BRAVE NEW WORLD - WHERE MAFIA IS LAW

July 31, 2019, 2:43 pm

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FOOTBALL IS FIXED IS CHANGING

FAQs - What's Going On? So What?

What's Going On? Some Changes

What Are You Playing At? Integrity In Football

What Happens To The 'Football is Fixed' Network? It Will Continue To Expose Systemic And Particular Corruptions In Football To Authorities, Institutions & Government

Who Are The Men From ANTI? Members Of The 'Football is Fixed' Network Who Have Established 'Analytics Networking Transparency Integrity' To Seek Regulatory Change
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Why Now? Why Not?

Who Cares? Some People

What Are The Catalysts For Change? Futurescanning & Chaos & Mafia

When Will The Book Be Published? From August 21st 2019 to June 3rd 2020
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Why The Cloak And Daggers Stuff? OPSEC

Didn't Somebody Try To Kill You? Stuff Happens

Is All Of Life A Tepid Housewarming? Undoubtedly But We're Still Unique In Our Niche

What Are You Going To Do Now? ..........................................................................................
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Why Are There Two Networks? Are You Twisting Our Melons Man?

1) The Private Network

We are making structural changes to our engagement model by splitting our output into Private and Public and, more importantly, we are altering our strategies to entirely ignore a captured mainstream media and take our evidences straight to carefully selected entities in government, anti-corruption bodies and institutions.

We were naive in assuming that the UK football media had any interest in maintaining integrity in the sport, particularly when, for example, journalists at both the Guardian and the Telegraph take backhanders to promote the news agendas, matchfixing capers and clients of major agents.

Stories are squashed and as Luke Heighton (an investigative journalist at the Telegraph) informed us: "UK football journalists prefer (a) not to rock the boat, (b) not to bite the hand that feeds them, and (c) like to make damn sure they are all telling the same story... Like royal reporters, they work as a pack and their aim is to promote the product."

And, as that product has evolved into a mafia template - the purpose of the media has also expanded to suppress any vestiges of organised corruption...

... and the papers squash more revelations at editorial level - for example, over the Allardyce disclosures and in preventing it becoming public knowledge that a number of the England Lionesses utilise a banned agent and mafia operative as their representative (both at the Telegraph).

The Private Network will undertake proprietary research and market analytics and will provide an early-warning of insider trading and matchfixing events. The Private Network will also offer the most complete database of real-time Asian Underground and Dark Pool Markets.

Our new approach has a quadruple whammy of procedural advantages.

Firstly, the mafia entities destroying British football for proprietary gain will no longer know what evidences Football is Fixed have uncovered and to whom we are disclosing these criminal shenanigans.

Secondly, we will no longer be restricted by the Iceberg Effect whereby we only release 5% of our analytics and any information made available to us. We no longer need to retain the other 95% of our evidences for defence, constructive negotiation or court as the information will not be in the public sphere. Our hidden disclosures will have no redaction.

Thirdly, both Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Zizek have shown that exposing corruption merely energises it by training up enemy operatives in future potential financial strategies. In future, matchfixers will need to be more self-sufficient and invest in internal R&D. They will be in a dark place or a costly place.

Fourthly, we will no longer have to apply ourselves to surfing the zeitgeist of corruption - the gap between the actual level of corruption and the public perception of it - as our Private Network will have no conversation with fans or the public.

The Private Network is Private.

There is no membership, no access to anybody external to our cellular grouping and we have gone to considerable (and expensive) lengths to ensure that this network is operationally secure against unwanted attention.

- Is this still Football? -
From Football's heart this sultry ululating?
Of Football's body this self-lacerating?
Football, this altar-piece prostration,
This incense-perfumed simulation?
Football, this reeling, stumbling, tumbling,
This muddy booming bim-bam-bumbling,
This nunnish ogling, Ave-hour-bell chiming,
This false-ecstatic higher-than-heaven climbing?
- Is this still Football? -
Reflect! And then your answer frame: -
For what you hear is Mafia - Mafia's law in all but name!

Friedrich Nietzsche Redux

2) The Public Network

The Public Network, on the other hand, will be open to all (although some tiers will have access restricted to a certain number of clients).

The Public Network will include our forthcoming book, future articles, newsletters, podcasts, videos etc.

I am splitting myself off from the Football is Fixed Private Network (aside from inputs to ANTI) to run the Public Network.
I will no longer be providing anything other than a few analytical inputs to the Private Network although I will be closely liaising on security matters.

The Public Network will focus on the holistic and the specifics of the corruption and target the lack of regulation and cowboy capitalism that enables matchfixing, insider trading, club owners to own betting syndicates, third party ownership networks, collusion between agents etc etc etc...

The Public Network is a Membership Scheme.

I have met them at close of day

Coming with vivid faces
From terminals and hacking tools among grey
Twenty first century offices.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Of polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered a while and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a co-conspirator
Around the fire in the pub,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where mafia is law:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

W.B. Yeats Redux
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The White Man's Got A God Complex

October 3, 2019, 12:42 am

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In Affectionate Remembrance of English Football which died in a Mafia Takeover at Gloucester Place in London on October 2nd 2019 Deeply lamented by a large circle of friends and fans, whose sport is now no more than an insider trading spectacle
RIP
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The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum

David Skipwith Pemsel's first act as forthcoming CEO of the EPL was to delete his Twitter account.
Hours later the Guardian newspaper were championing the man's "integrity" as his appointment was announced.

The newspaper most linked with the systemic matchfixing destroying UK football (the Guardian) provides the new chief executive officer (David Skipwith Pemsel - a venture capitalist fund founder with a whiff of the offshore about him) to the most corrupt football league on the planet, the Premier League.
... a corrupt paper, a corrupt league, a corrupt industry sector and a man whose parents were weird enough to plump for Skipwith. What could possibly go wrong?

We have been exposing corruption linking the Guardian, John Colquhoun and the Premier League for 13 years - check out our archive (5% of our posts are online at any given time).

This appointment represents the death knell for football of integrity in the EPL as it transforms the current external mafia-led matchfixing and corruption infrastructure into an internal one (with all the benefits of institutional opacity).

Having assessed scenario analytics and the futurescanning of our options, we confirm that we are taking the Football is Fixed Network private and underground only surfacing within the flux when undertaking consultancy work (as we are now for a Premier League club owner).

We will be publishing our book on the Football is Fixed blog on November 12th - thirteen years and one day after our first ever article.

The book is entitled "Who Killed Cock Robin?"

And never forget...
... John Colquhoun, the White Man, has got a God Complex...

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We have no competitors.
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20 Questions For Integrity Man

October 5, 2019, 2:02 am

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Does David Skip With The Mafia?

Those behind the appointment of David Skipwith Pemsel to the throne of chief executive of the Premier League are attempting to paint a public portrait of a man who exhibits heightened integrity.

We oppose that narrative.

Over the course of this weekend, we ask twenty pertinent questions of Integrity Man regarding the Premier League template of systemic corruption that he not only inherits but also helped to enable.

In our humble opinion, Integrity Man is not a Fit and Proper Person to run the Premier League.

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Question One:

On the systemic corruption & matchfixing template currently controlling the Premier League

Question Two:

On the illicit linkages between the Guardian newspaper and certain football agents during Skipwith's period as chief executive of Guardian Media Group

Question Three:

On the deliberate use of a fake news lead story at the Guardian in November 2018 in an attempt to influence a legal ruling about to be made regarding the extradition to the US of Julian Assange

Question Four:

On the offshore underground entity that is the Scott Trust and examples of the Guardian business model under Skipwith's stewardship where fake news influenced sporting realities to private agendas

Question Five:

On the weaponisation of identity politics to aid corruption and control of markets - transfer and betting

Question Six:

On the very specific issue of matchfixing and insider trading that has reached epidemic proportions in the Premier League

Question Seven:

On John Colquhoun, the Colly Cowboy

Question Eight:

On 'Football Leaks' and the commercialisation of crime

Question Nine:

On VAR and mafia influence of match decisions

Question Ten:

On the Professional Game Match Officials Board and systemic matchfixing

Question Eleven:

On the issues of corruption in the English Championship and the lower leagues

Question Twelve:

On systemic corruption and matchfixing underpinning the 2019/20 season and comparisons with a broadly equivalent template throughout the post-Scudamore window

Question Thirteen:

On the very central role of mafia in all aspects of the Premier League

Question Fourteen:

On the helicopter 'accident' that ~~murdered~~ killed Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha a year ago

Question Fifteen:

On the extensive corruption in the transfer market, the increasing presence of third party ownership, the creation of new agencies for specific purposes and how hidden ownership of players solicits matchfixing

Question Sixteen:

On the issue of club owners who are neither fit nor proper

Question Seventeen:

On the widespread prevalence of doping in the EPL

Question Eighteen:

On the state

Question Nineteen:

On this particular match structure - where exactly does integrity reside in this EPL match, Mr Integrity Man?

