Introduction
Our Christmas posts for 2019 focus on Manchester City, marginal gains, matchfixing, mafia and meritocracy.
We provide three disparate yet linked tales of how marginal gains undermine robust holistic advancement ensuring that a criminalised psychopathy triumphs over the public good.
The lack of meritocracy engendered by these mafia infrastructures causes a systemic long-term harm to football.
To celebrate living in the end times, we're publishing a trilogy of Christmas Carols
1) What's Going So Wrong with Manchester City and What's Going So Right for Liverpool (Published December 24th)
2) What's Going So Wrong with VAR and What's Going So Right for Insider Traders (Published December 25th)
3) What's Going So Wrong with Mafia and What's Going So Right for 5th Estate Anti-Corruption Journalists (Published December 26th)
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Marginal Gains
But first we need to address marginal gains.
Marginal gains first reached the attention of the sporting public when Team Sky cycling team pushed every input to the threshold of illegality and then beyond in order to lever a donkey and other dopers onto victory podia across France and other accommodating countries.
This systemic corruption destroyed the legacy of Team Skydespite the victories.
No matter how much controlled media told us wonderful fairy tales about Wiggins and Froome, nobody actually believed them - it was a fake reality ensconced in history and is now accepted as such.
No glory there.
The change of name to Team INEOS doesn't work either - the perception remains that INEOS continue to be doped up athletes with secreted motors utilising illegal marginal gains.
So the deal is that you trade wealth for credibility.
You sell out.
In late capitalism, every market sector evolves to maturity usually in the form of a cartel, a monopoly or duopoly or another mafia template of some sort.
Although these sectoral structures come together to work towards mutually beneficial defence e.g. against onerous regulation, these edifices fragment and fight over turf for the remainder of the time.
In mature market sectors there is little likelihood of game-changing inputs - there is a low probability that one of the Big Four accounting firms is going to develop an entirely new business model, for example.
So, there's a whole bunch of people out there who perceive that marginal gains are the only way to gain edge in mature markets.
(Of course, creative thinking would be a better provider of unique competitive edge but there is minimal creativity in psychopathic structures and individuals.)
So, in football, there is a battle going on between the Gestifute grouping of agents and the Stellar/ Key Sports/ Unique/ Base family of operators.
Although agents of the world unite when intermediaries are threatened with some limitation on their leeching from the sport, the world for agents is in a state of permanent war.
To gain edge, excessive marginal gains are enacted - matchfixing games, third party ownership of players, takeover of media, insider trading, money laundering & tax evasion, coercion of match officials and players, control of institutions, systemic doping and mafia violence.
Each successful implementation of a marginal gain by one agent grouping against another exposes information on the crimes at play.
An agent could be legitimate and earn his 15%.
An agent might realise that if one of his clients kicked the ball straight out of play from the kick off, he could sell 'Time of 1st Throw-In' on the spread markets and be quids in.
An agent might reckon that if he started representing more goalkeepers, he could 'persuade' them to let in goals, particularly if such goals are scored by other clients in the stable.
An agent might start betting on knowledge of this insider corruption.
An agent might recognise that you need more match control to take more betting market control and reach agreements with several PGMOB match officials.
An agent might come across other entities trying to achieve the same corruptions and seek to develop networks to offset enemies - here a number of agents would work together to fix games.
An agent might understand that 5th Estate anti-corruption investigative journalists are on his case and start seeking to disguise his corruption matrices. So, third party ownership of players and setting up satellite agencies allows greater but more opaque control of the field of play.
An agent might seek to cement betting market control by linking with numerous doping entities in the underworld.
An agent might want to take control of international teams by levering in managers and using kickbacks as a lubrication to get his often underperforming clients selected to play for their country.
An agent needs to start paying under-the-table brown envelopes to mafia entities to launder their processes in the black market. Meanwhile, the UK state and its offshore dominions offer crime secretion and tax evasion for monies from the grey and white markets.
An agent might feel limited by the volume that he can safely trade on the events that he is matchfixing and so become a part of a larger betting entity, established solely for the purpose of matchfixing and cornering global markets against peripheral patsies.
