming it as the scousers become one of the leading sides on the planet.

World beater or relegation battle?
Strategic thought is an anathema to some.

Read on Dietrological reader.

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Κέρκυρα, 06.02.2011
12:46
I've Never Met A Nice (White) South African
» Football is fixed

The legal travails and sporting bans handed down to Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir (10 years, five of which are suspended; 7 years, 2 of which are suspended; and 5 years respectively) for spot-fixing seems lenient although the ICC has no doubt gone for their standard 'justice being seen to be done' template rather than justice actually being done.

Orchestrator and Croydon Town FC supremo, the cricketing agent Mazhar Majeed, shares the trio's legal issues for fraudulent behaviour and is also being investigated for money laundering.

Before moving onto the part of this post which is for internal Dietrological utilisation alone, there are three public points that we wish to surface here.

Firstly, why always pick on Pakistan?
The sport of cricket is phenomenally racist - things have hardly improved since Basil D'Oliveira.
There is an individual of a South African persuasion involved in the test side of another country who is renowned in the underground South Asian betting markets for deliberately underperforming when the financial inducements are suitably skewed in his favour.

Secondly, why are the bans so short?
The respective ages of the three cricketers are 26, 28 and 18, meaning that all will be able to return to international cricket when/if their five year suspensions have been served.
Life bans would have been more pertinent.
And don't even start thinking about snooker star John Higgins or jockey supremo Kieran Fallon or horserace trainers ###################, ######################, ##############, ######################, ################### etc etc etc.

And, thirdly, and most importantly for a blog that focuses on corruption in the world of football, why is no analogy being made between the practices of the likes of Mazhar Majeed and leading football agents in Britain who behave in an identical manner - persuading their clients-for-life to tilt betting markets for proprietary and illegal gain?
One leading English bookmaker has taken a private (ie not public) stand and is no longer willing to accept bets from these operations with the result that desperate measures have been taken to allow other market makers the route to hedging any exposures due to these manipulated and corrupt trading practices.

If football agents had nothing to hide surely they would be willing to accept real regulation and a public disclosure of their underground activities.
Instead what you get is a variety of different mobile phones, a squad of shared-ownership vehicles, cash inducements being offered without invoice or receipt, conversations about tables and brown envelopes and the inevitable private mansions, dodgy lawyers and offshore bank accounts.

Panorama's exposé was nothing compared to how widespread these illegal practices spread throughout the sport.
Insider trading isn't intelligent or clever.
It is an abuse of the brilliant game of football for those with an addiction to cash.

Now let us examine a few network structures in British football...

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Κέρκυρα, 31.01.2011
11:12
Brown Envelope Under The Table Day Special From The Dietrological Outfit
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09:18 Why would anybody buy Fernando Torres? We told you ages ago that he is a mere shadow of Carlos Tevez. And a sulky one at that. He was merely one of the many money transfers that oscillated between the offshore bank account of Rafa Benitez and the two main teams in Madrid. Always a give away is that... One manager repeatedly dealing with the same clubs in the transfer market eg Harry Redknapp and the Portsmouth/Tottenham criminality, Roy Keane and Sunderland etc etc. There are thousands and thousands of clubs in the world. Surely it is a very strange statistical quirk that the best transfer options are always sourced in the same geographical location.

09:22 And on the subject of Mr Redknapp... Who was responsible for the massive late trading on Fulham just prior to kick off in the alleged competitive event at Craven Cottage yesterday? Once the draw for the 5th Round of the FA Cup had been made, there was a torrent of money on Fulham. Redknapp complained, following two penalties and a sending off against (??) his interests, that "Watching a game from that dug-out is the worst view I've ever had in my life." Well it would help if you took the mobile phone away from your ear and stopped covering your mouths...

09:27 Charlie Adam is statistically preferable to the overrated Cesc Fabregas this season. As Holloway is on a percentage of the sell-on, we expect the Seasiders captain to be on his way to the Murderers today for around £10 million. Oooh, who will the Mighty Blackpool be buying? Let us hope for a goalkeeper as Kingson is dire, Gilks below average and Rachubka is not rated by the management team. But what do they know about goalkeeping...? The only remaining hope is that ScudamoreWorld choose entertainment over competitive sport and allow Blackpool another soundbiting season in the EPL.

09:34 Rumours that Manchester City are trying to buy Mike Dean are wide of the mark. Tottenham are refusing to sell.

09:38 Prescient or what? What, probably... Pre-season we had a four-timer just for the sheer erectile fun of it - we backed QPR for the Championship, Brighton for League One, Oxford United to get promoted from League Two and Blackpool to remain in ScudamoreWorld. Cool even if eventually incorrect...

09:42 The first BIG DEAL of the day... Stevie Gerrard has signed an exclusive contract with Holly Lodge Girls' College in Murdererland allowing him first bagsy on all teenage totty (to use an Andy Grayism) at the school. Great news indeed...

09:45 Of course, today is a main event for the leeches who run the transfer market, the agents. Akin to Estate Agents, their desire is to create competitive bidding to drive values (and their percentages) ever skywards. We bet Garry Cook is grateful that his idiocy stopped Abu Dhabi paying £100 million for cacky Kaka for example. Agents are the Antichrist! They are the only participants who gain from both of the illicit markets demolishing the sport of football - the transfer market and the betting market. And they seem to believe in self-regulation. Well, you would, wouldn't you?