Question Twenty:

On the absence of meaningful regulation and the robustness of the mafia template
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We have no competitors.
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EXCLUSIVE: How Third Party Ownership Of Players By Agents Evolved Into Third Party Ownership Of Other Agents By Agents And Third Party Ownership Of Clubs By Agents With Cartelised Behaviour Creating Insider Trading & Matchfixing, Resulting In Gambling Losses And Sometimes Suicide For The Leisure Bettors While The Insiders And Bookmakers Profit From Their Systemic Corruption And The Mainstream Media Is Rewarded For Their Pitiful Acquiescence In These Crimes By Being In Receipt Of Some Crumbs Of Comfort That Fall From The Dark Pool Poker Tables Where All Of Our Football Futures Are Fixed

May 25, 2019, 4:12 am

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Of the 6000 people who commit suicide in the UK each year, 600 are due to gambling.

SBC reckon Bet365 have 25% share of UK market so 150 of the deaths are credited to the company.

Denise Coates, the Bet365 CEO, paid herself £265 million in 2017.

Or £1.8 million per suicide.
— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) May 25, 2019

THE █████ RULE

Unless a club is owned or very very closely affiliated with the █████ cartel of crooked UK agents, they should not employ players represented by any of these agencies because player loyalty is always towards the matchfixing agents rather than moving a team forwards performing professionally and with integrity.

Isolate these leeches within their corrupt edifices!

6 starters for the #ChampionshipPlayOffFinal between #AstonVilla and #DerbyCounty are represented by just one agent with █████ other players having linked representation.
Agents are too powerful and need robust regulation.#AVFCvDCFC https://t.co/GK4dhoeRb9
— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) May 27, 2019

This May Day Bank Holiday Weekend sees the self-styled Richest Game in World Football when Aston Villa and Derby County (The 32 Red Derby) go head-to-head at the Food Mall to seek more than a £170 million plus entry to the Premier League.

If these two teams were to put out the same starting XI's as in the Semi Finals 2nd Leg then 8 of the 22 starters will be represented by the Stellar, Base, Unique and Key Sports grouping of agents (and two more of their clients entered as substitutes). Additionally there are █████ players who are owned by █████ in these sides.

How fantastic that these four firms are so well represented in this very moneyed event.

Nice symmetry to #LeagueOnePlayoffFinal #SunderlandFC v #CharltonAthletic - both shirt sponsors #Betdaq (HQ in Gibraltar) & #Championship #PlayOffFinal #AstonVilla v #DerbyCounty - both shirt sponsors #32Red (HQ in Gibraltar).
Sort of #CelticFC v #Sevco created by John Colquhoun!
— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) May 27, 2019

Once upon a time there was a young man with ambition in his eyes who decided to blackmail a Portuguese football agency over alleged illegal third party ownership of players.

This young man was subsequently approached by a very small man with mafia tendencies and coerced into being the vehicle for the release of stolen commercial information and documents to the marked advantage of a fragmented cartel of agents based in █████ and the marked disadvantage of the Iberian operation.

This became known as the fake spectacle that is 'Football Leaks'.

The promotion of Tranmere Rovers to League One via the Play-Offs has serious integrity issues that need to be addressed.

1) Why was Ross Joyce selected as referee for the Play Off Final (and the FA Vase Final) when his officiating has been so abysmal this season? - see comments by other referees https://ratetheref.createaforum.com/football-league-l1-l2/playoffs-2019-782/30/

2) Joyce has allegedly got a high wealth backer █████ and his officiating in the Final versus Newport County was biased. We have seen the result of match officials having external influences on their decision-making before with Elleray, Moss, Clattenburg, Dean etc. It is not conducive to legitimate football. For a match report on this fake football, see https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/25/newport-tranmere-league-two-play-off-final-report

3) Only Mike Dean has a higher red card per game ratio than Joyce. And Dean being a Tranmere fan was at all three games (obviously in unofficial capacity, as always). Joyce has got a dodgy match pedigree since being promoted as youngest referee in 2015 following a highly suspicious Conference Play Off Final between Bristol Rovers and Grimsby Town.

4) The Play Off Semi Final between Tranmere Rovers and Forest Green Rovers was also corrupted in both games. Here are some comments from Forest Green Rovers' manager Mark Cooper: "I don't think they really wanted us to be in the Final... For anyone who watched the two games, I don't think anyone can say we were given a fair crack at it."

5) Why was Eddie Ilderton who officiated as referee at the highly dubious Forest Green v Tranmere Second Leg also 4th Official at the Final? In his two Tranmere games this season he has sent off three opponents.

When the Football is Fixed network began to make assertions about inappropriate linkages between certain █████ agents in October 2013, the cartel devised a strategy to establish secondary and tertiary levels of sub-agents overseen by the parent outfits. Players moved between agents and sub-agents, disguising ownership, and third party ownership became the norm (despite its illegality). This multiple (hidden/ disguised) ownership of players was made more opaque by the utilisation of a pyramid of linked sub-agents.
By the time these 'agents-third-party-owning-other-agents' structures are cartelised up to the full network, you can have matches in the Premier League and the Championship where well over 50% of the players on the field of play are represented by this agent/sub-agent web.

This produces extensive opportunities for matchfixing and associated insider trading as excessive market control is leveraged through the global betting markets.

Club Deportivo Maldonado is a Uruguayan Second Division club used by agents and third party owners to launder players into the European game without such players ever appearing for the Maldonado side. When Bloomberg investigated the hidden ownership of the club in 2014 they discovered English racehorse owner Malcolm Caine and London lawyer Graham Shear were in control. Argentinian newspaper 'La Nacion' claims that Jonathan Barnett (co-owner of the Stellar agency) is also linked to Maldonado. Caine co-owns several horses with Barnett.

Third party ownership of players by agents is a problem because, if you don't know which investment vehicles own the player, coercion/ persuasion and matchfixing are liable to seep into the game.
Third party ownership of sub-agents by agents makes detection of these illicit structures much more problematical.
The cartelised networking of this process between a web of agents further opaques this reality.
But it is the third party takeover of clubs by agents where the ultimate matchfixing templates reside.

The victory by Charlton Athletic over Sunderland in the Battle of the Betdaqs League One Play Off Final had theatre offstage.

Sunderland have been backgrounded by ropey characters who have deflated the club in order to take control (similar to situation at Falkirk in personnel who are using integrity violations to take control). The failure to gain promotion blows a £██ million short-term hole in the revenue streams of one particular matchfixing entity seeking control of another Championship club.

The managerial quality of Jack Ross was good enough for St Mirren but not League One where weak strategy produced 19 draws. It will be interesting to see if Mark Campbell wishes to heavily invest in a team travelling to Bury, Fleetwood and Accrington next season.

As per usual, this affair links Celtic and Sunderland with John Colquhoun trying to steal John Park from Celtic as he continues to asset strip the Parkhead club following the departures of Judas and Congerton to mafia-backed Leicester City.

█████ Premier League clubs and █████ from the Championship have significant integrity issues relating to agents either a) in hidden control of the club, b) in partial control of club, or c) having significant influence over transfers and team selection and performance.
As the Maldonado narrative demonstrates, agents should not control football clubs.

These teams whose strategies are correlated with the agendas of the agents are able to engage in insider trading and matchfixing either using the clients of the controlling agent or tapping into a network of agents often allowing control of over half of the players on the field of play.

This infrastructure produces systemic matchfixing and impacts upon trophies won and lost, relegations and promotions gained or lost, the regime change of Gestifute-linked managers via client underperformance, the cornering of global markets via a proprietary mafia corruption template and the ruination of football as a sport - check out: https://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/2019/05/exclusive-lizards-lacertae-liverpool_21.html

Third party ownership of players, sub-agents and clubs also leads to tax evasion as we are dealing with shell operations where the real identity of owners and investors is opaque.
Moreover, the financial rewards from systemic matchfixing are entirely non-taxable and merely need laundering into the required territory (often by becoming a property magnate a la Gekko).

A couple of further questions regarding these Play Off Finals:

1) Why is VAR not in operation? Research in Serie A has shown that VAR reduces result-changing errors by referees from one in every three games to one in every 20 and yet the Football League and FA together with the pgMOBsters have stolen the Play Offs without using the technology incorporated into Wembley stadium. Why? Why? Why? Why would you not want to get the correct decision? Newport County could sue.

2) The PGMOB officials for the 5 Championship Play Offs to determine promotion to the EPL: Villa v WBA (Scott / Hooper); Derby v Leeds (Pawson / Coote); WBA v Villa (Kavanagh / Mason); Leeds v Derby (Taylor / Friend); Villa v Derby (Tierney / Kavanagh).

