"In effect, the English Premier League and the Scottish Premier League, via their respective control of the Football Association and the Scottish FA, are able to block all and any changes to the Laws of the Game with the support of just one other IFAB member." 

Yesterday, nicely buried away on a busy sporting Saturday, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) ruled out video technology in football until season 2018/19 at the earliest.
This is despite a very successful trial run by the Dutch FA (KNVB) at 24 Eredivisie matches last season and the support of Germany, the USA and certain elements at the FA in England.

The outcome simply means that we are guaranteed 3 and a half more years of rampant corruption without redress or regulation and we will argue that this decision is the death knell for the integrity (and success) of the game.
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IFAB

IFAB is an anachronism. Composed of 4 members from the FA's of England, Scotland, the North of Ireland and Wales plus a further four individuals selected from the other 205 associations, the body behaves like an old City of London club. To discuss and decide upon proposed alterations to the Laws of the Game requires 75% agreement which, in effect, means that the United Kingdom controls the rules of global football.
Furthermore, since 2003, Angel Maria Villar Llona, the Spanish FIFA vice-President and Chairman of the Referees' Committee, has been involved in IFAB meetings. It is surely of relevance to the whole discussion that Javier Tebas, the Spanish La Liga president, believes that some bodies wish to hide the reality of matchfixing. Speaking last October, Tebas said: "... there are also some important institutions that want to hide the problem. Our integrity department in La Liga, for example, last weekend detected match-fixing activity in the third division. We detected the problem and communicated it to the responsible authority, but they chose to hide it, probably because they don't want to recognise that this problem exists, even in the lower division."

It is surely worthy of note that certain representatives (or a majority thereof) can block any change at any time to any private agenda.

Dutch Experiment and Institutional Response

The Dutch trial involved a video referee addressing match decisions at 24 top flight games in 2013/14. The results were hugely encouraging resulting in gross chameleon Sepp Blatter changing his mind to be in favour of video technology on the eve of the 2014 World Cup Finals.
A colleague in Holland has stated that the referral system could be implemented within 15 seconds and would have removed all controversy from the matches trialled. The match outcome was real.
Other sports also successfully implement video technology without the fabric of the competitive event being blown apart - tennis, rugby league, rugby union, horseracing, athletics, cricket etc.
So why not football?
Which members of IFAB voted against the proposal?
Who stands to lose and gain from the delay?

Well, this last question is a suitable starting point.
The entities that gain from lack of video technology are, in no particular order of merit - UEFA, FIFA, the Premier League, corrupt referees, corrupt bookmakers, insider gamblers, underground criminalised betting markets, global mafiosi groups, corrupt football agents, dodgy committee men...
... while the losers are the fans, the integrity of the game, those within the sport outside the corrupt inner loops and, interestingly, the broadcasters who overpay for tv rights (see below).

UEFA president, Michel Platini, performed a U-turn on video technology due to the European body utilising grey corruption via match officials to offset the criminalities of matchfixing operations targeting UEFA events, the power base of the allegedly disbanded G14 group, the successful marketing of tournament spectacles and the critical nature of television money.
The latter two points also apply to FIFA although the inaction at the global body is more closely linked to the interests of those involved in matchfixing.

The Specifics of the Integrity Issue in English Premier League

The Premier League (EPL) and Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) do not want video technology in English football. Furthermore, they do not support the elements of the FA that are calling for the implementation.The EPL have been undermining the role of the national association since inception and reached a nadir when buffoon Sir Dave Richards performed as Scudamore's rottweiler destabiliser at the FA.

PGMOB referees earn around two grand a week for officiating on matches that can have global betting turnover of £5bn. The core group of PGMOB comprises just 15 individuals who officiate at nearly 95% of EPL matches (including all the high betting volume tv events) and are frequently present as 4th officials at other games. This structure is primed for corruption.
Additionally, one individual who hides in the shadows selects referees for all EPL games. One man!

Former leading refs Graham Poll and Keith Hackett have lacerated the current standard of PGMOB refs with the latter wanting Mike Riley removed from leadership of body and 5 officials stood down.
Hackett stated: "If [a manager] is at the bottom of the league then his job is at risk. At this moment in time he [Riley] is more than bottom. I am seeing a regression. The performances of the referees are not acceptable. He must carry the responsibility."

And the reaction to criticism of referees is Stalinist. Most managers (with honourable exceptions of Jose Mourinho and Steve Bruce) have learnt that it is preferable not to articulate concerns over refereeing integrity as the body politic merely dumps more negative controversy on managers who step out of the Stalin line.
Chelsea would have won the EPL last season if it had not been for the ludicrous spectacles at Villa Park and at home to Sunderland. The abuses have continued on into 2014/15 with even the most anti-Mourinho clone perceiving the injustices perpetrated against the London team.

The Stalinism continues with media silence, no interviews, hush money paid at end of referee's careers, no public ratings from internal assessments and generally no punishment for miscreants.
Additionally, since the beginning of season 2013/14, all match officials have been miked up to a secretive network which we will term the EPL Match Centre. All kick offs are coincident and referees are aided (or abetted) by other officials with access to tv replays. This results in numerous match decisions being delayed while a decision is made.

Three points.
Firstly, this is illegal under the Laws of the Game.
Secondly, to what template are the decisions being made if made under such secrecy?
Thirdly, the outcome is disastrous for the brand. The EPL is descending into fraudulent farce.

In a desperate attempt to keep fans on message, the mainstream media entirely ignores matchfixing in England despite journalists getting some of their leaks/stories from individuals who are orchestrating the matchfixing.
The tv pundits are worse!
Lee Dixon, Mark Lawrensen and Robbie Savage work for bookmakers, Danny Murphy is close to a matchfixing agent, Michael Owen used to be bookie for the England team (linked to Goldchip private bookmakers), Steve McManaman was a business associate of money laundering fraudster Carson Yeung and David James is, well, David James.

Impact of IFAB Decision on EPL Broadcasting Deals

The EPL tv deal for 2016/19 realised £5.1bn for British rights but as lawyer Daniel Geey points out the global broadcasting rights could be worth another £8bn.

These figures represent a financial market bubble - Sky is paying £11m per match in this window.
The price is being ratcheted up via the antisocial auction strategies of Sky Sports and BT Sports as they outbid one another to mutual oblivion. The inevitable increase in subscription prices will undermine the business model - in a 4 week window in January, BT Sport offered just one EPL game (Hull v Newcastle). This is absolutely not value for money particularly in a time of austerity.

Bubbles are dangerous when they form in an instant - so Manchester United received less (£60.8m) for winning EPL in 2012/13 than Cardiff City got for being relegated the following season (£62.1m).
Bubbles are even more dangerous when future rights' issues are being bid on the back of an already inflated bubble - a double bubble means double trouble.

As the performance of EPL teams in Champions League and Europa League shows, the bloated brand is bigger than the fundamental value by some marked distance.

Furthermore, the matchfixing in the EPL is the elephant in the room. When we speak to managers, chief execs, agents, administrators, the discussion always centres around matchfixing. The reality is bound to break at some point and then the value of the brand plummets as the IPL cricket monstrosity discovered.
And this is before one even considers the impact of the eventual European Super League for the G14+.

Conclusion

Who voted against video technology at IFAB meeting?
Why?

An interesting impact of the Dutch experiment last season was that the volatility of outcome would have diminished markedly if the video ref had been able to overrule the match referee. Think about that. The price set by the global marketplace on a game is more accurate once integrity is reintroduced via taking power away from the referee. We are preparing a research paper on this point as it is significant.

Meanwhile Jérôme Valcke, FIFA's secretary general, blurts "Is there a risk the referee will not be as strong as he is today?"

You know what, mate, nobody cares about a referee's sense of personal power.
What we demand is integrity in the sport we love.

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1. Introduction

Jean Baudrillard: "Today's violence, the violence produced by our hypermodernity, is terror."

The financialisation of inversion late capitalism is terroristic and destroys reality in favour of corruption, fraud, fakery, insider trading, regulatory capture, money laundering and irrational violence.

In sport, football is no longer football but has reached Baudrillard's 4th Phase of the Image where there are no linkages whatsoever between what plays out on our screens and the game which was once loved by fans the world over.

2. Spectacles of Violence

Heysel Disaster

Baudrillard: "The most striking thing about events such as those that took place at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels, in 1985, is not their violence per se but the way in which this violence was given worldwide currency by television, and in the process turned into a travesty of itself... A simulacrum of violence, emerging less from passion than from the screen: a violence in the nature of the image... So true is this that it is advisable not to be in a public place where television is operating, considering the high probability that its very presence will precipitate a violent event [the Boston Marathon, the murders at Port Said stadium, Hillsborough]."

Hillsborough Disaster

Neither Heysel nor Hillsborough were solely disasters. They were terroristic events. The institutional lies of the South Yorkshire police have produced 26 years of lack of closure for all those affected by the loss of 96 innocent lives at a football match (all under the real-time media gaze of television cameras left running to capture the unfolding tragedy). The Hillsborough Inquiry has heard that senior masonic officers met after the disaster to collate strategy with David Duckenfield, the police commander at the match, being made Grand Master of his lodge just one year on from the deaths - institutional terror rewarded with power on the square.
Baudrillard: "We are dealing, therefore, not with irrational episodes in the life of our society, but instead with something that is completely in accord with that society's accelerating plunge into the void... the diverted effects of a terrorism to which the state is in no way opposed."

Bradford City Fire Disaster

The relatives of the 56 football fans who died in the 1985 disaster at Valley Parade have thought for decades that the deaths of their loved ones were caused by a casually discarded cigarette igniting rubbish under a poorly maintained wooden stand. Yet author Martin Fletcher has recently revealed that Stafford Heginbotham, the club's then chairman, had alleged pyromaniacal tendencies - the Bradford City blaze being the ninth incidence of incendiary blaze at businesses owned by Heginbotham over a period of 18 years.
Having learned two days prior to the fire that the club would have to spend £2m to bring the ground up to the safety standards required for promotion, Heginbotham's series of coincidences beggar belief. And yet the Popplewell Inquiry found nothing untoward and a myth has been allowed to continue for three decades.
Insurance terror against one's own fans.

Blackpool Fans Anti-Oyston Protests  

 
                                 A Protesting Fan

By the seaside last weekend, Blackpool football fansbecame Baudrillardian in their continuing protests against the psychopathic Oyston family who are in the process of asset stripping the club to oblivion.
After the pitch was invaded, the match was abandoned and will not be replayed. There was no violence against the visiting Huddersfield Town supporters, no interference by police nor stewards and only a targeting of sociopath by supporter.
In a symbolic act of some consequence, the Oystons had the statue of Stan Mortensen removed prior to the planned Judgement Day protest and continue to exercise their power by suing fans for being fans.

If the Oystons are the bad guys in this media spectacle then the good guy is supposed to be Valeri Belokon, the president of the Seasiders. He is a Latvian banker whose former financial backer, Maxim Bakiyev, was a Kyrgyzstani warlord on the run from Interpol.

Quoting Baudrillard about Heysel applies here also: "There is another logic at work here, too, the logic of attempted role reversal: spectators (English fans, in this case) turn themselves into actors; usurping the role of the protagonists (players), under the gaze of the media, they invent their own spectacle (which - we may as well admit it - is somewhat more fascinating than the official one). Now is this not precisely what is expected of the modern spectator? Is he not supposed to abandon the spectatorish inertia and intervene in the spectacle himself?"

Baudrillard: "Where exactly does participation pass over into too much participation?"

3. Institutional Terror in Football

Once wrenched away from its basic principle, football can be pressed into the service of any end whatsoever - financialisation, utilisation of performing enhancing substances, insider trading and matchfixing, spectacles of corruption, public relations abuses and violence of coercion.
Football has become, in the words of Roger Caillois, "a theatre of circus-like play" linked via mafiosi and transglobal crime syndicates to underground betting markets, largely but not exclusively located in SE Asia.

In the Premier League, there are referees earning £2K per week officiating on matches with global turnover around £5bn. Some of these officials are criminalised in a net of corruption - it is not by fluke that Betfair (a bookmaking facilitator of matchfixing) use an Octopus and SE Asians in their advertising campaigns.

Football matches are ever more frequently played behind closed doors due to spectators having previously impinged upon an event. Baudrillard: "A ban of this kind could never do away with the chauvinistic passions surrounding soccer, but it does perfectly exemplify the terroristic hyperrealism of our world, a world where a 'real' event occurs in a vacuum, stripped of its context and visible only from afar, televisually."

Football events played without fans merely mimic the reality that already exists across much of horseracing - courses with minimal numbers of racegoers, operating fraudulent events to the private benefit of the offcourse bookmaking chains, the online market makers, the bookies in the betting rings and the manipulators on the rails. The horse is merely an afterthought in this particular poker game.

In Scottish football we have an antagonistic relationship between the Bhoy and the 'Ger but the background bears no resemblance to the history of St Walfrid or the Sons of Struth.
Dermot Desmond, who owns around a third of Celtic, also owns nearly 5% of Ladbrokes, the official bookmaker of Rangers, whilst Celtic have set up a deal with Unibet to provide in-play betting opportunities for the Celtic fans via the club's phone app. Yet Unibet are a bookmaker that Sportsbook Review advise punters against using due to non-payment of winnings so that, in effect, the club are merely taking a slice of the action in the illicit fleecing of their fans.
Meanwhile, Rangers are being repeatedly asset stripped by the most rapacious forms of psycho-capitalist.
Celtic and Rangers fans deserve better than this.

Elsewhere in Scottish football, the fans are invisible at "events so minimal that they might as well not take place at all" - these events, however, must have maximal enlargement on our screens.

In England, the Premier League is in the midst of its very own Calciopoli - a combination of mafia and matchfixing that creates a systemic criminalisation of the sport to the benefit of an array of sociopathic insiders who corrupt the game for considerable proprietary benefits.
Bookmakers own football clubs and those owners are then elevated to institutional positions of power and influence. Agents choose referees for EPL matches to the benefit of their clients and their proprietary trading.
Last night's Championship Play-Off between Brentford and Middlesboro is a case in point - 7 'Boro players and the Brentford goalkeeper are represented by the same agent and this agent has a very very very close relationship with the referee stretching back nearly a quarter of a century. It is no surprise that the outcome was in the market pre-match.

The FA Cup has become an insider traders paradise - remember the betting patterns on the fixed match last season between Nottingham Forest and West Ham that left a child crying and insiders much the richer for their terroristic psychopathy?

                                                            A Crying Child

4. The Terror of 4th Estate Mainstream Media 

The mainstream media is the facilitating catalyst to these hyperrealities and is always complicit in this collection of travesties.
Baudrillard: "The media is always on the scene in advance of terrorist violence."

Take Andy Murray's joyous wedding. The media scrummage at the rehearsal led to leading Scottish photojournalist Gordon Jack dying. Not only did all mainstream media representations of the wedding entirely ignore this death but the fact that the wedding required a rehearsal in order to be perfect for media was surreal in itself. Death intruding on the spectacle is an abomination of the public relations control grid.

The mainstream media accommodates terroristic violence and warped public relations as its raison d'etre.

Out of all the footballers across all generations, what sort of media would choose to select Steve McManaman as a match summariser in the aftermath of his close business relationship with the matchfixing money launderer Carson Yeung?
The output of the football section of the Guardian newspaper is entirely overseen by a football agent who is actively involved in matchfixing and mafia-like behaviours while Clare Balding's new BBC chat show must have an obligatory criminal to parade positively in each episode.

Baudrillard: "The public must simply be eliminated, to ensure that the only event occurring is strictly televisual in nature."

5. State Terror

Britain has just experienced a terroristic play in the 2015 General Election.

Baudrillard: "Neither a represented people nor a legitimate sovereign is now the issue. That political configuration has given way to a contest in which there is no longer any question of a social contract; a transpolitical contest between an agency orientated towards totalitarian self-reference on the one hand, and sardonic or refractory, agnostic and infantile masses on the other (masses which no longer speak, though they chat)."

There is no such thing as a representative democracy just like there is no such thing as justice - the only person currently serving a prison sentence over the HSBC affair is a whistleblower.

The media plays with our hyperrealities whilst the first past the post system denies any vestige of democratic process. The BBC is more than happy to allow Nigel Farage to appear over 20 times on its Question Time programme to engender the fear that decides elections and is happy for that process to produce an outcome whereby 13% of the vote is for a racist party so long as that only equates to one seat in parliament and the post-election removal of Farage from the stage until next required.
And, on election night itself, out of all the former politicos that might be chosen to provide the Labour party line, the BBC gave us war crime apologist Alistair Campbell who we must now all remember as a former alcoholic fighting depression rather than a facilitator of illicit murder.