09:49 Some overrated shit that nobody should have any interest in signing (unless proprietary offshore banking interest suggest otherwise)... Kun Aguero, Di Maria, Chimbonda, Kirkland/James/Carson/McClaren/Henderson/Walcott, Torres, Palop, Benitez, Ashley Young, Yakubu, Andy Johnson, David Ngog, Michael Owen, Lescott, that crappy Dutch goalie at Newcastle, Assou-Ekotto and Gomes, Upson, Thierry Henry, Kilbane, Sorensen, Lampard, Schwarzer, Beattie, Klose, Curci, Odemwingie, Defoe...

10:00 Paul Konchesky has apparently been loaned to Nottingham Forest according to his mother. Well, there goes their Play Off hopes...

10:12 Manchester City have signed a piece of paper with the word "Success" written upon it. Will this be too challenging for the collective mass psychology of the Born-To-Lose-Citeh-Til-I-Die bunch of moaning mingers from the City of Manchester Council Estate?

10:16 Not really transfer talk but it is if you are moronic enough to transfer any of your hard-earned readies to them - welcome SportMarket. Isle of Man based and backed by ############################################### this firm allegedly allows up to £25K to be traded on match days on the major European leagues. The thing is this... You transfer over, say, £100K. You win as you are a professional. You withdraw your winnings. Next weekend, the same. Ah! But now they charge you for withdrawing your winnings for a second time within a month. The result is that professional traders end up banking large amounts of cash with this rogue outfit for a month at a time. And, guess what? They don't even provide you with a phone number!!! We predict a riot when this firm renames itself MarketSport (or whatever) having disappeared into the Dark Pool underworld with your cash. But they have made a concession! They now guarantee to pay you out within 2 days of a request rather than the original four.
We contacted the firm by email asking them if they were "having a laugh?".
There was no response.
Who, in their right mind, would deposit pennies, let alone tens of thousands of pounds, with a shoddy little outfit who do not respond to emails and who don't even have an office or a phone number?
Thank goodness the bookmaking industry is as regulated as the football agent one...

10:22 Extraordinary Renditioning Mass Murdering Charlatan, John Reid, has sanctioned the signing of Abdoulaye Faye from Stoke. There goes the SPL Title without the need of input from the Willie Collum Brigade.

10:27 There really is no excuse nowadays for making boo-boos in the transfer market, what with Opta and Pro-Zone and our own Enhanced Sabermetrics software. And yet, one needs to be able to analyse this data and the football industry is educationally subnormal special needed. Give a monkey a typewriter and she might well collate the works of Dostoyevsky eventually but, in the meantime, she is much more likely to sign Theo Walcott...

10:34 'Tis bad enough when an agent owns players on opposing teams with regard to the impact on betting markets and outcome, but when one agent owns two opposing managers, surely the potential for criminality is too great to ignore. Step forward Mr Loyal Owen Coyle and Slippery Slaphead Steve Kean. So will future Blackburn v Wanky Wanky Wanky Wanderers derbies be 3 for 3 events or 2 for 2? It MUST be remembered that one is linked to your agent for life but one's club manager for a short term window. And anyway. Who paid off Wayne Rooney's latest gambling debts?

10:38 Hosni Mubarak has signed onto the Celtic Board! Closely linked with the Dirty Doctor since the torturing days of yore, he will bring vital geopolitical fascism to the minefield of Scottish sport. And, while we are on it, as Scottish football and, by association, footballers are so crap, why are there so many Scottish pundits, managers, agents, journalists, bookmakers? Must be the delightful accents...

10:43 Press Release: Richard Keys claims not to be sexist because he has a mother. Meanwhile Preston has the largest cemetery in Europe which seems increasingly apt and Swansea/Abertawe has signed a twinning deal with Mordor.

10:57 The transfer of Forestry Commission land to the private sector is an OUTRAGE. It was exactly this process in Queensland that led to the flooding of the state. 'Tis just a money grab by the odious coalition lot. Take the Post Office. The reason that we all received our Winter Solstice cards so late was that the PO was taking on work from the private companies and giving it preference over the public. The fact that the PO still managed to miss the deadlines contractually imposed means that they will have to pay retributions for failing in their task. Twice over. All privatisation is a crime.

11:12 In that attendances are falling across the major leagues (with the exception of the Bundesliga) and the EPL backhanders do not add up, how are tiny clubs like Stoke City able to repeatedly afford £50K per week for shite? Ask Peter Reid and Tony Pulis this question.

11:31 Is this where Richard Keys learned his Talksport 'apology'? [www.youtube.com]
Indeed, why can't Alan Partridge be the new Sky (w)anchor?

11:38 Stephen Ireland's caravan seen illegally parked outside St James' Park. Is there anything in this? Apart from his grandmother... The incredibly unfit Michael Bradley is to leave Borussia Moenchengladbachgogogoch to join Houllier's incredibly unfit Villains in his place.

11:51 Off for a lunchtime game of Five-A-Side. Back later. Won 3-1 :)

13:10 When Peter Walton failed to give Blackpool a penalty for the assault on Luke Varney by Rafael da Silva - a kick that would have made it 3-0 to the Tangerines - those of us in the know smiled in that really irritating self-congratulating way that we do from time to time.
The only individual that we can find who thought that it wasn't a penalty is gangster's moll, Steve McManaman.
Since Walton became a Premier League referee, he has officiated at 18 Manchester United games.
They have not lost one.

13:20 Harry Redknapp has just lied to the world as is his wont by claiming that nobody will be arriving or leaving Tottenham today.
One of my colleagues is a Psychologist and he has analysed the body language of Mr Redknapp to the nth degree (where n is a suitably large integer).
A face wobble with an aversion of eye contact means one thing while a "to be honest" and the use of the interviewers first name means another while an entirely inane comment over a publicly serious matter means something else.
Dark Forces in a Dark Pool - Jamie Redknapp for Sky W(anchor)!