An agent might comprehend that the illicit wealth being created in a not-very-subtle-stylish-nor-discreet manner is becoming public knowledge via leaks, hacks and 5th Estate journalism and sign deals to transform mainstream media output into a suppression of corruption realities and an advertorial for those very entities that are orchestrating this corruption.
An agent might develop a cartel of clubs in the upper leagues for enhanced matchfixing, the control of league promotion and relegation and the promotion of clients.
An agent will quickly come to find that managerial change at clubs outside the cartel strengthens his power base and provides matchfixing opportunities as well.
An agent might seek to make his criminalised template systemic by taking over the institutions of power - starting small with taking over referee selection, then moving larger and seeking to take over the entire Premier League.
An agent might create spectacles to demonstrate his mafia control of the corruptions in British football - perhaps a 9-0 away win live on the telly where one of his clients scores a hat-trick.
An agent might start seeking enhanced reputation management and a legacy and a burying of the murky past.
An agent, as part of burying that past, might seek to 'remove' those who know-too-much.
An agent might develop a God Complex.
Once this agent started on his path, this conclusion was an inevitability.
If he hadn't perpetrated the corruptions, someone else would and power would have shifted in the game.
That's the issue here - absolute power requires absolute psychopathy.
But marginal gains is a self-harming psychopathy that reveals corruptions to observers.
And this is where marginal gains falls down.
An agent is featured in all 3 of the Christmas tales below...
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What's Going So Wrong with Manchester City and What's Going So Right for Liverpool
(Published December 24th)
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What's Going So Wrong with VAR and What's Going So Right for Insider Traders (Published December 25th)
__________________________________________________
What's Going So Wrong with Mafia and What's Going So Right for 5th Estate Anti-Corruption Journalists (Published December 26th)
________________________________________________________________________
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 operate as a cellular network. We use the Iceberg Effect. We release 5% of our analytics and any hacks made available to us. We retain 95% for strategic defence, constructive negotiation, court. In extremis, we recuse ourselves and operatives will ensure full publication of the relevant information in numerous territories.
We Open Betting Markets. Whistleblowing, Corruption Hacking, Fraud Forensics.
© Football is Fixed 2006-2019
Our Christmas posts for 2019 focus on Manchester City, marginal gains, matchfixing, mafia and meritocracy.
We provide three disparate yet linked tales of how marginal gains undermine robust holistic advancement ensuring that a criminalised psychopathy triumphs over the public good.
The lack of meritocracy engendered by these mafia infrastructures causes a systemic long-term harm to football.
To celebrate living in the end times, we're publishing a trilogy of Christmas Carols
1) What's Going So Wrong with Manchester City and What's Going So Right for Liverpool (Published December 24th)
2) What's Going So Wrong with VAR and What's Going So Right for Insider Traders (Published December 25th)
3) What's Going So Wrong with Mafia and What's Going So Right for 5th Estate Anti-Corruption Journalists (Published December 26th)
___________________________________________________
Marginal Gains
But first we need to address marginal gains.
Marginal gains first reached the attention of the sporting public when Team Sky cycling team pushed every input to the threshold of illegality and then beyond in order to lever a donkey and other dopers onto victory podia across France and other accommodating countries.
This systemic corruption destroyed the legacy of Team Skydespite the victories.
No matter how much controlled media told us wonderful fairy tales about Wiggins and Froome, nobody actually believed them - it was a fake reality ensconced in history and is now accepted as such.
No glory there.
The change of name to Team INEOS doesn't work either - the perception remains that INEOS continue to be doped up athletes with secreted motors utilising illegal marginal gains.
So the deal is that you trade wealth for credibility.
You sell out.
In late capitalism, every market sector evolves to maturity usually in the form of a cartel, a monopoly or duopoly or another mafia template of some sort.
Although these sectoral structures come together to work towards mutually beneficial defence e.g. against onerous regulation, these edifices fragment and fight over turf for the remainder of the time.
In mature market sectors there is little likelihood of game-changing inputs - there is a low probability that one of the Big Four accounting firms is going to develop an entirely new business model, for example.
So, there's a whole bunch of people out there who perceive that marginal gains are the only way to gain edge in mature markets.
(Of course, creative thinking would be a better provider of unique competitive edge but there is minimal creativity in psychopathic structures and individuals.)
