Unban @ManCity or your company’s next @UEFA

— Lizard Squad (@UGLegion) February 27, 2020

Liverpool FC pay FA Chief Referree at Game Match Officials, Mike Riley money through Western Union transfers. When were you going to report this? @SkySportsNews

— Lizard Squad (@UGLegion) February 27, 2020

UEFA’s login and computer systems at their HQ in Nylon, Switzerland are currently offline.

— Lizard Squad (@UGLegion) February 27, 2020

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a pannic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty, 
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, 
Wi' murd'ring pattle! 

I'm truly sorry man's dominion, 
Has broken nature's social union, 
An' justifies that ill opinion, 
Which makes thee startle 
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, 
An' fellow-mortal! 

I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve; 
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live! 
A daimen icker in a thrave 
'S a sma' request; 
I'll get a blessin wi' the lave, 
An' never miss't! 

Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin! 
It's silly wa's the win's are strewin! 
An' naething, now, to big a new ane, 
O' foggage green! 
An' bleak December's winds ensuin, 
Baith snell an' keen! 

Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste, 
An' weary winter comin fast, 
An' cozie here, beneath the blast, 
Thou thought to dwell- 
Till crash! the cruel coulter past 
Out thro' thy cell. 

Thy wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble, 
Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! 
Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble, 
But house or hald, 
To thole the winter's sleety dribble, 
An' cranreuch cauld! 

But, Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, 
In proving foresight may be vain; 
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men 
Gang aft agley, 
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, 
For promis'd joy! 

Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me 
The present only toucheth thee: 
But, Och! I backward cast my e'e. 
On prospects drear! 
An' forward, tho' I canna see, 
I guess an' fear!

ROBERT BURNS "To A Mouse" (1785)

BUNCH OF TIM'ROUS BEASTIES

At our meeting on Monday, a colleague said to me "They will slaughter you if they ever get the chance" - "they" being the mafia behind corruption in UK football.
On Tue I was injured and my vintage car written off in a hit and run attack.

— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) 

Internal Document:

Given the evidence now in our possession we must assume that this was intended as an extreme (and potentially fatal) intimidation - my car had neither air bags nor side impact bar protection and according to my mechanic I was 0.1 seconds from death i.e. my speed of reaction in instant braking saved my life.

          Well that ups the ante somewhat. Let's see how that works out for █████ then.

We've been a-hackin'█████ since the incident.

Here are our findings.

Check Tiraspol 2.0 Server

— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) 

I've returned to Kerkyra to recuperate from my near-death experience - https://t.co/45Bl7Kbwpe

Kerkyra is like a European Barbados...
... only better in that one is surrounded by Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian & Albanian mafia rather than US/UK.
A far more robust grouping.

— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) 

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Towards the end of last season we published five posts detailing data-driven journalistic analysis of systemic corruption in the Premier League, particularly in reference to the Liverpool cartel of teams, the business practices of Brighton & Hove Albion and the Starlizard Betting Syndicate, the targeting of Manchester City and Gestifute, the malicious takeover of integrity-lite outfits Leicester City and Manchester United and the nefarious influence of BT Sport.

These posts may be found here:

Lizards Lacertae & Liverpool
https://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/2019/05/exclusive-lizards-lacertae-liverpool_30.html

Gekkos, Gators & Gangsters
https://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/2019/05/exclusive-gekkos-gators-gangsters.html

Terrorists, Taoism & Tricksters
https://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/2019/05/exclusive-terrorists-tao-tricksters.html

Fairy Tales, Fixes & Foxes
https://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/2019/05/exclusive-fairy-tales-fixes-foxes.html

Mafia, Matchfixing & Media
https://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/2019/05/exclusive-mafia-matchfixing-media.html

We now release the sixth post in this series - 'Kickbacks, Fuckwits & Corruption' where we extend the analysis above to the arena of the 2019/20 pre-season friendlies.

And guess what?
Pre-season friendlies are fixed too!
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When Friendlies Become Too Friendly

While the UK mainstream football media has been focused on using as many media tactics as possible to increase the value of Unique Sport Management's Wilfried Zaha to stratospheric levels in return for a slice of the action when the vastly inflated transfer is eventually landed, more systemic and particular matchfixing has been occurring in the pre-season friendlies.

In brief, here are the issues that we have found:

1) Near-Coincident or Consecutive Day (NC/CD) Friendlies - There has been an exponential growth in teams who select to play two matches on the same day (even at the same time) or on successive days. We have found extensive matchfixing taking control of markets based on the use of disinformation in this bloc of events.
Only insiders know the team selections for many of these near-coincident events until teams are made public.
Oh, and bookmakers...

Last season only one Premier League team (AFC Bournemouth) and five League One teams (AFC Wimbledon, Blackpool, Burton Albion, Gillingham and Oxford United) used this NC/CD pre-season template. At the time, we regarded all but one of these outfits as dodgy.

For 2019/20, this grouping had extended to AFC Bournemouth, Brighton & Hove Albion, Burnley, Leicester City & Liverpool (from the EPL), Charlton Athletic, Leeds United, Preston North End, Reading & Sheffield Wednesday (from the Championship), AFC Wimbledon, Accrington Stanley, Blackpool, Burton Albion, Gillingham, Oxford United & Peterborough United (League One) and Cheltenham, Crawley, Crewe, Leyton Orient, Newport & Stevenage (League 2).

Of the 23 teams involved in these NC/CD events, we know of █████ to be rogue outfits.

We find a whole array of revealing patterns in this data.

2) The Liverpool Cartel of Clubs - Musical Chairs! The extensive array of market access strategies utilised to undertake insider trading are reliant on a cosmic web of market access points. This network of routings of criminalised trading has been shuffled for the pre-season.

For our Private Network only, we reveal below the latest flux of this web of trading for Liverpool, AFC Bournemouth, Brighton & Hove Albion, Southampton, Rangers, Leicester City & Manchester United.

3) Very Friendly Friendlies - The links between some people who hover around Brighton & Hove Albion and Austrian 2 Liga team Liefering are robust, while Leicester City and Belgian First Division B side Oud-Heverlee Leuven are both owned by King Power, yet these four teams played very fixed pre-season friendlies that were internally controlled alongside the same market access points.

4) Web Of Bookmakers, Brokers & Dark Pools - Historically, pre-season friendlies didn't interest the deeper levels of the global betting architecture - the repeated local friendly structure required massive manpower to infiltrate and the markets were left for the smaller fry.

In very recent seasons, we have noticed an ever-increasing presence of bigger fish involving themselves with pre-season friendlies as a more concrete template of corruption has been established.

All of the corruptions outlined in this series of 6 articles are orchestrated around the same market access points cleverly shuffled from instance to instance to try and confuse analysts! The bookmakers are providing an illicit revenue stream for matchfixers.

If you remove the Big Six from the Premier League, 27 out of 38 teams (71%) in the top two English leagues have the name of a bookmaker plastered across their shirts. Some of these bookmakers are, shall we say, problematical to integrity.

Football is no longer a sport...
... it is a betting medium.

5) Steamer Fixes - In our sample database we discovered a grouping of Steamer Fixes - one way markets where teams (and associates) bet heavily on a one-way market. The bookmakers are largely out of the loop initially and are left with the choice of offering no odds and closing the book (or not opening at all if you have your ear to the ground) or entertaining trading positions without being privy to the full extent of the insider operation at play.

There were 15 Steamer Fixes in our database and all but one were landed. On three occasions teams moved more than 40% in odds e.g. 1.55 to 4.20 (40.7%). Crime pays.
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Using Known Knowns & Unknown Knowns To Rig The Markets - Seeking Unknown Unknowns & Known Unknowns To Expose This Corruption

The pre-season has become far more structured in matchfixing terms.

The complete absence of any meaningful regulation relating to insider trading and matchfixing leads to a grab-all-you-can culture of wealth creation out of asset-stripping the value from football.
Once the fix is entirely systemic (not long now!), the sport will be entirely dead.

Over the last two seasons doping has become systemic in the Big 4 European leagues. Where we used to focus on the few sides who doped, we now take equivalent interest in the very few top level teams that don't.

Teams have become like cyclists, attending known venues where pre-season doping regimens can be rolled out - there was one such festival of fake in Austria this summer featuring half a dozen known rogue teams from the top of the English game.

Although some of this pre-season fix-fest is very specific e.g. Steamer Fixes, some is very organised indeed e.g. events involving the Liverpool Cartel are set to the same template as the systemic corruption in the Premier League while NC/CD events are semi-systemic, existing as a private bubble in the markets.

The holistic presented in this article is made up of all of the pre-season friendlies played by the 23 NC/CD teams this pre-season (whether NC/CD events or not) - the non-NC/CD events are used as a control group in some analyses. The price dynamics are taken from Betfair. All pre-season games for the 23 sides are included in the databases up to July 29th 2019.

A clear indication that bookmakers were involved in the NC/CD grouping of events is that only 8% of these matches were not priced up compared with 18% of the control group. The only way to correctly price these NC/CD pre-season friendlies is to be in on the scam.

The room for match day manipulation on coincident matches is colossal. Until one hour to kick off, only insiders know which teams are to be put out in the matches. All trading prior to this announcement is guesstimate without this inside info. Private money makes the markets efficient but this can hardly be held to be anything like a level playing field - only insiders can trade early.

Oxford United have been in the rogue bucket since all the nonsense with Celtic in 2016 and their collection of pre-season friendlies is only rivalled by AFC Wimbledon in the "are you just taking the piss every game" grouping of clubs. The Liverpool Cartel of teams, particularly Tony Bloom's Brighton, continue to systemically substitute markets for sport, insider trading for integrity.
Many teams feature across our databases and deserve honourable mention for being creative in their shenanigans. All of these core teams are known to have problematic structures.

If the Premier League was a functioning entity, the systemic matchfixing that underpinned last season and is being repeated (in slightly altered format) this pre-season would not be possible.
Richard Scudamore jumped off a pirate ship and nobody is willing to replace him.

Why on earth should it be so hard to find one single human being who is capable and willing to become CEO of the Premier League?

But, then again, why would any sane human being want to oversee what is, in effect, a collection of mafia controlled markets running a sport?
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© Football is Fixed 2006-2019

Today my father would have been 90 years old.
He took me to my first Manchester City match in 1966 - the 1-1 draw with Plymouth Argyle at Maine Road.
This post is dedicated to him...
... happy birthday old man.

Just months after the death I received the first threats from rogue football agent John Colquhoun after we exposed his involvement in a fixed Premier League match between Fulham and Wigan Athletic in 2009 and the assaults and doxxing and murderous attacks and malodorous Machiavellian manoeuvrings have continued ever since.

His songlines include systemic matchfixing via control of referee selection process, the VAR hierarchy (Colquhoun owns Head of VAR - Neil Swarbrick) and the coercion of officials; distortions of the transfer market via abuse of media for player advertorials, third party ownership and the targeting of the Gestifute agency via 'Football Leaks' and the release of documents stolen by associates; the payment of kickbacks so that clients are selected for internationals and the fixing of those matches (he once represented all three squad England goalkeepers for market control). Colquhoun is additionally an insider gambler who profits from the systemic matchfixing he bestows upon us with the support of his media lackeys. He also directly targets Manchester City while holding out his duplicitous hand in friendship (Man City should excommunicate this man and his cartel of mafia matchfixers immediately). He leaves a trail of destruction with his suicidal former clients littering his journey to his psychopathic version of career success. 

Like his good friend Alastair Campbell (who murdered a nation of people rather than murdering a sport), no amount of reputation management will hide their modi operandi - money and fake status but no class.

Oh, and by and by, there was also the attempt on my life on June 4th where my car was destroyed in a hit-and-run incident after my phone had been hacked for tracking...

NB We have been told by our security people to expect another hit over the next few days so we're going underground as a network and this post will remain here for posterity and as an example of what happens to a beautiful sport when a no-regulation-mafia-template takes control.
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For Attention Of Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan (and Pep):


Your Excellency (and Pep),

We understand that last season Pep Guardiola summoned referee boss Mike Riley to a meeting where Mr Riley was shown 20 key Premier League match decisions incorrectly given against Manchester City's interests.