The City of London wanted a Conservative majority government and that is exactly what we were given.

Or as Nomi Prins writes about the US oligarchy: "No matter what spin is used for campaigning purposes, the idea that a critical distance can be maintained between the White House and Wall Street is naïve given the multiple channels of money and favours that flow between the two.  It is even more improbable, given the history of connections that Hillary Clinton has established through her associations with key bank leaders in the early 1990s, during her time as a senator from New York, and given their contributions to the Clinton foundation while she was secretary of state. At some level, the situation couldn’t be less complicated: her path aligns with that of the country’s most powerful bankers. If she becomes president, that will remain the case."

Baudrillard: "It [the State] no longer works on the basis of political will, but instead on the basis of intimidation, dissuasion, simulation, provocation or spectacular solicitation."

6. Conclusion

Baudrillard: "Political events... unfold, in a sense, in an empty stadium (the empty form of representation) whence any real public has been expelled because of potentially too lively passions, and whence nothing emerges now save a television retranscription (CRT images, statistics, poll results...). Politics still works, even captivates us, but subtly everything begins to operate as though some International Political Federation has suspended the public for an indeterminate period and expelled it from all stadiums to ensure the objective conduct of the match. Such is our present transpolitical arena: a transparent form of public space from which all the actors have been withdrawn - and a pure form of the event from which all passion has been removed."

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Italian football is besmirched by mafia, matchfixing, money laundering and linkage to transglobal crime syndicates and bookmakers...
... and so is English football.

The difference is that, in Italy, the authorities attempt to do something about these frauds, while the criminals in England laugh all the way to their offshore tax havens.
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History of Recent Matchfixing in Italy

* Yesterday more than 50 people were arrested and 70 more placed under investigation over a widespread matchfixing scandal throughout Italy in Operation 'Dirty Soccer'.
Anti-mafia prosecutors in Catanzaro say more than 30 clubs in Lega Pro, Lega Pro 2 and Serie D (Italian third and fourth divisions) are involved.
Charges include criminal association aimed at sports fraud worth millions of euros, with some linked to mafia organisations – one in particular to the ’Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate.
One police officer was also involved, authorities said.

A full listing of matchfixing events is provided by Gazzetta dello Sport (1) and highlights of one fixed match between Brindisi and San Severo are also provided by the same paper (2).

* Earlier this season, there had been a whole array of matchfixing events involving AC Parma which we exposed in February (3). The club have been matchfixed and asset-stripped to virtual oblivion by rogue owners linked to Balkan, Russian and Cypriot betting operations.

* Back in 2012, then-Lecce chief prosecutor Cataldo Motta claimed that up to seven clubs in the Eccellenza (fifth Tier) Puglia were controlled by members of the Sacra Corona Unita (4).

* Since 2011, over 100 people have been arrested by Italian prosecutors in Bari, Napoli and Cremona over the separate Ultima Scommessamatchfixing scandal regarding matchfixing in Serie A and Serie B games with players being drugged as part of matchfixing operations.
Those arrested include players, bookmakers, management, owners, agents and other former players.

* In February 2011, 39 people were arrested after La Nuovo Quarto Calcio was found to have been owned by Camorra mafia leader Giuseppe Polverino

* In 2010, Rosarno were also taken over by the regional courts who wrested control from the Pesce family.

* In 2009, the southern Italian Parisi gang used an English betting firm (Paradisebet) as a front to launder money. 74 people were arrested and businesses, land and racehorses were seized (5).

* In 2006 Italian football suffered  the Calciopoli scandal in which police found six teams to have rigged matches by selecting favourable referees. Juventus were stripped of two Serie A titles and relegated to Serie B, while Fiorentina, Milan, Lazio and Reggina were sanctioned.
33 Serie A matches were declared as matchfixing events from seasons 2004/05 and 2005/06 and 13 referees were banned or suspended during season 2006/07 (6) (7).
Prosecutors in Parma are still investigating Juventus goalkeepers Gigi Buffon and Antonio Chimenti, defender Mark Iuliano and Palermo player Enzo Maresca.

Later developments in April 2007 saw La Repubblica expose 9 referees linked to club owners via SIM cards purchased in Slovenia and Switzerland and release 200 audio files of the wiretappings (8).

At the time of Calciopoli, our analyses showed that AC Milan were, if anything, more guilty of matchfixing yet, after initially being barred fro 2006/07 Champions League, they were reinstated and won the tournament.
In 2011, inquiries by FIGC chief investigator, Stefano Palazzi, showed Inter, AC Milan and Livorno should have been relegated but, due to statute of limitations (Berlusconi's Law), the proceedings could not be reopened.

Calciopoli first came to light when GEA World, a football agents under control of  Alessandro Moggi, was investigated by prosecutors and transcripts of recorded phone conversations appeared in Italian mainstream media. Juventus general managers Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo had conversations with several officials of Italian football to influence referee appointments.

This is exactly the same matchfixing structure involving John Colquhoun, Jonathan Moss and KerenBarratt in England that we exposed in MOBGATE (9).

* Even at amateur levels in Italy, mafiosi are in operation. In 1995 over 800 children between the ages of six and 14 played in a tournament named in honour of Fortunato Maurizio Audino, a convicted drug dealer and suspected of being a mafia capo. Indeed, in Naples, rival mafia clans are said to compete in a yearly football tournament, with the winners collecting drugs instead of a trophy.
A police informer by the name of Armando De Rosa has said that these matches have been happening since 2002 in the city’s notorious Scampia suburb. Clan bosses have even reportedly brought in semi-professional players to help their team get one over their rivals. De Rosa has further claimed that men with international arrest warrants often turn up to watch.

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The Situation in England

The parallels with systemic corruptions in English football exposed on the Football is Fixed blog over the last 9 years are remarkably similar: referees owned by clubs, mafia and clubs influencing referee selection, conflicts of interest relating to club ownership and betting market companies, agents coercing players and match officials, criminalised players morphing into match commentators/summarisers after career, no whistleblowing bodies and no institutional entities of even the remotest integrity, MOBGATE is based on the Calciopoli template.

Hundreds of matches in the Premier League and the Skybet Championship are affected by this systemic matchfixing (10). We have provided fulsome evidence including the holistics, the betting patterns, the linked betting accounts and the trail of proxies to mainstream media but, as England does not have a functioning 4th Estate, the MOBGATE English Matchfixing Crisis is given no media attention.
Indeed, the Guardian and Telegraph football output would appear to be under the sociopathic control of Mr Colquhoun.
 
The Lower Level English Matchfixing Crisis of 2013 featuring agent and former player Delroy Facey covered matchfixing in the lower leagues and was virtually ignored by mainstream media at the time (11) and, once the case arrived in court, only the Birmingham Mail provided any coverage (due to the similarity of the corruption template to matchfixing in the Premier League).
The Birmingham Mail were 'persuaded' to drop their real-time coverage of the Facey trial due to the input of a certain football agent.

Another area where England performs as poorly as the remainder of the continent is when it comes to the bodies investigating matchfixing. Europol, Interpol, Early Warning and Federbet have hidden agendas while the International Centre for Sport Security is one of those NGO-lite bodies that arranges conferences while ignoring realities.
And, in England, the FA have launched the Sport Betting Integrity Forum.
Current members include Ladbrokes, Bet365 (bookmaker and owner of Stoke City), William Hill, Coral, Betfair (12), the Association of British Bookmakers, the Remote Gambling Association, together with several other entities of dubious countenance.
In total, 50% of members of this forum are under control of the bookmaking industry.
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Conclusion

Camorra expert, Corrado De Rosa, states: "Ownership of the local football team adds considerably to the mobsters' social status and influence... In addition to possessing a powerful means of money laundering, being owners of a football team means credibility and being respected." 

Leading anti-mafia writer and investigative journalist, Roberto Saviano, stated in the Guardian newspaper: "Their [the mafia's] worst fear is to be under the spotlight... They want to be famous in their own territory, feared for thei power, but on a national or international level they want to be anonymous." 

We might not term it the mafia but English football at the very highest levels is under the vice-like grip of matchfixing operations and their accomplices...
... as the duplicitous Guardian newspaper is well aware.

However a primary difference between Italy and England relates to the statute of limitations - criminals in Italy avoid prison sentences via the creation of lengthy legal delays while those in England only enjoy such rewards if state-backed (think Chilcot Report or #OperationDeathEater).
Hence, in England, it becomes a race against time for systemic fraudsters and matchfixers to launder their reputations before the shit hits the fans.

Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."

Football is Fixed.
English Football is Fixed Absolutely.

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References:

1) Calcioscommesse: Le Partite Sotto Esame Nell'Inchiesta Del Catanzaro http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/19-05-2015/calcioscommesse-lista-partite-sotto-esame-inchiesta-catanzaro-lega-pro-110888355545.shtml

2) Brindisi-San Severo, Una Papera Troppo Strana... http://video.gazzetta.it/brindisi-san-severo-papera-troppo-strana/f197dac8-fe16-11e4-8440-62b46e4e5c1b

3) Mafia, Matchfixing, Money Laundering - The Beautiful Game - Football is Fixed http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/mafia-matchfixing-money-laundering.html

4) The Mafia and Calcio - Kevin Nolan http://thesefootballtimes.co/2015/04/20/the-mafia-and-calcio/

5) £200 Parisi Mafia Gang 'Ran Betting Operation From London' - Duncan Gardham http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6703202/200m-Parisi-mafia-gang-ran-betting-operation-from-London.html

6) Bribesville Revisited - Football is Fixed http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/bribesville-revisited.html

7) Subvert, Divide And Rule, Bribe - Football is Fixed http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/subvert-divide-and-rule-bribe.html

8) Calciopoli's Wiretappings - La Repubblica http://www.repubblica.it/speciale/2007/dossier_intercettazioni/index.html

9) MOBGATE - Football is Fixed http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/mobgate-6.html

10) Happy Anniversary To Roy Hodgson - Football is Fixed http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/happy-anniversary-to-roy-hodgson.html

11) Surfing The Zeitgeist Of Corruption - Football is Fixed http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/surfing-zeitgeist-of-corruption.html

12) Bet (not So Feckin') Fair After All - Football is Fixed http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/bet-not-so-feckin-fair-after-all.html

Chilean journalist Juan Cristóbal Guarello: "Interpol has arrested them [FIFA executives] for doing what they always did without reproach: behaving as a bigwig in the world of professional football. All the allegations that they face (fraud and money laundering) are everyday elements of their activity. That is to say they are an essential part of football for rent."

Global football 'elites' act as a fragmented cartel to solicit proprietary gains alongside the rape of the game.
Football is prostituted under the supervision of the institutional, bookmaking, media, agent and regulatory captures that dominate the systemic structure of the corruption. 

Over the last few weeks, we have witnessed the evolving scandal regarding Girona's promotion-securing 3-0 win at already-promoted Real Betis on the last day of Spain's Segunda Liga season, and Serie B's latest matchfixing scandal involving Catania (who allegedly avoided relegation by fixing a number of games) and Messina. These series of fraudulent events involved half of the players and both club presidents. In total 7 people have been arrested and police say further raids will be carried out in Roma, Catania, Chieti and Campobasso.
These outrages are layered on the surface of the continuing crises involving matchfixing in each country with 41 people still under investigation over the corrupting of a La Liga relegation battle and the latest lower league matchfixing scandal in Italy (explained in our post http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/in-italy-and-england-matchfixing-is.html).

Fortunately, Spain has Javier Tebas and Italy has a functioning judiciary (and associated arms of the state)...
... and FIFA has the Swiss and US authorities.
England has nothing.

Richard Scudamore - the well-remunerated Premier League overseer of the renting out of his product and overlooker of murk.

Bookmakers owning and sponsoring teams while accepting insider trading on fixed events and treating such market knowledge as competitive advantage.

Underground bookmakers creating hugely destabilised and unbalanced markets where referees earning less than two grand per week officiate on matches with global betting volumes of £5-10 billion.

The FA was a joke prior to the arrival of asset-stripper Dyke. Now it is beyond parody.
Skybet sponsors the Championship while the Football League's chief executive is, hilariously, Shaun Harvey.

Agents are the lubrication of the corruptions as they box far above their weight in the fragmented cartel due to their omnipresent nature.
Players are with agents for life while playing for numerous clubs.
Where do loyalties lie?
The one English matchfixing scandal that the police have acted upon involved a football agent and former player Delroy Facey.
And as FIFA have altered the regulations, it is now going to be increasingly difficult to even determine who represents a player. This opens the door to rapacious matchfixing and third (and higher orders) party ownership (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/dirty-dozen-role-of-agents-in.html).

And it is this self-regulation and lack of regulation that allows this underworld to continue renting out football on the streets.

With a non-functioning 4th estate media under output capture, stories of corruption and matchfixing in England are simply opaqued away in the Omertà.
Facey's case was almost entirely ignored originally and where was the mainstream media coverage of the sacking of pgMOB administrator Keren Barratt and the disciplining of pgMOB referee Jon Moss? Or the matchfixing of numerous EPL games? We have been reliably informed that individuals at BT Sport gained financially from a fixed match covered by the channel (incidentally refereed by Mr Moss).
And the television companies target the gullible with their corrupted product whilst furnishing viewers with the output of individuals who featured heavily on the pages of early Football is Fixed blog posts (during their playing careers).

Referees need to have their power removed as they are at the root of most matchfixing crises.
English football must implement video technology (although there are structural reasons why they won't as these two articles demonstrate - http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/how-to-solve-match-fixing-once-and-for.html and http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-ifab-four.html).

And then there are the kickback racketeering territories of the marketing companies and their 'first world' neo-capitalist monstrosities attaching their beefburger or their credit card or their state-owned gas company to the prostituted event on the field of play.

This holistic structure demonstrates the systemic abuse of football for rent in a private universe of Omertà.

http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/fractal-football-and-gizan-geysers.html

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Thomas Piketty: "... wealth accumulated in the past grows more rapidly than output and wages. This inequality expresses a fundamental logical contradiction. The entrepreneur inevitably tends to become a rentier, more and more dominant over those who own nothing but their labour. Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future. The consequences for the long-term dynamics of wealth distribution are potentially terrifying, especially when one adds that the size of the initial stake and that the divergence in the wealth distribution is occurring on a global scale."

While virtually all advocacy, transparency and tax avoidance entities focus on offshore financial centres, money laundering and current abuses of the template of capital, the real wealth inequalities exist on the basis of old money and all those forgotten crimes.
For privately educated individuals enhancing their existences via private income in their non-meritocratic NGOs, the critical nature of historical wealth and inheritance is carefully ignored.

Josiah Wedgwood: " Political democracies that don't democratise their economic systems are inherently unstable."

Ponzi Capitalism

Capitalism has been a Ponzi scheme throughout its history - political scientists from Marx to Piketty have understood this fact.

Since 1700, the average annual rate of growth of the global economy has been 0.8%...
... and the average annual demographic growth in global population has been 0.8%.

Growth in income is expected to fall further throughout the 21st Century as the birth rate declines in lockstep across the world whilst, in parallel, systemic issues relating to planetary climatic stability move into primary focus.

The Ponzi scheme is running towards its precipitous conclusion and all that remains is the opportunity for imposition of redistributive policies to prevent the same fools from performing the same self-harming in a world of post-capitalist bliss.

There is only one solution to the first stage of the deconstruction of late capitalism - a markedly progressive tax on the largest fortunes worldwide (targeting both capital and income) to both prevent inheritance trumping meritocracy and to enforce an efficient use of capital for global rather than proprietary benefit.
Additionally, with such a progressive tax in place, the incentive to amass huge fortunes in the first place would be undermined.

Taxing Capital Progressively

Piketty: "... most countries' taxes have (or will soon) become regressive at the top of the income hierarchy. For example, a detailed study of French taxes in 2010, which looked at all forms of taxation, found that the overall rate of taxation... broke down as follows. The bottom 50% of the income distribution pay a rate of 40-45%; the next 40% pay 45-50%; but the top 5% and even more the top 1% pay lower rates, with the top 0.1% paying only 35%."