13:34 Another dodgy Harry (Kewell) ensured that the gamble was laid and that Australia failed to win the Asian Trophy thingimijig in Qatar at the weekend. And my how the sweat poured off the players - it must be sweltering in the summer.
What will the Premier League do about the possibility of a winter World Cup in 2022?
Destabilise it one assumes, just as they did with the England World Cup 2018 bid.
In November, Worawi Makudi contacted Sir Dave Richards (of both EPL and FA infamy) and asked if the already arranged friendly match between Thailand and England would still take place if he voted for Russia.
Richards said that that would not be a problem.
Why would a member of the FA Bid make such a statement?
And he is a liar because the friendly match was pulled anyway!
England, the only territory in the world where the national football associated is overpowered by a criminalised private body...

13:38 James Beattie to Blackpool. For fuck's sake... Is Ollie on percentage here too? We will no doubt find out at 14:00 when Holloway gives us his latest self-publicity session.

14:02 A revealing quote from Redknapp after the victory at Arsenal: "At half time, we had a choice. We could get beat 5 or we could have a go at getting back in the game. I decided to have a go at getting back in the game."
Presumably meaning that, on occasion, he would have chosen to "get beat 5".
Which, for some reason, brings to mind Julia Kristeva's quote: "... the machine, colonial expansion, banks, science, Parliament - positions of mastery that conceal their violence and pretend to be mere neutral legality."

Ah well, that is the end of that avenue of enjoyment.
There is work to be done and money to be made...
Au revoir boys and girls!

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Κέρκυρα, 02.12.2010
13:01
Hail Hail The End Is Nigh!!
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Now doesn't it feel like decades ago that we blogged about the "issues" relating to Willie Collum refereeing the first Celtic/Rangers match of the season...?

Over the 980 blog posts that have appeared on the Football Is Fixed website over the years, none have been as key as the current Caledonian Referee Scandal Series.

More than that...

This is undoubtedly the biggest British footballing spectacle to have brushed the surface of the mainstream media in my lifetime.

We are dealing with the exposure, potentially, of decades of systemic institutional corruption primarily in the favour of one team.
The Hun should be grateful that FIFA are similarly institutionally challenged in the integrity department.

And brushed the surface is the key input here.

Cyclically in the MSM, there quantums into existence stories relating to competitive bidding to buyout and take over ownership of Glasgow Rangers FC.
'Tis a Sine Wave of Propaganda.

Compare and contrast with the refusal of the self same MSM to go anywhere near the Real Reality of the Dallasgate Scandal.

And which would be the more newsworthy of these quantums of news?

Now why might that be, girls and boys?
It wouldn't be because too many people have got their grubby fingers in an incredibly corrupted pie both north of the border and, dare I say it, south?

Now when Juve had Serie A titles removed from their trophy cabinet, they also were sentenced to a penance of two years in Serie B and an equivalent period of restricted access to transfer market as a result of which the majority of their best players left, understanding that half a decade of exclusion from the Champions League together with the shame of having been involved with tainted title triumphs would reduce future revenue streams.
Buffon and his two million euro betting slip elected to stay.

With the current Hun Financial Plight, any such punishment would demolish the entity that is Rangers FC - damaged goods, bankrupt stock, a busted flush, you get the drift...
With caveat emptor in mind, who in the right mind is going to hand over cash for such a product on the cusps of a Depression.
We are talking oblivion.

And it is, as has been pointed out, all in the hands of Dr John Reid.
If you are willing to countenance Extraordinary Rendition, Mashing the Hun is surely simply a few hours of work?

These are really exciting times and 'tis a pity that the MSM are choosing not to cover them - just like Al Megrahi all over again.

But MSM or not, there must be a Public Inquiry into the Caledonian Calciopoli - Dallasgate.

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Κέρκυρα, 01.12.2010
20:33
Goat-Bothering Brotherhood Beware
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"If FIFA were aware that Category A match officials were making illegal use of video replays during the match, there would of course be terrifying repercussions for the Caledonian goat-bothering Brotherhood." - as was recently blogged on this site.

Perhaps this little illegality also explains Willie Collum's ability to see a penalty in the Auld Firm match through the back of his head.
And so instantaneously too.

And perhaps this means that the Hun should hand over a fair wodge of Scottish Premier League titles just like Juventus had to do when they bought off referees in Serie A.

Strewth!!

What a cracking week.
Bernard Matthews to be buried with all the trimmings...
Hugh Dallas to be buried without a trace...
Richard Dawkins to be buried in the Vatican...
And Bernie Ecclestone getting mugged.

Things are looking up.

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Κέρκυρα, 29.11.2010
10:32
A Dollop Of Dallas And A Bigoted Biologist
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Ah so Richard Dawkins has finally exposed his true colours - 'tis an anti-Catholic stance that the privileged one reveals as opposed to an anti-religious one.

Either that or he should keep away from aspects of reality beyond his biological base.

Dawkins wrote on his website: "Hugh Dallas, head of referee development for the Scottish Football Association, has been sacked because he passed on, by email, a joke about the Pope.

"His dismissal was called for by a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland. This nasty little weasel is called Peter Kearney, Director of the Scottish Catholic Media Office.

"Similarly, the chief executive of the Scottish Football Association, responsible for this craven giving-in to Catholic censorship is Stewart Regan. The address of this coward is Scottish Football Association, Hampden Park, Glasgow."

Is our leading scientist (sic) calling for revenge against Kearney and Regan?
And why is religious bigotry and corruption on the Protestant side so neatly sidestepped by a man who claims holistic oversight?