Apparently, Riley agreed that City had been abused on each and every decision.

Great but Kipper Riley runs the MOBsters...
... and this admission doesn't bring the points back.

Last month the Football is Fixed Network offered a high level consultancy to protect the club against such corruptions to lower tiers of your club hierarchy to see if the club was informationally secure. Unfortunately it isn't and the knowledge leaked to those who are your enemies.

There are spies within your club.
So we pulled on our offer of help.

After defeating Watford 8-0 in last weekend's Premier League match, Pep Guardiola was asked about Liverpool FC hacking the Manchester City Scouting Database in 2013 (the database wasn't hacked by the way, the information was accessed by internal moles working against the interests of City).

Liverpool paid £1 million to Manchester City without admitting any liability which is the Goldman Sachs version of guilt - we'll pay the fine because we are a bunch of crooks but publicly we have no idea what 'hacking' occurred. Really.

Guardiola responded: "Today there are not secrets anymore."

But on this matter he is wrong.
Manchester City still have internal issues.
And he is also wrong in that it is possible to have secrets - you just need to be very careful who you share them with.
And my network doesn't communicate directly with leaky boats.

Take 'Football Leaks'...

The mainstream media publication of documentation from the 'Football Leaks' entity was not performed via the hacking prowess of Portuguese blackmailer-turned-mafia-operative Rui Pinto but via the physical theft of contracts orchestrated by █████ █████ of behalf of a cartel of UK soccer agents commercially at war with Gestifute (we possess extensive proofs of the mechanics of the 'Football Leaks' criminal network).

This was part of a continuation of a decade long strategy for █████ and █████ mafia entities to take control of world football one step at a time - first the Premier League, then the Championship and the lower English leagues, the Scottish Premier League, the Professional Game Match Officials Board refereeing body (PGMOB) hilariously renamed the PGMOL when the corruption became mafia-based and systemic so that the word MOB could no longer appear in the acronym, trying to gain footholds in UEFA and FIFA, taking control of whole swathes of the transfer market particularly utilising third party ownership (pot calling Gestifute's kettle black) and orchestrating the media face of this massive organised crime by warping the truth out of existing media while creating entirely corrupt edifices like BT Sport to co-ordinate and misinform.

This attempted takeover of the British game is progressing at speed.

Last season we exclusively revealed in a series of now-archived posts how a cartel of corruption has been constructed around Liverpool FC - we have extensive details and analytics of this network of illicit marginal gains all obviously linked to matchfixing. Some referees are evidently a captured grouping.

This cartel of clubs has evolved further this season as the corruption is monetised in real-time via the underground betting markets via the brokering networks of █████, █████ and █████.

Nearly 60% of Premier League matches are known to have been matchfixing and/or insider trading events in season 2018/19 i.e. the match outcome was known prior to the game kicking off.

The 2019/20 season is the most corrupt EPL season to date.
With no chief executive in place, mafia is in total control.

Most professional traders are on Liverpool for the EPL title as they are able to analytically determine the degree to which the playing field has been tilted in their favour...
... and, moreover, there are some very very large bets on a Liverpool title triumph emanating from the boiler room scam of an operation that is called called BT Sport.

Manchester City will not win the Premier League title this season.

Here are the reasons:

1) The moles within certain sections of the club are still not sleeping. The internal spying on behalf of mafia entities continues via █████ █████, █████ █████, and █████ █████. Manchester City have lost Jadon Sancho to Borussia Dortmund, a spell of third party ownership and widespread media promotion leading to a future transfer to █████, and he won't be the last. The theft of documentation to be leaked to Der Spiegel will also continue as the sources have not been eradicated.

2) Although care is taken, Manchester City still purchase players who are owned by criminalised agents who do not have Manchester City's best interests at heart. At best, these players merely leak information they overhear; at worst, they underperform on the field of play in selected key matches (to the massive detriment of the club). There should be no enemy-linked players in the club.

3) The analytical forces within Manchester City are blinkered in their research and don't possess the necessary databases nor evidences required to undertake a proper modelling of the corruption being systemically perpetrated against the club interests. There is a robust mafia entity opposing Manchester City and there are insiders at the Etihad who are preventing the necessary research from being initiated.

4) The concept of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) is corrupt in England. The Head of VAR is former referee Neil Swarbrick who is very closely associated with █████ █████ who we exposed as undertaking matchfixing in the Premier League in a series of articles published earlier this decade. The black box version of VAR in the EPL is primed for corruption - in fact, if we had been asked to game theorise a structure for VAR that would allow systemic matchfixing hidden from public eyes then the █████ and Swarbrick infrastructure would be that very design. The pitchside monitor was only added so as not to fall foul of FIFA rules, not to help with in-play integrity as it hasn't been refereed to once in the first 60 matches!

We have the total holistic structure of the mafia construction that is working against the interests of Manchester City and the Gestifute agency.

But our network will not work with the club because there are individuals in Manchester City Analytics (and elsewhere) who we perceive as enemy messengers or inappropriate null loci.

With the help of our network, Manchester City would have won the Premier League title again this season.

Without that help, they won't.

Wishing you and the club all the very best in your future endeavours.

Yours sincerely,

Jeremias Bolivar-Bolingoli (on behalf of the Football is Fixed Network)

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The Football is Fixed Network is unique.
We are in a niche of one.
We have no competitors.
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If you have any information to contribute to Football is Fixed, please contact Ojo del Toro in complete confidence via Direct Message @footballisfixed. You can do so anonymously, but if you use your real name you can rest assured that this website operates a blanket policy of non-disclosure and does not cooperate with requests for details from the authorities or individuals.

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

N.B. -- The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Gibraltar
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The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum

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

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

The Kath Viner/ David Pemsel window of governance at the Guardian has seen the paper morph into an ID politics fake news outlet - the front page fake story on Manafort & Assange and, less critically, serial disinformation and corruption-based hidden agendas in the football section.

The Guardian ceased to be a newspaper under his stewardship...
... and we'll see what a corrupt neoliberalism does to football.

But, expect fake spectacle with a pseudo-moral conscience.

Integrity is not on the continuum of Pemsel's curriculum vitae.

Nor John Colquhoun's.

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

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

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

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

The book is entitled "Who Killed Cock Robin?"

And never forget...
... John "Fifty Shades of Alias"Colquhoun - that White Man, has got a God Complex...



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The Football is Fixed Network is unique.
We are in a niche of one.
We have no competitors.
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If you have any information to contribute to Football is Fixed, please contact Ojo del Toro in complete confidence via Direct Message @footballisfixed. You can do so anonymously, but if you use your real name you can rest assured that this website operates a blanket policy of non-disclosure and does not cooperate with requests for details from the authorities or individuals.

"The Gulf War did not take place" (La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas en lieu) was a collection of three essays published by philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard in 1991.

The title is a reference to the play by Jean Giraudoux "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place" in which the characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows to be inevitable...
... a little like the Football is Fixed Network.

In this essay, a posthumous Jean Baudrillard argues that the 2019/20 Premier League season is not really a football competition but rather corruption masquerading as football.

Using a systemic match manipulation template, ownership of a cartel of EPL teams, a perverted Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) refereeing body, the 'hacking' of Manchester City, plus extensive doping and fixture list biases, Liverpool have been presented with the title by mafia entities.

All the spectators have known about this season has been in the form of propaganda imagery.
The closely watched media presentations makes it impossible for the fan to distinguish between the experience of what is truly happening, and its stylised, selective misrepresentation through simulacra by the content providers.
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From the beginning, we knew that this season wouldn't happen. After sport as sport and sport as terror, here is sport in the morgue - which leaves us to grapple with football's corpse and the necessity of dealing with this decomposing body which nobody from the Premier League has managed to revive.
Liverpool have secured victory over the corpse of football.

Football has entered into a definitive crisis.
Sport exists through opening up competition but not in the EPL. In the past, competition functioned as a grading between different teams but now competitive edge is a virtual advantage created by illicit means - matchfixing, insider trading, corruption of referees and doping all on a systemic template.

This is why the season has not taken place. In this sense, the gravity of the non-event in the Premier League is greater than the event itself: it corresponds to a highly toxic window which affects a rotting corpse and which can cause nausea and powerless stupor. Here again, our symbolic defences are weak: the mastery of the end of football escapes us and we experience all this in the uniform shameful indifference of the Sky and BT Sport duopoly.

Non-football is characterised by that degenerate form of football which includes mafia (e.g. John Colquhoun), mafia states (e.g. Malta or Gibraltar), the manipulation of outcome in correlation with insider trading in the betting markets, coercion and blackmail. The corrupted match has taken the place of the legitimate game. It has become the principal focus, the simulacral reality, or rather, in its pure non-competiveness, the reality of non-football. The players bury themselves in their agents' offshore embrace leaving corruption alone on the stage, and including all of us as corruption hostages on the football media stage dominated by 4th Estate fake and hidden agendas (e.g. The Guardian, Der Spiegel). The hostage fan is the phantom actor, the extra who observes football powerlessly. The fan only exists commercially for value and liquidity - pay your subscriptions, buy our merchandise, watch the corruption and shut the fuck up - fantastic degradation of that which was the very core of the beauty of football. With the Premier League, the value of football has plummeted. The EPL has made itself the capitalist master of fan hostage value - the vulgar merchant of the fan hostage market. Taking the place of sport, fan hostage has become synonymous with the debility of football. We are all hostages of media intoxification, induced to believe in football just as we were once led to believe in 'Football Leaks' and the blackmailing operative Rui Pinto - a foot-soldier of the mafia juggernaut destroying football across Europe for the financial benefit of certain mafia (states). We are already strategic hostages in situ; our site is the screen on which we are virtually bombarded day by day. In this sense, the grotesque vaudeville played by the Premier League is a diversion, at once a diversion of both football and terror. Its systemic corruption has at least put an end to the particular corruption and spotfixing of the past, thereby showing the EPL to be in this as in many other respects the perfect accomplice of state terrorism. The systemic corruption in UK football features Malta as a catalyst with regard to matchfixing and transfer market abuses while the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia by the mafia state is equivalent to the murderous attempts perpetrated against whistleblowers by mafia entities in the UK, while such bodies all the time promote the fake coerced patsy Rui Pinto and the passwords allegedly hidden in his head (and, as it happens, on one of John Colquhoun's hard-drives).

This impossibility of proceeding to the act, this utter absence of legitimacy, implies the triumph of blackmail as strategy (in the case of the Premier League, there is still a challenge; with Rui Pinto & John Colquhoun there is only blackmail). The Premier League's abjection lies in it having vulgarised everything: club competition has become a fake entertainment spectacle, the fan a commercial hostage, the violent corruption of the league a scam based on a religious support for one's team and football an impossible comedy featuring a VAR orchestrated by mafia, for mafia, combined with an ignorance of the rules of the game and any interest in the integrity of the sport. Although the media points out VAR as the culprit, the grouping of PGMOB match officials working with the Liverpool cartel of teams should really be in the dock. But the state has helped the EPL become this monstrosity. By allowing the league to monetise small criminalities, the government drove the Premier League towards the mirage of sustainable systemic corruption (like the arms trade or aspects of the City of London).
This evolution of this mercenary league is indeed the only ironic and pleasing trait of this whole story.

We are in neither a sport of war nor a gamble of poker but in a reality of betting markets controlling match events which has wound its way inexorably through 28 years of the Premier League to a denouement in our current events; a sport of fake matches, to which belong those in the Champions League as well as the EPL (the Champions League under Ceferin has been taken over by the same mafia operators behind 'Football Leaks' and the criminalisation of the Premier League). Peripeteias of an anorexic history or an anorexic sport which can no longer be taken as real because it is incapable of conceiving sporting integrity - and God knows the EPL has no integrity - and thus devours itself. It is corrupted football, that of the right to corruption under the green light of the Premier League and UEFA with no precautionary regulation - free market matchfixing must not have obstacles to performativity. On the Richter scale, the 2019/20 Premier League season would not even reach two or three. The history and pre-season were unreal, as though the fiction of an earthquake were created by a manipulation of the match officials, of mainstream media, of the masses. The EPL is neither the strong form nor the degree zero of football, but the weak or phthisical degree, the asymptotic form which allows a pretence of competitive football but no real encounter, the transparent degree which prevents football being seen from the depths of the darkroom where the fan resides.