The annual global returns on capital are conservatively estimated at 5-6% while income growth is expected to struggle above zero this century.
Piketty: "Note, too, that inequality of income from capital may be greater than inequality of capital itself, if individuals with large fortunes somehow manage to obtain a higher return than those with modest to middling fortunes... Whenever the rate of return on capital is significantly and durably higher than the growth rate of the economy, it is all but inevitable that inheritance (the fortunes accumulated in the past) predominate over savings (wealth accumulated in the present)."

"... the ideal policy for avoiding an endless inegalitarian spiral and regaining control over the dynamics of accumulation would be a progressive global tax on capital. Such a tax would also have another virtue: it would expose wealth to democratic scrutiny, which is a necessary condition for effective regulation of the banking system and international capital flows."

"There are two distinct justifications of a capital tax; a contributive justification and an incentive justification... The primary purpose of the capital tax is not to finance the social state but to regulate capitalism."

The conventional focus on taxing income and targeting money laundering is merely a part of the jigsaw of fiscal justice - much more importantly, capital needs to be progressively taxed to avoid the inefficient use of such capital, the excessive returns generated by such non-meritocratic wealth and an end to austerity-based matrices of social injustice.

The most farcical argument against progressive income and capital taxes is that the elite would simply move to more tax-friendly locations. With global tax co-operation and an end to the opacity of offshore financial centres, there would moreover be nowhere left to slink off to.
Anyway - Piketty: "The idea that all US executives would immediately flee to Canada and Mexico and nobody with the competence or motivation to run the economy would remain is not only contradicted by historical experience and by all the firm level data at our disposal; it is also devoid of common sense."

Income Inequality - The Root Of All Financial Crises

National wealth has become markedly privatised in the last four decades.

Furthermore, as Piketty states, "... given the fact that the share of the upper decile in US national income has peaked twice in the past century, once in 1928 (on the eve of the Depression of 1929) and again in 2007 (on the eve of the recession of 2008, the question [does increasing inequality cause financial crisis?] is difficult to avoid."

Currently in the US, incomes are as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere anytime - the top 1% gain 35% of income while the bottom 50% of population earn just 25%.

Piketty: "Effective tax rates (expressed as a percentage of economic income) are extremely low at the top of the wealth hierarchy, which is problematic, since it accentuates the explosive dynamics of wealth inequality, especially when larger fortunes are able to garner larger returns... The goal is first to stop the indefinite increase in the inequality of wealth, and second to impose effective regulation on the financial and banking system to avoid crises."

There are only three tools for getting rid of the current levels of debt in the developed nations - taxes on capital, inflation and austerity.
Austerity isn't a prerequisite, it is an option.

The privatisation of wealth in the last 40 years has seen huge rewards for "super-managers" - such rewards are not commensurate with performance.
Piketty: "... there is no statistically significant relationship between the decrease in top marginal tax rates and the rate of productivity growth in the developed countries since 1980. Concretely, the crucial fact is that the rate of per capita GDP growth has been almost exactly the same in all the rich countries since 1980. In contrast to what many people in Britain and the United States believe, the true figures on growth ... show that Britain and the United States have not grown any more rapidly since 1980 than Germany, France, Japan, Denmark or Sweden."

Of course, the mainstream media, governments and the financial system en masse don't want any focus on private wealth with their collective attempts to get us to pay attention to immediate income rather than long-term capital wealth. But their myopia is complete in that all Ponzi's possess the seeds of their own destruction.
Piketty: "... capitalists do indeed dig their own grave: either they tear each other apart in a desperate attempt to combat the falling rate of profit..., or they force labour to accept a smaller and smaller share of national income, which ultimately leads to a proletarian revolution and general expropriation. In any event capital is undermined by its internal contradictions."
Stiglitz has made a similar point.

Meanwhile, in a parallel sociopathic world, George Osborne increased the inheritance tax threshold this month.

Piketty: "To regulate the globalised patrimonial capitalism of the twenty-first century, rethinking the twentieth-century fiscal and social model and adapting it to today's world will not be enough. To be sure, appropriate updating of the last century's social-democratic and fiscal-liberal program is essential... But if democracy is to regain control the globalised financial capitalism of this century, it must also invent new tools, adapted to today's challenges. The ideal tool would be a progressive global tax on capital, coupled with a very high level of international financial transparency. Such a tax would provide a way to avoid an endless inegalitarian spiral and to control the worrisome dynamics of global capital concentration."

With the latest phase of the Great Recession upon us, time for a post from July 2009.
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Dark Pools and many other forms of "Shadow Markets" are entirely non-regulated. 
Utilised for the trading of huge blocks of institutional, and often inside, knowledge, Dark Pools allow an array of benefits for big investors.
As if being able to trade inside information in a private non-regulated environment were not enough of an advantage, market participants are assured of no price scalping, anonymity, and the ability to trade on the 'highest platform' - always the dominant level in any market structure.

The whole Dark Pool edifice is self-supporting in its self-generated protective bubble.
The broker-dealers and exchanges offering Dark Poolery are in a privileged position, which is why they are able to offer such generous terms to institutional investors in the first place.
They are first in the line for highly influential market information - primary level cloned trading is a good place to be.
This knowledge is very valuable and is immediately traded around the Dark Pool network - there are currently 40 operators in the US and 9% of market activity is located in these private environments.

By 2010, it is projected that there will be around one hundred Dark Pools worldwide which is not a sustainable number. The Dark Pool sector will consolidate and mature. Due to the nature of this sector, players will disappear apace when the chips are down. 
The dynamic to evolve to maturity at speed is also paramount for this sector due to the Depression. The market cannot sustain 100 platforms. Primary level advantage in a mature market sector in a Depression era is an ultimate market locus. 
Securing advantage in route to market and, crucially, a temporal edge in order to jump-start the next wave of the Depression to proprietary advantage, this sector exists simply to optimise the trading environment and performance of a 'financial elite'.

These constructs are the future of financial markets.
These structures are highly regressive.

Non-regulated private markets allow a Pandora's box of market abuse away from the glare of oversight. Co-ordinated market strategies may be orchestrated to corner a particular market to the detriment of the selected victims, entirely controlled market entities may be developed, fake market momentum generated etc etc.

There are so many loopholes in Dark Pools that the fabric of regulation crumbles to pieces - there is not enough 'solidity' to allow the holes to be looped!
But, insider trading opportunities are surely the most pernicious.

Company officers are being allowed a massive perk here - the ability to privately back or lay their company (or other companies in which they hold directorships or primary level inside information) without such positioning being reported to any regulatory body nor, obviously, any public place.

This creates a very tilted marketplace to the benefit of the elite and the disadvantage of everybody else, including the lower tiers of financial capitalism.
By taking advantage of private markets to trade their information, insiders are severely hampering price transparency.
Without price transparency, free market capitalism works even less well than is already the case.
So, the global economic well-being deteriorates just to allow the Chosen Few to trade yet another poker table of our existences.

Of course, eventually, the private trading reaches the public space, but only after it has visited numerous other private spaces on the way. 
Repeated cloned trading by brokers announces the neohyperreality to the public markets so that the massed middle classes are able to add such data to their software and charts.

In a Depression, the temporal edge is the most important.
Markets are volatile in Depressions.
Trading the volatility is easy money.
Gaining solid price enhances these profits.
But the main advantage bestowed by the temporal edge is when significant breakpoint news is known to the elite. In the most serious state - market paralysis, think Iceland - this temporal edge allows massive market advantage.
You should think through the other potential trading templates that offer structural advantage to these market architects - there are many of them.

As we have said once before, the Dark Pools offer temporal advantage in the current Depression in a parallel manner to which the Ticker-Tape did in the Great Depression.

The only question remaining is surely this.
Will this Depression be the Even Greater Depression or the Permanent Depression?

Still we should be grateful for one thing, at least the financial elite look like they will come through with their assets suitably bolstered when judged comparatively.
This is very pleasing...

Speculators are always blamed for the crises of capitalism.
But this is too simple a view.
Insider traders and primary level clone traders are the Dark Pool and their leeches, and the catastrophes that define this system are generated by the market activities of these participants.
But your average speculator is not in these elevated circles.
Your average speculator is riding the surf rather than generating the wave in the first place.

So blame NYFix and Turquoise and, soon, Baikal.
And blame the state-based economic systems that allow this chicanery to take place while the world goes to pot, rack and ruin.

© Football Is Fixed 2006-2015

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— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) November 21, 2015

Look what somebody has just posted through my Tor...
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Below are details of the illegal inducements (EBTs) used by Rangers Football Club plc to gain unfair advantage in Scottish football.

It would be interesting to know how much it would cost Celtic (due to retrospective bonus payments) if stolen trophies were returned to their rightful owners.

This will surely impact upon the club's strategy with regard to...
 ...#StripTheTitles
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The Rangers Football Club plc

List of Regulation 80 Determinations and Class 1 NI Decisions issued on 28.02.08
Regulation 80 Determination // Section 8 Decision

2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 // 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07

Graeme Souness The Rangers Football Club plc 20,000.00 (01/02) // 5,950.00 (01/02)
Walter Smith The Rangers Football Club plc 53,333.20 (02/03) // 15,733.29 (02/03)
Christian Nerlinger The Rangers Football Club plc
Barry Ferguson The Rangers Football Club plc 333,333.60 (01/02) 74,666.80 (03/04) 120,000.00 (04/05) 307,333.20 (05/06) 122,000.00 (06/07) // 99,166.74 (01/02) 25,760.04 (03/04) 41,400.00 (04/05) 106,029.95 (05/06) 42,090.00 (06/07)
Michael Ball The Rangers Football Club plc 233,333.20 (01/02) 233,333.60 (02/03) 233,333.60 (03/04) 233,333.60 (04/05) 18,266.80 (05/06) // 69,416.62 (01/02) 68,833.41 (02/03) 80,500.09 (03/04) 80,500.09 (04/05) 6,302.04 (05/06)
Martin Bain The Rangers Football Club plc 10,000.00 (01/02) 8,666.80 (02/03) 24,000.00 (03/04) 60,666.80 (04/05) 66,666.80 (05/06) // 2,975.00 (01/02) 2,556.70 (02/03) 8,280.00 (03/04) 20,930.04 (04/05) 23,000.04 (05/06)
Nick Peel The Rangers Football Club plc 10,000.00 (01/02) 5,600.00 (02/03) 26,666.80 (03/04) 18,666.80 (04/05) // 2,975.00 (01/02) 1,652.00 (02/03) 9,200.04 (03/04) 6,440.04 (04/05)
Claudio Paul Caniggia The Rangers Football Club plc
Craig Andrew Moore The Rangers Football Club plc
Neil Doherty McCann The Rangers Football Club plc 166,666.40 (01/02) 166,666.40 (02/03) 333,333.20 (03/04) // 49,583.25 (01/02) 49,166.58 (02/03) 114,995.95 (03/04)
Shota Averladze The Rangers Football Club plc 186,666.40 (01/02) 93,333.20 (02/03) 186,666.40 (03/04) 279,999.60 (04/05) // 55,533.25 (01/02) 27,533.29 (02/03) 64,399.90 (03/04) 96,599.86 (04/05)
Arthur Numan The Rangers Football Club plc 250,000.00 (02/03) 90,000.00 (03/04) // 73,750.00 (02/03) 31,050.00 (03/04)
Lorenzo Amoruso The Rangers Football Club plc 200,000.00 (01/02) 126,000.00 (02/03) 100,000.00 (03/04) // 59,500.00 (01/02) 37,170.00 (02/03) 34,500.00 (03/04)
Russell Latapy The Rangers Football Club plc 121,666.40 (02/03) 68,333.20 (03/04) // 35,891.58 (02/03) 23,574.95 (03/04)
Robert Campbell Ogilvie The Rangers Football Club plc 3,333.20 (01/02) 3,333.20 (02/03) 3,333.20 (03/04) 53,333.20 (05/06) // 991.62 (01/02) 983.29 (02/03) 1,149.95 (03/04) 18,399.95 (05/06)
Stefan Klos The Rangers Football Club plc 83,333.20 (01/02) 83,333.20 (02/03) 166,666.40 (03/04) 483,333.20 (04/05) 263,333.20 (05/06) // 24,791.62 (01/02) 24,583.29 (02/03) 57,499.90 (03/04) 166,749.95 (04/05) 90,849.95 (05/06)
Alex McLeish The Rangers Football Club plc 100,000.00 (02/03) 240,000.40 (03/04) 160,000.00 (04/05) 242,000.00 (05/06) 460,000.00 (06/07) // 29,500.00 (02/03) 82,800.13 (03/04) 55,200.00 (04/05) 83,490.00 (05/06) 158,700.00 (06/07)

Annual Totals 
1,246,666.00 (01/02) 1,245,266.00 (02/03) 1,547,000.00 (03/04) 1,356,000.00 (04/05) 950,933.20 (05/06) 582,000.00 (06/07) // 370,883.10 (01/02) 367,353.43 (02/03) 533,710.95 (03/04) 467,819.98 (04/05) 328,071.93 (05/06) 200,790.00 (06/07)
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List of Regulation 80 Determinations and Class 1 NI Decisions issued on 07.03.08
Employee Company Regulation 80 // Determination Section 8 Decision

2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 // 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06

Kevin Muscat The Rangers Football Club plc 53,333.20 (02/03) 358,800.00 (03/04) 152,800.00 (04/05) 152,800.00 (05/06) // 15,733.29 (02/03) 123,786.00 (03/04) 52,716.00 (04/05) 52,716.00 (05/06)
Mikel Arteta The Rangers Football Club plc 142,504.00 (02/03) 470,980.80 (03/04) // 42,045.76 (02/03) 162,488.37 (03/04)
Dick Advocaat The Rangers Football Club plc 513,433.20 (02/03) // 151,462.79 (02/03)
Billy Dodds The Rangers Football Club plc 126,666.80 (02/03) // 37,366.70 (02/03)
Andre Kanchelskis The Rangers Football Club plc 96,666.80 (02/03) // 28,516.70 (02/03)
Tore Andre Flo The Rangers Football Club plc 533,333.20 (02/03) 166,666.80 (03/04) 166,666.80 (04/05)// 157,333.29 (02/03) 57,500.04 (03/04) 57,500.04 (04/05)
John Greig The Rangers Football Club plc 6,666.80 (02/03) 6,666.80 (03/04) 6,666.80 (04/05) 6,666.80 (05/06) // 1,966.70 (02/03) 2,300.04 (03/04) 2,300.04 (04/05) 2,300.04 (05/06)
Bert Van Lingen The Rangers Football Club plc 43,333.20 (02/03) // 12,783.29 (02/03)
Ronald de Boer The Rangers Football Club plc 403,490.00 (03/04) 418,609.20 (04/05) 244,884.80 (05/06) // 119,029.55 (03/04) 144,420.17 (04/05) 84,485.25 (04/05)

Annual Totals 
1,515,937.20 (02/03) 1,406,604.40 (03/04) 744,742.80 (04/05) 404,351.60 (05/06) // 566,238.07 (02/03) 490,494.62 (03/04) 197,001.33 (04/05) 55,016.04 (05/06)
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List of Regulation 80 Determinations and Class 1 NI Decisions issued on 14.03.08
Employee Company Regulation 80 // Determination Section 8 Decision

2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 // 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07

Bert Konterman The Rangers Football Club plc 200,000.00 (03/04) // 69,000.00 (03/04)
Andy Watson The Rangers Football Club plc 13,333.20 (02/03) 16,666.80 (03/04) 33,333.60 (04/05) 65,000.00 (05/06) 40,000.00 (06/07) // 3,933.29 (02/03) 5,750.04 (03/04) 11,500.09 (04/05) 22,425.00 (05/06) 13,800.00 (06/07)
Jan Wouters The Rangers Football Club plc 75,000.00 (03/04) 33,333.60 (04/05) 65,000.00 (05/06) // 25,785.00 (03/04) 11,500.09 (04/05) 22,425.00 (05/06)
Michael Mols The Rangers Football Club plc 68,000.00 (03/04) 105,333.20 (04/05) // 23,460.00 (03/04) 36,339.95 (04/05)
Andrew Dickson The Rangers Football Club plc 5,333.20 (03/04) // 1,839.95 (03/04)
Peter Lovenkrands The Rangers Football Club plc 124,000.00 (03/04) 172,000.00 (04/05) 211,333.20 (05/06) // 42,780.00 (03/04) 59,340.00 (04/05) 72,909.95 (05/06)
Emerson Costa The Rangers Football Club plc 156,000.00 (03/04) 418,000.00 (04/05) // 53,820.00 (03/04) 144,210.00 (04/05)
Nuno Cappucho The Rangers Football Club plc 313,333.60 (04/05) 133,333.20 (05/06) // 108,100.09 (04/05) 45,999.95 (05/06)
Dan Eggen The Rangers Football Club plc 22,666.80 (03/04) 22,666.80 (04/05) // 6,686.70 (02/03) 7,820.04 (03/04)
Jerome Bonnisel The Rangers Football Club plc 62,000.00 (03/04) // 21,390.00 (03/04)
Steven Thomson The Rangers Football Club plc 86,666.40 (03/04) 129,999.60 (04/05) 106,666.40 (05/06) // 29,899.90 (03/04) 44,849.86 (04/05) 36,799.90 (05/06)