So, in football, there is a battle going on between the Gestifute grouping of agents and the Stellar/ Key Sports/ Unique/ Base family of operators.
Although agents of the world unite when intermediaries are threatened with some limitation on their leeching from the sport, the world for agents is in a state of permanent war.
To gain edge, excessive marginal gains are enacted - matchfixing games, third party ownership of players, takeover of media, insider trading, money laundering & tax evasion, coercion of match officials and players, control of institutions, systemic doping and mafia violence.
Each successful implementation of a marginal gain by one agent grouping against another exposes information on the crimes at play.
An agent could be legitimate and earn his 15%.
An agent might realise that if one of his clients kicked the ball straight out of play from the kick off, he could sell 'Time of 1st Throw-In' on the spread markets and be quids in.
An agent might reckon that if he started representing more goalkeepers, he could 'persuade' them to let in goals, particularly if such goals are scored by other clients in the stable.
An agent might start betting on knowledge of this insider corruption.
An agent might recognise that you need more match control to take more betting market control and reach agreements with several PGMOB match officials.
An agent might come across other entities trying to achieve the same corruptions and seek to develop networks to offset enemies - here a number of agents would work together to fix games.
An agent might understand that 5th Estate anti-corruption investigative journalists are on his case and start seeking to disguise his corruption matrices. So, third party ownership of players and setting up satellite agencies allows greater but more opaque control of the field of play.
An agent might seek to cement betting market control by linking with numerous doping entities in the underworld.
An agent might want to take control of international teams by levering in managers and using kickbacks as a lubrication to get his often underperforming clients selected to play for their country.
An agent needs to start paying under-the-table brown envelopes to mafia entities to launder their processes in the black market. Meanwhile, the UK state and its offshore dominions offer crime secretion and tax evasion for monies from the grey and white markets.
An agent might feel limited by the volume that he can safely trade on the events that he is matchfixing and so become a part of a larger betting entity, established solely for the purpose of matchfixing and cornering global markets against peripheral patsies.
An agent might comprehend that the illicit wealth being created in a not-very-subtle-stylish-nor-discreet manner is becoming public knowledge via leaks, hacks and 5th Estate journalism and sign deals to transform mainstream media output into a suppression of corruption realities and an advertorial for those very entities that are orchestrating this corruption.
An agent might develop a cartel of clubs in the upper leagues for enhanced matchfixing, the control of league promotion and relegation and the promotion of clients.
An agent will quickly come to find that managerial change at clubs outside the cartel strengthens his power base and provides matchfixing opportunities as well.
An agent might seek to make his criminalised template systemic by taking over the institutions of power - starting small with taking over referee selection, then moving larger and seeking to take over the entire Premier League.
An agent might create spectacles to demonstrate his mafia control of the corruptions in British football - perhaps a 9-0 away win live on the telly where one of his clients scores a hat-trick.
An agent might start seeking enhanced reputation management and a legacy and a burying of the murky past.
An agent, as part of burying that past, might seek to 'remove' those who know-too-much.
An agent might develop a God Complex.
Once this agent started on his path, this conclusion was an inevitability.
If he hadn't perpetrated the corruptions, someone else would and power would have shifted in the game.
That's the issue here - absolute power requires absolute psychopathy.
But marginal gains is a self-harming psychopathy that reveals corruptions to observers.
And this is where marginal gains falls down.
An agent is featured in all 3 of the Christmas tales below...
________________________________________________________________________
What's Going So Wrong with Manchester City and What's Going So Right for Liverpool
(Published December 24th)
__________________________________________________
What's Going So Wrong with VAR and What's Going So Right for Insider Traders (Published December 25th)
__________________________________________________
What's Going So Wrong with Mafia and What's Going So Right for 5th Estate Anti-Corruption Journalists (Published December 26th)
________________________________________________________________________
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 operate as a cellular network. We use the Iceberg Effect. We release 5% of our analytics and any hacks made available to us. We retain 95% for strategic defence, constructive negotiation, court. In extremis, we recuse ourselves and operatives will ensure full publication of the relevant information in numerous territories.
______________________________________________________________________________________________
© Football is Fixed 2006-2019