We should have been suspicious about the insider trading from BT Sport operatives pre-season as they actively contorted the betting markets to their corruption matrix in the same manner as they perpetrated the systemic corruption behind the mafia entity Leicester City stealing the 2015/16 version of the EPL title from Arsenal. The 2019/20 season never began. It had ended prior to its onset. It had already been won and the headlines and war strategies had already been written. As there is no competition, there are no matches. Just markets and a distinction between the prescribed winners and losers.

But these systemic corruptions do not occur in a vacuum.
We expose Liverpool's links with PGMOB match officials, we expose doping at the club, we expose the manner in which proprietary information was stolen from Manchester City, we expose Liverpool FC's links to bookmakers and how such associations energise insider trading and matchfixing, we expose the fixture list manipulations and all other marginal gains supportive of this project.
In the end, the distinction between the winners (Liverpool and their cartel of teams) and losers (Manchester City and other Gestifute-linked clubs) becomes indecipherable as the winners readily become the hostage of the losers; a Stockholm Syndrome that quantums into existence as the 'winners' evolve as hostages of the mafia themselves.
Since this season never began, this season is therefore interminable.
Indeed, Covid-19 might make it literally so.

By dint of dreaming of pure corruption, of an orbital corruption purged of all local and political infusions, the matchfixers have fallen into the arms of the mafia, into the virtual impossibility of football which translates into the paltry fantasia where adversaries compete in matches of agreed outcome, as though the irruption of the event of football had become obscene and insupportable, no longer sustainable, like every real event moreover. Everything is therefore transposed into the virtual, and we are confronted with a virtual apocalypse, a hegemony ultimately much more dangerous than real apocalypse.

The most widespread belief is in a logical progression from virtual to actual. However, this is an Aristotelian logic which is no longer our own. Our virtual has definitively overtaken the actual (in the manner of a doped up Jamie Vardy) and we must be content with this extreme virtuality which, unlike the Aristotelian, deters any passage to real action. We are no longer in a logic of the passage from virtual to actual but in a hyperrealist logic of the deterrence of the real by the virtual.

In this process, the football clubs are once again revealing. Extracted like molecules in an experimental process, then distilled one by one in the exchange of mafia fake, it is their virtual death that is at issue, not their real death. Moreover, they never die: at best they disappear to reappear as gambling outfits, at worst they enter receivership only to be reformed and renamed in a new virtual unreality. There will never be monuments to current footballers in the manner in which Best or Greaves or Brady or Charles or McNeill are commemorated as everybody will be too ashamed of the modern player, kissing the badge of their agents offshore financial centres while perfecting the persona of a post-career in media disinformation: the collective shame which attaches to the club reflects the absolute degradation of football into fixed fan-boy fake-fun.

The passage to systemic corruption suffers widespread infamy: it supposedly corresponds to a criminally creative elevation of sporting prowess, thus to a psychotic process. It seems that this obsession with the passage to corruption today governs all of our behaviour: obsession with every real, with every real event, with every real corruption, with every associated pleasure which is too real. In fact, so real that it is unreal. Against this obsession with the real we have created a gigantic apparatus of simulation which allows to pass the act "in vitro". We prefer the exile of the virtual, of which television is the universal mirror, to the catastrophe of the real.

So the media chooses to applaud the array of unbeaten records and stellar performances by Liverpool while ignoring the rancid underbelly of underground mafia corruption that is the very definition of this supposed real.

The holistic of football has not escaped this virtualisation which is like a surgical operation, the aim of which is to present a face-lifted sport, the cosmetically treated spectre of its death, and its even more deceptive televisual subterfuge (as we see in the corrupted players of yesteryear obfuscating current corruptions on Sky, BT Sport and Match of the Day). Even players have lost the privilege of use value, the privilege of real football. Corruption has passed by that way and it spares nobody.

No more than the politicians, footballers do not know what to make of their real function, their function of corruption and matchfixing. They are pledged to the decoy of football as others are to the decoy of power.

Football has become pure (in the fascist sense) and speculative (in an insider trading sense) to the extent that we do not see the real event that it could be or that it would signify.

Since the 2019/20 (and 2015/16) Premier League titles were won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like if the league title races had actually existed. We will never know what Manchester City taking part with a chance of winning would have been like. We will never know what Liverpool taking part with a probability of being beaten would have been like. We have seen what a state-based systemic corruption is like, a process of paralysis or lobotomy of a fake sport away from the field of play with no possibility of reaction. But this is not football, any more than $100 million bets on a game is sufficient to make it football. Any more than the direct transmission by BBC/BT Sport/Sky of real time information is sufficient to authenticate the sport. One is reminded of Capricorn One in which the flight of a manned rocket to Mars, which only took place in a desert studio, was relayed live to all the television stations in the world.

While one fraction of the media and political class, specialists in the substitute bench of mental contortions, are whole-heartedly in favour of the systemic corruption (the corruption earns more for UK PLC than legitimacy), and another fraction are against it from the bottom of their hearts, but for reasons no less disturbing, all are agreed on one point: this systemic corruption exists, we have seen it. There is no interrogation into the sport itself or its reality; or into the fraudulence of this corruption, the programmed and always delayed illusion of competitive sport; or into the machination of this matchfixing and its amplification by disinformation, not to mention the improbable orgy of fake media, the systematic manipulation of data, the artificial dramatisation ("surely the most amazing comeback ever!")...

If you do not have practical intelligence, hacks and insider knowledge about the systemic corruption in the Premier League (and few among us do), at least develop a sceptical intelligence towards it, without renouncing the pathetic experience of its absurdity.

But there is more than one kind of absurdity: that of the assassination and that of being caught up in the illusion of assassination. It is just as in La Fontaine's fable: the day there is a real football match in the Premier League you will not even be able to tell the difference.

The mafia of John Colquhoun has become football.

The real victory of the simulators of corruption in football is to have drawn everyone into this rotten simulation of the real.

A real where match outcomes are in the underground betting markets before the game even starts.
A real where matches are corrupted months ahead.
A real where the utilisation of doping is accepted as a competitive advantage.
A real where players pay managers to play and agents pay national managers for client selection.
A real where a significant percentage of players represented by certain agents are involved in matchfixing.
A real where the UK sports media is entirely captured and performative to the corruption.
A real where some EPL clubs are merely gambling stables e.g. Tony Bloom at Brighton & Hove Albion who sacks employees if their legitimate professionalism interferes with his proprietary matchfixing and market plays - Bloom is paying money out left right and centre in a desperate attempt to bury historical crimes.
A real where Match of the Day commentary is added post-game under corrupted editorial inputs.
A real where Manchester United should be 4th from bottom of the league and Crystal Palace bottom sees United instead challenging for a Champions League place and Hodgson being given a legacy based on doping and matchfixing.
And a real where Liverpool FC are champions, were champions before a ball was kicked and will be champions again so long as that is the preferred strategy of state and mafia.

The Premier League no longer takes place.
_______________________________________________________________________________

The Football is Fixed Network is unique.
We are in a niche of one.
We have no competitors.
________________________________________________________________________

If you have any information to contribute to Football is Fixed, please contact Ojo del Toro in complete confidence via Direct Message @footballisfixed. You can do so anonymously, but if you use your real name you can rest assured that this website operates a blanket policy of non-disclosure and does not cooperate with requests for details from the authorities or individuals.


© Football is Fixed 2006-2020

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_______________________________________________________________________________

The Football is Fixed Network is unique.
We are in a niche of one.
We have no competitors.
________________________________________________________________________
If you have any information to contribute to Football is Fixed, please contact Ojo del Toro in complete confidence via Direct Message @footballisfixed. You can do so anonymously, but if you use your real name you can rest assured that this website operates a blanket policy of non-disclosure and does not cooperate with requests for details from the authorities or individuals.

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© Football is Fixed 2006-2020

"The Gulf War did not take place" (La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas en lieu) was a collection of three essays published by philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard in 1991.

The title is a reference to the play by Jean Giraudoux "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place" in which the characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows to be inevitable...
... a little like the Football is Fixed Network.

In this essay, a posthumous Jean Baudrillard argues that the 2019/20 Premier League season is not really a football competition but rather corruption masquerading as football.

Using a systemic match manipulation template, ownership of a cartel of EPL teams, a perverted Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) refereeing body, the 'hacking' of Manchester City, plus extensive doping and fixture list biases, Liverpool have been presented with the title by mafia entities.

All the spectators have known about this season has been in the form of propaganda imagery.
The closely watched media presentations makes it impossible for the fan to distinguish between the experience of what is truly happening, and its stylised, selective misrepresentation through simulacra by the content providers.
_______________________________________________________________________________

From the beginning, we knew that this season wouldn't happen. After sport as sport and sport as terror, here is sport in the morgue - which leaves us to grapple with football's corpse and the necessity of dealing with this decomposing body which nobody from the Premier League has managed to revive.
Liverpool have secured victory over the corpse of English football.

Football has entered into a definitive crisis.
Sport exists through opening up competition but not in the EPL. In the past, competition functioned as a grading between different teams but now competitive edge is a virtual advantage created by illicit means - matchfixing, insider trading, corruption of referees and doping all on a systemic template.

This is why the season has not taken place. In this sense, the gravity of the non-event in the Premier League is greater than the event itself: it corresponds to a highly toxic window which affects a rotting corpse and which can cause nausea and powerless stupor. Here again, our symbolic defences are weak: the mastery of the end of football escapes us and we experience all this in the uniform shameful indifference of the Sky and BT Sport duopoly.

Non-football is characterised by that degenerate form of football which includes mafia (e.g. John Colquhoun), mafia states (e.g. Malta or Gibraltar), the manipulation of outcome in correlation with insider trading in the betting markets, coercion and blackmail. The corrupted match has taken the place of the legitimate game. It has become the principal focus, the simulacral reality, or rather, in its pure non-competiveness, the reality of non-football. The players bury themselves in their agents' offshore embrace leaving corruption alone on the stage, and including all of us as corruption hostages on the football media stage dominated by 4th Estate fake and hidden agendas (e.g. The Guardian, Der Spiegel). The hostage fan is the phantom actor, the extra who observes football powerlessly. The fan only exists commercially for value and liquidity - pay your subscriptions, buy our merchandise, watch the corruption and shut the fuck up - fantastic degradation of that which was the very core of the beauty of football. With the Premier League, the value of football has plummeted. The EPL has made itself the capitalist master of fan hostage value - the vulgar merchant of the fan hostage market. Taking the place of sport, fan hostage has become synonymous with the debility of football. We are all hostages of media intoxification, induced to believe in football just as we were once led to believe in 'Football Leaks' and the blackmailing operative Rui Pinto - a foot-soldier of the mafia juggernaut destroying football across Europe for the financial benefit of certain mafia (states). We are already strategic hostages in situ; our site is the screen on which we are virtually bombarded day by day. In this sense, the grotesque vaudeville played by the Premier League is a diversion, at once a diversion of both football and terror. Its systemic corruption has at least put an end to the particular corruption and spotfixing of the past, thereby showing the EPL to be in this as in many other respects the perfect accomplice of state terrorism. The systemic corruption in UK football features Malta as a catalyst with regard to matchfixing and transfer market abuses while the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia by the mafia state is equivalent to the murderous attempts perpetrated against whistleblowers by mafia entities in the UK, while such bodies all the time promote the fake coerced patsy Rui Pinto and the passwords allegedly hidden in his head (and, as it happens, on one of John Colquhoun's hard-drives).