Annual Totals 
13,333.20 (02/03) 616,333.20 (03/04) 1,228,000.40 (04/05) 581,332.80 (05/06) 40,000.00 (06/07) // 10,619.99 (02/03) 212,544.93 (03/04) 415,840.08 (04/05) 200,559.80 (05/06) 13,800.00 (06/07)
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List of Regulation 80 Determinations and Class 1 NI Decisions issued on 31.03.08
Employee Company Regulation 80 // Determination Section 8 Decision

2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 // 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06

Jean Alain Boumsong The Rangers Football Club plc 133,333.20 (03/04) 286,666.80 (04/05) // 45,999.95 (03/04) 98,900.04 (04/05)
Egil Ostenstad The Rangers Football Club plc 246,666.80 (03/04) // 85,100.46 (03/04)
Paolo Vanoli The Rangers Football Club plc 394,666.80 (04/05) // 136,160.04 (04/05)
Zurab Khizanshvilli The Rangers Football Club plc 63,333.20 (03/04) 120,000.00 (04/05) 86,666.40 (05/06) // 21,849.95 (03/04) 41,400.00 (04/05) 29,899.90 (05/06)
Nacho Novo The Rangers Football Club plc 110,933.20 (04/05) 167,600.00 (05/06) // 38,271.95 (04/05) 57,822.00 (05/06)
Iain McGuiness The Rangers Football Club plc 6,666.40 (04/05) 10,266.40 (05/06) // 2,299.90 (04/05) 3,541.90 (05/06)
Tommy McLean The Rangers Football Club plc 8,000.00 (04/05) 16,666.40 (05/06) // 2,760.00 (04/05) 5,749.90 (05/06)
Gavin Rae The Rangers Football Club plc 19,000.00 (03/04) 32,333.20 (04/05) 60,000.00 (05/06) // 6,555.00 (03/04) 11,154.95 (04/05) 20,700.00 (05/06)
Jesper Christiansen The Rangers Football Club plc 213,333.20 (03/04) // 73,599.95 (03/04)

Annual Totals 
675,666.40 (03/04) 959,266.40 (04/05) 341,199.20 (05/06) // 159,505.36 (03/04) 404,546.83 (04/05) 117,713.70 (05/06)
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List of Regulation 80 Determinations and Class 1 NI Decisions issued on 25.04.08
Employee Company Regulation 80 // Determination Section 8 Decision

2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 // 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07

Bob Malcolm The Rangers Football Club plc 43,333.20 (05/06) // 14,949.95 (05/06)
Chris Burke The Rangers Football Club plc 36,666.80 (05/06) // 12,650.04 (05/06)
Alan Hutton The Rangers Football Club plc 14,666.80 (05/06) // 5,060.04 (05/06)
Steven Smith The Rangers Football Club plc 5,000.00 (05/06) // 1,725.00 (05/06)
Kris Boyd The Rangers Football Club plc 10,000.00 (05/06) // 3,450.00 (05/06)
Fernando Ricksen The Rangers Football Club plc 80,000.00 (05/06) 98,000.00 (06/07) // 27,600.00 (05/06) 33,810.00 (06/07)
Sotirios Kyrgiakos The Rangers Football Club plc 50,000.00 (04/05) 158,800.00 (05/06) 146,000.00 (06/07) // 17,250.00 (04/05) 54,786.00 (05/06) 50,370.00 (06/07)
Gregory Vignal The Rangers Football Club plc 62,000.00 (04/05) 53,332.00 (05/06) // 21,390.00 (04/05) 18,399.95 (05/06)
Alex Rae The Rangers Football Club plc 66,000.00 (04/05) 227,333.20 (05/06) 86,000.00 (06/07) // 22,770.00 (04/05) 78,429.95 (05/06) 29,670.00 (06/07)
Dragan Mladenovich The Rangers Football Club plc 83,333.20 (04/05) 250,159.20 (05/06) // 28,749.95 (04/05) 86,304.92 (05/06)
Marvin Andrews The Rangers Football Club plc 50,133.60 (04/05) 119,066.80 (05/06) // 17,296.09 (04/05) 41,078.04 (05/06)
Dado Prso The Rangers Football Club plc 374,000.00 (04/05) 480,666.80 (05/06) // 129,030.00 (04/05) 165,830.04 (05/06)
Ronald Waterreus The Rangers Football Club plc 222,000.00 (05/06) 118,000.00 (06/07) // 76,590.00 (05/06) 40,710.00 (06/07)
Ian Murray The Rangers Football Club plc 63,333.20 (05/06) // 21,849.95 (05/06)
George Adams The Rangers Football Club plc 10,000.00 (05/06) // 3,450.00 (05/06)
Jose Pierre FanFan The Rangers Football Club plc 258,333.20 (05/06) 80,000.00 (06/07) // 89,124.95 (05/06) 27,600.00 (06/07)
Brahim Hemdani The Rangers Football Club plc 145,000.00 (05/06) 140,666.80 (06/07) // 50,025.00 (05/06) 48,530.04 (06/07)
Maurice Ross The Rangers Football Club plc 80,000.00 (05/06) // 27,600.00 (05/06)
Thomas Buffell The Rangers Football Club plc 268,333.20 (05/06) 110,000.00 (06/07) // 92,574.95 (05/06) 37,950.00 (06/07)

Annual Totals 
685,466.80 (04/05) 2,526,024.40 (05/06) 778,666.80 (06/07) // 236,486.04 (04/05) 871,478.78 (05/06) 268,640.04 (06/07)
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List of Regulation 80 Determinations and Class 1 NI Decisions issued on 03.03.09
Employee Company Regulation 80 // Determination Section 8 Decision

2006/07 2007/08 // 2006/07 2007/08

Nacho Novo The Rangers Football Club plc 99,466.40 (06/07) 147,303.60 (07/08) // 85,135.65 (07/08)
Brahim Hemdani The Rangers Football Club plc 132,666.80 (06/07) 282,666.80 (07/08) // 143,290.90 (07/08)
Dado Prso The Rangers Football Club plc 416,666.80 (06/07) 42,666.80 (07/08) // 158,470.09 (07/08)
Barry Ferguson The Rangers Football Club plc 244,000.00 (06/07) 366,666.80 (07/08) // 210,680.04 (07/08)
Carlos Cuellar The Rangers Football Club plc 83,333.20 (07/08) // 28,749.95 (07/08)
Daniel Cousin The Rangers Football Club plc 176,666.40 (07/08) // 60,949.90 (07/08)
Libor Sionko The Rangers Football Club plc 86,666.80 (06/07) // 29,900.04 (06/07)
Gavin Rae The Rangers Football Club plc 74,000.00 (07/08) // 25,530.00 (07/08)
Olivier Bernard The Rangers Football Club plc 149,333.20 (06/07) // 51,519.95 (06/07)
Thomas Buffell The Rangers Football Club plc 110,000.00 (06/07) 110,000.00 (07/08) // 75,900.00 (07/08)
Julien Rodrigues The Rangers Football Club plc 52,666.80 (06/07) // 18,170.04 (07/08)
Stephen Wiertelak The Rangers Football Club plc 18,850.00 (06/07) // 6,503.25 (07/08)
Kris Boyd The Rangers Football Club plc 16,666.80 (06/07) 33,333.60 (07/08) // 17,250.00 (07/08)
Yves Colleau The Rangers Football Club plc 70,800.00 (06/07) // 24,426.00 (06/07)
David Jolliffe The Rangers Football Club plc 90,000.00 (06/07) // 31,050.00 (06/07)
Paul Le Guen The Rangers Football Club plc 13,433.20 (06/07) // 4,634.45 (06/07)
Joel Le Hir The Rangers Football Club plc 18,850.40 (06/07) // 6,503.25 (06/07)
Marvin Andrews The Rangers Football Club plc 41,533.20 (06/07) // 14,328.95 (06/07)
Ronald Waterreus The Rangers Football Club plc 118,000.00 (06/07) // 40,710.00 (06/07)
Bob Malcolm The Rangers Football Club plc 40,000.00 (06/07) // 13,800.00 (06/07)
Fernando Ricksen The Rangers Football Club plc 157,333.20 (06/07) // 54,279.95 (06/07)
Dragan Mladenovic The Rangers Football Club plc 166,666.80 (06/07) // 57,500.04 (06/07)
Stefan Klos The Rangers Football Club plc 606,666.80 (06/07) // 209,300.00 (06/07)
Jan Wouters The Rangers Football Club plc 16,666.80 (06/07) // 5,750.04 (06/07)
Jose Pierre FanFan The Rangers Football Club plc 480,000.00 (06/07) // 165,600.00 (06/07)
George Adams The Rangers Football Club plc 10,000.00 (06/07) // 3,450.00 (06/07)

Annual Totals 
3,156,934.00 (06/07) 1,316,637.20 (07/08) // 712,752.71 (06/07) 830,629.82 (07/08)
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List of Regulation 80 Determinations and Class 1 NI Decisions issued on 15 March 2010
Employee Company Regulation 80 // Determination Section 8 Decision

2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 // 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09

Christian Nerlinger The Rangers Football Club plc 433,333.33 (04/05) // 149,500.00 (04/05)
Craig Moore The Rangers Football Club plc 178,000.00 (04/05) // 61,410.00 (04/05)
David Jolliffe The Rangers Football Club plc 13,333.33 (04/05) 16,666.67 (05/06) // 10,350.00 (05/06)
Andrew Dickson The Rangers Football Club plc 10,000.00 (05/06) // 3,450.00 (05/06)
Julien Rodriguez The Rangers Football Club plc 136,666.67 (05/06) 236,000.00 (06/07) // 128,570.00 (06/07)
Federico Nieto The Rangers Football Club plc 16,333.33 (06/07) // 5,635.00 (06/07)
Alex McLeish The Rangers Football Club plc 1,333.33 (06/07) // 460.00 (06/07)
Steven Thompson The Rangers Football Club plc 26,666.67 (06/07) // 9,200.00 (06/07)
Peter Lovenkrands The Rangers Football Club plc 94,000.00 (06/07) // 32,430.00 (06/07)
Gavin Rae The Rangers Football Club plc 65,333.33 (06/07) // 22,540.00 (06/07)
Kris Boyd The Rangers Football Club plc 16,666.67 (06/07) 33,333.33 (08/09) // 17,250.00 (08/09)
Paul Le Guen The Rangers Football Club plc 234,900.00 (06/07) // 81,040.50 (06/07)
Yves Colleau The Rangers Football Club plc 22,833.33 (06/07) // 7,877.50 (06/07)
Libor Sionko The Rangers Football Club plc 32,000.00 (06/07) // 11,040.00 (06/07)
Thomas Buffell The Rangers Football Club plc 110,000.00 (07/08) 110,000.00 (08/09) // 75,900.00 (08/09)
Alan Hutton The Rangers Football Club plc 114,000.00 (07/08) 114,000.00 (08/09) // 78,660.00 (08/09)
Barry Ferguson The Rangers Football Club plc 340,000.00 (08/09) // 117,300.00 (08/09)
Nacho Novo The Rangers Football Club plc 127,183.33 (08/09) // 43,878.25 (08/09)
Brahim Hemdani The Rangers Football Club plc 242,666.67 (08/09) // 83,720.00 (08/09)
Daniel Cousin The Rangers Football Club plc 49,200.00 (08/09) // 16,974.00 (08/09)
Carlos Cuellar The Rangers Football Club plc 83,333.33 (08/09) // 28,750.00 (08/09)
Pedro Mendes The Rangers Football Club plc 240,000.00 (08/09) // 82,800.00 (08/09)
Steve Davis The Rangers Football Club plc 206,666.67 (08/09) // 71,300.00 (08/09)
Sasa Papac The Rangers Football Club plc 48,666.67 (08/09) // 16,790.00 (08/09)

Annual Totals 
624,666.66 (04/05) 179,666.67 (05/06) 729,733.33 (06/07) 224,000.00 (07/08) 1,595,050.00 (08/09) // 210,910.00 (04/05) 19,435.00 (05/06) 293,158.00 (06/07) Zero (07/08) 633,322.25 (08/09)
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REGULATION 80 DETERMINATION OVERALL TOTAL - £27,271,478.66

SECTION 8 DECISION OVERALL TOTAL - £9,189,322.78
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© Football is Fixed 2006-2015

All We Want Is A Fair Suck Of The Sauce Bottle

Sport with associated corruptions has been entirely transformed in Australia since the arrival of the Pommie Bastard Bookies over the last decade.
It is the new English disease.

It makes one mad as a cut snake.

For fuck's sake, the soccer referees over here are no longer called referees but "Entertainment Facilitators".
Where is the allowance for that in the Rules of the Game?

This post examines the systemic corruption and massive insider trading involving English bookmakers in the FA Cup Third Round this weekend while the follow-up post looks at the possibility of video technology being introduced into the competition from next season.

So what's the John Dory?
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Dobbing The Moolah In The FA Cup

The FA Cup claims to be the oldest cup competition in the world but, like the oldest profession in the world, it is now controlled by pimps and the underworld.

(Incidentally, the FA Cup is preceded by the Melbourne Grammar School-Scotch College Cordner-Eggleston Australian Rules Football Cup which was founded 13 years earlier).

The seven largest pre-match football trades at Betfair this season all occurred on the FA Cup televised games this weekend and all were landed - one trade against Liverpool beating Exeter, one on Man Utd beating Sheffield United and five on Chelsea defeating Scunthorpe.

Taking these games in turn...

Exeter City v Liverpool   Somebody had the foresight to bet over £300K against the Liverpudlians winning.
The boil-over was a winner after Key Sports Management's Adam Bogdan let in the only two Exeter shots on target (one direct from a corner).
The fix was covered up (obviously entirely unintentionally) by co-commentator Danny Murphy who chatted his usual shades of shit and furphy.
Big bet.
No drama.

Man Utd v Sheffield United Andre Marriner was replaced as referee by Jonathan Moss very late on. This was a bizarre decision as Moss had refereed Man Utd v Swansea just last weekend and had overseen 10 Man Utd wins and 1 draw in his other appearances for the Red Devils.
Additionally, we have pointed out highly suspicious betting patterns on historical Manchester United matches officiated by Tubs Moss for example the fake penalty and fake sending off that helped land a £500K bet against Crystal Palace in September 2013 (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/mobgate.html).
As we entered injury time, Man Utd had only mustered one shot on target which, fortunately for the individual who had placed a £300K position on the Mancs at Betfair, became two after Moss awarded an injury time penalty.
Nigel Atkins (Sheffield United manager): "It's a shame that in the 92nd or 93rd minute that an honest endeavour to put a block in has given the referee an opportunity to award a penalty."
Big bet.
Shonky decision.
Fair dinkum.

Chelsea v Scunthorpe With Craig Pawson and Lee Mason teaming up for a BT Sport insider trading event (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/bizarre-patterns-indicative-of-systemic.html), five huge bets representing fully 55% of the pre-match book at Betfair just prior to the off were landed by Chelsea's triumph.
Some insiders took the gamble further by selling Chelsea on the Asian Handicaps not to win by more than two goals!
The key decision was Pawson denying Scunthorpe a clear cut penalty after 53 minutes with the score 1-0.
The match outcome was corrupted and was London to a brick.


                    "Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard (in the black)?"

In the other two live events, referee Michael Oliver was Wycombe Wanderers' twelfth man giving a very dubious penalty against Villa causing the Brummies manager Remi Garde to comment:  "I am not sure it was really a penalty but that is the game."
'Tis in England, mate.
Volunteers had repaired several hundred seats at  Adams Park during the week leading up to BT Sport's live coverage (no trickledown effect in ScudamoreWorld),

Meanwhile, the slowly deteriorating BBC decided to keep it in the family for the Lineker Derby between Spurs and Leicester which was sweet for all concerned. (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-hmrc-tax-avoidance-list-of-shame.html).
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Holy Dooley The Drongo Dills Are Set For The Divvy Van

The systemic corruption being orchestrated and activated in the Premier League this season exported its detritus to the FA Cup.
The Magic of the Cup has become the Tragic of the Murk.