The underlined referees are the ones we have shown to have serious integrity issues to answer and should have no involvement in such high financial value events https://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/2019/05/exclusive-lizards-lacertae-liverpool_21.html

The UK mainstream media support this fraudulent infrastructure via arrangements with the major agents which are illicit.

No mainstream newspaper should allow any of the their football journalists to be in the pay of football agents and yet... The Guardian and Telegraph have shown extensive PR bias in favour of clients from Stellar, Base, Unique and Key Sports this season and these advertorials are further disguised by the structures outlined above.

This week, we have had both papers pushing the "Daniel James & Sean Longstaff to Manchester United" narrative. Stellar represent the former and Beswick Sports the latter (see Server 5.0 over our stuff on Beswick & Stellar).

Mind you, the paper also thought it important to give us a headline where Alistair Campbell admitted "he voted for a remain party in the EU elections" - war criminal with links to football corruption votes in an election - this is no longer a newspaper.

Rogue agents have gained control of the Manchester United transfer policy since rogue players underperformed to rid the club of Jose Mourinho and all things Gestifute and these rogue agents will be moving clients and their █████ into the club this summer.

And, of course, Manchester United games were matchfixed by these rogue agents as soon as the regime change was completed.

Agents coercing players.
Agents setting up sub-agents.
Agents coercing sub-agents.
Agents creating hidden ownership.
Agents teaming with other agents to take control of clubs.
Agents taking sole control of clubs.
Agents coercing clubs.

All roads lead to matchfixing and an increase in the games where 'unusual' outcomes result and an increase in the gambling losses of leisure punters who are patsies to the mafia operations in this systemic corruption...
... and some of these gamblers go into debt and some of them take their own lives.

There are a wide array of victims of systemic matchfixing in UK football.

At least we can console ourselves in the knowledge that Denise Coates isn't one of them.

Full details of agent/ sub-agent map linked to █████ and the other necessarily redacted content can be reached on Server 5.0 AND Tiraspol 2.0.
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Football is Fixed operate as a cellular network. We use the Iceberg Effect. We release 5% of our analytics and any hacks made available to us. We retain 95% for strategic defence, constructive negotiation, court. In extremis, we recuse ourselves and operatives will ensure full publication of the relevant information in numerous territories.
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INTERNAL DOCUMENT - Alastair Campbell And The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum

October 18, 2019, 1:29 am

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Why Twitter Is Now Crap

October 4, 2018, 2:41 am

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@FootballisFixed to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: "@jack. Good morning. We're a network. We communicate with one of our members by letter drop. He hasn't been on Twitter for a year. Yet somehow, as if by magic, he has unfollowed us (and yet nobody else). Why does this sort of thing happen to anti-corruption entities Jack?"

Football is Fixed has ceased publishing on Twitter.

We're moving to two new platforms that welcome investigative journalism rather than suppressing it.

We will announce these new platforms shortly.

Being a cog in the liberal-neoliberal axis, Twitter doesn't want to share voices that reflect badly upon this axis - they censor output to disguise the true nature of the sociopathic system of which they are a part. They simply sponsor Vichy journalism.

The recent experience of Fifth Estate journalists on Twitter has moved beyond an implied self-censorship and is now a blatant top-down censorship.
Key voices like Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Lauri Love and Caitlin Johnstone have been silenced (permanently or periodically).

Whenever such Twitter accounts show an increase in followers, Twitter manipulates the numbers back down by using software to remove followers without communicating with either party.
Retweets and Likes are also routinely suppressed.

This is just a manipulative media trying to manufacture consent.

Most of Twitter has become banal.

The platform used to be vital because of those who agreed to have their cutting edge output taken without payment and who allowed such output to be networked to whatever arbitrary algorithm was currently in vogue.

No more.

Twitter have self-harmed their unique business model away.

It now reads like the 'comments' section of a Guardian article - lots of very opinionated befuddled liberals thinking that Marina Hyde really does hang on their every word.

The psychopathic control grid cannot allow hive mind global village communications against the neoliberalism that is destroying our planet.
Initially, the elite enjoyed these 5th Estate conversations as it allowed a monitoring of potential suspects but once state intelligence took over this surveillance, social media was doomed, I say, doomed.

We knew it wouldn't last.

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Glasgow Celtic's Leap Year Leap Into League Two

March 4, 2016, 10:44 am

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One of my earliest football memories was the euphoria at seeing Glasgow Celtic defeat Internazionale in the 1967 European Cup Final in Lisbon.
Celtic, with a team made up of players born within 30 miles of Glasgow, had defeated the Italian side despite the obstacles and machinations always associated with the Milan side in the sixties.

What would those heroic players think of the state of Glasgow Celtic now?

In this article, we exclusively reveal the takeover of an English League Two team by secret investors linked to the Glasgow giants for the purpose of getting Celtic into the Skybet Championship via Trojan Horse strategies and we suggest another club, intimately linked to this League Two side, that may well be the vehicle for SEVCO to achieve the same target.

Dermot Desmond, the Celtic majority shareholder, speaking last September stated that he thought it inevitable that Celtic and SEVCO would be playing in the English Premier League within the decade: "We would like to compete in the holy grail in England."

This bold assertion was made just weeks after the finalisation of the secret investment strategy.

For secret investors closely linked to the mighty Glasgow Celtic have taken over League Two side OXFORD UNITED.

Richard Scudamore is on record as spitting: "... we are a league formed for clubs who play in England and Wales. I don't see that ever changing. I don't see that changing on my watch... there's more in it for them than there is for us."

So.
What's going on?
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Rangers (prior to their liquidation) and Celtic were both keen to explore the possibilities offered by the European Super League (ESL) under the auspices of the old G14 power grouping of football teams.
The G14 was then superseded by the European Club Association (ECA) in 2008.

In 2009 Rangers' CEO Martin Bain spoke up in favour of the ESL: "The time is right for it to be looked at in detail. It is also important to emphasise that it would not necessarily involve us leaving Scottish football behind."
However, as fate would have it, it was Scottish football that ended up leaving Rangers behind following their demise in 2012.

Also in 2009, Peter Lawwell the CEO of Celtic let it be known that he was reconciled to the club's future being in Scotland.

At a private conversation with Lawwell in September 2013, the ESL was openly discussed covering both the inevitability of such a league and it being divided into two divisions.
We made it clear to Lawwell that it was essential for Celtic to perform to a high level in the near future in the Champions League to avoid missing out on the formation of the ESL (Celtic had just survived a scare against Shakhter Karagandy of Kazakhstan in the Champions League Play-Offs).

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Unfortunately, Mr Lawwell disagreed with our strategy and Celtic have failed miserably in Europe in the intervening period due to a lack of investment and a dearth of analytical knowledge - Group Stage exit in 2013/14 followed by Qualifying Round defeats to the might of NK Maribor and Malmo in the last two years.

The result of this underachievement has been both a decline in Celtic's status as a European club and a marked decline in the UEFA rankings of Scotland as a nation.

When the ECA announced that the ESL 1st Division was only open to the top four teams from Spain, Germany, Italy, France and England, Peter Lawwell flew to Geneva to confront ECA chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
Lawwell even attempted to form an alliance with the hierarchy of Ajax Amsterdam to fight against such plans - however, given the structural and fan antipathies between these two clubs, this was always an odd reaction.
But worse was to follow as the Netherlands are cutting Scotland out.
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Under a Belgian plan, the ESL 2nd Division would only offer places to two teams from each of the next 9 ranked countries in the UEFA rankings - Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Greece and Belgium.
As Scotland stand in 25th place, they wouldn't even make any third tier (if established).

We bet Lawwell wished he had invested in European performance now!

Celtic meanwhile developed parallel routes associated with BT Sport via board member Baron Livingston of Parkhead (with all the integrity issues that linking to such an entity entails) and, more recently, individuals associated with the club have developed a Trojan Horse strategy relating to taking over a club in the lower English leagues and working their way up to the Skybet Championship regardless of the thoughts of the Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore or the UEFA hierarchy.

That will teach the English clubs to vote against allowing Celtic (and SEVCO) boarding their gravy train!

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The private equity individual behind Oxford United is the excellently named Darryl Eales (Mr. D. Eales geddit?).
The parent company is called ENSCO 1070 with current directors being Eales, Frank Waterhouse, Michael O'Leary and Michael Ward.
The linkages to West Bromwich Albion are numerous as are the linkages to Glasgow Celtic and both are detailed below.

A primary catalyst in the shenanigans is football agent John Colquhoun who has linkages with Celtic, West Bromwich Albion, senior staff at Oxford United, Eales, the second Trojan Horse club and the 'secret investors'.
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Increasingly in recent times, Celtic and SEVCO have been co-operating behind the scenes (and presumably against fan wishes) to work together for the future of the financial kingpins of Glaswegian football.
Unfortunately, the demise of Rangers and the strategic inadequacies of Celtic have hamstrung this co-ordination via short-termist thinking and illicit machinations.
Of course, they had previously undermined any such strategies by energising policies of mutually assured destruction leading to a precipitous fall in attendances and revenue streams.