This impossibility of proceeding to the act, this utter absence of legitimacy, implies the triumph of blackmail as strategy (in the case of the Premier League, there is still a challenge; with Rui Pinto & John Colquhoun there is only blackmail). The Premier League's abjection lies in it having vulgarised everything: club competition has become a fake entertainment spectacle, the fan a commercial hostage, the violent corruption of the league a scam based on a religious support for one's team and football an impossible comedy featuring a VAR orchestrated by mafia, for mafia, combined with an ignorance of the rules of the game and any interest in the integrity of the sport. Although the media points out VAR as the culprit, the grouping of PGMOB match officials working with the Liverpool cartel of teams should really be in the dock. But the state has helped the EPL become this monstrosity. By allowing the league to monetise small criminalities, the government drove the Premier League towards the mirage of sustainable systemic corruption (like the arms trade or aspects of the City of London).
This evolution of this mercenary league is indeed the only ironic and pleasing trait of this whole story.

We are in neither a sport of war nor a gamble of poker but in a reality of betting markets controlling match events which has wound its way inexorably through 28 years of the Premier League to a denouement in our current events; a sport of fake matches, to which belong those in the Champions League as well as the EPL (the Champions League under Ceferin has been taken over by the same mafia operators behind 'Football Leaks' and the criminalisation of the Premier League). Peripeteias of an anorexic history or an anorexic sport which can no longer be taken as real because it is incapable of conceiving sporting integrity - and God knows the EPL has no integrity - and thus devours itself. It is corrupted football, that of the right to corruption under the green light of the Premier League and UEFA with no precautionary regulation - free market matchfixing must not have obstacles to performativity. On the Richter scale, the 2019/20 Premier League season would not even reach two or three. The history and pre-season were unreal, as though the fiction of an earthquake were created by a manipulation of the match officials, of mainstream media, of the masses. The EPL is neither the strong form nor the degree zero of football, but the weak or phthisical degree, the asymptotic form which allows a pretence of competitive football but no real encounter, the transparent degree which prevents football being seen from the depths of the darkroom where the fan resides.

We should have been suspicious about the insider trading from BT Sport operatives pre-season as they actively contorted the betting markets to their corruption matrix in the same manner as they perpetrated the systemic corruption behind the mafia entity Leicester City stealing the 2015/16 version of the EPL title from Arsenal. The 2019/20 season never began. It had ended prior to its onset. It had already been won and the headlines and war strategies had already been written. As there is no competition, there are no matches. Just markets and a distinction between the prescribed winners and losers.

But these systemic corruptions do not occur in a vacuum.
We expose Liverpool's links with PGMOB match officials, we expose doping at the club, we expose the manner in which proprietary information was stolen from Manchester City, we expose Liverpool FC's links to bookmakers and how such associations energise insider trading and matchfixing, we expose the fixture list manipulations and all other marginal gains supportive of this project.
In the end, the distinction between the winners (Liverpool and their cartel of teams) and losers (Manchester City and other Gestifute-linked clubs) becomes indecipherable as the winners readily become the hostage of the losers; a Stockholm Syndrome that quantums into existence as the 'winners' evolve as hostages of the mafia themselves.
Since this season never began, this season is therefore interminable.
Indeed, Covid-19 might make it literally so.

By dint of dreaming of pure corruption, of an orbital corruption purged of all local and political infusions, the matchfixers have fallen into the arms of the mafia, into the virtual impossibility of football which translates into the paltry fantasia where adversaries compete in matches of agreed outcome, as though the irruption of the event of football had become obscene and insupportable, no longer sustainable, like every real event moreover. Everything is therefore transposed into the virtual, and we are confronted with a virtual apocalypse, a hegemony ultimately much more dangerous than real apocalypse.

The most widespread belief is in a logical progression from virtual to actual. However, this is an Aristotelian logic which is no longer our own. Our virtual has definitively overtaken the actual (in the manner of a doped up Jamie Vardy) and we must be content with this extreme virtuality which, unlike the Aristotelian, deters any passage to real action. We are no longer in a logic of the passage from virtual to actual but in a hyperrealist logic of the deterrence of the real by the virtual.

In this process, the football clubs are once again revealing. Extracted like molecules in an experimental process, then distilled one by one in the exchange of mafia fake, it is their virtual death that is at issue, not their real death. Moreover, they never die: at best they disappear to reappear as gambling outfits, at worst they enter receivership only to be reformed and renamed in a new virtual unreality. There will never be monuments to current footballers in the manner in which Best or Greaves or Brady or Charles or McNeill are commemorated as everybody will be too ashamed of the modern player, kissing the badge of their agents offshore financial centres while perfecting the persona of a post-career in media disinformation: the collective shame which attaches to the club reflects the absolute degradation of football into fixed fan-boy fake-fun.

The passage to systemic corruption suffers widespread infamy: it supposedly corresponds to a criminally creative elevation of sporting prowess, thus to a psychotic process. It seems that this obsession with the passage to corruption today governs all of our behaviour: obsession with every real, with every real event, with every real corruption, with every associated pleasure which is too real. In fact, so real that it is unreal. Against this obsession with the real we have created a gigantic apparatus of simulation which allows to pass the act "in vitro". We prefer the exile of the virtual, of which television is the universal mirror, to the catastrophe of the real.

So the media chooses to applaud the array of unbeaten records and stellar performances by Liverpool while ignoring the rancid underbelly of underground mafia corruption that is the very definition of this supposed real.

The holistic of football has not escaped this virtualisation which is like a surgical operation, the aim of which is to present a face-lifted sport, the cosmetically treated spectre of its death, and its even more deceptive televisual subterfuge (as we see in the corrupted players of yesteryear obfuscating current corruptions on Sky, BT Sport and Match of the Day). Even players have lost the privilege of use value, the privilege of real football. Corruption has passed by that way and it spares nobody.

No more than the politicians, footballers do not know what to make of their real function, their function of corruption and matchfixing. They are pledged to the decoy of football as others are to the decoy of power.

Football has become pure (in the fascist sense) and speculative (in an insider trading sense) to the extent that we do not see the real event that it could be or that it would signify.

Since the 2019/20 (and 2015/16) Premier League titles were won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like if the league title races had actually existed. We will never know what Manchester City taking part with a chance of winning would have been like. We will never know what Liverpool taking part with a probability of being beaten would have been like. We have seen what a state-based systemic corruption is like, a process of paralysis or lobotomy of a fake sport away from the field of play with no possibility of reaction. But this is not football, any more than $100 million bets on a game is sufficient to make it football. Any more than the direct transmission by BBC/BT Sport/Sky of real time information is sufficient to authenticate the sport. One is reminded of Capricorn One in which the flight of a manned rocket to Mars, which only took place in a desert studio, was relayed live to all the television stations in the world.

While one fraction of the media and political class, specialists in the substitute bench of mental contortions, are whole-heartedly in favour of the systemic corruption (the corruption earns more for UK PLC than legitimacy), and another fraction are against it from the bottom of their hearts - but for reasons no less disturbing, all are agreed on one point: this systemic corruption exists, we have seen it. There is no interrogation into the sport itself or its reality; or into the fraudulence of this corruption, the programmed and always delayed illusion of competitive sport; or into the machination of this matchfixing and its amplification by disinformation, not to mention the improbable orgy of fake media, the systematic manipulation of data, the artificial dramatisation ("surely the most amazing comeback ever!")...

If you do not have practical intelligence, hacks and insider knowledge about the systemic corruption in the Premier League (and few among us do), at least develop a sceptical intelligence towards it, without renouncing the pathetic experience of its absurdity.

But there is more than one kind of absurdity: that of the assassination and that of being caught up in the illusion of assassination. It is just as in La Fontaine's fable: the day there is a real football match in the Premier League you will not even be able to tell the difference.

The mafia of John Colquhoun has become football.

The real victory of the simulators of corruption in football is to have drawn everyone into this rotten simulation of the real.

A real where match outcomes are in the underground betting markets before the game even starts.
A real where matches are corrupted months ahead.
A real where the utilisation of doping is accepted as a competitive advantage.
A real where players pay managers to play and agents pay national managers for client selection.
A real where a significant percentage of players represented by certain agents are involved in matchfixing.
A real where the UK sports media is entirely captured and performative to the corruption.
A real where only the American-owned Manchester United and Liverpool have a veto on the choice of Premier League chief executive.
A real where some EPL clubs are merely gambling stables e.g. Tony Bloom at Brighton & Hove Albion who sacks employees if their legitimate professionalism interferes with his proprietary matchfixing and market plays - Bloom is paying money out left, right and centre in a desperate attempt to bury his historical crimes.
A real where Match of the Day commentary is added post-game under corrupted editorial inputs.
A real where Manchester United should be 4th from bottom of the league and Crystal Palace bottom sees United instead challenging for a Champions League place and Hodgson being given a legacy based on doping and matchfixing.
And a real where Liverpool FC are champions, were champions before a ball was kicked and will be champions again so long as that is the preferred strategy of state and mafia.

The Premier League no longer takes place.
_______________________________________________________________________________

The Football is Fixed Network is unique.
We are in a niche of one.
We have no competitors.
________________________________________________________________________

If you have any information to contribute to Football is Fixed, please contact Ojo del Toro in complete confidence via Direct Message @footballisfixed. You can do so anonymously, but if you use your real name you can rest assured that this website operates a blanket policy of non-disclosure and does not cooperate with requests for details from the authorities or individuals.

© Football is Fixed 2006-2020

"The Gulf War did not take place" (La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas en lieu) was a collection of three essays published by philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard in 1991.

The title is a reference to the play by Jean Giraudoux "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place" in which the characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows to be inevitable...
... a little like the Football is Fixed Network.

In this essay, a posthumous Jean Baudrillard argues that the 2019/20 Premier League season is not really a football competition but rather corruption masquerading as football.

Using a systemic match manipulation template, ownership of a cartel of EPL teams, a perverted Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) refereeing body, the 'hacking' of Manchester City, plus extensive doping and fixture list biases, Liverpool have been presented with the title by mafia entities.

All the spectators have known about this season has been in the form of propaganda imagery.
The closely watched media presentations makes it impossible for the fan to distinguish between the experience of what is truly happening, and its stylised, selective misrepresentation through simulacra by the content providers.
_______________________________________________________________________________

From the beginning, we knew that this season wouldn't happen. After sport as sport and sport as terror, here is sport in the morgue - which leaves us to grapple with football's corpse and the necessity of dealing with this decomposing body which nobody from the Premier League has managed to revive.
Liverpool have secured victory over the corpse of English football.

Football has entered into a definitive crisis.
Sport exists through opening up competition but not in the EPL. In the past, competition functioned as a grading between different teams but now competitive edge is a virtual advantage created by illicit means - matchfixing, insider trading, corruption of referees and doping all on a systemic template.

This is why the season has not taken place. In this sense, the gravity of the non-event in the Premier League is greater than the event itself: it corresponds to a highly toxic window which affects a rotting corpse and which can cause nausea and powerless stupor. Here again, our symbolic defences are weak: the mastery of the end of football escapes us and we experience all this in the uniform shameful indifference of the Sky and BT Sport duopoly.

Non-football is characterised by that degenerate form of football which includes mafia (e.g. John Colquhoun), mafia states (e.g. Malta or Gibraltar), the manipulation of outcome in correlation with insider trading in the betting markets, coercion and blackmail. The corrupted match has taken the place of the legitimate game. It has become the principal focus, the simulacral reality, or rather, in its pure non-competiveness, the reality of non-football. The players bury themselves in their agents' offshore embrace leaving corruption alone on the stage, and including all of us as corruption hostages on the football media stage dominated by 4th Estate fake and hidden agendas (e.g. The Guardian, Der Spiegel). The hostage fan is the phantom actor, the extra who observes football powerlessly. The fan only exists commercially for value and liquidity - pay your subscriptions, buy our merchandise, watch the corruption and shut the fuck up - fantastic degradation of that which was the very core of the beauty of football. With the Premier League, the value of football has plummeted. The EPL has made itself the capitalist master of fan hostage value - the vulgar merchant of the fan hostage market. Taking the place of sport, fan hostage has become synonymous with the debility of football. We are all hostages of media intoxification, induced to believe in football just as we were once led to believe in 'Football Leaks' and the blackmailing operative Rui Pinto - a foot-soldier of the mafia juggernaut destroying football across Europe for the financial benefit of certain mafia (states). We are already strategic hostages in situ; our site is the screen on which we are virtually bombarded day by day. In this sense, the grotesque vaudeville played by the Premier League is a diversion, at once a diversion of both football and terror. Its systemic corruption has at least put an end to the particular corruption and spotfixing of the past, thereby showing the EPL to be in this as in many other respects the perfect accomplice of state terrorism. The systemic corruption in UK football features Malta as a catalyst with regard to matchfixing and transfer market abuses while the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia by the mafia state is equivalent to the murderous attempts perpetrated against whistleblowers by mafia entities in the UK, while such bodies all the time promote the fake coerced patsy Rui Pinto and the passwords allegedly hidden in his head (and, as it happens, on one of John Colquhoun's hard-drives).