Dawkins continues: "There is no reason to suppose that Dallas was being sectarian in forwarding the joke. Most plausibly he was as revolted as all decent people are by the Pope’s illegal protection of Catholic child-rapists."

Dallas?
Not sectarian??
How humourous is a don able to be???

Yet, on one level, he is surely correct.
It is outrageous that Hugh Dallas was sacked for merely making anti-Papist jests when, both throughout his refereeing and administrative careers, he has exhibited bias, undertaken corrupt activities and manipulated Scottish football for his Hun paymasters.

The other key aspect of this affair was, yet again, brought to our attention by Gerry Coogan.
His full epistle is given below but the reality would appear to be that the SPL, like the English Premier League, utilises television replays to enable the match officials to 'select' the 'correct' decisions to review to the proprietary benefit of bookmakers and the powers that be.

So video technology is neither open source nor to the benefit of a true outcome but merely an illegally used tool for proprietary advantage/manipulation/corruption.

Perhaps if his head wasn't so far up his own narcissistic backside, Dawkins might wish to consider this truth.

Anyway, time for the Man At The Window to update you (this was written two days ago and some information might no longer be valid).

"Dallas's sacking is such a significant development that I suppose it was inevitable that even the press would eventually find out.

"I yet haven't seen any of this weekend's MSM propaganda but I know that Dallas's business partner, Dougie McDonald, has also become yesterday's man, albeit six weeks too late to save the establishment from melt-down. Dallas and McDonald are business partners in a Spanish property venture. (Would you buy a second-hand villa from these men, Jose?)
There was no conflict of interest there, then, when Dallas was deciding whether to recommend to the referees' panel that the Category One Liar ought to be sacked. Not that there would have been much chance of the hearing giving DougieDougie a P45. It's not called the Referees Panel for nothing - all of its members, to a man, are either serving referees themselves or retired whistlers.

"But there remain unanswered questions over the Tannadice incident which lit the blue touchpaper. It is still not understood why McDonald changed his mind about awarding Celtic a penalty nor is it clear why he should have felt the need to lie about the process of reassessing his original decision. Neither his first version nor the subsequent amended version makes sense.

"There is a growing conviction amongst Celtic supporters that the real villain of the piece remains undetected.

"We are speaking here of John McKendrick, the fourth official on that day, who was watching the live TV broadcast on a monitor in front of him during the match. Hoops followers are of the opinion that McKendrick, rather than Stephen Craven, was the one who fed McDonald with an excuse to reverse the penalty award.

"If FIFA were aware that Category A match officials were making illegal use of video replays during the match, there would of course be terrifying repercussions for the Caledonian goat-bothering Brotherhood.

"Nevertheless, it is the only explanation of the events which makes sense of the observed facts. Craven had immediately taken his position at the edge of the six-yard box when McDonald awarded the penalty, showing that he had no concerns over the validity of the award. He did not subsequently raise his flag while the Dundee United players surrounded the referee with protests. Immediately after the TV broadcast had shown a replay, live pictures showed an alarmed expression sweep across the whistler's boat race, almost as if he had heard something in his earpiece, then after a few moments of indecision, he turned towards the bye-line and spoke to the Assistant Referee.
Play then resumed with a dropped ball; meanwhile, the TV captured a memorable image of Stephen Craven looking totally bewildered and very displeased indeed.

"It should be noted here that the former Head of Refereeing Development had assembled a group of match officials who had advanced to the top of the national game by realising that Dallas was wont to give low scores to referees who "incorrectly" gave big decisions TO Celtic but was unlikely to punish errors that went AGAINST the paranoid Tims. Thus, an ambitious whistler doesn't need to be a bigot himself in order to practice a pro-Rangers, anti-Celtic agenda; he merely needs to do what ever is necessary to score the highest assessment marks. Knowing that Dallas had the final say on these scores makes it easier for the objective observer to understand why referees are less likely to give Celtic the benefit of the doubt.

"Last Thursday, John McKendrick miraculously just happened to walk through the door of a BBC Radio Scotland studio at the precise moment when the volunteer Hun propagandist, Chick Young, was regaling the head of the Israeli referees - in a live broadcast! - with an imaginative account of why the SFA required the services of foreign officials. McKendrick eagerly took over and spun the story into an even more fanciful dimension, displaying the faultless integrity for which Scottish referees are now recognised, in a heroic effort to ensure that the SFA's best efforts to save the fixture list would be sabotaged from within the football establishment.

"McKendrick undoubtedly has a higher motivation than most to ensure that the facts of the matter at Tannadice do not emerge from the fog of deceit and misdirection, a fog that could not have persisted without unstinting, whole-hearted help and support from the charlatans in the Scottish media. Huns with laptops."

Hail Hail!!

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Κέρκυρα, 26.11.2010
20:57
Even Our Opponents Are On Our Side On This One
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Now where would we all be without Gerry Coogan?

In a less enlightened and creative place, that's where...

Two emails blogged out about Dr Death versus The Hun...

The End Of Dallas #1

It gets better with each passing hour.

Paul Brennan at Celtic Quick News has been sitting on this one for a few days and has obviously been given the green light by Reid to go public with it now.
Reid, apparently, has proof that Dallas has been in the habit of doctoring the Referee Observer's match report.
The bold Shug can order "amendments" to the original report so that he can mark up officials who have given "strong" decisions against Celtic or alternatively downgrade their scores if the Hoops have been given the benefit of too many decisions.
The reverse process applies to the Huns.
Natch.