But the two clubs are caught between a rock and a hard place.
The loss of European money will be a body blow to Celtic and a nightmare for SEVCO's cashflow projections while the strategy to climb the English leagues is illegal under Football League, Premier League and UEFA rules.

Will the League Two sides change their names and colours?
Will agents energise third party ownership structures between the clubs as the Pozzo family do with Udinese, Watford and Granada?
Will the primary Celtic club agent continue adding SEVCO clients to his roster and will players even move between Celtic and SEVCO for the proprietary advantage of agents?
When are Celtic going to come clean to their fans about this secret investment?
And when are they going to come clean with the English football authorities?

Of course, all the shenanigans in Scottish football in recent years have shown scant regard for the other Scottish clubs and their fans and recent ownership regimes at SEVCO have been undertaking cyclical systemic asset-stripping of the club while Celtic have not even consulted the fans over how they might feel about travelling to Exeter City, Gillingham and Brighton for away matches if this turns out to be the future of the club.

The fans don't matter at all.

If these machinations succeed, what will remain of Scottish football?
Semi-professional games played to the benefit of whichever bookmaker is currently sponsoring the charade?

From the Lisbon Lions...
... to this shoddy state of affairs.
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The Sting
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SNITCHING Veintiseis

February 3, 2016, 12:35 am

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THE STORY OF SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION IN PREMIER LEAGUE JUST GETS BIGGER AND BIGGER

What does the reprobate above know about systemic matchfixing in the Premier League?

Why was Ian Livingston (then CEO of BT) elevated to the House of Lords at launch of BT Sport when just 48 years old?

What hidden strategies were undertaken by Baron Livingston of Parkhead when Minister of State for Trade and Investment?

Why did the reprobate above make a donation of £3 million to train Chinese football coaches?

What does David "the Right Thing" Cameron know about all this?

Why was Sun Jihai installed in the National Football Museum Hall of Fame?

What role have board members of the major Scottish football club played in the systemic corruption of Premier League matches?

Why was Baron Livingston made Minister of State for Trade and Investment when he still possessed £20 million of shares in BT?

What steps did David "the Right Thing" Cameron take to avoid conflicts of interest when the Baron oversaw the sector in which he owned such a quantity of shares?

The share price of BT rose 26% in the 17 months while the Baron was Minister of State having risen by only 11% in the previous six-and-a-half years. How?

Why has Baron Livingston of Parkhead's Wikipedia page been intriguingly adjusted this morning (following publication of this post)?

Why does Baron Livingston hate the poor?

http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/

We've been handed some documents :)
Files and all the usual goodies...

Psycho Terrorist Link on Tiraspol Server
Download - Back up - Multi-Locational Store

This post was originally published on our blog Synonymous http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/

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Obscene Poets & Carnal Pimps: Playboy Goes Class War

October 24, 2019, 3:02 am

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We exist in a hyperreal porn circus with Blojo the Clown and Demonic Cums the ringmasters as, via a continuum of Eton lies and transparent short-termist strategy (more Looby Loo than Sun Tzu) they seek to convert the UK into Singapore-on-Thames, to continue in their neoliberal quest to financialise everything by stripping out the reality for private profit...
... in effect, Blojo and Demonic are building a fascistic mafia state.

And look at the fucking state of it - the UK, this narcissistic nation taking selfies of its demise while living in Zizekian end times.
How liberating!

But only death is liberation...
... as we all know.

Ever since Thatcherite neoconservatives took to shafting workers, all we've ever had in the UK is class warfare from an elite.

Regressive taxation, erosion of employment, accommodation and most other rights, the financialisation of whole swathes of the economy for the proprietary gains of masons and mafia...
... illicit insider gains lightly taxed fostering extreme inequality.

And, as working class industry across the North and Midlands, Scotland, Wales and the Six Counties was decimated by neocon spite, the acquiescent bourgeoisie were coddled in their narcissism and identity politics and -isms blind to this disenfranchisement of a whole section of society...
... a section which, quite reasonably, became totally pissed off.

State strategists faced with the option of fascism or Socialism always choose the nazis as it is less damaging to their financialisation processes and more easily consumed into future disaster capitalism templates - even the cosy Guardian now prefers systemic corruption and a hard-right fascistic government to a Socialist one.
And when did the BBC become an apologist for alt-right shitfuckery?

So Brexit is the cry but not a Brexit of workers' rights, an escape from a misfunctioning union and the addressing of man-made climate disaster but a Brexit based on fuckwit racism, pseudo Yaxley-Lennon xenophobic cowardice and, crucially, excrutiating shit-panting fear.

Why are fascists so fucking frightened?

Anyway.

Blojo the Clown doesn't care about workers' rights which is why his latest deceitful Bill targets the poor.
And the EU doesn't care about workers' rights which is why they are happy with Blojo's Bill.
Blairite sections of the Labour Party don't care about workers' rights for careerist reasons and because they are collectively flimsy - they are like those rubber beach sandles with holes in them.
I hate them.
The centre-right of the Tory party (otherwise known as the Lib-Dems) don't care about anything at all as demonstrated by their historical support for the privatisation of the NHS and their collective abstention on voting on excluding the NHS from future US-UK trade talks late last night.

The problem isn't Poles or Islam.
Grow up.
The problem is the elite, the state, a collection of states.

We had an election on whether to try to reform the EU from within or from without.
We selected without.

So let's protect ourselves in this brave new world by ensuring that workers' rights are at the core of our new neohyperreality and let's get these rights enshrined in law...
... now.

We don't want chlorinated chicken, an arms industry to be proud of, insider trading, rentiers, fixed football and the whitewashing of war criminals like Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell.

We want social living for the 99%...
... not psychopathic abuse from the 1% like Cums and Blojo.

Only Socialism will protect workers against this class war of our rulers.

Jeremy Corbyn for PM.

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February 3, 2016, 12:35 am

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INTERNAL DOCUMENT - Alastair Campbell And The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum

October 18, 2019, 1:29 am

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1. How the Football is Fixed Network have compressed the insider trading on matchfixing linked to Brighton and Hove Albion and Leicester City.

2. The Colquhoun Recordings - Entirely transferred to Dropbox. Ready to go.

3. The Guardian newspaper and Unique Sports Management agents (see 2).

4. The full extent of the fixture bias is only surface-skimmed in the latest primary level linear analytics from MCFC over xmas fixtures - a cynic might suggest that research and knowledge is withheld from oversight of the upper hierarchies.

The EPL fixture list is marginally gained and iceberged for optimisation of bias.

5. Using enhanced machine learning AI to crumple cryptography; how to analyse aliases (and just one known password) for all entity passwords - a paper by █████ █████

6. And a big Football is Fixed welcome to referees █████, █████, █████, █████, █████.

7. War criminal Alastair Campbell to be given role at EPL under Skipwith? - what we've been told....

8. Sheffield United, Key Sports Management, the 'aborted takeovers' of Oxford United and Northampton Town and stuff like that...

9. Deliberate abuse of VAR by sub-standard match officials continues this weekend - Michael Oliver is VAR official for both televised games on Saturday. The only other occasion anywhere in football where a VAR official has controlled two tv games in one day was when Oliver oversaw Southampton v Man Utd and Burnley v Liverpool earlier this season.

Oliver is fake and the PGMOB is criminalised - on both dates, the entire afternoon of matches has been ruined by a crazy array of mad match decisions orchestrated by VAR.

Is this to be a future feature of the spectacle?

VAR works..
... the PGMOB doesn't.

10. Strategy Plays A Head (Sick)

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Obscene Poets & Carnal Pimps: Playboy Goes Class War

October 24, 2019, 3:02 am

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Unless a Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn is elected, it is the very end of any integrity in UK football - the sport will continue its decline towards a betting medium for insider traders supported by a mafia state and media.

Vote Labour to stop Football being Fixed.

We exist in a hyperreal porn circus with Blojo the Clown and Demonic Cums the ringmasters as, via a continuum of Eton lies and transparent short-termist strategy (more Looby Loo than Sun Tzu) they seek to convert the UK into Singapore-on-Thames, to continue in their neoliberal quest to financialise everything by stripping out the reality for private profit...
... in effect, Blojo and Demonic are building a fascistic mafia state.

And look at the fucking state of it - the UK, this narcissistic nation taking selfies of its demise while living in Zizekian end times.
How liberating!

But only death is liberation...
... as we all know.

Ever since Thatcherite neoconservatives took to shafting workers, all we've ever had in the UK is class warfare from an elite.

Regressive taxation, erosion of employment, accommodation and most other rights, the financialisation of whole swathes of the economy for the proprietary gains of masons and mafia...
... illicit insider gains lightly taxed fostering extreme inequality.