This impossibility of proceeding to the act, this utter absence of legitimacy, implies the triumph of blackmail as strategy (in the case of the Premier League, there is still a challenge; with Rui Pinto & John Colquhoun there is only blackmail). The Premier League's abjection lies in it having vulgarised everything: club competition has become a fake entertainment spectacle, the fan a commercial hostage, the violent corruption of the league a scam based on a religious support for one's team and football an impossible comedy featuring a VAR orchestrated by mafia, for mafia, combined with an ignorance of the rules of the game and any interest in the integrity of the sport. Although the media points out VAR as the culprit, the grouping of PGMOB match officials working with the Liverpool cartel of teams should really be in the dock. But the state has helped the EPL become this monstrosity. By allowing the league to monetise small criminalities, the government drove the Premier League towards the mirage of sustainable systemic corruption (like the arms trade or aspects of the City of London).
This evolution of this mercenary league is indeed the only ironic and pleasing trait of this whole story.

We are in neither a sport of war nor a gamble of poker but in a reality of betting markets controlling match events which has wound its way inexorably through 28 years of the Premier League to a denouement in our current events; a sport of fake matches, to which belong those in the Champions League as well as the EPL (the Champions League under Ceferin has been taken over by the same mafia operators behind 'Football Leaks' and the criminalisation of the Premier League). Peripeteias of an anorexic history or an anorexic sport which can no longer be taken as real because it is incapable of conceiving sporting integrity - and God knows the EPL has no integrity - and thus devours itself. It is corrupted football, that of the right to corruption under the green light of the Premier League and UEFA with no precautionary regulation - free market matchfixing must not have obstacles to performativity. On the Richter scale, the 2019/20 Premier League season would not even reach two or three. The history and pre-season were unreal, as though the fiction of an earthquake were created by a manipulation of the match officials, of mainstream media, of the masses. The EPL is neither the strong form nor the degree zero of football, but the weak or phthisical degree, the asymptotic form which allows a pretence of competitive football but no real encounter, the transparent degree which prevents football being seen from the depths of the darkroom where the fan resides.

We should have been suspicious about the insider trading from BT Sport operatives pre-season as they actively contorted the betting markets to their corruption matrix in the same manner as they perpetrated the systemic corruption behind the mafia entity Leicester City stealing the 2015/16 version of the EPL title from Arsenal. The 2019/20 season never began. It had ended prior to its onset. It had already been won and the headlines and war strategies had already been written. As there is no competition, there are no matches. Just markets and a distinction between the prescribed winners and losers.

But these systemic corruptions do not occur in a vacuum.
We expose Liverpool's links with PGMOB match officials, we expose doping at the club, we expose the manner in which proprietary information was stolen from Manchester City, we expose Liverpool FC's links to bookmakers and how such associations energise insider trading and matchfixing, we expose the fixture list manipulations and all other marginal gains supportive of this project.
In the end, the distinction between the winners (Liverpool and their cartel of teams) and losers (Manchester City and other Gestifute-linked clubs) becomes indecipherable as the winners readily become the hostage of the losers; a Stockholm Syndrome that quantums into existence as the 'winners' evolve as hostages of the mafia themselves.
Since this season never began, this season is therefore interminable.
Indeed, Covid-19 might make it literally so.

By dint of dreaming of pure corruption, of an orbital corruption purged of all local and political infusions, the matchfixers have fallen into the arms of the mafia, into the virtual impossibility of football which translates into the paltry fantasia where adversaries compete in matches of agreed outcome, as though the irruption of the event of football had become obscene and insupportable, no longer sustainable, like every real event moreover. Everything is therefore transposed into the virtual, and we are confronted with a virtual apocalypse, a hegemony ultimately much more dangerous than real apocalypse.

The most widespread belief is in a logical progression from virtual to actual. However, this is an Aristotelian logic which is no longer our own. Our virtual has definitively overtaken the actual (in the manner of a doped up Jamie Vardy) and we must be content with this extreme virtuality which, unlike the Aristotelian, deters any passage to real action. We are no longer in a logic of the passage from virtual to actual but in a hyperrealist logic of the deterrence of the real by the virtual.

In this process, the football clubs are once again revealing. Extracted like molecules in an experimental process, then distilled one by one in the exchange of mafia fake, it is their virtual death that is at issue, not their real death. Moreover, they never die: at best they disappear to reappear as gambling outfits, at worst they enter receivership only to be reformed and renamed in a new virtual unreality. There will never be monuments to current footballers in the manner in which Best or Greaves or Brady or Charles or McNeill are commemorated as everybody will be too ashamed of the modern player, kissing the badge of their agents offshore financial centres while perfecting the persona of a post-career in media disinformation: the collective shame which attaches to the club reflects the absolute degradation of football into fixed fan-boy fake-fun.

The passage to systemic corruption suffers widespread infamy: it supposedly corresponds to a criminally creative elevation of sporting prowess, thus to a psychotic process. It seems that this obsession with the passage to corruption today governs all of our behaviour: obsession with every real, with every real event, with every real corruption, with every associated pleasure which is too real. In fact, so real that it is unreal. Against this obsession with the real we have created a gigantic apparatus of simulation which allows to pass the act "in vitro". We prefer the exile of the virtual, of which television is the universal mirror, to the catastrophe of the real.

So the media chooses to applaud the array of unbeaten records and stellar performances by Liverpool while ignoring the rancid underbelly of underground mafia corruption that is the very definition of this supposed real.

The holistic of football has not escaped this virtualisation which is like a surgical operation, the aim of which is to present a face-lifted sport, the cosmetically treated spectre of its death, and its even more deceptive televisual subterfuge (as we see in the corrupted players of yesteryear obfuscating current corruptions on Sky, BT Sport and Match of the Day). Even players have lost the privilege of use value, the privilege of real football. Corruption has passed by that way and it spares nobody.

No more than the politicians, footballers do not know what to make of their real function, their function of corruption and matchfixing. They are pledged to the decoy of football as others are to the decoy of power.

Football has become pure (in the fascist sense) and speculative (in an insider trading sense) to the extent that we do not see the real event that it could be or that it would signify.

Since the 2019/20 (and 2015/16) Premier League titles were won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like if the league title races had actually existed. We will never know what Manchester City taking part with a chance of winning would have been like. We will never know what Liverpool taking part with a probability of being beaten would have been like. We have seen what a state-based systemic corruption is like, a process of paralysis or lobotomy of a fake sport away from the field of play with no possibility of reaction. But this is not football, any more than $100 million bets on a game is sufficient to make it football. Any more than the direct transmission by BBC/BT Sport/Sky of real time information is sufficient to authenticate the sport. One is reminded of Capricorn One in which the flight of a manned rocket to Mars, which only took place in a desert studio, was relayed live to all the television stations in the world.

While one fraction of the media and political class, specialists in the substitute bench of mental contortions, are whole-heartedly in favour of the systemic corruption (the corruption earns more for UK PLC than legitimacy), and another fraction are against it from the bottom of their hearts - but for reasons no less disturbing, all are agreed on one point: this systemic corruption exists, we have seen it. There is no interrogation into the sport itself or its reality; or into the fraudulence of this corruption, the programmed and always delayed illusion of competitive sport; or into the machination of this matchfixing and its amplification by disinformation, not to mention the improbable orgy of fake media, the systematic manipulation of data, the artificial dramatisation ("surely the most amazing comeback ever!")...

If you do not have practical intelligence, hacks and insider knowledge about the systemic corruption in the Premier League (and few among us do), at least develop a sceptical intelligence towards it, without renouncing the pathetic experience of its absurdity.

But there is more than one kind of absurdity: that of the assassination and that of being caught up in the illusion of assassination. It is just as in La Fontaine's fable: the day there is a real football match in the Premier League you will not even be able to tell the difference.

The mafia of John Colquhoun has become football.

The real victory of the simulators of corruption in football is to have drawn everyone into this rotten simulation of the real.

A real where match outcomes are in the underground betting markets before the game even starts.
A real where matches are corrupted months ahead.
A real where the utilisation of doping is accepted as a competitive advantage.
A real where players pay managers to play and agents pay national managers for client selection.
A real where a significant percentage of players represented by certain agents are involved in matchfixing.
A real where the UK sports media is entirely captured and performative to the corruption.
A real where only the American-owned Manchester United and Liverpool have a veto on the choice of Premier League chief executive.
A real where some EPL clubs are merely gambling stables e.g. Tony Bloom at Brighton & Hove Albion who sacks employees if their legitimate professionalism interferes with his proprietary matchfixing and market plays - Bloom is paying money out left, right and centre in a desperate attempt to bury his historical crimes.
A real where Match of the Day commentary is added post-game under corrupted editorial inputs.
A real where Manchester United should be 4th from bottom of the league and Crystal Palace bottom sees United instead challenging for a Champions League place and Hodgson being given a legacy based on doping and matchfixing.
And a real where Liverpool FC are champions, were champions before a ball was kicked and will be champions again so long as that is the preferred strategy of state and mafia.

The Premier League no longer takes place.
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Of course,  The 2019/20 Premier League Season Did Not Take Place

But the spectacle continues.

Liverpool are champions.
They have absolute control of 5 of their remaining Premier League fixtures as opponents will be acquiescent in that cutesy cartelised sort of way that has defined this pseudo-success - the only truly competitive matches still to come for the scousers are in the Champions League.

The campaign has now started in earnest to get Jordan Henderson announced as Footballer of the Year although Gary Lineker and his Match of the Day clique have been working on promoting Henderson as well as the clients of Stellar, Key Sports, Unique Sports and Base (SKUBs) all season.

What kickbacks are involved in this process?

Crime pays, in the short term.

This has been a season long campaign from Lineker & #MOTD - after 90% of #LiverpoolFC matches shown on the programme, there's a post-match interview with Henderson.
It is noteworthy how certain agents always get their clients on post-match MOTD regardless of performance.

— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) March 4, 2020

Dick Masters (the new EPL chief executive) also needs to explain to fans why Liverpool and Manchester United are the only clubs to have a veto both over referee selection and over the choice of senior figures within the Premier League (like chief executive).

This matters.
Anthony "Tony" Taylor who gives red cards and penalties in favour of Manchester United while undermining Manchester City equivalently has been announced as 4th Official for the Manchester Derby on Sunday - this is Tony's third Man Utd game out of their last 4 matches.

How does this happen?
Why has Taylor been given two more United appointments in the aftermath of the disastrous refereeing performance at Chelsea?  see - FFS For Frankie's Son

The Real Premier League Table (see below) sees Manchester United 4th from bottom.
The corrupted version sees them 5th from top with the eventual 'certainty' of Champions League football next season allowing Solskjaer to be paraded as a proper manager and with the likelihood that Harry Kane and Jadon Sancho (stolen by mafia behaviours from Manchester City) will be signed in the summer.

Crime pays, in the short term.

#VARchesterUnited& #LiVARpool

These two US-owned clubs with a veto on #PremierLeague appointments at all levels from chief executive to referee selection.#ManUtd being gifted a #ChampionsLeague place via corruption & #LiverpoolFC handed the title.https://t.co/iCog4hIttu

— FOOTBALL is FIXED (@footballisfixed) March 1, 2020

The corruption in the Premier League bifurcates around the war between SKUBs and Gestifute...
... teams linked to SKUBs have markedly preferential treatment while Gestifute outfits and teams of integrity are targeted.

Take Arsenal.
In the last 7 seasons, Arsenal have been heavily abused by PGMOB officials, in particular Dean, Atkinson, Oliver, Taylor and Attwell.