A couple of weeks ago there was a private meeting between Stewart Regan (the new SFA chief executive) and Reid and Lawwell after which the Celtic board effectively called for the Hoops faithful to place their confidence in Regan in his battle to sort out the SFA.
Personally, I suspect that Regan himself is the source of the leaks that are appearing in various trusted Celtic websites and forums.
e.g. the Dallas email, these dodgy dossiers of match reports and even an eye-witness account of the confrontation between Regan and Dallas (as reported in Phil's blog.)

The Match Report documents, if Reid really has them, will bring the entire edifice crashing down. And even if he doesn't have them, he can still call the bluff of Dallas, George Peat and the whole, rotten, hopelessly compromised SFA gang.

It's thought that Graham Speirs, (who plays the mythical "Good Hun" in Scottish journalistic fable) also has certain knowledge of some of these documents - perhaps a test organised by Reid? - but is being prevented from publishing them by m'learned friends.

Scottish mainstream media has gone right off the chart in its biased and hysterical coverage of DallasGate. There has been at least one "top" referee or ex-ref on every BBC Radio Scotland discussion programme that I've heard this week. Last night we even had the unedifying sound of John McKendrick (the 4th official at the Dundee Utd-Celtic game that started the ball rolling) trying to convince the head of the Israeli refereeing department to break the agreement that they had just made to send over some spare officials to cover the Scottish fixtures. Live on air!
A new low point in the history of the BBC.
No surprise to learn today that three teams of Polish officials had suddenly pulled out.

I suspect that BBC London has been inundated with protests.
On the Tic websites, I've seen dozens of posts from Hoops members, reproducing their letters of complaint.
Few Celtic supporters are daft enough to waste time complaining to BBC Scotland; all the objections are calling upon London to straighten out its rogue fiefdom.
The chief broadcasting villains on the Beeb have been the loathsome "St. Mirren supporter" Chick Young, boorish thug James Traynor and the execrable Kenny McIntyre. Dishonourable mentions in the rags go to Bill Leckie, Tom Ireland, Roger Baillie and Keith "Union" Jackson.
Sad, sad, bigots, the lot of them.

But they are still utterly fucked. They are the Scottish football equivalent of Hitler rolling on the floor of the Berlin bunker while foaming at the mouth.
Dead huns walking.
And shouting defiantly.
"The cry was 'No Surrender'..."

Not yet openly published is the next stage in the final redemption of the Tribe of Tim-Paranoia.
############ Q.C. is thought to be drawing up the paperwork, even as we speak, to launch the first of many actions against the Foe Malign.
####### is not only a top brief but also a dyed-in-the-wool Tim.

I have a very strong feeling that the various football teams of the Scottish Prison Service may soon be spoilt for choice when it comes to looking for experienced referees to take charge of their kick-abouts.

The buzz amongst the Celtic support is huge now.
Dr Death is still a bastard but, right now, he's OUR bastard.
Our very own vicious, dirty, Fenian bastard up against every dirty, cheating, Orange bastard in the Scottish football establishment.
There can only be one winner here.
Even those who detest the man are pretty unanimous that if there's one guy you'd like to nominate to keep a firm, terrier-like grip of your enemies' gonads, it would be the Baron Cardowan.

Prior to the AGM, the word was that he was ready to step down from the chair, making way for Ian Bankier.
When Assistant Referee Stephen Craven resigned, prompting DougieDougieGate, Reid instantly smelt blood.
He basically said, "Everybody oot o' my road! This is MY gig!"

And even I can't deny that he's handled it perfectly so far.

"I'd rather he was inside the tent, pissing out, than outside the tent, pissing in," as LBJ said.

Hail, Hail!

The End Of Dallas #2

It's strangely quiet on the official news front today. Yesterday, Regan had the disciplinary hearings for the email transgressors, finishing with Dallas. There were seven or eight others who forwarded the email from SFA addresses. I'm hearing that all of them were fired. No certain confirmation; it just came from a friend whose friend works at Hampden and that's what he'd been told.

That's quite significant, given that the thinking in advance of the hearings was that if so much as one of the underlings was binned, Dallas was a certainty for the sack. It's possible that he has indeed been told to go away and come back a few days later with his resignation. It's an odd way to do it though.

McDonald looks as if he's dodging justice for the moment. Having already been dealt with by the referee's committee for his lies, it is being said that there is no way to go back on that decision under the SFA's rules and regulations. That's very awkward for Regan. He had already recommended a sacking in the first instance but the ref's panel ignored him. In the second instance, McDonald's dismissal was the first issue that Reid chose to go on the offensive about (after the "private pact" with Regan and Lawwell) and I imagine the Celtic board expected Regan to deliver. There are no signs though that Celtic have lost any confidence in Regan - if anything, the relationship has probably become stronger as Regan continues to discover for himself that the SFA is just as twisted and corrupt as the Celtic directors would have undoubtedly told him.

Significantly though, Celtic's first preference was not for reform of the SFA and its refereeing department but rather for a totally independent inquiry. I have a suspicion that Celtic, with the benefit of decades of frustrating experience, allowed Regan to try it his way first from the inside. But Celtic always expected that the beast can only be slain from the outside and have mostly been accumulating the evidence for ####### to put together.

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11:32
Hope For Humans
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There are better ways to resolve conflicts than killing strangers.
Yet one should not consider walking around Glasgow wearing a White Poppy...

Of course Death has a consumerist role to play and BSkyB were good enough to make this point as explicitly as possible: "Sky, Standing Shoulder to Shoulder with Those Who Serve... (Murdoch, one assumes)".
Yet Sky was still able to delay the minute of silence to fit in with their advertising schedule (primetime, boys and girls) - Death should not get in the way of consumerism...