And, as working class industry across the North and Midlands, Scotland, Wales and the Six Counties was decimated by neocon spite, the acquiescent bourgeoisie were coddled in their narcissism and identity politics and -isms blind to this disenfranchisement of a whole section of society...
... a section which, quite reasonably, became totally pissed off.

State strategists faced with the option of fascism or Socialism always choose the nazis as it is less damaging to their financialisation processes and more easily consumed into future disaster capitalism templates - even the cosy Guardian now prefers systemic corruption and a hard-right fascistic government to a Socialist one.
And when did the BBC become an apologist for alt-right shitfuckery?

So Brexit is the cry but not a Brexit of workers' rights, an escape from a misfunctioning union and the addressing of man-made climate disaster but a Brexit based on fuckwit racism, pseudo Yaxley-Lennon xenophobic cowardice and, crucially, excrutiating shit-panting fear.

Why are fascists so fucking frightened?

Anyway.

Blojo the Clown doesn't care about workers' rights which is why his latest deceitful Bill targets the poor.
And the EU doesn't care about workers' rights which is why they are happy with Blojo's Bill.
Blairite sections of the Labour Party don't care about workers' rights for careerist reasons and because they are collectively flimsy - they are like those rubber beach sandles with holes in them.
I hate them.
The centre-right of the Tory party (otherwise known as the Lib-Dems) don't care about anything at all as demonstrated by their historical support for the privatisation of the NHS and their collective abstention on voting on excluding the NHS from future US-UK trade talks late last night.

The problem isn't Poles or Islam.
Grow up.
The problem is the elite, the state, a collection of states.

We had an election on whether to try to reform the EU from within or from without.
We selected without.

So let's protect ourselves in this brave new world by ensuring that workers' rights are at the core of our new neohyperreality and let's get these rights enshrined in law...
... now.

We don't want chlorinated chicken, an arms industry to be proud of, insider trading, rentiers, fixed football and the whitewashing of war criminals like Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell.

We want social living for the 99%...
... not psychopathic abuse from the 1% like Cums and Blojo.

Only Socialism will protect workers against this class war of our rulers.

Jeremy Corbyn for PM.

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INTERNAL DOCUMENT - Manchester City Leaks & Mafia Murders & Cartelised Corruption

October 25, 2019, 11:51 pm

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"There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate".

Daphne Caruana Galizia's last tweet before she was murdered in a car bomb by mafia state operatives in Malta - it is worthy of note that much of the corruption underpinning UK football also cesspits in Malta - the crime island.

1. We expose the 'relationship' between Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell and Gavin Fleig (Director of Talent Management and Development at Manchester City) and their private meetings and the resultant leakages to John Colquhoun.

2. Tomorrow it will be a year since the ~~death~~ murder of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in a helicopter crash after the fixed EPL game between Leicester City and West Ham United.

How nice for the club to celebrate this anniversary with last night's heavily fixed Southampton 0 Leicester City 9 farce where former Colquhoun client Ryan Bertrand was sent off in the 12th minute by a Mike Dean VAR incursion..

The questions remain -

a) Who disconnected the helicopter pedal mechanism or, alternatively, how did the pedal mechanism disconnect itself?

b) Why were betting market makers who had been running Leicester City matches since prior to the EPL title season suddenly cut out of match control just prior to the crash?

c) How significant is it that █████ based bookmaker █████ regained control of Leicester events in the immediate aftermath of the murder only to relinquish when investigations circled?

d) On the Kerkyra server we include evidences regarding the Brendan Rodgers/John Colquhoun coup of stealing the former from Celtic.

And why do Celtic supporters put up with former player Colquhoun raping the club for illicit profits?

and

e) most pertinently, Who Killed Cock Robin?

3. The █████ █████ papers are also now available in Kerkyra where we detail the increasingly inappropriate links between corruption in the UK and Bundesliga in Germany (with particular focus on █████ and the matchfixing of Champions League and Europa League matches).

For Network Access - See New Kerkyra Server

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The Football is Fixed Network is unique.
We are in a niche of one.
We have no competitors.
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Obscene Poets & Carnal Pimps: Plump Playboy Does Class War

October 29, 2019, 5:18 am

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Unless a Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn is elected, it is the very end of any integrity in UK football - the sport will continue its decline towards a betting medium for insider traders supported by a mafia state and media.

The free market with minimal regulation is destroying football.

Vote Labour to stop Football being Fixed.
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We exist in a hyperreal porn circus with Blojo the Clown and Demonic Cums the ringmasters as, via a continuum of Eton lies and transparent short-termist strategy (more Looby Loo than Sun Tzu) they seek to convert the UK into Singapore-on-Thames, to continue in their neoliberal quest to financialise everything by stripping out the reality for private profit...
... in effect, Blojo and Demonic are building a fascistic mafia state.

And look at the fucking state of it - the UK, this narcissistic nation taking selfies of its demise while living in Zizekian end times.
How liberating!

But only death is liberation...
... as we all know.

Ever since Thatcherite neoconservatives took to shafting workers, all we've ever had in the UK is class warfare from an elite.

Regressive taxation, erosion of employment, accommodation and most other rights, the financialisation of whole swathes of the economy for the proprietary gains of masons and mafia...
... illicit insider gains lightly taxed fostering extreme inequality.

And, as working class industry across the North and Midlands, Scotland, Wales and the Six Counties was decimated by neocon spite, the acquiescent bourgeoisie were coddled in their narcissism and identity politics and -isms blind to this disenfranchisement of a whole section of society...
... a section which, quite reasonably, became totally pissed off.

State strategists faced with the option of fascism or Socialism always choose the nazis as it is less damaging to their financialisation processes and more easily consumed into future disaster capitalism templates - even the cosy Guardian now prefers systemic corruption and a hard-right fascistic government to a Socialist one.
And when did the BBC become an apologist for alt-right shitfuckery?

So Brexit is the cry but not a Brexit of workers' rights, an escape from a misfunctioning union and the addressing of man-made climate disaster but a Brexit based on fuckwit racism, pseudo Yaxley-Lennon xenophobic cowardice and, crucially, excrutiating shit-panting fear.

Why are fascists so fucking frightened?

Anyway.

Blojo the Clown doesn't care about workers' rights which is why his latest deceitful Bill targets the poor.
And the EU doesn't care about workers' rights which is why they are happy with Blojo's Bill.
Blairite sections of the Labour Party don't care about workers' rights for careerist reasons and because they are collectively flimsy - they are like those rubber beach sandles with holes in them.
I hate them.
The centre-right of the Tory party (otherwise known as the Lib-Dems) don't care about anything at all as demonstrated by their historical support for the privatisation of the NHS and their collective abstention on voting on excluding the NHS from future US-UK trade talks last week.

The problem isn't Poles or Islam.
Grow up.
The problem is the elite, the state, a collection of states.

We had an election on whether to try to reform the EU from within or from without.
We selected without.

So let's protect ourselves in this brave new world by ensuring that workers' rights are at the core of our new neohyperreality and let's get these rights enshrined in law...
... now.

We don't want chlorinated chicken, an arms industry to be proud of, insider trading, rentiers, fixed football and the whitewashing of war criminals like Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell.

We want social living for the 99%...
... not psychopathic abuse from the 1% like Cums and Blojo.

Only Socialism will protect workers against this class war of our rulers.

Jeremy Corbyn for PM.

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How To Solve Match Fixing Once And For All

December 13, 2013, 3:38 am

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Yesterday, Liberal Democrat MP Sir Bob Russell said that English professional football is "rotten to the core" and that a Royal Commission is required to clean up football with "parasitic agents" being the major problem.

If any such Royal Commission is to work then it will need to thoroughly address the six points outlined below.
Otherwise the game is up.

Also yesterday, UEFA announced that they are drafting an 11-point plan aimed to eradicate match-fixing, labelling it their 'top priority'.

Unfortunately, skimming over the pitch put forward by the aptly named UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino, we can only expect peripheral tinkering akin to that achieved by the British government's select committee who reported last summer.
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On Tuesday night, there was a highly suspicious match between FC Bayern and Manchester City in the UEFA Champions League (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/was-fc-bayern-versus-manchester-city-fix.html) (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-fixing-of-champions-league-games.html).

We may be polemical but there is evidently a case to be answered here.
This is a suspicious event between the Champions League holders and the richest club in the world!
And media silence.

Instead UEFA claim only 0.7% of matches are fixed and the mainstream media in Britain focuses on Whitehawk FC and DJ Campbell.

Infantino also indicated that UEFA want to strengthen the links between sports authorities and state bodies but this is a structure that can backfire dependent on who represents the state - there are many countries where state interference would only serve to increase the corruption.

We are employed by clubs as leech consultants.
We protect clubs against systemic and particular corruptions against their interests.
We analyse the zeitgeist of corruption.