The Referee Bias Tabulations since 2013/14 have seen Arsenal placed 20th, 16th, 6th, 16th, 15th, 19th and 19th.

This negative refereeing bias has been in existence throughout the reigns of Wenger, Emery and Arteta but, strangely, not Ljungberg.
But, then again, Ljungberg is represented by Base agency and that changes things for the PGMOB.

In comparison, Man Utd have been 3rd, 1st and 1st in the last 3 seasons and Crystal Palace have been 1st, 4th and 3rd in the same period.

Without rogue PGMOB referees, Hodgson, the apartheid sanction-busting racist, would have been sacked for relegation form and yet today he was given a one year contract extension by Palace.

Crime pays, in the short term.

With Hodgson, it pays in the longer term too  Happy Anniversary To Roy Hodgson

Power tends to corrupt.
And absolute power corrupts absolutely.



Real EPL Table

1.  Liverpool 28 - 68
2.  Manchester City 27 - 56
3.  Arsenal 27 - 52
4.  Wolverhampton Wanderers 28 - 44
5.  Leicester City 28 - 42
6.  Tottenham Hotspur 28 - 41
7.  Chelsea 28 - 39
8.  Sheffield United 27 - 36
9.  West Ham United 28 - 36
10. Burnley 28 - 35
11. Everton 28 - 34
12. Bournemouth 28 - 34
13. Southampton 28 - 33
14. Watford 28 - 33
15. Newcastle United 28 - 33
16. Brighton And Hove Albion 28 - 32
17. Manchester United 28 - 30
18. Crystal Palace 28 - 24
19. Aston Villa 27 - 23
20. Norwich City 28 - 23
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A year ago this weekend a rave took place at Bloomfield Road as Blackpool FC fans returned en masse following decades of abuse from the Odious Oystons.

See  The Mocking Muckers' Fuck Over The Fuckers

The last minute own-goal equaliser only added to the sense of theatre.

And the spectacle continued when the excellent Muckers Supporters Group cornered Shaun Harvey (then EFL chief executive) to persuade that it would be entirely unfair for the club to receive a 12-point deduction for the crimes of the Oystons and that they truly hoped that Harvey would accommodate this opinion particularly with he and his wife retiring to Lytham St Annes and no doubt wanting a leisurely and peaceful latter life.

If the 12 point deduction had been activated Blackpool would now be in 20th position in League One on the edge of relegation.
You can thank Paul Grimshaw and the Muckers for this reality being avoided.

Unfortunately, the optimism ends right there.

Fans had hoped that the new hierarchy at the club would not only move Blackpool forward to new heights but that they would also achieve this advancement with integrity.
But there has been no advancement and there are pockets where no or limited integrity resides.

The most alarming feature has seen the outcomes of Blackpool FC matches in the knowledge of underground bookmakers (initially in SE Asia and then closer to home).
Whenever the betting markets know match results prior to a game kicking off, you know that there are internal issues.

A further disappointment has been the transfer policy under the ill-equipped Simon Grayson - 4 players have been signed from the SKUBs fragmented cartel of corrupted agents while Jak Alnwick is associated with World In Motion who major in lower league goalkeeping shenanigans. While not all clients of Stellar, Key Sports, Unique Sports and Base are matchfixing operatives, some are and any club signing players from these intermediaries is risking the integrity of future matches.

Initially it was hoped that appointments at board level would be progressive but this has only been limited in scope and the club has allowed influence from the matchfixing operatives associated with █████ █████.

Furthermore, when an individual has demonstrated a previous lack of integrity, it is always of concern when a future employment is found for such people within the game.

Take Rob Heys.
When he was managing director (and former chief executive) of rogue League One side Accrington Stanley, he was banned from football for 21 months for betting on 735 games including 231 Accrington Stanley matches.
In 37 of these events he traded on his team to lose.
How on earth do the Blackpool hierarchy consider that this man warrants the position of Commercial Director at the club?

The fans deserve better than this.

It is an outrage that this famous old club has such a succession of intriguing appointments - even Valeri Belokon who eventually ousted the Oystons in the High Courts of the Land was backed by a Kyrgyzstani warlord on the run from Interpol and was convicted in absentia of money laundering in the central Asian country.
And he is our hero!

The one year anniversary match of the new regime is away to Fleetwood today and here too there are questions to be asked not least of which is how is Joey Barton still in football with the assault charge against Barnsley boss Daniel Stendel and all the betting infractions? Barton's agent is Willie McKay who astounded the football world with the illicit associations with Warnock and Cardiff City and a key role in the death/ manslaughter/ murder of Emiliano Sala.



In comparison, for example, take Mike Newell who in 2006 exposed bungs in football when manager of Luton Town and has had his career punished by having only one further season in management (Grimsby Town in 2008/09).
In 2004/05 Newell had taken Luton Town into the Championship as champions and had consolidated this performance with a 10th place finish in the following season.
Following his bung revelations on January 12th 2006, Luton were targeted by match officials for the remainder of the 2005/06 season and throughout 2006/07 and sank from the mid-table to bottom place and relegation.

Football keeps out whistleblowers like Newell while having to recycle rogue entities like Heys and Barton to ensure that there are no excluded grudge merchants outside the game who might leak realities to the media.
This is the template throughout football.

Coronavirus ban existential threat to EFL clubs as sports industry insider predicts 'multiple Burys'https://t.co/1sG1cwywBq

— Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) March 6, 2020

With numerous lower league clubs facing oblivion due to coronavirus once games are played behind closed doors or league seasons truncated, this will force more clubs into the hands of bookmakers and insider traders.
As World Soccer magazine reports (in one of its more lucid moments): "Fragile finances are common in weaker European leagues... as UEFA acknowledges in its latest financial report."

UEFA Financial Report: "Many middle- and lower-income clubs are still reliant on donations and other types of income... The relatively large percentage of revenue coming from this source underlines the precarious nature of club finances."

This drives clubs to illegitimate matchfixing.

We have detected no insider trading on Blackpool matches since Simon Grayson was sacked.

But Blackpool fans deserve more than this and must be fervently hoping that Neil Critchley (despite his previous association with rogue entity Liverpool FC) will put football ahead of commercial decisions made to the benefit of those who do not have the best interests of the club or sport at heart.

The Football is Fixed Network spoke with Blackpool FC regarding a high level consultancy after the Oystons were exported but we pulled as soon as we realised what the brave new world at Bloomfield Road entailed.

Lower league football could, of course, do with guidance from higher in the football pyramid yet the FA, the EFL, the government and institutions are captured by the corruption and UEFA is head-burying over the full impacts of Covid-19 rather than guiding football through uncertain times.

The extensive corruptions surrounding Englsh football in 2020 extend way way way down the league ladder and these corruptions are about to become more robust.
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Football is fucked...
... but at least the bookies and their spies are raking it in.
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"The Gulf War did not take place" (La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas en lieu) was a collection of three essays published by philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard in 1991.

The title is a reference to the play by Jean Giraudoux "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place" in which the characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows to be inevitable...
... a little like the Football is Fixed Network.

In this essay, a posthumous Jean Baudrillard argues that the 2019/20 Premier League season is not really a football competition but rather corruption masquerading as football.

Using a systemic match manipulation template, ownership of a cartel of EPL teams, a perverted Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) refereeing body, the 'hacking' of Manchester City, plus extensive doping and fixture list biases, Liverpool have been presented with the title by mafia entities.

All the spectators have known about this season has been in the form of propaganda imagery.
The closely watched media presentations makes it impossible for the fan to distinguish between the experience of what is truly happening, and its stylised, selective misrepresentation through simulacra by the content providers.
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From the beginning, we knew that this season wouldn't happen. After sport as sport and sport as terror, here is sport in the morgue - which leaves us to grapple with football's corpse and the necessity of dealing with this decomposing body which nobody from the Premier League has managed to revive.
Liverpool have secured victory over the corpse of English football.

Football has entered into a definitive crisis.
Sport exists through opening up competition but not in the EPL. In the past, competition functioned as a grading between different teams but now competitive edge is a virtual advantage created by illicit means - matchfixing, insider trading, corruption of referees and doping all on a systemic template.

This is why the season has not taken place. In this sense, the gravity of the non-event in the Premier League is greater than the event itself: it corresponds to a highly toxic window which affects a rotting corpse and which can cause nausea and powerless stupor. Here again, our symbolic defences are weak: the mastery of the end of football escapes us and we experience all this in the uniform shameful indifference of the Sky and BT Sport duopoly.

Non-football is characterised by that degenerate form of football which includes mafia (e.g. John Colquhoun), mafia states (e.g. Malta or Gibraltar), the manipulation of outcome in correlation with insider trading in the betting markets, coercion and blackmail. The corrupted match has taken the place of the legitimate game. It has become the principal focus, the simulacral reality, or rather, in its pure non-competiveness, the reality of non-football. The players bury themselves in their agents' offshore embrace leaving corruption alone on the stage, and including all of us as corruption hostages on the football media stage dominated by 4th Estate fake and hidden agendas (e.g. The Guardian, Der Spiegel). The hostage fan is the phantom actor, the extra who observes football powerlessly. The fan only exists commercially for value and liquidity - pay your subscriptions, buy our merchandise, watch the corruption and shut the fuck up - fantastic degradation of that which was the very core of the beauty of football. With the Premier League, the value of football has plummeted. The EPL has made itself the capitalist master of fan hostage value - the vulgar merchant of the fan hostage market. Taking the place of sport, fan hostage has become synonymous with the debility of football. We are all hostages of media intoxification, induced to believe in football just as we were once led to believe in 'Football Leaks' and the blackmailing operative Rui Pinto - a foot-soldier of the mafia juggernaut destroying football across Europe for the financial benefit of certain mafia (states). We are already strategic hostages in situ; our site is the screen on which we are virtually bombarded day by day. In this sense, the grotesque vaudeville played by the Premier League is a diversion, at once a diversion of both football and terror. Its systemic corruption has at least put an end to the particular corruption and spotfixing of the past, thereby showing the EPL to be in this as in many other respects the perfect accomplice of state terrorism. The systemic corruption in UK football features Malta as a catalyst with regard to matchfixing and transfer market abuses while the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia by the mafia state is equivalent to the murderous attempts perpetrated against whistleblowers by mafia entities in the UK, while such bodies all the time promote the fake coerced patsy Rui Pinto and the passwords allegedly hidden in his head (and, as it happens, on one of John Colquhoun's hard-drives).

This impossibility of proceeding to the act, this utter absence of legitimacy, implies the triumph of blackmail as strategy (in the case of the Premier League, there is still a challenge; with Rui Pinto & John Colquhoun there is only blackmail). The Premier League's abjection lies in it having vulgarised everything: club competition has become a fake entertainment spectacle, the fan a commercial hostage, the violent corruption of the league a scam based on a religious support for one's team and football an impossible comedy featuring a VAR orchestrated by mafia, for mafia, combined with an ignorance of the rules of the game and any interest in the integrity of the sport. Although the media points out VAR as the culprit, the grouping of PGMOB match officials working with the Liverpool cartel of teams should really be in the dock. But the state has helped the EPL become this monstrosity. By allowing the league to monetise small criminalities, the government drove the Premier League towards the mirage of sustainable systemic corruption (like the arms trade or aspects of the City of London).
This evolution of this mercenary league is indeed the only ironic and pleasing trait of this whole story.

We are in neither a sport of war nor a gamble of poker but in a reality of betting markets controlling match events which has wound its way inexorably through 28 years of the Premier League to a denouement in our current events; a sport of fake matches, to which belong those in the Champions League as well as the EPL (the Champions League under Ceferin has been taken over by the same mafia operators behind 'Football Leaks' and the criminalisation of the Premier League). Peripeteias of an anorexic history or an anorexic sport which can no longer be taken as real because it is incapable of conceiving sporting integrity - and God knows the EPL has no integrity - and thus devours itself. It is corrupted football, that of the right to corruption under the green light of the Premier League and UEFA with no precautionary regulation - free market matchfixing must not have obstacles to performativity. On the Richter scale, the 2019/20 Premier League season would not even reach two or three. The history and pre-season were unreal, as though the fiction of an earthquake were created by a manipulation of the match officials, of mainstream media, of the masses. The EPL is neither the strong form nor the degree zero of football, but the weak or phthisical degree, the asymptotic form which allows a pretence of competitive football but no real encounter, the transparent degree which prevents football being seen from the depths of the darkroom where the fan resides.