But why oh why oh why is it not okay to protest against the Celtic shirt being emblazoned with a Red Poppy, when it is okay for the club to sanction the wearing of the said Poppy?
Who, in the right mind, is going to think that it is valid to celebrate the killing of one's ancestors with a minute of silence?
The wearing of the Red Poppy is not a neutral position.
It is an aggressive statement, so it is...

So Celtic fans, in opposition to The Branded Entity that was once their club, displayed a banner using words from "James Connolly" in protest.
"Your deeds would shame all the devils in hell - Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan - No Bloodstained Poppy On Our Hoops".

The Branded Entity committed to banning the culprits "with immediate effect" as soon as they were identified.

Meanwhile Hugh Dallas clings by his claws to his role as SFA Head of Referees after a window where he has been shown in public to be what everybody knew he was all the way along - a lying, cheating, bigoted, offensive little man who will, if his claws lose their grasp, no doubt be shuffled off to an executive role at Guernica Rangers for services rendered.

On Wednesday the Catholic Church called for the SFA to sack Dallas if it was proved he passed on a "tasteless message" relating to the Pope's visit to Scotland in September.

Gerry Coogan prompted me in the direction of Phil Mac Giolla Bhain's website [www.philmacgiollabhain.com] where the following was blogged:

"Hugh Dallas offered to call off strike if his case dropped!"

By: Phil Mac Giolla Bhain

Exclusive.

"Hugh Dallas and Stewart Regan had a blazing row on Monday at the SFA headquarters in Glasgow.
Hugh Dallas offered to call off the referees strike if his disciplinary hearing into the Pope email was called off.
On hearing this ultimatum an SFA insider said:
“Regan went ballistic!”
Regan’s exact words, overheard by many in the office were:
“How effing dare you! Don’t ever raise that again! Those two matters are totally unrelated!”
Hugh Dallas will hear his fate at 17.00hrs today in Glasgow.
In total eight people will be the subject of disciplinary hearings today.
I have learned that the Scottish Football Association has a very clear IT policy.
The passing on this email is clearly considered by Mr.Regan to be a “breach of the organisation’s IT policy.”
In recent weeks several staff were reminded of this policy of forwarding on offensive emails.
It was established inside the SFA that receiving such an email and opening it was no offence.
However forwarding it on would be considered an offence punishable from anything from a reprimand to dismissal.
I have also learned that if any of the other seven staff are dismissed for passing on this email then Mr.Dallas will also be dismissed."

Looks like a "with immediate effect" situation from where I stand!

Anyway, where was I?

Ah yes, the Poppy...
Imperial ventures...
The Busby at Chelsea...
Extraordinary Rendition...
The EDF squaring up to the Muslims Against Crusades...
The killing of David Kelly...
Blair peddling "Peace"...
The memoir-legitimisation of waterboarding...

Why not have splattered Iraqi children on the pitch at Stamford Bridge instead?

The repeated slaughter of the Working Class and the Disenfranchised of this and every other country is a tragedy.

There are better ways to resolve conflicts than killing strangers.

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Κέρκυρα, 08.11.2010
12:39
The 101 People Most Responsible For The Demise Of British Football
» Football is fixed

Inspired by Matthew Norman's "The 101 Most Infuriating Things in Sport", we have put together a blacklist of those most responsible for the conversion of football from a sport to ######################################################################.

As some individuals cannot be mentioned for a variety of reasons, the listing is only 80% complete.
We suggest putting in your own favourites in the #### gaps.

From the top, 2, 3, 4...

1. #######################################
2. Dave Richards
3. Richard Scudamore
4. #################################
5. Harry Redknapp
6. Andy Gray
7. Willie McKay
8. Keith Hackett
9. Mike Dean
10. Hugh Dallas
11. ###############################
12. Rupert Murdoch
13. Roman Abramovich
14. Ken Bates
15. Michael Owen
16. Thaksin Shinawatra
17. Milan Mandaric
18. John Colquhoun
19. David Ridsdale
20. Garry Cook
21. The Glazers
22. Graham Poll
23. Victor Chandler
24. ############################
25. Mark Clattenburg
26. Martin Atkinson
27. Mike Riley
28. Howard Webb
29. David James
30. Hicks and Gillet
31. Sir Ferguson
32. Richard Keys
33. Mike Ashley
34. Peter Pannu
35. ####################################
36. Sullivan and Gold
37. Bruce Grobbelaar
38. Dermot Gallacher
39. Paul Stretford
40. Alan Hansen
41. Rafa Benitez
42. David Gill
43. Frank Lampard
44. Chris Kirkland
45. Jamie Redknapp
46. ######################
47. #######################################
48. Andre Marriner
49. Rio Ferdinand
50. Steve McClaren
51. Dimitar Berbatov
52. Jeff Stelling
53. Phil Brown
54. Dave Whelan
55. Sam Allardyce
56. John Terry
57. Alan Green
58. #####################################
59. The Gaydameks
60. Gary Lineker
61. Ian Wright
62. Peter Reid
63. David Platt
64. Patrick Barclay
65. Henry Winter
66. Benoit Assou-Ekotto
67. ##############################
68. Ecclestone/Briatore
69. Chris Kamara
70. #####################################
71. David Lacey
72. Roy Hodgson
73. Gary McAllister
74. Lee Dixon
75. ###############################
76. Niall Quinn
77. Sven Goran Eriksson
78. Martin Edwards
79. Mohammad Al Fayed
80. ############################
81. The Oyston Family
82. Ray Wilkins
83. Kevin Keegan
84. #################################
85. #############################
86. Matt Le Tissier
87. Mark Lawrensen
88. Didi Hamann
89. ##########################
90. Tony Cascarino
91. ###############################
92. ############################
93. Guillem Balague
94. Benny McCarthy
95. ###################################
96. Pascal Chimbonda
97. Thomas Sorensen
98. David Conn
99. Steven Gerrard
100. Jermain Defoe
101. Avram Grant

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Κέρκυρα, 07.11.2010
18:58
Dirty Old Town
» Football is fixed

"This is what it's like to be FC,
this is what it's like to be home,
this is what it's like when you don't sell your arse to a gnome,
your arse to a gnome, your arse to a gnome."