To us, the most astonishing aspect of the match fixing 'crisis' is that when we have seen that government, the mainstream media, investment banking, the police, retail banks, the utilities, many other sports are all corrupted, there is this religious belief that, somehow, top level football is not tainted.
Football has taken over from religion - everybody is 'Something FC 'til I Die'.
And we don't want our New Deity to be killed off just yet.

But if football really wants to save itself from the neohyperrealities of the present systemic corruptions, it needs to implement every single one of the points below in their entirety.

No pseudo-11 point plan but an overhaul of an entirely corrupt mechanism from top to bottom.
But starting at the top.

DJ Campbell Is Innocent!
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1. The Betting Markets and Insider Trading

The primary concern are the global betting markets.
There are three levels of market activity - the public markets, the Dark Pools and the illegal underground markets based largely but not exclusively in South East Asia.

With a global network of this type, there has to be global regulation with jail sentences and life bans for miscreants.
The global betting market turnover on football is thought to have reached £1 trillion.
£1 trillion is over 50% of the Britain's annual GDP!!

All markets must be public.
All trading by insiders must be registered with a Commitment of Traders body to prevent inside knowledge being exploited.
All players, referees, agents, managers should be banned from betting entirely.
All suspicious betting must be reported to forensic analysts to detect fraudulent behaviour - the current level of expertise exhibited by Early Warning, Interpol/ Europol etc is not professional enough (we are able to detect insider betting and match fixing in many more games than 0.7%!!).
All spot-markets should be banned.
All Dark Pool activity must be regulated and made public, the same with the Asian underground and the developing undergrounds in Dubai, the Caribbean, numerous British offshore territories, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Tbilisi, Nigeria, Australia, the US and Canada, Brazil, Mumbai etc.

2. Agents and the Markets

Every single football agent that I have ever met has been criminalised!

Agents are a lubricant in the game and, in addition to leeching money from the sport, they facilitate corruptions relating to both the betting markets and the transfer markets.

Ownership of goalkeepers, linkage with referees (see below), multiple ownership of players in a game, even more extensive multiple ownership via linkage with other agents in a fragmented cartel of illicit match fixing and betting market activity.
Accordingly agents not only distort, corrupt and profit from the betting markets that they exploit, they degenerate the sport and impact upon trophies being won and relegations/ promotions etc.
The careers of players are also affected by these corruptions and the fan is forced to watch events where the outcome is clearly visible in underground betting markets pre-match!

Agents corrupt Champions League games at the highest level and yet UEFA do nothing.

Agents also, as is their wont, exploit the transfer market via 3rd party ownership.

There is no regulation for agents.
And no regulation or self-regulation is pointless.
Agents distort every single aspect of the sport and often utilise business practices that border on the slave trade when it comes to footballers from Africa and certain South and Central American countries.
Coercion of players relating to the betting markets is a major issue.
Additionally, under the table payments are the norm and ownership networks are structured similarly to the Tor proxy server concept!

Agents must be regulated.

3. Club Owners

Surely it is asking for trouble if club owners double as bookmakers.

There will inevitably be occasions when the financial self-interest of Mr Bet 365 The Bookmaker will trump the interests of Mr Bet 365 The Football Club (Stoke City) - the only issue is whether such self-interest is implemented.
Additionally, this incentive to fix can result in club owners stopping their own teams from winning to the absolute detriment of the fans who are paying the wages and the integrity of the game.

All club ownership should be open rather than underground and opaque.
Fit and proper persons rulings should be robust and thoroughly implemented - the Championship in England is a veritable Hotch Potch of Inappropriates when it comes to club ownership...
... and the Premier League is only marginally better.

4. Referees

Referees are an issue.
Relatively underpaid in a millionaire's paradise, they are ripe for corruption.

Referees are chosen from too small a pool (only 18 for the Premier League - the most liquid betting market on the planet, for example) and have very long careers.
Market ownership of a referee is a big earner for both parties.
Referees are additionally 'owned' by other participants in the game - clubs, mafia, even UEFA chooses referees relating to its own annual marketing plan AND the importance of allegiance to the G14(18) power base of clubs.

If referees were selected meritocratically then corruption from this source would be harder to implement.
To this end, the ratings of referees need to be made public and the implementation of video technology (see next point) will enable 'under-achievers' to be rooted out and discarded.

5. Video Technology

It is more critical for football to have video technology than cricket, tennis or rugby yet the authorities refuse to introduce anything more than goalline technology. Why?

An incorrect wicket in cricket, line call in tennis or try in rugby is rarely match changing yet those sports guard against such occurrences by using technology ...
... in football a goal or a penalty or a sending off very frequently is a match changing event and yet we have virtually nothing.

Up to 40 wickets in a Test Match, 240 points in a tennis match, half a dozen tries in a game of rugby...
... and one goal.

Furthermore, because professional footballers are well aware of the corruptions taking place, once a referee signals his intent, there is a psychological deflation in the victim team.

The most striking aspect of watching cricket or rugby is how fan conversation always relates to the game itself due to the utilisation of video technology for virtually all contentious decisions.
This serves to produce the correct result, massively reduce corruption and act as a measurement of performance of referees and umpires.

The argument that it would slow down the game is fatuous.

It would add excitement if marketed correctly.
UEFA and the Premier League would be able to bombard us with messages from their media partners while we waited to see if it is a penalty or not!

6. Whistleblowing Hotline

When we have meetings with administrative bodies, chief executives, football managers, club owners, analysts, bookmakers, many fans, there is acceptance that football is corrupt but that nobody is going to do anything about it due to both financial self-interest and fear.

Remember Mike Newell? He soon disappeared from the game!

A global whistleblowing hotline needs to be set up to allow knowledge of match fixing to be made available to the various bodies that will need to be established for Points 1-5 to be achieved.
This must be anonymous and rewarded.
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People like ourselves who receive threats and menaces due to their efforts to expose football that is "riddled with corruption" need to be protected.

The sport is flooded with mafiosi interests - at the moment, I am enjoying extensive conversations with a contact over the role of Serbian mafia in Italian and Serbian football and the role of Albanian mafia in the Austrian game.

But such groups are only able to exploit the integrity of football due to an entire lack of regulation in many areas and loopholes elsewhere.
If FIFA and UEFA eliminated these distortions, we could have betting markets on a level playing field and football would not be fixed.

We are taking serious existential risks to disclose these neohyperrealities of modern football.

THIS IS NOT HOW IT SHOULD BE.

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The Ongoing Takeover Of British Football By The New Global Financial Capitalist Elite

August 19, 2014, 2:01 am

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One of the most striking features of football in recent times has been the takeover of leading clubs by investors who would not appear, on the surface, to have any real interest in the business of football.

Consequently, the wave of American takeovers of clubs like Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, Sunderland and Aston Villa is the subject of this post.

In the eyes of this particular new breed of owners, it is no longer necessary to win titles and trophies.
The creation of short term cash is everything.
If competitions can be won as well then this is fine and dandy but club performance on the field is always secondary to financial achievement off of it.

This puts such owners at odds with the fans.

Dr Jack Rasmus: "The [global financial capitalist] elite are deepening their control of non-financial companies and are increasingly directing those companies toward profits growth from financial manipulation as the primary corporate activity... Instead of making profits by making real things that require real investment and employ real people, the focus of global capitalism is increasingly toward more financial asset investment."

Thus real profit is being surpassed by generating forms of money capital as profit.

It is the US that is behind the majority of this activity.

Financial gains may be 'created' by manipulation of the US tax code through the utilisation of 'inversion' capitalism and, additionally, shadow bankers and their financial speculators also markedly gain from the structure.
Even greater gains come from financial speculation that benefit other investors, major shareholders and senior management.
Rasmus: "Lower taxes for the US corporation from the inversion means more retained corporate cash on hand, and the prospect of more future earnings as well, all of which in turn drives up the company’s stock price. That makes the company even more attractive to investors like hedge funds and equity firms, which buy up big blocks of both the purchasing and purchased companies’ stock. Banks and shadow bankers that jump into the process at the outset, buying up company stock in the process, also provide original funding for the company’s purchase. Others jump into the stock as the acquisition deal proceeds. Once concluded, early and latecomers both then reap a nice capital gain from the eventual stock price appreciation that almost always follows the deal... So all levels of financial speculators benefit from these ‘inversion’ deals—shadow bank investors, hedge fund managers, big stockholders, and top corporate managers with significant stock holdings and compensation—all realise big capital gains from stock price manipulation that is at the core of tax inversion deals. Again, it is not just about tax avoidance; it is about stock price manipulation and huge capital gains."

Taking Manchester United as our primary example.
The leveraged buyout by the Glazers imposed significant annual interest repayments on the club.
This outflow of tens of millions of pounds annually prevents significant reinvestment in the transfer market with the club being restricted to players in the £20-35m strata as opposed to the level of players being purchased by Real Madrid or Barcelona, for example.
Ronaldo out...
... Fellaini in!