It was bad enough when those close to Sam Allardyce short-sold West Ham United in their 0-5 defeat to Championship Nottingham Forest in season 13/14 (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/fixed-match-crying-child-english.html), but this year integrity went entirely walkabout.

Fat Sam, up himself as usual, donned his Ned Kelly mask when, tongue firmly in bloated cheek, he spat: "I'll be very interested in seeing Swansea's team tomorrow and seeing how many first team players they play."

Mock the ocker, mate...

In the olden days, betting turnover on the early rounds of the FA Cup was minuscule as the South East Asian marketmakers weren't interested in pricing up second tier events to any level of volume.
This has changed with Cashopoli, England's version of Calciopoli - corruption gone troppo.

Why don't Betfair report voluminous insider trading?

Why don't English referees apologise for their voluminous errors?
Australian A-League ref Ben Williams recently made a televised apology for errors in recent Western Sydney v Adelaide United match.

Why was Jonathan Moss given his second home Manchester United game in a week with his historical bias towards the Mancunians?

These characters are cooking their golden goose of corruption as they grab their illicit millions at the expense of the game.

The attendance at Old Trafford was so small that no mainstream media are reporting it and who cares about the Liverpool fans who travelled all the way down to Devon to watch a BBC Boiler Room Scam for the benefit of insiders?
Personally, I wouldn't piss on the likes of Moss, Murphy, Lineker and their orchestrators even if they were on fire but they should remember that football without fans (and mug bettors) is nothing.

Their systemic manipulations are several stubbies short of a six-pack of soccer sincerity...
... strewth!

Bunch of bastards.

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

The Rise And Fall Of Richard Scudamore And The Referees From Mars


              Mike Dean Got All Three Major Decisions Wrong in Newcastle v Man Utd Tonight

Underground Asian market offering Evens on Mike Dean making a correct decision by Half-Time. #NEWMUN

— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) January 12, 2016

Where have all the good times gone?

Prior to the 3rd Round of the FA Cup, all the madmen at the FA announced plans to trial a video technology review system in the competition from next season.

About time, as God only knows the extent of the criminal world in British football.
But the intended technology is just a blackout, a charade.

Firstly, these changes will have to survive the quicksand of the IFAB annual meeting in March (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-ifab-four.html).

And, as our last post showed, the FA Cup is no longer magic. (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/stickybeaking-standover-man.html).

Under the proposed review system the referees will be able to refer themselves to a big brother in the EPL Match Centre if they require confirmation of penalties, red cards, goals or cases of mistaken identity.
Offsides are to be excluded due to the second tier of matchfixing by match officials being for the assistant referees to be the scary monsters and super creeps of choice (as recently demonstrated very publicly in La Liga).

Critically, managers will not be able to appeal incorrect decisions (as allowed in cricket) and nor will any sound and vision be available for the scrutiny of fans (as allowed in rugby and cricket).

1984 then.

Just as self praise is no recommendation, self regulation is no regulation.
The technology will not affect the corruption.

Imagine an investment banker reporting his insider trading and market rigging to his superiors who had told the said trader to undertake such strategies in the first place - always crashing in the same car.

The Superman Manuel Pellegrini thinks the proposed new rules are insufficient: "Each manager should have one play in 45 minutes to review" when there is a sense of doubt about a referee decision.
In a short time, the correct decision could be made for all to hear and witness and the game would be able to move on without red money dominating the integrity of the sport.

The cracked actors at the EPL, being voyeurs of utter destruction, are dead against any video technology anyway anyhow anywhere.

But the EPL have already been breaking the rules since the beginning of last season.

All of the unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed pgMOB referees are now miked up to the EPL Match Centre where unknown faceless manipulators decide on what's really happening without any public scrutiny.
When so many incorrect match decisions correlate positively with insider trading on games, we are looking at dollar days in the subterranean markets as football climbs up the hill backwards to kingdom come.

Additionally, certain referees in the Moss garden have selective communication routes eg referee/ 4th official/ EPL Match Centre with only the 4th official being linked to assistants. Why?

And why the media blackout of these illegalities?

Some of our contacts have been gazing a gazely stare using bullet shotgun microphones within Premier League grounds to watch that man and hear the word on the wing from pgMOB officials. Although crowd noise has historically been an issue, a combination of sound compression and the disappearance of the chant of the ever circling skeletal football family allows detection of something in the air in the white light white heat of the game.

We addressed the neighbourhood threat of the lack of technology in our post How To Solve Matchfixing Once And For All (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/how-to-solve-match-fixing-once-and-for.html).

"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. 

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!"

Video technology was successfully trialled in the Dutch Eredivisie in 2013/14 and both the German Bundesliga and the USA support implementation immediately and yet the FA announcement suggests that there is still doubt before a better future.

So where are we know?
How does the grass grow?

The very earliest introduction into the EPL will be five years from the trial in the Netherlands.
This should be seen as a simple delaying tactic to enable those corrupting our sport for proprietary gain to bury deep their Diplock gold in offshore territories outside the financial system with no control across the universe of tax evasion.

Referees are just nobodies who like dancing with the big boys.
The EPL utilises only 19 refs and virtually all big betting turnover tv matches go to an inner core who should be seeking a new career in a new time.

Queen Bitch Howard Webb might be a starman and certainly has power and fame but what in the world has become of our beautiful game?
Such sorrow makes one want to scream like a baby.

In future with the speed of life, fans will look back in anger at the repetition of corruption as football lurches from ashes to ashes from station to station before heroes address the tumble and twirl and win the day against Aladdin Sane, Richard Scudamore.
Until then you better hang on to yourself if continuing to watch the beauty and the beast.

In the words of the wild-eyed boy from Freecloud Jean Baudrillard, football is undergoing a "perfectly undeserved sacrificial death".

But the game will eventually resurrect like Lazarus as a Black Star shouting "we are the dead".

Javi Poves, the Sporting Gijon defender who retired at the age of 23 due to matchfixing in the game, said: "Football is cash and corruption. It is capitalism. And capitalism is death".


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Our book on systemic corruption and matchfixing in English and Scottish football will be published on November 11th 2016 - the tenth anniversary of this blog.

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

How Agents Are Destroying Football


1. Many firms of agents have an interest in the global betting markets. Some firms specifically target goalkeepers, for example. A very high percentage of the sixty plus betting scandals to be currently under investigation feature agents as facilitators due to the way in which agents seemlessly lubricate the system.

2. Betting interest soon morphs into market control. preferably in-house otherwise in a fragmented cartel. There are a variety of tipping points where the critical mass of the control of a match corruption is reached. Matches are fixed via participants on behalf of their agents. Agents target both club and international matches.

3. Player loyalty to club is increasingly a rare factor in football nowadays. Players have an agent for life (pre to post career) and any number of clubs. Badge-kissing is simply marketing the brand of the self. Clubs that employ several players from the same firm of agents or from a web-like cartel of agents risk losing control of their matches although some of the better run clubs limit such exposure as a matter of strategy e.g. FC Bayern, Milan, Barcelona and Blackpool.

4. Once control of a very liquid betting market becomes the focus of agents/ cartel of agents' attention then control of those lily-livered reprobates, the referees, becomes the primary strategy. At the poker table of postmodern football, one goalkeeper + the referee is a very strong hand indeed. Referees are underpaid outliers with football envy - psychologically many referees are desperate for 'acceptance' within the game. Media silence and retirement hush money aid any shenanigans.

5. Once an agent/ cartel is seen to be influencing market outcomes, market makers and bookmakers enter stage right. Hence surface level criminalised trading migrates to the European and Asian underworlds, undergrounds and offshore financial centres. It is not surprising that a £1 trillion annual market attracts such intricate infrastructures.

6. Agents bleed the game of money that should be going to grass roots projects. For the year ending September 2013, agents took virtually £100 million from the Premier League (over £2.5 million for every round of games).This was a 25% increase and elicited no mainstream media attention in a week where the words 'agents' and 'match-fixing' kept appearing in the same sentences.

7. Due to loyalty to self/ agent rather than club, a perverse incentive means many players will perform fully only when playing in live tv matches with massively increased global exposure. Similarly, 'injuries' and choice of timing for operations etc are determined by agent not by the club.

8. Agents always boast about the black market sides of their job - the under-the-table illicit payments to drop interests in a player, the insider gamble that the bookies couldn't stop. Agents take far more than £100 million out of the English game in the grey and black market sectors.

9. Agents undertake mainstream media control for the promotion of their clients, the suppression of inappropriate news and reality leakages, the advancement of transfer strategies and, in the case of the Guardian, the 'creation' of an entirely fictitious neohyperreality in the form of the Secret Footballer. How apt that, with editorial involvement, a newspaper that robbed the secrets from Wikileaks and Snowden should create their very own imaginary secrets via a fake entity linked to a leading football agent!

10. There is no regulation of agents. Consequently, all agents eventually, if not initially, become linked to mafia - this is the only evolution feasible in Friedmanian capitalism in a sector that is entirely non-regulated. Market Maturity = Monopolistic Mafia. Although agents police themselves, a whole variety of mafia groups police the agents.

11. Third Party Agreements are not only still the norm but Fourth and Fifth Party ones exist too. Self-regulation means, in effect, no regulation as agents create the necessary infrastructure to allow them to optimise their operations.

12. Top agents have links to government in Britain (both Labour and Tory). Bizarrely, agents and (the limited) control of a hugely liquid global financial market that they bring are one of the few hyperreal growth areas in our austerity-wrecked post-imperial wasteland of a fake-service economy. Of course, government cannot boast this economic success story: "our match-fixing and market distortions are bringing jobs to Britain..."

When a former player-turned-agent Delroy Facey was named as a key operator in Invisiblegate - the English match-fixing scandal which allegedly happened last week - we expected an imminent media blackout, a separation of the Premier League from any allegations of match-fixing and a markedly legitimate weekend in the Premier League. And that is what we got. It was just like the old days. No sendings off and just one penalty (to Manchester United, of course). No controversy. We cannot find any other weekend in our databases with so little referee influence. What a remarkable fluke!

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© Football is Fixed 2006-2013
 

                         Descending Into The Depths Of The Dark Pools Of Football Trading

Of the 10 Premier League matches this midweek, 8 are matchfixing events.
Eight!!!!!

Now you might think that Sportradar (who gather 'intelligence' on suspect betting markets), the FA Sport Betting Integrity Forum, Federbet, Early Warning Systems GmbH (who claim to spot evidence of matchfixing), Europol/Interpol and members of the UK mainstream media (some of whom have first hand knowledge of these rigged events) would be disclosing this mass corruption to the fans.

Dream on.

And to understand why...
... read on.
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Firstly, let's take a glance at the bodies allegedly addressing matchfixing and money laundering in world sport.

1. Federbet - set up by bookmakers for bookmakers. Their biggest scoop this season was the detection that Sporting Clube de Portugal versus Skenderbeu in the Europa League (and three other of the Albanian team's games) were fixed. As virtually every Skenderbeu match is corrupted, this hardly adds to the public's knowledge of the vice of matchfixing. This selective disclosure suggests that matchfixing higher up the food chain is only disclosed to Federbet's partners or that Federbet are entirely incompetent - either logic undermines their raison d'être.
ESSA Sports Betting Integrity (sic) are a similarly pointless grouping of European bookmakers working together to enhance market control.

2. The FA's Sport Betting Integrity Forum - the futility of this talking shop is proved by some of the membership. The British Horse Racing Authority (conspicuous money impacts on outcome in UK racing); the England and Wales Cricket Board (matchfixing in English cricket dominated by Dubai/Mumbai mafia); the FA (not fit for purpose as shown in numerous previous posts); the Tennis Integrity Unit (see Djokovic revelations below); 5 bookmakers (most of whom allow insider trading); Association British Bookmakers; Association of Chief Police Officers, Police Scotland and National Crime Agency (none of whom have disclosed any of the huge body of fixed football matches in the Barclay's Premier League, the Skybet Championship or the Ladbrokes Scottish Premier League).
FASBIF makes the FCA look robust!

3. Europol/Interpol - Ronald Noble, former Secretary-General of Interpol, is exposed in Andrew Jennings' book 'The Dirty Game' as, at the very least, a facilitator of the burying of bad matchfixing news relating to FIFA. Additionally, Europol direct any enquiries regarding matchfixing back to the local police authorities, like any Albanian citizen is going to go to Tirana police to report Skenderbeu games!

4. Early Warning Systems - established by that body of colossal integrity FIFA to expose matchfixing, yet somehow have failed to spot the three World Cup matchfixing events disclosed by Jennings and the dozens of events (including 5 at World Cup Finals in Brazil 2014) disclosed by Football is Fixed.

5. Sportradar - claim to reach deep into the underground markets but merely skim the surface of the Dark Pools that dominate matchfixing globally. When Sportradar detect a suspect event, do they go to the media? No fucking chance. In effect, they sell their analyses (sic) back to the sports betting industry so that markets might be made more efficient and mugs might be mugged - the suspect markets aren't suspended but traded aggressively with patsies being unaware that their leisure punt is a certain loser. No improvement in integrity. No support for the punter.
One of Sportradar's marketing slogans is "realise opportunities - everywhere" which says it all really.





Let's take tennis as an example.

On the eve of the ITF Australian Tennis Open in Melbourne last month Novak Djokovic disclosed that he had been offered considerable money to throw a tennis game earlier in his career.
The ITF and other tennis boards quickly moved to state that there had been no suppression of evidence of historical matchfixing in tennis http://www.itftennis.com/media/221271/221271.pdf.

But Australia's anti-doping chief Richard Ings has claimed that when he worked at the ATP tennis organisation, the body buried a report disclosing extensive matchfixing in the sport over a decade ago.

Four Corners, an Australian investigative journalist group, disclosed on ABC website yesterday that more than 40 tennis matches were flagged as matchfixing events in just three months last year http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-01/40-professional-tennis-matches-flagged-for-match-fixing/7127240
Furthermore, 350 tennis professionals are on a blacklist of matchfixers.

One of Sportradar's partners is the ITF.

So when Sportradar detect corruption, one of the following scenarios is played out:

a) Sportradar inform governing body who then take no action or,

b) Sportradar inform bookmakers who trade the information and adjust their internal markets but make no public disclosure or,

c) Sportradar inform both governing bodies and bookmakers and all enjoy privileged inside information at the public's expense with no release of the corruption to the press.

Whichever of these constructs is the reality, Sportradar are exposed as charlatans who are a problematical input to integrity in world sport.

As they scream on their website - ITF and Sportradar: A Unique Partnership.

Additionally, virtually all tennis coaches in the UK have contracts with British territory bookmakers that enables private information regarding player form, injury, psychological state, fitness to be shared for mutual gain.

Yet players themselves and family members/friends have to sign non-disclosure contracts to prevent them from utilising private information in the betting markets!

Top-down insider trading is allowed...
... bottom up trading is banned.



Which is where we come in - we copwatch.

We are trusted as purveyors of integrity which means that we are given highly privileged market information at least two levels deeper than the stratum reached by Sportradar in the Dark Pool trading platforms that dominate global betting markets.

There is also extensive chapeau blanc detection and intercept abilities in our network.

Hence the eight Premier League matches that are matchfixing events this midweek.

We know of only one other British entity that has similar access to these markets.

Yet this deeper access cannot be used as an excuse for the inaction of the bodies detailed above - although they might not witness the specific £### million trades, the market structure means that this information floats to the surface of the public markets where, with bespoke analysis, it is detectable.
Furthermore, many bookmakers operate in both the Dark Pools and in the public markets and are fully aware of the matchfixing.

Think of this when at your Premier League ground of choice tonight and tomorrow evening.

NB: We released our information relating to Dark Pool betting patterns and our other modes of extracting insider trading information 5 hours prior to the Tuesday Premier League kick-off's to engender a response in the market from the matchfixing operations. And a response is exactly what we got! If we had delayed our post to kick off (the original intention), we would not have garnered this extra information.
And the matchfixing that we exposed?
All eight matches were indeed matchfixing events.
These criminalised people are not very bright.