We should have been suspicious about the insider trading from BT Sport operatives pre-season as they actively contorted the betting markets to their corruption matrix in the same manner as they perpetrated the systemic corruption behind the mafia entity Leicester City stealing the 2015/16 version of the EPL title from Arsenal. The 2019/20 season never began. It had ended prior to its onset. It had already been won and the headlines and war strategies had already been written. As there is no competition, there are no matches. Just markets and a distinction between the prescribed winners and losers.

But these systemic corruptions do not occur in a vacuum.
We expose Liverpool's links with PGMOB match officials, we expose doping at the club, we expose the manner in which proprietary information was stolen from Manchester City, we expose Liverpool FC's links to bookmakers and how such associations energise insider trading and matchfixing, we expose the fixture list manipulations and all other marginal gains supportive of this project.
In the end, the distinction between the winners (Liverpool and their cartel of teams) and losers (Manchester City and other Gestifute-linked clubs) becomes indecipherable as the winners readily become the hostage of the losers; a Stockholm Syndrome that quantums into existence as the 'winners' evolve as hostages of the mafia themselves.
Since this season never began, this season is therefore interminable.
Indeed, Covid-19 might make it literally so.

By dint of dreaming of pure corruption, of an orbital corruption purged of all local and political infusions, the matchfixers have fallen into the arms of the mafia, into the virtual impossibility of football which translates into the paltry fantasia where adversaries compete in matches of agreed outcome, as though the irruption of the event of football had become obscene and insupportable, no longer sustainable, like every real event moreover. Everything is therefore transposed into the virtual, and we are confronted with a virtual apocalypse, a hegemony ultimately much more dangerous than real apocalypse.

The most widespread belief is in a logical progression from virtual to actual. However, this is an Aristotelian logic which is no longer our own. Our virtual has definitively overtaken the actual (in the manner of a doped up Jamie Vardy) and we must be content with this extreme virtuality which, unlike the Aristotelian, deters any passage to real action. We are no longer in a logic of the passage from virtual to actual but in a hyperrealist logic of the deterrence of the real by the virtual.

In this process, the football clubs are once again revealing. Extracted like molecules in an experimental process, then distilled one by one in the exchange of mafia fake, it is their virtual death that is at issue, not their real death. Moreover, they never die: at best they disappear to reappear as gambling outfits, at worst they enter receivership only to be reformed and renamed in a new virtual unreality. There will never be monuments to current footballers in the manner in which Best or Greaves or Brady or Charles or McNeill are commemorated as everybody will be too ashamed of the modern player, kissing the badge of their agents offshore financial centres while perfecting the persona of a post-career in media disinformation: the collective shame which attaches to the club reflects the absolute degradation of football into fixed fan-boy fake-fun.

The passage to systemic corruption suffers widespread infamy: it supposedly corresponds to a criminally creative elevation of sporting prowess, thus to a psychotic process. It seems that this obsession with the passage to corruption today governs all of our behaviour: obsession with every real, with every real event, with every real corruption, with every associated pleasure which is too real. In fact, so real that it is unreal. Against this obsession with the real we have created a gigantic apparatus of simulation which allows to pass the act "in vitro". We prefer the exile of the virtual, of which television is the universal mirror, to the catastrophe of the real.

So the media chooses to applaud the array of unbeaten records and stellar performances by Liverpool while ignoring the rancid underbelly of underground mafia corruption that is the very definition of this supposed real.

The holistic of football has not escaped this virtualisation which is like a surgical operation, the aim of which is to present a face-lifted sport, the cosmetically treated spectre of its death, and its even more deceptive televisual subterfuge (as we see in the corrupted players of yesteryear obfuscating current corruptions on Sky, BT Sport and Match of the Day). Even players have lost the privilege of use value, the privilege of real football. Corruption has passed by that way and it spares nobody.

No more than the politicians, footballers do not know what to make of their real function, their function of corruption and matchfixing. They are pledged to the decoy of football as others are to the decoy of power.

Football has become pure (in the fascist sense) and speculative (in an insider trading sense) to the extent that we do not see the real event that it could be or that it would signify.

Since the 2019/20 (and 2015/16) Premier League titles were won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like if the league title races had actually existed. We will never know what Manchester City taking part with a chance of winning would have been like. We will never know what Liverpool taking part with a probability of being beaten would have been like. We have seen what a state-based systemic corruption is like, a process of paralysis or lobotomy of a fake sport away from the field of play with no possibility of reaction. But this is not football, any more than $100 million bets on a game is sufficient to make it football. Any more than the direct transmission by BBC/BT Sport/Sky of real time information is sufficient to authenticate the sport. One is reminded of Capricorn One in which the flight of a manned rocket to Mars, which only took place in a desert studio, was relayed live to all the television stations in the world.

While one fraction of the media and political class, specialists in the substitute bench of mental contortions, are whole-heartedly in favour of the systemic corruption (the corruption earns more for UK PLC than legitimacy), and another fraction are against it from the bottom of their hearts - but for reasons no less disturbing, all are agreed on one point: this systemic corruption exists, we have seen it. There is no interrogation into the sport itself or its reality; or into the fraudulence of this corruption, the programmed and always delayed illusion of competitive sport; or into the machination of this matchfixing and its amplification by disinformation, not to mention the improbable orgy of fake media, the systematic manipulation of data, the artificial dramatisation ("surely the most amazing comeback ever!")...

If you do not have practical intelligence, hacks and insider knowledge about the systemic corruption in the Premier League (and few among us do), at least develop a sceptical intelligence towards it, without renouncing the pathetic experience of its absurdity.

But there is more than one kind of absurdity: that of the assassination and that of being caught up in the illusion of assassination. It is just as in La Fontaine's fable: the day there is a real football match in the Premier League you will not even be able to tell the difference.

The mafia of John Colquhoun has become football.

The real victory of the simulators of corruption in football is to have drawn everyone into this rotten simulation of the real.

A real where match outcomes are in the underground betting markets before the game even starts.
A real where matches are corrupted months ahead.
A real where the utilisation of doping is accepted as a competitive advantage.
A real where players pay managers to play and agents pay national managers for client selection.
A real where a significant percentage of players represented by certain agents are involved in matchfixing.
A real where the UK sports media is entirely captured and performative to the corruption.
A real where only the American-owned Manchester United and Liverpool have a veto on the choice of Premier League chief executive.
A real where some EPL clubs are merely gambling stables e.g. Tony Bloom at Brighton & Hove Albion who sacks employees if their legitimate professionalism interferes with his proprietary matchfixing and market plays - Bloom is paying money out left, right and centre in a desperate attempt to bury his historical crimes.
A real where Match of the Day commentary is added post-game under corrupted editorial inputs.
A real where Manchester United should be 4th from bottom of the league and Crystal Palace bottom sees United instead challenging for a Champions League place and Hodgson being given a legacy based on doping and matchfixing.
And a real where Liverpool FC are champions, were champions before a ball was kicked and will be champions again so long as that is the preferred strategy of state and mafia.

The Premier League no longer takes place.
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A year ago this weekend a rave took place at Bloomfield Road as Blackpool FC fans returned en masse following decades of abuse from the Odious Oystons.

The last minute own-goal equaliser only added to the sense of theatre.

And the spectacle continued when the excellent Muckers Supporters Group cornered Shaun Harvey (then EFL chief executive) to persuade that it would be entirely unfair for the club to receive a 12-point deduction for the crimes of the Oystons and that they truly hoped that Harvey would accommodate this opinion particularly with he and his wife retiring to Lytham St Annes and no doubt wanting a leisurely and peaceful latter life.

If the 12 point deduction had been activated Blackpool would now be in 20th position in League One on the edge of relegation.
You can thank Paul Grimshaw and the Muckers for this reality being avoided.

Unfortunately, the optimism ends right there.

Fans had hoped that the new hierarchy at the club would not only move Blackpool forward to new heights but that they would also achieve this advancement with integrity.
But there has been no advancement and there are pockets where no or limited integrity resides.

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Of course,  The 2019/20 Premier League Season Did Not Take Place

But the spectacle continues.

Liverpool are champions.
They have absolute control of 5 of their remaining Premier League fixtures as opponents will be acquiescent in that cutesy cartelised sort of way that has defined this pseudo-success - the only truly competitive matches still to come for the scousers are in the Champions League.

The campaign has now started in earnest to get Jordan Henderson announced as Footballer of the Year although Gary Lineker and his Match of the Day clique have been working on promoting Henderson as well as the clients of Stellar, Key Sports, Unique Sports and Base (SKUBs) all season.

What kickbacks are involved in this process?

Crime pays, in the short term.

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"The Gulf War did not take place" (La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas en lieu) was a collection of three essays published by philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard in 1991.

The title is a reference to the play by Jean Giraudoux "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place" in which the characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows to be inevitable...
... a little like the Football is Fixed Network.

In this essay, a posthumous Jean Baudrillard argues that the 2019/20 Premier League season is not really a football competition but rather corruption masquerading as football.

Using a systemic match manipulation template, ownership of a cartel of EPL teams, a perverted Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) refereeing body, the 'hacking' of Manchester City, plus extensive doping and fixture list biases, Liverpool have been presented with the title by mafia entities.

All the spectators have known about this season has been in the form of propaganda imagery.
The closely watched media presentations makes it impossible for the fan to distinguish between the experience of what is truly happening, and its stylised, selective misrepresentation through simulacra by the content providers.
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From the beginning, we knew that this season wouldn't happen. After sport as sport and sport as terror, here is sport in the morgue - which leaves us to grapple with football's corpse and the necessity of dealing with this decomposing body which nobody from the Premier League has managed to revive.
Liverpool have secured victory over the corpse of English football.

Football has entered into a definitive crisis.
Sport exists through opening up competition but not in the EPL. In the past, competition functioned as a grading between different teams but now competitive edge is a virtual advantage created by illicit means - matchfixing, insider trading, corruption of referees and doping all on a systemic template.

This is why the season has not taken place. In this sense, the gravity of the non-event in the Premier League is greater than the event itself: it corresponds to a highly toxic window which affects a rotting corpse and which can cause nausea and powerless stupor. Here again, our symbolic defences are weak: the mastery of the end of football escapes us and we experience all this in the uniform shameful indifference of the Sky and BT Sport duopoly.

Non-football is characterised by that degenerate form of football which includes mafia (e.g. John Colquhoun), mafia states (e.g. Malta or Gibraltar), the manipulation of outcome in correlation with insider trading in the betting markets, coercion and blackmail. The corrupted match has taken the place of the legitimate game. It has become the principal focus, the simulacral reality, or rather, in its pure non-competiveness, the reality of non-football. The players bury themselves in their agents' offshore embrace leaving corruption alone on the stage, and including all of us as corruption hostages on the football media stage dominated by 4th Estate fake and hidden agendas (e.g. The Guardian, Der Spiegel). The hostage fan is the phantom actor, the extra who observes football powerlessly. The fan only exists commercially for value and liquidity - pay your subscriptions, buy our merchandise, watch the corruption and shut the fuck up - fantastic degradation of that which was the very core of the beauty of football. With the Premier League, the value of football has plummeted. The EPL has made itself the capitalist master of fan hostage value - the vulgar merchant of the fan hostage market. Taking the place of sport, fan hostage has become synonymous with the debility of football. We are all hostages of media intoxification, induced to believe in football just as we were once led to believe in 'Football Leaks' and the blackmailing operative Rui Pinto - a foot-soldier of the mafia juggernaut destroying football across Europe for the financial benefit of certain mafia (states). We are already strategic hostages in situ; our site is the screen on which we are virtually bombarded day by day. In this sense, the grotesque vaudeville played by the Premier League is a diversion, at once a diversion of both football and terror. Its systemic corruption has at least put an end to the particular corruption and spotfixing of the past, thereby showing the EPL to be in this as in many other respects the perfect accomplice of state terrorism. The systemic corruption in UK football features Malta as a catalyst with regard to matchfixing and transfer market abuses while the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia by the mafia state is equivalent to the murderous attempts perpetrated against whistleblowers by mafia entities in the UK, while such bodies all the time promote the fake coerced patsy Rui Pinto and the passwords allegedly hidden in his head (and, as it happens, on one of John Colquhoun's hard-drives).