Additionally transfer activity is delayed in a brinksmanship fashion to produce the maximum benefit to short term cash flow. Last season this resulted in the majority of transfer targets failing by end of transfer window and there is now pressure on Ed Woodward to make the necessary purchases this season.
Many of these targets will not arrive as the selling club will price their assets according to Man Utd's 'need'.

But, to the Glazers, Manchester United's failure to purchase star players, land the title, win any trophies, qualify for Champions League or Europa League is entirely trumped by the £750m 10 year Adidas deal that produces lots and lots of cash.

Other takeovers are of even more questionable integrity due to the owners' interests in betting markets.
In these cases, the generation of cash by match manipulation frequently competes with integrity on the pitch.

Inversion capitalism is the lovechild of private equity where short term profits were generated by taking over a company, asset stripping its value and selling on the shell at a significant profit.
Indeed, inversion deals are merely a slightly longer term version of private equity on a global stage.

And there are now copycat structures popping up all over the British game.

If you apply the above template to Celtic, for example, many of the same bullet points appear.

The selling of players at significant profit (Wanyama, Forster, Hooper, McGeady, Ki, Ledley, Wilson and Watt bringing in £40m gain to the club) without the necessary reinvestment or the strategy of bringing in numerous players on loan without any capital outlay (or future profits). Or club loyalty.
Refusal to invest for Champions League progression as the financial returns of such investment are uncertain.
Satisfaction with winning SPL ad finitum rather than strategic planning towards the future European Super League as these potential profits are too far into the future for short-termist thinkers.
The scheduling of pointless pre-season friendlies all around Europe for financial gains rather than developing a sense of 'home' at Murrayfield during period that Parkhead was hired out for profit. If Legia Warszawa hadn't messed up, this season would be over already in a footballing sense.
Low wage, minimum wage, living wage issues at the bottom of the club hierarchy.
The linkage to criminalised agents of highly questionable integrity both with regard to transfer markets and betting markets.

There are numerous other modular structures to serve the same or similar ends - the Abramovich Trophy Club Model, the Carson Yeung/ Thaksin Shinawatra Asian Betting Market Model, the Dubai/Mumbai Betting Market Model, the Abu Dhabi Global Franchise Model, the Real Madrid/Gestifute Model, the ADO Den Haag/United Vansen Model, the Leeds United Model MkI, II and III, the Bet365/Stoke City Model, the Stellar Agents Model, the John Colquhoun/Jonathan Moss Model as well as varieties of Sevco Self-Harming Models.

None of these capitalist matrices have the interests of the particular club at heart.
All are geared to the short term financial gains of a criminalised global finance capitalist elite.

But, what the hell do we care?

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State Of The (Football) Nation

September 21, 2014, 11:09 pm

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Matchfixing corrupts.
Absolute matchfixing corrupts absolutely.

From the mid-nineties onwards, the Asian underground markets exercised total control over English football.
In the last four years, that control has been grasped by a cartel of inappropriates from the UK and its offshore territories.
Neither of these structures is to the benefit of football.
Both create corruption.

There are referees working with bookmakers and agents to manufacture match outcomes to the financial benefit of their insider trading.
There are titles and trophies determined entirely by corruption.
There are managers taking backhanders from agents to pick their clients to mutual benefit.
There are bookmakers who own football clubs and who utilise this control to fix matches.
There are individuals within the PGMOL who liaise with criminals and matchfixers in the selection of referees.
There are individuals passing the fit and proper persons test that are entirely unfit and entirely improper.
There are crime syndicates and mafia groups who takeover football clubs for fraud, money laundering and matchfixing.
There are fragmented cartels of football agents who pool their players on the pitch to land huge insider gambles.
There are broadsheet, tabloid and tv journalists who lubricate these corruptions via public relations abuses posing as journalism.
There are bookmakers who accept insider trading and matchfixing as such knowledge is regarded as preferential information in the corrupted marketplace.
There are numerous individuals throughout the game who utilise threats, menaces and coercion as standard business practice.
There are betting patterns that link these corruptions with their perpetrators.
There are administrators who facilitate these corruptions in support of their belief in laissez faire capitalism,
There are many bookmakers who refuse to pay out winnings.
There are rewards for historical matchfixing and corruptions with a career in media providing disinformation to fans.
There are rampant abuses of third party ownership by agents which frequently borders on a slave trade.
There are widespread abuses of performance enhancing substances (and their related masking agents).
There are a whole array of under the table payments where tax is avoided (either by bungs or the selling of inside information etc).
There are networks of individuals illegally hacking IT systems in search of valuable information.
There are numerous examples of referees (and other peripherals) whose wealth is not explained by their legitimate earnings.
There are a cabal of mainstream television media who accommodate matchfixing and corruption.
There are more criminalised goalkeepers in English football than any other primary territory in Europe.
There are no regulations or governmental action preventing these corruptions.
There are fortunes being made at the expense of the integrity of the game.

English football is systemically corrupt...
... and extensively corrupt in the particular.

We have access via our consultancies to the betting patterns on these events.
And for many dubious penalties/sendings off, for example, there are equivalent betting sources and patterns ensuring profits for the criminals.

Think on this the next time you witness refereeing, goalkeeping, media or bookmaker inputs that appear at odds with the integrity of the game.

Oh, and here is a photo of John Colquhoun.

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Who Regulates The Regulators?

December 14, 2014, 12:06 am

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The Ponzi pyramid of self-justification that underpins all free market structures is always a part of the problem rather than a part of the cure.

Who guards the guardians?
Who governs the governors?
Who moderates the moderators?
Who regulates the regulators?

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is not fit for purpose.
Nine out of 12 board members were simply parachuted across from the board of the disbanded Financial Services Authority (FSA) - that's the FSA that failed to suitably regulate the banks prior to and during the 2007/08 crash.
The FSA's regulatory style was so light touch as to be reiki.
Reiki regulation!

The FSA was a prime example of regulatory capture - a form of political corruption that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.

In response, the FCA must be seen to be regulating with the utmost integrity.
Some hope.
Bizarrely, the FCA created a false market in major insurers' shares after botching a press briefing - the share prices of major insurers plunged after the Telegraph published the story.
A 225 page report released this week goes further: "The strategy and manner in which [the media strategy] was pursued was... high risk, poorly supervised and inadequately controlled. When it went wrong, the FCA's reaction was seriously inadequate and fell short of the standards expected of those it regulates."
The regulator tilted the markets!

And the FCA response is to repay some executive bonuses received in an extended window of self-justification and to immediately rush out a long delayed report into the mis-selling of annuities in a blatant display of exactly the sort of public relations and branding that regulatory bodies should not be in business of needing to undertake.

But similar structures are the norm - other recent examples include OFWAT mistakenly overestimating water companies' capital costs when setting price levels and then refusing to impose London Stock Exchange disclosure requirements on non-stock market listed companies, or PricewaterhouseCoopers selling tax avoidance on an industrial scale with the strategy only coming to public knowledge via internal leaks.

Why is it nearly always whistleblowers and (Wiki)leakers but very rarely regulatory bodies and institutional self-policing that reveal the financial miscreants?.

The big picture is one of pure Randian psychopathy - there's minimal red tape to act as an obstacle for the steady flow of sociopathic outsiders to join the psychopathic insiders as cowboy capitalism races to the bottom of its barrel...
... but in the world of football, the situation is worse - neo-Randian!.

Nothing is regulated on any primary level of operation and there are supportive and corrupted flow networks integrated globally to prevent any hope of integrity rearing its head.

All six of the primary bodies allegedly looking into football integrity and matchfixing are compromised in their purpose via their ownership.
Indeed, in certain cases, a more motley crew of interested parties could not have been created even if one had set out explicitly with such purpose!
Fragmented cartels of corruption!

Football governance verges on the non-existent and, even at best, is merely a branding and self-justification process.

Certain entities and structures are systemically corrupt...
... in fact, I'll rewrite that sentence - there are very few bodies and networks in global football that are not systemically corrupt!
Regulation is invisible or malleable self-regulation that equates to no regulation at all - agents, dark pools, betting markets, insider trading, matchfixing, money laundering, third party ownership, mainstream media compliance in a restricted narrative while, once again, whistleblowers and (Wiki)leakers expose, bottom-up, what any decent system would implement top-down.

Inversion capitalism - asset stripping and financial profiteering from the monetising of a brand, tax avoidance and evasion, antisocial competition practices with minimal regulation (for self-justification), alongside state punishment for 5th Estate types who get in the way - the Obama administration has started more prosecutions against whistleblowers than all presidents combined over the last century.
20 whistleblowers have been murdered in India in the last five years.

And the corrupt operations in the distorted infrastructures attract disproportionate investment as investors understand that increased returns are gained by psychopathic control in a lightly regulated marketplace, compounding up the cycles of corruption over time.