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

                          Javier Tebas "Nothing was done to help Real Madrid. I say nothing"

On November 22nd last year, we exclusively disclosed the name of the Assistant Referee who had been approached to undertake matchfixing in El Clasico between Rafa Benitez-managed Real Madrid and Barcelona  http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-planned-matchfixing-of-el-clasico.html

On February 18th, this case was archived over an alleged lack of evidence.

Una puta barbaridad!

The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) statement reads as follows: "The Referee's Technical Committee (CTA) of the RFEF hereby informs the public that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office in Barcelona has concluded the investigation procedures related to the complaint lodged with it and the Guardia Civil relating to the alleged pressure made by a member of the CTA on a certain number of referees and assistant referees, the possible candidates to be appointed for a certain football match. As a result of the above, the office has proceeded to archive the complaint referred to, on the grounds that it lacks the sufficient evidence to prosper. This is placed on record for the sporting world and the football world in particular."

This is a cover up as the evidence exists.

1. La Liga president Javier Tebas claims the allegations were "implausible" as the refereeing team had not been made public at the time of the Assistant Referee detailing the illicit approach by the CTA to his lawyer. But the selection of the refereeing team for El Clasico had already been made internally which undermines the platitudes of self-confessed Real Madrid fan Tebas.

2. The actual release of the refereeing team to the public was delayed and was made at the time of kick off of the England v France match commemorating the Paris terrorist atrocities and would have also been during the Belgium v Spain game had it not been postponed on security grounds late on. Why was the public announcement delayed and timed at 21:00 hrs Spanish time if there was nothing to hide?

3. If everything was lacking in evidence then why was the official who made the complaint removed from the refereeing team of  David Fernandez Borbolan for the El Clasico game and only for that certain football match, appearing as Assistant Referee to Borbolan in all previous and subsequent events? 

4. What did Rafa Benitez know of the initial approach by the CTA?

THIS ISN'T JUST ANY GAME, IT IS THE BIGGEST GAME IN THE WORLD AND SYSTEMIC MATCHFIXING WAS ATTEMPTED...
... AND THEN COVERED UP. 

Una puta barbaridad!

And while we are on the subject of corruption, as Tebas is painting himself as whiter than white then perhaps he could tell the Spanish public how the other matchfixing investigations are proceeding in relation to fixed matches at the conclusion of previous seasons  http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/mar/17/spain-finally-fighting-match-fixing 

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We first blogged about the formation of a European Super League in 2007  http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/every-so-often-g1418-group-of-europes.html.

And now it is upon us.

Don't act all surprised now.

Here is that original post entitled "May We Have A Nice Shiny New Super League Please?"

Every so often the G14(18) group of Europe's most influential and powerful clubs utilise the threat of a breakaway European Super League as a negotiating tactic in their power play with footballing and/or governmental authorities. Aside from destabilising any negotiation process, such posturing lets the irritating regulatory and administrative bodies understand who possesses the real control of the European game at it's highest strata.
The first point to be made here is that the Super League already exists albeit in a nascent form under the tutelage of an inappropriate body (in the eyes of the G14(18)). It is called the Champions League. This misnomer of a competition has historically paid lip service to being a competition for the champions of Europe's various leagues while filtering out lesser nations to allow the latter stages to be a knockout version of such a Super League. Only three of the quarter finalists are national champions (Roma effectively finishing fifth in last season's Serie A before Italy's annual pre-season uproarious lottery) and ten of the last 16 teams came from the Big 3 countries. Several of the participants have directly and strategically targeted the Champions League competition throughout the season in preference to their domestic leagues and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that we are involved in an ongoing process that will inevitably result in the formation of a Europe-wide moneybags tournament. For further evidence, look at the last two seasons in the English Premiership. It is an imperative that the Big 4 qualify for Europe's premier competition. The manner in which Everton were discarded in favour of their neighbours via a change in the competition rules two years ago and Tottenham were stomach-bugged out of fourth place last season is an indication of the levels that the power operators will target to achieve their rightful place. Additionally, the Big 4 have issues with the more corrupt bookmaking practices currently in vogue in the Premiership (see numerous posts on the PGMOB undermining Arsenal this season, for example).
The election of Michel Platini, although welcomed by most football aficionados, may well accelerate this process. His declared aim is to reduce the number of Champions League qualifiers for the Big 3 countries which has no chance of being a feasible strategy. Such an action is the equivalent of self-administering a poison pill as it will merely hasten the formation of his nemesis - the Super League. Platini has an unenviable choice - compromise or be yesterday's administrator... 
Oh and, by the way, you'll be sidelined eventually anyway. The power brokers who are taking control of the British game would prefer a blank piece of paper to establish their growth strategies. Standard private equity-heads desire either complete and utter control of a current structure or to develop an entirely new edifice suitably designed for their own creative investment plans. This week's Milan versus FC Bayern game is a case in point. As Dietrological clients will be aware, we have been forced to not only hedge our initial positionings on the Italians but we are now actively supportive of the Bavarians in the marketplace. Some of our reasoning is proprietary isolationist stuff but the Germans are livid about the choice of Baskakov to officiate and a future Super League would have an enclosed roster of referees that were acceptable to all G14(18) teams and not just the ones with the deepest pockets. Interestingly, we still suggest FC Bayern +0.5 despite Baskakov and the exclusion of Oliver Kahn.
So, the owners want it and the powerful clubs want it. Governments and the EU? Britain's Department of Culture Media and Sport is largely in the possession of the manipulators of the English game despite the occasional outbreak of righteous indignation from Richard Caborn. This is largely tokenistic as he knows which side his bread is vegan margerined while Tessa Jowell does as she is told (incidentally, not a lot of press coverage in England for her estranged husband's ongoing legal sensitivities in Milan with fellow lodge member Silvio Berlusconi). The G14(18) have lobbied widely and effectively within the EU in order to drive a wedge into UEFA. The neo-con MEPs supportive of the creation of a Super League believe in regime change as a matter of course and are willing to play their part in the final takeover of the European game by the fat wallets.
What will be the impact on the Premiership once the Big 4 and a couple of referees have disappeared into the trading strategies of the investment banks? Prior to corruption, the playing field will be significantly more level. As the recent cup exploits of Arsenal reserves has shown, the junior teams of the Big 4 would get in the UEFA Cup spots if allowed into the Premiership. A more level playing field at a power strata equivalent to the Championship in the current English set up would be preferable for the second tier clubs supported by first world money (Portsmouth, Spurs, Villa etc) in a shiny Super League world. 
And the bookmakers will be ecstatic. Our prediction of the first £1billion football market in the next 2-5 years would be achieved sooner rather than later. The betting turnover generated by the new Super League would be globally colossal. The bookmakers will have to adapt if they do not wish to be supplanted by the global investment houses but the profits on offer will allow a suitable accommodation of each others interests (at least initially). Domestic leagues would still be an earner for the market makers as Man City and West Ham fans would not immediately desert their team for a spot of glory hunting.
And, there are going to be some very very rich referees...
The fans, what about the fans? Do as you are told. Watch what they want you to watch and bet on what they wish for you to be betting on. Understand? We have a business to run here. Be good consumerists now...
The protagonists are claiming to be looking at a timescale of five to ten years before their baby becomes a reality. We would veer towards the lower end of this range and, quite probably, sooner. Private equity people are not renowned for their patience, risk aversion or lack of willingness to undertake psychopathic creative deconstruction in pursuit of yet more dollars. If Gillet and Hicks could sort it for next season, they would. For the moment though, the G14(18) assure us that the Super League is merely a potential blueprint in case "UEFA and/or FIFA runs wild". Leaving aside the point that the like of the G14(18) objecting to football's current administrators running wild is a case of projection of the first degree, plotters may always find a viable transgression for them to advance their strategy. An example - was Hezbullah's capture of an Israeli soldier really the trigger for Israel's invasion of Lebanon last year? Of course not... A strategy was in place years ahead starting with the taking out of Rafik Hariri and the expulsion of the Syrians after some "revolution" with a colour chosen from a Dulux paint chart. 
The Super League start date is already agreed.

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

"Regarding Leicester City, the coincident date of initiation of systemic biased refereeing and the marked enhancement of fitness that could only be achieved via blood doping is entirely indicative of conspiratorial processes. The stars are aligned for the Foxes" - Football is Fixed.

But firstly, a question.

According to Terry Steans, the former Global Investigations Coordinator at FIFA,  a 'secret investor' has a 20% ownership stake in Leicester City?
Are the Premier League aware of this 'secret' investment?
If not, why not?
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Leicester City in the Premier League prior to Howard Webb selecting match officials:

4 wins 7 draws 18 losses

Penalty differentials: 2 in favour 3 against
Red Card differentials: 2 in favour 2 against

Leicester City in the Premier League since Howard Webb selects match officials (to Apr 10):

28 wins 10 draws 4 losses

Penalty differentials: 10 in favour 1 against
Red Card differentials: 4 in favour 1 against

This breakpoint did not occur in the summer when Claudio Ranieri became manager but from the very first round of matches when Webb selected the officials (April 4th 2015) - Mark Clattenburg (who had given Leicester two penalties plus a red card against Man Utd earlier in the season) being chosen for the West Ham match which started the run of 7 wins 1 draw and 1 loss in final 9 games of last season.
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But there is more...

Prior to this date (April 4th 2015), Leicester City were the least fit team in the Premier League (based on yardage covered, speed of sprint, maintenance of energy over games, recovery from adjacent games etc).

Since this date, Leicester City have become the second fittest team in the Premier League.

And the change was immediate...

Leicester City instantly became the second fittest team from early April 2015.
This improvement in fitness is not due to Claudio Ranieri as he was not yet manager, and it is not due to improved training as any such improvement takes time.

Such an improvement can only be achieved instantly by blood doping.
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This season Leicester City have the third worst possession stats in the Premier League.
Leicester City also have the lowest pass completion rate in the Premier League and the fifth worst in the top five European leagues (98 teams).

So they hardly ever have the ball...
... and when they do have it, they can't pass it straight.

And yet Leicester City are going to win the Premier League title.

How?



In 25 years of recording data on the top European leagues, there has never been a team even remotely as favoured by referees as Leicester City have been this season.
21 referees have officiated in the Premier League in the last two seasons.
The following officials have not refereed any Leicester City games since Webb took over - Attwell, Friend, Hooper, R. Madley, A. Madley, Scott, Stroud, Dowd and Foy (although Foy has now retired).
All Leicester City games have been shared around the other 12 officials.
Why?

Taylor and Dean have been given four games each - resulting in 8 victories for Leicester City - and Jonathan Moss has overseen 6 wins and a draw in his seven appearances as referee or 4th official.



And how have Leicester City, whose players are given two full days off per week (more than any other team), been able to have the two fastest players in the EPL this season (one of whom is 29 years old), and 3 of the seven quickest?
And how can a team instantly become incredibly fit overnight?

Leicester City train less but run quickest...
... and they instantly became the second fittest team in the league having been the least fit!

How?

The coincident date of initiation of biased refereeing and marked enhancement of fitness is entirely indicative of conspiratorial processes.



And take Jamie Vardy.

Prior to April 4th 2015, Vardy had scored 2 goals in 25 Premier League games...
... and since that date, our speedy friend has scored 22 goals in 38 games.

In good time, we will release our analyses of the refereeing of the defences marking Vardy in this latter window together with details of his fitness profiling in the last 11 months.
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Spurs, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Southampton, West Ham, Everton and Liverpool have reasons for a protest against this systemic uproar impacting upon their EPL title, Champions League or Europa League chances.


Jose Mourinho, Chelsea, Gestifute and Jorge Mendes also have a claim after the same grouping of referees targeted the club until Mourinho was sacked.
At the same time as Chelsea experienced 8 defeats and 3 draws in 14 games with the conspiratorial referees in charge, they inexplicably won 4 out of 6 Champions League games to finish top of their group.
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A number of BBC Match of the Day and BT Sport insiders have considerable trading positions (at up 5,000-1 outright) on the Foxes winning the title and/or finishing in the Champions League places.
These trades were placed presciently before the season began.
It is worthy of mention that these are good markets to be in when BT Sport's resident referee is, of course...
... Howard Webb.

It should be noted that Webb allegedly gave up selecting pgMOB referees in the summer when signing his contract with BT Sport but, in reality, #################################
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BT Sport's Michael Owen (horserace owner, professional gambler and former bookies' runner for the England team) helps to put our minds at ease by informing us that matchfixing "is not a huge issue... When someone says matchfixing to me, I automatically think of 22 players fixing the result... but [it] is not necessarily people colluding at the highest levels to rig games."

Or listen to BBC, BT Sport and Leicester City ambassador Gary Lineker: "It could quite possibly be the greatest sporting upset of all time if Leicester won the Premier League from where they were a year ago. It's a quite staggering story."

Blood and sand.
It certainly is.

And why the smoke and mirrors regarding the secret investor?

Not a Hollywood feelgood movie.
Not a fairy tale.
But something altogether more murky.

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

                                                            It's in the eyes...

The ten Select Group Premier League referees who have been so biased in favour of Leicester City this season have also been targeting the Foxes four primary pre-season title competitors - Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United.

The Select Group 10 are Mark Clattenburg, Jonathan Moss, Martin Atkinson, Mike Dean, Michael Oliver, Craig Pawson, Lee Mason, Anthony Taylor, Andre Marriner and Neil Swarbrick.

On Leicester City games, these officials have overseen 16 wins 7 draws and 2 defeats with 9 penalty/red card differentials in favour and two against (9-2).
This is an average of 2.20 points per game.

On Leicester City games where other referees have officiated, the Foxes have had 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat with 2 penalty/red card differentials in favour and one against (2-1).
This is an average of 1.83 points per game.

On Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United games, these officials have overseen 35 wins, 27 draws and 27 defeats with 11 penalty/red card differentials in favour and 13 against (11-13).
This is an average of  1.48 points per game.

On Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United games where other referees have officiated, these 4 teams have had 20 wins, 5 draws and 5 defeats with 5 penalty/red card differentials in favour and one against (5-1).
This is an average of 2.17 points per game.

To put it another way, here is a tabulation of the projected points totals (as of this date) with the Select Group 10 and with other officials for the five clubs as well as the actual points totals:

Arsenal - 49 points with Select Group 10; 71 points with other referees; 55 points actual total.
Man City - 44 points with Select Group 10; 71 points with other referees; 51 points actual total.
Chelsea - 37 points with Select Group 10; 53 points with other referees; 41 points actual total.
Man Utd - 48 points with Select Group 10; 56 points with other referees; 50 points actual total.
Leicester - 68 points with Select Group 10; 57 points with other referees; 66 points actual total.

We expect these machinations to continue to the inevitable conclusion of a Premier League title for Leicester City...

... the Leicester City who have been systemically aided by pgMOB Select Group referees,
... the Leicester City who moved from least fit Premier League team to second most fit in a matter of days  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2016/04/02/premier-league-stars-given-banned-drugs-by-british-doctor/,
... the Leicester City who are illegally 20% owned by a secret investor,
... the Leicester City who were traded upon by insiders at 5,000-1 pre-season,
... the Leicester City whose success marks the end of legitimacy in English football.

THIS IS NOT A FAIRY TALE...
... IT'S A CONSPIRACY!

10 Posts Detailing This Conspiracy
http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/webb-of-lies.html
http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/snitching-ochenta-y-uno.html
http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/snitching-veintiseis.html
http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/snitching-sesenta-y-siete.html
http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/chats-shit.html
http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/snitching-cincuenta-y-seis.html
http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/bizarre-patterns-indicative-of-systemic_14.html
http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/snitching-cincuenta-y-dos_7.html
http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/a-very-select-group.html
http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/snitching-cuarenta-y-seis.html

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

                                                       Dr Mark Bonar Aha!

Dr Mark Bonar (above) has supplied Performance Enhancing Substances (PESs) to 150 leading British sportspeople including footballers from Leicester City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Birmingham City.

We were the first media outlet to disclose the use of PESs at Leicester City in our 'Webb Of Lies' published on Football is Fixed on February 6th 2016  http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/webb-of-lies.html (although we had implied such shenanigans earlier on the SYnonymous blog  http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/).

As we have pointed out throughout our revelations regarding the criminalities at Leicester City, although the referee-based corruption is systemic, the doping is particular and was set in motion in April 2015 prior to Claudio Ranieri becoming manager of the club.

The Sunday Times  http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article1684584.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2016_04_02 filmed Bonar boasting about his doping regime from his Harley Street offices where he admitted supplying EPO (Erythropoietin), steroids and human growth hormone to elite athletes.
The newspaper used an athlete as a sting and Bonar told him that "Some of these treatments I use are banned on a professional circuit. So, you have to be mindful of that."