This impossibility of proceeding to the act, this utter absence of legitimacy, implies the triumph of blackmail as strategy (in the case of the Premier League, there is still a challenge; with Rui Pinto & John Colquhoun there is only blackmail). The Premier League's abjection lies in it having vulgarised everything: club competition has become a fake entertainment spectacle, the fan a commercial hostage, the violent corruption of the league a scam based on a religious support for one's team and football an impossible comedy featuring a VAR orchestrated by mafia, for mafia, combined with an ignorance of the rules of the game and any interest in the integrity of the sport. Although the media points out VAR as the culprit, the grouping of PGMOB match officials working with the Liverpool cartel of teams should really be in the dock. But the state has helped the EPL become this monstrosity. By allowing the league to monetise small criminalities, the government drove the Premier League towards the mirage of sustainable systemic corruption (like the arms trade or aspects of the City of London).
This evolution of this mercenary league is indeed the only ironic and pleasing trait of this whole story.

We are in neither a sport of war nor a gamble of poker but in a reality of betting markets controlling match events which has wound its way inexorably through 28 years of the Premier League to a denouement in our current events; a sport of fake matches, to which belong those in the Champions League as well as the EPL (the Champions League under Ceferin has been taken over by the same mafia operators behind 'Football Leaks' and the criminalisation of the Premier League). Peripeteias of an anorexic history or an anorexic sport which can no longer be taken as real because it is incapable of conceiving sporting integrity - and God knows the EPL has no integrity - and thus devours itself. It is corrupted football, that of the right to corruption under the green light of the Premier League and UEFA with no precautionary regulation - free market matchfixing must not have obstacles to performativity. On the Richter scale, the 2019/20 Premier League season would not even reach two or three. The history and pre-season were unreal, as though the fiction of an earthquake were created by a manipulation of the match officials, of mainstream media, of the masses. The EPL is neither the strong form nor the degree zero of football, but the weak or phthisical degree, the asymptotic form which allows a pretence of competitive football but no real encounter, the transparent degree which prevents football being seen from the depths of the darkroom where the fan resides.

We should have been suspicious about the insider trading from BT Sport operatives pre-season as they actively contorted the betting markets to their corruption matrix in the same manner as they perpetrated the systemic corruption behind the mafia entity Leicester City stealing the 2015/16 version of the EPL title from Arsenal. The 2019/20 season never began. It had ended prior to its onset. It had already been won and the headlines and war strategies had already been written. As there is no competition, there are no matches. Just markets and a distinction between the prescribed winners and losers.

But these systemic corruptions do not occur in a vacuum.
We expose Liverpool's links with PGMOB match officials, we expose doping at the club, we expose the manner in which proprietary information was stolen from Manchester City, we expose Liverpool FC's links to bookmakers and how such associations energise insider trading and matchfixing, we expose the fixture list manipulations and all other marginal gains supportive of this project.
In the end, the distinction between the winners (Liverpool and their cartel of teams) and losers (Manchester City and other Gestifute-linked clubs) becomes indecipherable as the winners readily become the hostage of the losers; a Stockholm Syndrome that quantums into existence as the 'winners' evolve as hostages of the mafia themselves.
Since this season never began, this season is therefore interminable.
Indeed, Covid-19 might make it literally so.

By dint of dreaming of pure corruption, of an orbital corruption purged of all local and political infusions, the matchfixers have fallen into the arms of the mafia, into the virtual impossibility of football which translates into the paltry fantasia where adversaries compete in matches of agreed outcome, as though the irruption of the event of football had become obscene and insupportable, no longer sustainable, like every real event moreover. Everything is therefore transposed into the virtual, and we are confronted with a virtual apocalypse, a hegemony ultimately much more dangerous than real apocalypse.

The most widespread belief is in a logical progression from virtual to actual. However, this is an Aristotelian logic which is no longer our own. Our virtual has definitively overtaken the actual (in the manner of a doped up Jamie Vardy) and we must be content with this extreme virtuality which, unlike the Aristotelian, deters any passage to real action. We are no longer in a logic of the passage from virtual to actual but in a hyperrealist logic of the deterrence of the real by the virtual.

In this process, the football clubs are once again revealing. Extracted like molecules in an experimental process, then distilled one by one in the exchange of mafia fake, it is their virtual death that is at issue, not their real death. Moreover, they never die: at best they disappear to reappear as gambling outfits, at worst they enter receivership only to be reformed and renamed in a new virtual unreality. There will never be monuments to current footballers in the manner in which Best or Greaves or Brady or Charles or McNeill are commemorated as everybody will be too ashamed of the modern player, kissing the badge of their agents offshore financial centres while perfecting the persona of a post-career in media disinformation: the collective shame which attaches to the club reflects the absolute degradation of football into fixed fan-boy fake-fun.

The passage to systemic corruption suffers widespread infamy: it supposedly corresponds to a criminally creative elevation of sporting prowess, thus to a psychotic process. It seems that this obsession with the passage to corruption today governs all of our behaviour: obsession with every real, with every real event, with every real corruption, with every associated pleasure which is too real. In fact, so real that it is unreal. Against this obsession with the real we have created a gigantic apparatus of simulation which allows to pass the act "in vitro". We prefer the exile of the virtual, of which television is the universal mirror, to the catastrophe of the real.

So the media chooses to applaud the array of unbeaten records and stellar performances by Liverpool while ignoring the rancid underbelly of underground mafia corruption that is the very definition of this supposed real.

The holistic of football has not escaped this virtualisation which is like a surgical operation, the aim of which is to present a face-lifted sport, the cosmetically treated spectre of its death, and its even more deceptive televisual subterfuge (as we see in the corrupted players of yesteryear obfuscating current corruptions on Sky, BT Sport and Match of the Day). Even players have lost the privilege of use value, the privilege of real football. Corruption has passed by that way and it spares nobody.

No more than the politicians, footballers do not know what to make of their real function, their function of corruption and matchfixing. They are pledged to the decoy of football as others are to the decoy of power.

Football has become pure (in the fascist sense) and speculative (in an insider trading sense) to the extent that we do not see the real event that it could be or that it would signify.

Since the 2019/20 (and 2015/16) Premier League titles were won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like if the league title races had actually existed. We will never know what Manchester City taking part with a chance of winning would have been like. We will never know what Liverpool taking part with a probability of being beaten would have been like. We have seen what a state-based systemic corruption is like, a process of paralysis or lobotomy of a fake sport away from the field of play with no possibility of reaction. But this is not football, any more than $100 million bets on a game is sufficient to make it football. Any more than the direct transmission by BBC/BT Sport/Sky of real time information is sufficient to authenticate the sport. One is reminded of Capricorn One in which the flight of a manned rocket to Mars, which only took place in a desert studio, was relayed live to all the television stations in the world.

While one fraction of the media and political class, specialists in the substitute bench of mental contortions, are whole-heartedly in favour of the systemic corruption (the corruption earns more for UK PLC than legitimacy), and another fraction are against it from the bottom of their hearts - but for reasons no less disturbing, all are agreed on one point: this systemic corruption exists, we have seen it. There is no interrogation into the sport itself or its reality; or into the fraudulence of this corruption, the programmed and always delayed illusion of competitive sport; or into the machination of this matchfixing and its amplification by disinformation, not to mention the improbable orgy of fake media, the systematic manipulation of data, the artificial dramatisation ("surely the most amazing comeback ever!")...

If you do not have practical intelligence, hacks and insider knowledge about the systemic corruption in the Premier League (and few among us do), at least develop a sceptical intelligence towards it, without renouncing the pathetic experience of its absurdity.

But there is more than one kind of absurdity: that of the assassination and that of being caught up in the illusion of assassination. It is just as in La Fontaine's fable: the day there is a real football match in the Premier League you will not even be able to tell the difference.

The mafia of John Colquhoun has become football.

The real victory of the simulators of corruption in football is to have drawn everyone into this rotten simulation of the real.

A real where match outcomes are in the underground betting markets before the game even starts.
A real where matches are corrupted months ahead.
A real where the utilisation of doping is accepted as a competitive advantage.
A real where players pay managers to play and agents pay national managers for client selection.
A real where a significant percentage of players represented by certain agents are involved in matchfixing.
A real where the UK sports media is entirely captured and performative to the corruption.
A real where only the American-owned Manchester United and Liverpool have a veto on the choice of Premier League chief executive.
A real where some EPL clubs are merely gambling stables e.g. Tony Bloom at Brighton & Hove Albion who sacks employees if their legitimate professionalism interferes with his proprietary matchfixing and market plays - Bloom is paying money out left, right and centre in a desperate attempt to bury his historical crimes.
A real where Match of the Day commentary is added post-game under corrupted editorial inputs.
A real where Manchester United should be 4th from bottom of the league and Crystal Palace bottom sees United instead challenging for a Champions League place and Hodgson being given a legacy based on doping and matchfixing.
And a real where Liverpool FC are champions, were champions before a ball was kicked and will be champions again so long as that is the preferred strategy of state and mafia.

The Premier League no longer takes place.
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English Football is currently reeling from the impacts of the Stevens inquiry into the bung culture, the standard and ethics of referees and the revelation that Victor Chandler International allegedly took bets from some Premiership Managers and Players. The words “tip” and “iceberg” spring to mind.
I have traded professionally on global football betting markets for the past 15 years. In my experience, all the brokers, market makers and bookmakers that I have traded with take bets from insiders in the game. It is regarded as buying information. Undoubtedly, some of this exchange of information borders on the corrupt. The recent betting scandal in Germany and the uproar in Italy’s Serie A show that this isn’t merely a British problem.
Asian Market Makers regularly accept bets of greater than £1million without blinking (Gianluigi Buffon – the Juventus goalkeeper – was found with betting slips for several million euros in his possession during the Moggiopoli scandal). Inevitably, the liquidity of the Asian markets persuades some football people to enhance their earning capacities. To my knowledge, such individuals include players, managers, referees, bookmakers, agents and the criminal fringe. It isn’t just the Italian mafia centres of Napoli, Palermo and Reggio di Calabria that are actively involved in football markets!
To date, all attempts to clean up the game have been peripheral. In Germany, some selective sweeping under the carpet and wrist slapping went on in response to the referee Robert Hoyzer admitting that he took money to alter football match outcomes. But, I believe that there are other match officials in the Bundesliga who were merely demoted or, indeed, allowed to continue to officiate. In Italy, in the aftermath of calciocaos, two referees were suspended but the other six that were under investigation are still involved in Serie A.
Although there are many corrupt players, it is the match officials who are the key component of this crisis. Some have links to individual clubs, some to bookmakers and some to the underworld. There are also many honest people in the game who are just trying to do their jobs. However, until football cleans up its act, corruption will persist. Falling attendances in Italy and England are partially related to deficiencies in the sport on offer. Although the prawn sandwich brigade remain oblivious to anything, the true fans know when they are being short changed. The recent assertion by Graeme Souness that British football is “the most honest in Europe” is simply laughable.
Tessa Jowell, the Minister for Culture, is aiming to make Britain a clean and well regulated gambling environment. I fully support her and her Department’s efforts but such efforts must extend beyond the protection of the vulnerable and the targeting of company directors with criminal links.
The football authorities also need to take a lead in this area and not just in the betting arena. In the lead up to the last World Cup, there was a real concern within FIFA that Uzbekistan were going to make it to the finals. This would have been politically unacceptable. In the first leg of the Asian Play Off with Bahrain, the Uzbeks won 1-0 and had a penalty denied them by the Japanese official. FIFA ludicrously ordered the game to be replayed and a 1-1 draw resulted. Bahrain won through in the Second Leg on away goals – the official for that second game (obviously by chance in the light of recent occurrences) was a certain Mr Graham Poll!

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