Sir Ferguson: "[FC United] are just publicity seekers."

"So come on cheer the boys, FC make some noise, we go wow wow wow, we go wow wow wow."

According to Sepp Blatter, the Sunday Times reporting of the FIFA votes scandal is "unethical".

"Under the boardwalk watching FCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Yeah,
They'll be no knobheads in jester hats or Sky TV,
Under the board walk we'll be watching FC,
Under the board walk we'll be watching FC."

"UEFA is taking action against the newspapers that leaked the information about voting collusion in the presentation of the Euro 2012 Finals to Poland/Ukraine."

"Two thousand and five, the month of May,
Malcolm Glazer drove us away,
There's too many debts that we won't pay,
And now we know there's another way.
FC United of Manchester,
We're FC United of Manchester,
We're FC United of Manchester,
We're FC United of Manchester."

Insider gambler Harry Redknapp threatens not to speak to the media if he is banned for his comments about Weave Clattenburg.

"Hoist up the John B sail,
Can't hear the Mainstand sing,
Call up the MRE,
We'll sing on our own.
Don't wanna go hoooome,
Don't wanna go hooooooome,
This is the best trip,
I've ever been on.
Der der der der
Sooo
Hoist up the John B sail,
Can't hear the Mainstand sing,
Call up the MRE,
We'll sing on our own.
Don't wanna go hoooome,
Don't wanna go hooooooome,
This is the best trip,
I've ever been on..."

The Guardian: "The senior Fifa official Danny Jordaan has admitted to clandestine collusion with competitors when he led South Africa's World Cup bid team, unsuccessfully persuading England to withdraw from the 2006 race by offering Nelson Mandela's support for 2010."

"They came for Man United's red,
And Wimbledon in blue,
And Wrexham and the Metrostars,
Telford, Salzburg too.
They think that they can buy the lot ,
But they can buy fuck all,
'Cos two things they can never own ,
Are us, and PUNK FOOTBALL!
Tra la la laaaaaa,
We all hate Franchise!"

The afternoon after FC United of Manchester battered the hillbillies of Rochdale, there were numerous blocks of empty seats at Old Trafford for the visit of Wolves.

"I am an FC fan,
I am a Mancunian,
I know what I want and I know how to get it,
I wanna destroy,
Glazer and Sky,
Cause I,
Wanna be,
At FCCC..."

The Guardian sent Jamie Jackson to cover Shakhtar Donetsk against Arsenal in the Champions League and he was so at the game that he thought Eduardo's first half goal actually occurred in the second half. Finger on the pulse...

"The man with no shame,
The man with no shame,
Rio Ferdinand,
The man with no shame."

Serie A football show no longer shows highlights of controversial decisions in case calcio punters put two and two together...

"When FC United go out to play na na, na na,
When FC United go out to play na na, na na,
When FC United go out to play it's 3 o'clock on a Saturday.
We don't work for SkySports anymore!"

Martin Tyler about John Henry's trophy wife: "She looks like a lovely lady."

"His name is Malcolm Glazer,
He thinks he's rather flash.
He tried to buy a football team,
But didn't have the cash.
He borrowed lots of money,
He made the fans distraught,
But we're FC United,
And we won't be fuckin' bought..."

Robert Fisk on the WikiLeaks: "Well I think there are several very important elements to this story.
First of all, the individual items like, you know, there are witnesses, American witnesses to torture, they didn't do anything, that the Iraqis - security authorities were torturing Iraqis, that American air strikes were killing many civilians.
We knew about this, but it was always denied by the Americans. I was doing stories years ago about Iraqis torturing Iraqis and the stories were coming from American officers who were leaking them to me.
But of course every time I wrote them in the paper, the Americans denied that it was true. I went to the scenes of US air strikes. They were obviously limbs, hands, arms of children, babies, women, civilians, as well sometimes as armed men, and we wrote about this.
What the WikiLeaks does is it proves beyond any doubt that what we reported was correct and that what we were told by the American authorities was mendacious, it was a lie.
Just remember, the Americans now are saying, "Shame upon WikiLeaks. It's endangering lives in Iraq." I mean, invading Iraq endangered an awful lot of lives, didn't it?
But, you know, if these leaks, if these 400,000 documents had confirmed that the Americans did stop torture, that they didn't kill civilians and air strikes, you know, US generals would be handing this stuff out free of charge to journalists on the front steps of the Pentagon."

"My eyes have seen the glory and my heart has felt the pain,
While Glazer's at Old Trafford I will never go again.
We've taken all the passion and we're singing at Gigg Lane,
As the reds go marching ON ON ON!
Glory glory FC United...etc
I am a Busby boy and that is all I'll ever be,
Until some greedy bastard took my club away from me,
We've taken all the passion and we're following FC,
As the reds go marching ON ON ON!"

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Κέρκυρα, 02.11.2010
12:52
A Christmas Story
» Football is fixed

More On The Dallas Dynasty

Yesterday morning, Hugh Dallas sought legal advice over the comments made in the Scottish media by Assistant Referee, Steven Craven.

Understanding the psyche of Dallas, if he had received a positive response from his barrister, he would surely have come down like a ton of bricks on the recently retired linesperson.
But he didn't.
He merely went for the impotent denial of harassment despite the alleged fact that an SFA employee was in the room throughout the phone conversation between Dallas and Craven.