The General Medical Council (GMC) has clear rules stating that doctors should not prescribe sportspeople with PESs.
Additionally, the GMC has stated that while registered with it, Bonar does not have a current licence to practise medicine in the UK.

And Bonar has form.
Last December, he appeared at a tribunal charged with 16 instances of misconduct after it was alleged that he had given a woman false hope when he should have been recommending proper end-of-life care. Bonar hid the woman's terminal cancer from her so that he might carry on billing her for 'unconventional treatment' http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/harley-street-doctor-hid-womans-6986419.

UK Anti Doping had been tipped off two years ago about Dr Bonar but sidelined the disclosures due to a lack of evidence.

All three clubs released remarkably similar statements over the exposures:
"Leicester City Football Club is extremely disappointed that the Sunday Times has published unsubstantiated allegations."
"Arsenal Football Club is extremely disappointed by the publication of these false claims which are without foundation."
And Chelsea "the claims The Sunday Times put to us are false and entirely without foundation."

What a coincident fluke of shared innocence without collusion!

It is worthy of note that, if the clubs were in knowledge of or behind the doping, they would issue denials while, if the players were acting without the support of their clubs, the clubs would also release such denials as a matter of course in case the scandal impacts upon their brands.

Either way, the denials are of no consequence...
... remember Lance Armstrong?

And it should be remembered that Andrew Jennings, the investigative reporter who brought down Sepp Blatter, reckons that The Sunday Times team are the ONLY valid mainstream sports media in Britain. 
All other media orchestrate, collude in or turn a blind eye to corruption in British football.

As we have exposed previously, the improvement in fitness of certain Leicester City footballers could only have occurred via the use of blood doping - a team cannot move from being the least fit to the second fittest overnight without a number of their players engaging in illicit doping.

Interestingly, the only mainstream media outlet that failed originally to disclose that Leicester City are one of the clubs whose players purchased Dr Bonar's services is The Guardian where Jamie Vardy's matchfixing football agent John Colquhoun holds editorial sway.

THE SUCCESS OF LEICESTER CITY IS A CONSPIRACY
http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-success-of-leicester-city-is.html

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

"Whistleblowers are outliers of probability, and if they are to be effective as a political force, it’s critical that they maximize the amount of public good produced from scarce seed."
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"I've been waiting 40 years for someone like you.” Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much — and to be irrevocably changed — by revealing secret truths.

One of the challenges of being a whistleblower is living with the knowledge that people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency, who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint. They learn to live not just with untruths but with unnecessary untruths, dangerous untruths, corrosive untruths. It is a double tragedy: What begins as a survival strategy ends with the compromise of the human being it sought to preserve and the diminishing of the democracy meant to justify the sacrifice.

But unlike Dan Ellsberg, I didn’t have to wait 40 years to witness other citizens breaking that silence with documents. Ellsberg gave the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and other newspapers in 1971; Chelsea Manning provided the Iraq and Afghan War logs and the Cablegate materials to WikiLeaks in 2010. I came forward in 2013. Now here we are in 2016, and another person of courage and conscience has made available the set of extraordinary documents that are published in The Assassination Complex, the new book out today by Jeremy Scahill and the staff of The Intercept. (The documents were originally published last October 15 in The Drone Papers.)

We are witnessing a compression of the working period in which bad policy shelters in the shadows, the time frame in which unconstitutional activities can continue before they are exposed by acts of conscience. And this temporal compression has a significance beyond the immediate headlines; it permits the people of this country to learn about critical government actions, not as part of the historical record but in a way that allows direct action through voting — in other words, in a way that  empowers an informed citizenry to defend the democracy that “state secrets” are nominally intended to support. When I see individuals who are able to bring information forward, it gives me hope that we won’t always be required to curtail the illegal activities of our government as if it were a constant task, to uproot official lawbreaking as routinely as we mow the grass. (Interestingly enough, that is how some have begun to describe remote killing operations, as “cutting the grass.”)

A single act of whistleblowing doesn’t change the reality that there are significant portions of the government that operate below the waterline, beneath the visibility of the public. Those secret activities will continue, despite reforms. But those who perform these actions now have to live with the fear that if they engage in activities contrary to the spirit of society — if even a single citizen is catalyzed to halt the machinery of that injustice — they might still be held to account. The thread by which good governance hangs is this equality before the law, for the only fear of the man who turns the gears is that he may find himself upon them.

Hope lies beyond, when we move from extraordinary acts of revelation to a collective culture of accountability within the intelligence community. Here we will have taken a meaningful step toward solving a problem that has existed for as long as our government.


Not all leaks are alike, nor are their makers. Gen. David Petraeus, for instance, provided his illicit lover and favorable biographer information so secret it defied classification, including the names of covert operatives and the president’s private thoughts on matters of strategic concern. Petraeus was not charged with a felony, as the Justice Department had initially recommended, but was instead permitted to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. Had an enlisted soldier of modest rank pulled out a stack of highly classified notebooks and handed them to his girlfriend to secure so much as a smile, he’d be looking at many decades in prison, not a pile of character references from a Who’s Who of the Deep State.

There are authorized leaks and also permitted disclosures. It is rare for senior administration officials to explicitly ask a subordinate to leak a CIA officer’s name to retaliate against her husband, as appears to have been the case with Valerie Plame. It is equally rare for a month to go by in which some senior official does not disclose some protected information that is beneficial to the political efforts of the parties but clearly “damaging to national security” under the definitions of our law.

This dynamic can be seen quite clearly in the al Qaeda “conference call of doom” story, in which intelligence officials, likely seeking to inflate the threat of terrorism and deflect criticism of mass surveillance, revealed to a neoconservative website extraordinarily detailed accounts of specific communications they had intercepted, including locations of the participating parties and the precise contents of the discussions. If the officials’ claims were to be believed, they irrevocably burned an extraordinary means of learning the precise plans and intentions of terrorist leadership for the sake of a short-lived political advantage in a news cycle. Not a single person seems to have been so much as disciplined as a result of the story that cost us the ability to listen to the alleged al Qaeda hotline.


If harmfulness and authorization make no difference, what explains the distinction between the permissible and the impermissible disclosure?

The answer is control. A leak is acceptable if it’s not seen as a threat, as a challenge to the prerogatives of the institution. But if all of the disparate components of the institution — not just its head but its hands and feet, every part of its body — must be assumed to have the same power to discuss matters of concern, that is an existential threat to the modern political monopoly of information control, particularly if we’re talking about disclosures of serious wrongdoing, fraudulent activity, unlawful activities. If you can’t guarantee that you alone can exploit the flow of controlled information, then the aggregation of all the world’s unmentionables — including your own — begins to look more like a liability than an asset.


Truly unauthorized disclosures are necessarily an act of resistance — that is, if they’re not done simply for press consumption, to fluff up the public appearance or reputation of an institution. However, that doesn’t mean they all come from the lowest working level. Sometimes the individuals who step forward happen to be near the pinnacle of power. Ellsberg was in the top tier; he was briefing the secretary of defense. You can’t get much higher, unless you are the secretary of defense, and the incentives simply aren’t there for such a high-ranking official to be involved in public interest disclosures because that person already wields the influence to change the policy directly.

At the other end of the spectrum is Manning, a junior enlisted soldier, who was much nearer to the bottom of the hierarchy. I was midway in the professional career path. I sat down at the table with the chief information officer of the CIA, and I was briefing him and his chief technology officer when they were publicly making statements like “We try to collect everything and hang on to it forever,” and everybody still thought that was a cute business slogan. Meanwhile I was designing the systems they would use to do precisely that. I wasn’t briefing the policy side, the secretary of defense, but I was briefing the operations side, the National Security Agency’s director of technology. Official wrongdoing can catalyze all levels of insiders to reveal information, even at great risk to themselves, so long as they can be convinced that it is necessary to do so.

Reaching those individuals, helping them realize that their first allegiance as a public servant is to the public rather than to the government, is the challenge. That’s a significant shift in cultural thinking for a government worker today.

I’ve argued that whistleblowers are elected by circumstance. It’s not a virtue of who you are or your background. It’s a question of what you are exposed to, what you witness. At that point the question becomes Do you honestly believe that you have the capability to remediate the problem, to influence policy? I would not encourage individuals to reveal information, even about wrongdoing, if they do not believe they can be effective in doing so, because the right moment can be as rare as the will to act.

This is simply a pragmatic, strategic consideration. Whistleblowers are outliers of probability, and if they are to be effective as a political force, it’s critical that they maximize the amount of public good produced from scarce seed. When I was making my decision, I came to understand how one strategic consideration, such as waiting until the month before a domestic election, could become overwhelmed by another, such as the moral imperative to provide an opportunity to arrest a global trend that had already gone too far. I was focused on what I saw and on my sense of overwhelming disenfranchisement that the government, in which I had believed for my entire life, was engaged in such an extraordinary act of deception.

At the heart of this evolution is that whistleblowing is a radicalizing event — and by “radical” I don’t mean “extreme”; I mean it in the traditional sense of radix, the root of the issue. At some point you recognize that you can’t just move a few letters around on a page and hope for the best. You can’t simply report this problem to your supervisor, as I tried to do, because inevitably supervisors get nervous. They think about the structural risk to their career. They’re concerned about rocking the boat and “getting a reputation.” The incentives aren’t there to produce meaningful reform. Fundamentally, in an open society, change has to flow from the bottom to the top.

As someone who works in the intelligence community, you’ve given up a lot to do this work. You’ve happily committed yourself to tyrannical restrictions. You voluntarily undergo polygraphs; you tell the government everything about your life. You waive a lot of rights because you believe the fundamental goodness of your mission justifies the sacrifice of even the sacred. It’s a just cause.

And when you’re confronted with evidence — not in an edge case, not in a peculiarity, but as a core consequence of the program — that the government is subverting the Constitution and violating the ideals you so fervently believe in, you have to make a decision. When you see that the program or policy is inconsistent with the oaths and obligations that you’ve sworn to your society and yourself, then that oath and that obligation cannot be reconciled with the program. To which do you owe a greater loyalty?

One of the extraordinary things about the revelations of the past several years, and their accelerating pace, is that they have occurred in the context of the United States as the “uncontested hyperpower.” We now have the largest unchallenged military machine in the history of the world, and it’s backed by a political system that is increasingly willing to authorize any use of force in response to practically any justification. In today’s context that justification is terrorism, but not necessarily because our leaders are particularly concerned about terrorism in itself or because they think it’s an existential threat to society. They recognize that even if we had a 9/11 attack every year, we would still be losing more people to car accidents and heart disease, and we don’t see the same expenditure of resources to respond to those more significant threats.

What it really comes down to is the political reality that we have a political class that feels it must inoculate itself against allegations of weakness. Our politicians are more fearful of the politics of terrorism — of the charge that they do not take terrorism seriously — than they are of the crime itself.

As a result we have arrived at this unmatched capability, unrestrained by policy. We have become reliant upon what was intended to be the limitation of last resort: the courts. Judges, realizing that their decisions are suddenly charged with much greater political importance and impact than was originally intended, have gone to great lengths in the post-9/11 period to avoid reviewing the laws or the operations of the executive in the national security context and setting restrictive precedents that, even if entirely proper, would impose limits on government for decades or more. That means the most powerful institution that humanity has ever witnessed has also become the least restrained. Yet that same institution was never designed to operate in such a manner, having instead been explicitly founded on the principle of checks and balances. Our founding impulse was to say, “Though we are mighty, we are voluntarily restrained.”


When you first go on duty at CIA headquarters, you raise your hand and swear an oath — not to government, not to the agency, not to secrecy. You swear an oath to the Constitution. So there’s this friction, this emerging contest between the obligations and values that the government asks you to uphold, and the actual activities that you’re asked to participate in.
These disclosures about the Obama administration’s killing program reveal that there’s a part of the American character that is deeply concerned with the unrestrained, unchecked exercise of power. And there is no greater or clearer manifestation of unchecked power than assuming for oneself the authority to execute an individual outside of a battlefield context and without the involvement of any sort of judicial process.

Traditionally, in the context of military affairs, we’ve always understood that lethal force in battle could not be subjected to ex ante judicial constraints. When armies are shooting at each other, there’s no room for a judge on that battlefield. But now the government has decided — without the public’s participation, without our knowledge and consent — that the battlefield is everywhere. Individuals who don’t represent an imminent threat in any meaningful sense of those words are redefined, through the subversion of language, to meet that definition.

Inevitably that conceptual subversion finds its way home, along with the technology that enables officials to promote comfortable illusions about surgical killing and nonintrusive surveillance. Take, for instance, the Holy Grail of drone persistence, a capability that the United States has been pursuing forever. The goal is to deploy solar-powered drones that can loiter in the air for weeks without coming down. Once you can do that, and you put any typical signals collection device on the bottom of it to monitor, unblinkingly, the emanations of, for example, the different network addresses of every laptop, smartphone, and iPod, you know not just where a particular device is in what city, but you know what apartment each device lives in, where it goes at any particular time, and by what route. Once you know the devices, you know their owners. When you start doing this over several cities, you’re tracking the movements not just of individuals but of whole populations.

By preying on the modern necessity to stay connected, governments can reduce our dignity to something like that of tagged animals, the primary difference being that we paid for the tags and they’re in our pockets. It sounds like fantasist paranoia, but on the technical level it’s so trivial to implement that I cannot imagine a future in which it won’t be attempted. It will be limited to the war zones at first, in accordance with our customs, but surveillance technology has a tendency to follow us home.

Here we see the double edge of our uniquely American brand of nationalism. We are raised to be exceptionalists, to think we are the better nation with the manifest destiny to rule. The danger is that some people will actually believe this claim, and some of those will expect the manifestation of our national identity, that is, our government, to comport itself accordingly.

Unrestrained power may be many things, but it’s not American. It is in this sense that the act of whistleblowing increasingly has become an act of political resistance. The whistleblower raises the alarm and lifts the lamp, inheriting the legacy of a line of Americans that begins with Paul Revere.

The individuals who make these disclosures feel so strongly about what they have seen that they’re willing to risk their lives and their freedom. They know that we, the people, are ultimately the strongest and most reliable check on the power of government. The insiders at the highest levels of government have extraordinary capability, extraordinary resources, tremendous access to influence, and a monopoly on violence, but in the final calculus there is but one figure that matters: the individual citizen.

And there are more of us than there are of them.

                                                      Sir Bradley Wiggins on one

Introduction

In June we published a post entitled 'The End Of Play' in which we itemised the systemic corruptions behind the Premier League title success of Leicester City.

The post is republished in full below.

Given the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) documents released by the Fancy Bears' hacking team over the last fortnight exposing USA and UK Olympic athletes and, specifically, the usage of TUEs by Team Sky, Sir David Brailsford and Sir Bradley Wiggins, we thought that we should update our exposure...
... particularly as sport scientists from Team Sky spent considerable time working hand in glove with sport scientists at Leicester City last season http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/dave-brailsford-fantastic-case-study-in-sport-223533.
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Before printing the original post, here are some other articles relating to the fixing of the 2015/16 Premier League and a timeline of happenings to bring you up to date this season.
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Earlier Articles on Leicester City

Apr 3rd 2016: The Doping Of Leicester City Players  http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-doping-of-leicester-city-players.html

Apr 2nd 2016: The Success Of Leicester City Is A Conspiracy  http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-success-of-leicester-city-is.html

Mar 6th 2016: Webb Of Lies  http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/webb-of-lies.html
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2016/17 Timeline


                                                     Sir David Brailsford on one

Sep 26 2016: Sir David Brailsford of Team Sky defends the doping of Sir Bradley Wiggins in an interview with BBC's Dan Roan. One knight of the realm defending another knight of the realm (and both of their legacies) in arranged communication with the television company that made Wiggins Sports Personality of the Year and who were closely linked to the corruptions at Leicester City via Match of the Day's Gary Lineker.

Sep 25th 2016:BBC's Andrew Marr presents a pre-recorded interview with Sir Bradley Wiggins that leaves many more questions than answers relating to the doping of the cyclist.

Sep 24th 2016:Leicester City are 4-0 behind at half time versus Manchester United meaning that they have lost as many games this season as in the whole of last.

Sep 15th 2016:Fancy Bears' hacking team release documents from WADA implicating Team Sky and Sir Bradley Wiggins in systemic doping.