FIFA, the FCA, UEFA, PwC, the Premier League, Barclays, the Glazers, the FA Sports Betting Integrity Unit, Gestifute, Goldman Sachs, all these oil companies from interesting geopolitical locations that are buying up British football teams, private equity, dark pools, the control of whistleblowing bodies by those who should be whistleblown, derivatives markets, offshore financial centres and markets, NGO-lite structures etc - pure neo-Bayesian corruption entities beyond the reach of any economic theory as such theory may only be reactive to this juggernaut of inversion free-marketry where there are no rules.

Who regulates the regulators?

And why don't regulators regulate?

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The Impact Of Extreme Financial Distortions On The Integrity Of British Football

February 12, 2015, 4:01 am

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Britain's Annual GDP = £1.77 trillion.

Estimated Annual Global Betting Turnover on Football = £1 trillion.

New Premier League TV deal covering three seasons = £5.1 billion.

Average Global Betting Turnover on a Big 4 Premier League game = £5.0 billion.

Manchester United Market Capitalisation = £2.8 billion.

Premier League Annual Agents' Fees = £115 million.

Maximum Trade allowed in Asian Underground Markets = £25 million.

Wayne Rooney's Annual Earnings = £12 million.

Richard Scudamore's Annual Earnings = £2 million.

Premier League Referee Annual Earnings = £100,000.

Annual Minimum Wage Employees at Premier League Clubs = £12,000.
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In late capitalism, financial distortions within a sector define the corruptions available...
... and, unfortunately, everybody has a price.

For example, the fact that the new Premier League tv deal (covering 1140 games) is worth the equivalent of the total global trading volume on just one major Premier League game is indicative of absolute betting market control of the sector.

Or, the fact that 54 nation states have an annual GDP less than the new Premier League tv deal - Richard Scudamore runs a small country.

Or, the fact that the very lightly regulated global betting market has turnover equivalent to 56% of Britain's GDP is suggestive of the pressing need for far more onerous regulation.

Or, the fact that most bookmaking entities are linked to Offshore Financial Centres guaranteeing tax evasion and money laundering.

Or, the fact that referees on £2,000 per week are determining match outcomes on £5 billion markets resulting in an absolute certainty of matchfixing.

Or, if the market capitalisation of a club is exceeded by the betting turnover on just one of their matches then are we dealing with a football club or an inversion capital market medium?
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When such financial structures exist, the outcomes are warped beyond recognition and bear no resemblance to the reality underpinning the corrupted marketplaces - we are dealing with a hyperreality.

Take horseracing.
My thesis in the mid-nineties was entitled "The Impact of Conspicuous Money on Outcome in British Horserace Betting Markets".
Here we had 'sporting' events with prize money of £3,000 and betting turnover of £10 million - the distorted incentives produced extensive corruption and the fixing of races to the benefit of ALL insiders (bookies, owners, trainers, jockeys etc).

The corruption was orchestrated from the very top of the industry sector.

While at the Centre for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, I had discussions with Rodney Brack, the chief executive of the British Horseracing Levy Board (BHLB), where we openly discussed the mechanics of fixing a horserace - from non-trying jockeys to selected watering of courses etc etc etc.
Brack had no problem with these corruptions.

But horseracing is an internalised corrupted market of limited turnover whereas matchfixing in football is a truly transnational global affair.
This leads to an exponential increase in the levels of corruption.

The population at large has a real problem with corruption. There is a propensity to either assume that corruption exists but is acted upon by only a few bad apples or that everything is corrupt and that the only way to determine reality is by conspiracy theories.
Both are wrong.
Corruption in sport is extensive but not absolute.

And, the information and knowledge is out there if one cares to look.

Richard Murphy (Tax Justice Network) and Ian Fraser both knew about HSBC and tax avoidance/evasion in 2010 or earlier but there was minimal media interest and no action.
Or Phil Mac Giolla Bhain exposed the financial shenanigans at Glasgow Rangers years before the mainstream media eventually decided to pick up on the extensive corruptions and tax avoidance/evasion at the club.
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Entertainingly for the zeitgeist, income inequalities not only produce fraud, money laundering and tax evasion but also a far greater incentive for whistleblowers to confront and expose the criminalities at play.
Joseph Stiglitz claims that, in extremis, these wealth distortions create revolutionary paradigms partially due to the disconnect between the hyperrealities of the 1% and the' real' realities of the 99%.

And so it is in football.

We are largely unemployable in British football due to our 8 year whistleblowing campaign against corruption, matchfixing and fraud in the sport - no entity wants transparency.
But aside from the likes of ourselves, there are other individuals who are within the millionaire's paradise who feel thoroughly disenfranchised from the rewards on offer.
And there are others who, aware of the distortions in the sector, have a price where they will sell out on the corruption for personal gain.

The fulsome exposure of matchfixing, corruption, tax evasion, money laundering and fraud in British football is merely a matter of time.
And then everyone will say "why wasn't this exposed by mainstream media, regulators, institutions and government before now?"

Just as we are all now asking that same question about HSBC, HMRC, PwC, Barclays, RBS, the Murdochracy, Lehman Brothers, Enron etc etc etc ad nauseum.

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Mafia, Matchfixing, Money Laundering - The Beautiful Game

February 14, 2015, 4:10 am

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We were recently in discussions with a soon-to-be-launched body that will focus on illicit money flows and money laundering in relation to the football industry.
Such tax avoidance and evasion covers the betting markets, the transfer markets as well as non-fit and non-proper club ownership structures.

Our part in this project related to the betting markets.

So, as a piece of research, we decided to list all of the global betting territories and to link these locations with both club ownership loci and offshore financial centres (particularly looking at preferred routes of corruption).

With the mainstream media suddenly deciding to conclude that the vast majority of global banks are involved in tax avoidance via illicit money flows in a systemic failure of late capitalism, the time is ripe for addressing parallel tax issues in football.

From the shenanigans at the late Glasgow Rangers (who went into administration three years ago today - Happy Administration Day!) to the Leicester City manager, Nigel Pearson, poking Leicester City 'legend' Gary Lineker regarding his tax affairs to the 'mistake' by the HMRC which led to improperly prepared paperwork allowing Harry Redknapp off tax evasion charges, the zeitgeist of public perception of football corruption is changing.

The interesting aspect of the research undertaken is the robust linkage between club ownership locations, offshore financial centres, offshore bookmaking locations and a transglobal map of primary mafiosi locations.
The interplay between these four power loci is fascinating and very revealing.

Take AC Parma.
Having fallen from historical heights due to the Parmalat Scandal, the club were serially mismanaged under stewardship of Tommaso Ghirardi and director general Pietro Leonardi resulting in the takeover in 2014 by an Albanian businessmen - Rezart Taçi (CEO of Taçi Oil) fronting for a Cypriot-Russian group.

Under Ghirardi's watch, the Italian club had been thrown out of this year's UEFA Cup after having been found guilty of paying players at other clubs to perform appropriately.

There has been an array of very vivid matchfixing events at the club throughout this season culminating in the farcical fix between Parma and Chievo on Wednesday last.
And the money traded on these events surfaces in some rather interesting locations far from Italy - Gibraltar, Thailand, Russia, Philippines and Malta.

In December 2014, the club were docked a point for non-payment of wages and with the club about to be punished again for further non-payment, Taçi was discarded and the club brought in Ermir Kodra as president on January 23rd 2015 - Kodra worked at BKT Bank of Tirana and was director of marketing at the ARMO, the largest oil refinery in Albania.

He lasted just 17 days being replaced last Monday by Giampietro Manenti who has vowed to pay the wages and clean up the operation.
The fact that the Parma/Chievo fix occurred two days into Manenti's regime does not bode well.

Albanian mafia have been actively distorting outcomes in the Austrian Bundesliga over the last 12 months while Cyprus is a prime location for Russian money laundering and related matchfixing (particularly involving Cypriot clubs and those from the former Soviet diaspora). The threats of violence and actual violence with regard to referees has become endemic with the most recent issue seeing a bomb left outside home of the mother of referee Thomas Mouskoss.

This season saw a whole array of questionable matchfixing events in the Qualifying Phases of both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup related to this Russia-Cyprus axis.

AEL Limassol v Zenit St Petersburg, Budocnost Podgorica v Omonia Nicosia, Metalurg Skopje v Omonia Nicosia, Dinamo Moscow v Omonia Nicosia and Apollon Nicosia v Lokomotiv Moscow.

Of course, a question that needs to be asked is how so many Russian diaspora v Cypriot matches could 'randomly' be pulled out of the UEFA hat when the draws were made!

With the Cypriot-Russian group having sold their control earlier this month, it is only to be hoped that the new regime straightens things out.
The worrying aspect is that the investment group that are the new owners are anonymous.
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Below (and for our cellular network only), we draw our assessments of the illicit money flows relating to AC Parma, their ownership, the global betting markets and their related offshore financial centres.

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