The allegations of harassment, bullying and applying pressure on Craven to alter his view of reality remain at the feet of Dallas.

For the uninitiated, Dallas allegedly leant on Craven to "take the flak" instead of referee Dougie McDonald over the Celtic penalty-that-never-was (honestly) against the Tangerine Arabs.

Dallas: "Unfortunately, these allegations have given rise to the suggestion that I was involved in some sort of cover-up: nothing could be further from the truth."

Sue then, sir!

Dallas added: "I am dismayed and saddened that the reputation I have built up over 30 years in refereeing could be besmirched by such unfounded allegations."

And what reputation would that be, Hugh?

Inevitably the SFA offered Dallas "unequivocal support" which is as inevitable as anything ever could be north of Hadrian's Wall.

The SFA also described Hugh as "helpful and honest"...
...honestly, this is not intended as a joke.

Meanwhile, Dougie McDonald sought to set the record straight from a different angle...

McDonald told BBC Scotland: "There was no big cover-up. I was just trying to help out my colleague and protect him a little. It was a white lie in the heat of the moment. It was not a pre-meditated act.

"It was a mistake, I regret it hugely, but there's not a person on this earth who hasn't told a lie for what they think are the right reasons.

"I'm sure every adult in the country will tell their kids in a few weeks that a man in a red suit is going to come down their chimney.

"That's a lie but it's for the right reasons and that's what I thought I was doing. I regret it now."

Okidoke.
You heard it here first.
Scottish football isn't fixed because Santa Claus doesn't exist.
Only in Scotland could this logic exist.

Footie Is Fixed #1!

Okay, so...

Having been inundated with emails over the last two posts (detailing corruptions at the Celtic/Rangers clash and the Newcastle/Sunderland unclash), we are far too busy to reply to all the correspondence received.

We analyse the corruptions in the "sport" of football and trade that knowledge on the Asian markets.

Since the start of the season, we have achieved 95% winners on over 100 matches (excluding breakeven events) - an all-time high performance level from our team.

If footie wasn't fixed, how on earth would we be able to achieve such returns?

Perhaps it is all those conversations we have with Father Christmas that makes us so slick.
"And what would you like for xmas, son?"
"A dodgy penalty, an even dodgier sending off and, if West Brom are still likely to beat the Seasiders, could we possibly have another sending off as well?"
"Your wish is my command".

Footie Is Fixed #2

And, anyway, girls and boys.
If Footie wasn't Fixed, why would we have been offered a Consultancy contract by a Premier League team?
'Nuff said, for now.

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Κέρκυρα, 31.10.2010
17:43
Super Corrupt Sunday - The Rigging Of Newcastle United Versus Sunderland
» Football is fixed

From the start of this season, a certain grouping of match manipulators have been awaiting the North East derby between Newcastle and Sunderland.

Those involved in the scam included a leading football agent who is no stranger to these pages, certain match officials who are no strangers to these pages, club management, players and journalists from The Guardian newspaper.

And while the fake media story of the potential sacking of Chris Hughton was given copious column inches to engender mug punting in the wrong direction of outcome, the insider money was on a Newcastle win which, following an offside goal, a penalty, a sending off and six Sunderland bookings, was unsurprisingly landed.

Details of the scam are given below.
We are to send full copies of this post (without the ####) to certain bodies, like that is ever going to make any difference to anything...

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Κέρκυρα, 21.10.2010
14:50
Sunday's Celtic V Rangers Game Is Fixed!
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As we all wait patiently, indeed joyously, for the imminent smelting of the Iron Lady (my call would be for an auto da fé rather than anything approaching a dignified exit), one of her free market legacies is the corruption of our sporting world.

And we have the ultimate example of football moving from a game to a sport to an entertainment to an insider manipulation with the first Auld Firm game of the season next weekend.

Everything is being done to prevent Rangers losing this match.

The Hun, knackered from their enjoyably fruitless exertions in the highly manipulated Champions League Group C, need a twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth man (as many as it takes) to prevent a proper football match from happening at Parkhead.

The referee is William "Billy Boy" Collum and he will be under the watchful gaze of his mentor, twisted fire starter Hugh Dallas.
Dallas never retired.
He simply reinvented himself via two prodigies, of whom "Billy Boy" is one.

At Aberdeen earlier this season, the Hun found themselves 2-0 down and rattled.
An instant penalty for a triple salchow reduced the deficit by the interval.
Dallas left the Directors Box.

At the start of the Second Half, Aberdeen returned to the pitch...
...and waited.

And waited and waited and waited...

Then the Rangers reappeared with Collum running out onto the pitch in their midst.
45 minutes later Rangers had won 3-2 against a ten man Aberdeen team.

Dallas was back in his Box and, though he looked proud, his arrogance was neither of the Scottish nor of the protestant kind, it was something else entirely.

And so to Parkhead...

"Billy Boy" and his masonic brethren (god save the fucking queen, indeed) are on one.

If you don't want to allow the rogues to be splashing around in Fenian blood, as is their wont, then this information should be spread far and wide in order to make the fix either impossible or publicly too obvious.

Tell your friends.
Tell your enemies.
Print out some leaflets and hand them out before the game.
Graffiti it on the walls next to "Up The Celts" and "Ooo Aah Up The 'RA".

As for myself, I intend to cycle naked around Glasgow on my Surly machine singing "Riding in the Nude and Feeling such a Dude, It's a Rip-Off" until I'm arrested and rearranged by their enforcers.

It is just like living in Bedlam, isn't it?

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