                                                          Jamie Vardy on one

Sep 13th 2016: One day after the Fancy Bears' hack, Jamie Vardy suddenly stops wearing his 'Magic Bandage' for the first time in 21 months - prior to wearing the Magic Bandage he had scored 1 goal in half a season but thereafter he scored 30 goals in 50 appearances in the Premier League. In 4 games since the removal of the Magic Bandage, Vardy has failed to score.

Sep 12th 2016:Fancy Bears' release the first hacked documents from WADA showing doping by Olympic athletes from USA and UK.

Aug 28th 2016:Leicester City, after being the second fittest team in the EPL last season, are mysteriously the 2nd least fit this season.

#LeicesterCity
2015/16 2nd Fittest Team in #PremierLeague
2016/17 2nd Least Fit Team.
How?https://t.co/Gm50ZhyVGYpic.twitter.com/afqvLyPF9c

— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) August 28, 2016

Leicester City Comparative Performance Before, During And After Systemic Corruption

Leicester City prior to doping and systemic corruption in season 2014/15: 4 wins 7 draws 18 defeats.

Leicester City during doping and systemic corruption 2015-16: 30 wins 13 draws 4 defeats.

Leicester City without doping this season: 2 wins 1 draw 3 defeats.
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The Systemic Nature Of Corruption In English Football

But the conspiracy spreads further as Dr Steve Peters was sport psychiatrist to both Team Sky and the England football team under Roy Hodgson.

And Sir David Brailsford has been approached by the FA to work with the England team under Sam Allardyce.

And Allardyce has been stung by the Daily Telegraph telling Far East undercover investors how to get around FA rules on Third Party Ownership  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/exclusive-investigation-england-manager-sam-allardyce-for-sale/.

And John Colquhoun (who is joined at the hip to Hodgson) set up the football agents who represent Jamie Vardy who Hodgson first selected for England when he had scored only four Premier League goals in 33 games http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/the-hodgson-template.html.

And Colquhoun is very active in illicit Third Party Ownership.

And Hodgson and Colquhoun were undertaking matchfixing in the Premier League as long ago as 2008  http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/happy-anniversary-to-roy-hodgson.html.

And Allardyce enjoys insider trading too  http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/fixed-match-crying-child-english.html.
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Original 'The End Of Play' Article

Jamie Vardy's Magic Bandage

Before the heroic Mr Vardy started wearing his Magic Bandage, he had scored 1 Premier League goal in half a season.
Thereafter he scored 28 goals in 46 games.

If we were Mr Vardy, we would patent that Magic Bandage.
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In 1976, philosopher Jean Baudrillard sent his essay 'Forget Foucault' to the French magazine Critique where Michel Foucault was an editor.
Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent.

When 'Forget Foucault' was subsequently published in book form, Baudrillard added a dialogue where he deconstructed his own early post-Marxian critical thinking - 'Forget Baudrillard'.

And what has this got to do with football, we hear you ask?
Baudrillard's Theory of the Phases of the Image, that's what!

Do Not Forget Baudrillard!

Football was Play. It started out as a sport played to agreed rules (1st Phase).

Local businessmen took over clubs for personal gain while players still played sport. As soon as Money hits Play, Play is fucked (2nd Phase).

When the Money is linked to parallel but otherwise independent betting markets, insider trading and corruption govern the sport. Match outcomes are dependent on private agendas. Football no longer exists as a sport (3rd Phase).

By the time the corruption is systemic then everything is fake - football is "a simulacra bearing no relation to reality whatsoever".
Football is now merely a form of entertainment - like wrestling in the old days or WWE, horseracing, tennis, cricket or the dogs nowadays (4th Phase).

It somehow seems apt that Euro 2016 is being distorted in Baudrillard's France but, by-passing that charade, let's look at the English Premier League and, humbly, suggest the adding of a 5th Phase of the Image to Baudrillard's societal analysis.

King Power Land The British Football Franchise Trophy In Insider Coup

Leicester City were gifted the Premier League title last season - a team linked to disgraced blood doper Dr Mark Bonar moved from being the least fit team in the league to the second fittest literally overnight prior to the last 9 games of the 14/15 season. This fitness level was maintained throughout their title-winning season and, interestingly, Leicester only experienced 12 injuries (out of 620 in the league) and also had the fastest recovery times from such injuries to boot.

This infrastructure achieved conspiratorial levels when an inner group of Premier League pgMOB referees started markedly favouring Leicester and undermining potential competitors at the very same date - April 2015.
Little wonder insiders at BT Sport and the BBC were insider trading at such volume on the Foxes pre-season at up to 5,000/1 - that would be the insider trading based on a systemic corruption that extends to senior UK governmental levels.

20% of Leicester City is owned by a secret investor who paid £8m to have the Premier League ignore his stake. After the title was landed, New York-based Private Company Financial Intelligence reasoned that this stake would have increased to £88m - true private profiteering harmony from a South East Asian perspective!

In effect, Leicester City's title win was a gift to very rich people in Thailand, China, Singapore and the UK (and her Offshore Financial Centres)...
... the 4th Phase of the Image in full effect!


But the success of Leicester City was also a triumph of media-fanned absurdity.
There is a 5th Phase of the Image based entirely upon this fake.

From the moment the Leicester team bus picked up Jamie Vardy-lookalike (postman Lee Chapman), Key Sports agents via their coercive control of mainstream media outlets ran with the story in excess. And it is Key Sports primary sluice John Colquhoun who is behind the turning of the fake that is Vardy into a Hollywood movie which we all eagerly anticipate.

The postman was included in this hyperreality until he gained his own media representation. Chapman was then blocked on Twitter by both Vardy and his wife and Key Sports did what they do best by threatening Chapman: "If you do anything that affects Jamie's image directly and his endorsement deals we will take legal action."

And, as we speak, Lee Chapman is travelling around the beaches of France dressed up as Jamie Vardy (even down to the disguising arm bandages) having selfies taken with British tourists who have elevated this postman briefly onto the primary level celebrity circuit.
Chapman even feels that he can offer opinions on the fake story of Vardy being transferred to Arsenal - "If Jamie moved to Arsenal it would be massive for my own personal brand and for my finances. You're going to get more recognition" stated our narcissistic postie.

As we said, the 5th Phase of the Image!

The Bigger Picture



The fragmented cartel of corrupting forces destroying the integrity of British football are making a fortune out of their systemic conspiracy.
Contacts within FIFA, UEFA, the bookmaking sectors of SE Asia and Europe as well as our cellular network reckon that between £6 billion and £24 billion was conspiratorially laundered via matchfixing in EPL last season.

When smoking gun intelligence of matchfixing is provided, the state and enforcement agencies have no desire to proceed - indeed, "withdraw" is the enforcement cry!

And the only way that UK Anti Doping (UKAD) would have taken seriously the evidence presented to it of systemic doping in sport is if the information had been hacked.
In response to the Sunday Times exposures, UKAD moved quickly - now sportspeople are to be warned on social media over impending drug testing so that they might behave appropriately!

UKAD is not fit for purpose.

As Dick Pound, the former president of the World Anti Doping Authority (WADA) stated: "Too many people involved in sport do not want the anti-doping system to work."

Nor do the industry want any action against matchfixing - every single agency monitoring matchfixing is fake or suffers from regulatory capture. These bodies are a part of the problem.

And it has recently reached the stage whereby the value of a player who is willing to undertake matchfixing is higher than an equivalent player of integrity, as a corrupted team will make more money out of gaming the markets on a percentage of matches than always playing in a sporting manner.

All senior figures in government, football institutions, mainstream media and the bookmaking sector understand that systemic corruption is being facilitated for private gain in British football.
There is an arbitrage in knowledge between this inner corrupt neohyperreality and the largely gullible fans' perceptions of reality which are still couched in their pseudo-religious support of their club - we determinedly place Football is Fixed within this arbitrage gap.

But fans unconsciously understand that the game is up as demonstrated by the falling attendances that the Premier League are so desperate to mask.
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The Leicester City fake 'triumph' is the biggest sports story of recent times.
Although portrayed as a fairy tale, it is in fact an affront to the integrity and validity of UK soccer...
... and the eventual implosion of disclosure will be terminal.

Jean Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real... We are moving ever closer to high definition, in other words to the useless perfection of images. Which, by the same token, are no longer images, having been produced in real time... There lies the dilemma: either simulation is irreversible, there is no going beyond simulation, it is no longer even an event, it is our absolute banality, it is an everyday obscenity, we are in terminal nihilism, and are preparing ourselves for a mindless repetition of all the forms of our culture, waiting for an unpredictable event - but where would it come from?"

Football has become iconoclastic. Modern iconoclasm no longer consists in destroying images but in manufacturing a profusion of images where there is nothing to see - the use of instant replays to rewrite the history of unfortunate occurrences!

It is the End of Play.
Believe Baudrillard!

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

Here we provide full details of the week that shook English football to the core - criminalised England managers, doping, matchfixing, Third Party ownership, insider trading, agent-based corruption, bungs, illicit bribes, tax avoidance, rogue referees, clubs acting as vehicles to initiate corruption, clubs relegated via matchfixing by their own players...
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The FA is attempting to internalise the inquiry into this rampant corruption in the English game.

But what is actually required is a police-led independent inquiry so that those who undertake corruption are driven out of the English game and, where necessary, prosecuted.
The fact that the Daily Telegraph Investigations Team have made all transcripts available to the City of London police but not yet the FA makes this outcome more likely. 

Furthermore, the Department of Culture Media and Sport Select Committee will be questioning FA chairman Greg Clarke and FA diector of governance and regulation (sic) on October 17th over the corruption in English football.

We are dealing with systemic crime and corruption here and English football has palpably demonstrated that it is unable to govern itself.

As one of our lawyers states in a communication with the Daily Telegraph Investigations Team: "I'm sure your readers would be interested to know if, in your laudable research into corruption in football, you have ever come across anyone who turned out to be honest."

Last season alone we estimate that between £6 billion and £24 billion was laundered offshore via systemic corruption and matchfixing in English football.

Football is purportedly for the fans not the offshore financial gains of a cartel of neoliberal mafia men and their protectors in government and mainstream media.
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Monday October 3rd 2016

As we suggested last Thursday, lawyers acting on behalf of the 8 Premier League managers (past and present) who were to have been exposed for accepting bungs have prevented the Daily Telegraph from releasing the names of their clients in a triumph of a cover-up. 

Lawyers of 8 #PremierLeague managers scrambling to avoid clients being outed by #DailyTelegraph over bungs/3rd Party ownership violations.

— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) September 29, 2016

Sunday October 2nd 2016

If fans thought that the powers that corrupt the Premier League would lie low over the weekend considering everything that has been disclosed this week, they were wrong.
According to both our broker and our analysts three of the live televised games were matchfixing/insider trading events.

Sunday October 2nd 2016

The Daily Telegraph reports that the FA chief executive Martin Glenn is "open-minded" about a parliamentary inquiry into corruption in English football. Meanwhile the FA chairman Greg Clarke promotes a joint inquiry between the FA and the Premier League arguing that police forces are too stretched to take on a major inquiry.

Self-investigation like self-regulation is of no value. The attempt at a cover-up is in motion.

Saturday October 1st 2016

The football Establishment begin attempts to bury the Daily Telegraph disclosures.

The Guardian output fails to report the Redknapp revelations while Kevin McKenna tells us to "forget Allardyce", a reader's letter is published online claiming that "the Premier League does not need to be saved from its own greed" and, most ludicrously, Daniel Taylor claims that there is no evidence of matchfixing, players betting on themselves to lose (see below about Spurs v Birmingham) or referee-led corruption.

Mr Taylor must feel satisfied with his blinkers and wages.

As a proper journalist elsewhere at The Guardian (Owen Jones) states in his book 'The Establishment': "... a media that does not exist to inform, educate as well as challenge all those with power, but which serves as a platform for the ambitions, prejudices and naked self-interest of a small number of wealthy moguls... The Establishment represents the institutional and intellectual means by which a wealthy elite defends its interests in a democracy."

Saturday October 1st 2016

The Investigations Team at the Daily Telegraph expose Harry Redknapp for not reporting to the FA evidence that members of his team bet on their own match.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/30/exclusive-harry-redknapp-reveals-how-his-players-illicitly-gambl/

Football is Fixed exclusively reveal that the game in question was Tottenham Hotspur versus Birmingham City on the last day of the 2010/11 season - the match which saw Birmingham relegated was a fixed event as certain people wanted Alex McLeish out of the Premier League.

The Daily Telegraph revelations suggest that some Birmingham City players bet against their own team!

The match was refereed by Mark Clattenburg who, purely by coincidence, withdrew from officiating last night's live Premier League match between Everton and Crystal Palace claiming he had a virus. He was replaced by Jon Moss.

Friday September 30th 2016

Daily Mail reveals that the Premier League allows clubs and star players to avoid tax on image rights via a secret deal with HMRC.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3816507/Secret-tax-deal-football-millionaires-cosy-deals-taxman-save-stars-millions.html

Friday September 30th 2016

The Daily Telegraph release further evidence of their sting with Eric Black (the assistant at Southampton) exposed for suggesting that one could offer bribes to other clubs. The FA explicitly bans such activities. Meanwhile the chairman Jimmy Houtput of a Belgian second division club Oud-Heverlee Leuwen offered services as a conduit for TPO illegalities.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/29/premier-league-coach-embroiled-in-bribery-scandal/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/29/belgium-football-club-offered-itself-as-a-conduit-to-help-a-fict/

Thursday September 29th 2016

Wales manager Chris Coleman calls for life bans for anybody involved in football corruption.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/29/chris-coleman-life-bans-guilty-football-corruption

Thursday September 29th 2016

The Daily Telegraph reveal that Jimmy Floyd Haisselbaink (the manager of QPR), Tommy Wright (assistant manager at Barnsley) and Massimo Cellino (the owner of Leeds United) are willing to either accept bungs or avoid TPO rules on player transfers. Wright is suspended by his club.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/29/exclusive-the-explosive-allegations-at-the-top-of-the-championsh/

Meanwhile, the English game attempts to protect itself by questioning the use of entrapment to reveal corruption.

Blaming entrapment, whistleblowers and hackers for revealing truth about corruption is crazy.
Failure lies with institutions and government.

— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) September 29, 2016

Wednesday September 28th 2016

The Daily Telegraph reveal that eight Premier League managers had admitted to taking bungs on player transfers. There were also managers and assistants in the Championship who undertook the same practise. As the paper stated: "This affair is about much more than one manager's career. Confidence in football as a whole hangs in the balance. The FA and the clubs have much to lose if they fail to recognise what is at stake here."

Meanwhile, former FA chairman Greg Dyke claimed that Roy Hodgson was "whiter than white".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/27/exclusive-eight-premier-league-managers-took-transfer-bungs-clai/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/09/28/fa-urged-to-launch-corruption-inquiry-after-telegraph-investigat/

Tuesday September 27th 2016

Football is Fixed reveal that one of the constructs being addressed by Allardyce in his meetings with investors was previously utilised by the last England manager Roy Hodgson who selected every single available player from one particular football agency to represent England at various levels.

http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/the-hodgson-template.html

Tuesday 27th September 2016

Football is Fixed reveal the name of the football agent redacted from the Daily Telegraph Allardyce transcripts. Allardyce claimed that this particular agent had been utilising TPO illegally for years. The FA demanded that full transcripts be made available to the governing body. The FA under new stewardship will have to act on this evidence as they are otherwise sitting on a time bomb that might detonate at any time.

Tuesday 27th September 2016

The Daily Telegraph release details of their sting operation that revealed that the England manager Sam Allardyce discussed how investors could get around the FA's rules on the Third Party Ownership (TPO) of players. Allardyce was later removed from his position as manager of the national team by 'mutual consent'.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/exclusive-investigation-england-manager-sam-allardyce-for-sale/

Average wealth of people in UK is £147K.#SamAllardyce is paid £3M per year by #FA.
He fancied adding another £400K by corruption.
Sack him.

— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) September 27, 2016

Monday 26th September 2016

Football is Fixed exclusively reveal that the sport scientists behind the illicit doping of Sir Bradley Wiggins and other Team Sky cyclists collaborated with sport scientists at Leicester City last season.

Leicester City went from being the least fit team in the Premier League to the second fittest over one international break towards the end of the 2014/15 season and maintained this level of super fitness throughout their title winning season.

To Be Continued...
... It Will Never Be Over Until The Fat Lady Sings.

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016