Book 1 Chapter 14 - Illusion, Scam...
IllusionHannah Arendt: "Truth compels; and it does not coerce"Jo Marchant: "Like Kandinsky, he [Kazimir Malevich] felt that he was uncovering universal, pre-existing forms and laws. [Aleksandra]...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 13 - The Self-Moving Life Of What Is Dead
The Mocking Muckers Fuck Over The FuckersMichel Foucault: “In the Panopticon, each person, depending on his place, is watched by all or certain of the others. You have an apparatus of total circulating...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 12 - Calling The Shade
Brighton In BloomTony Collins: "Until the end of the Napoleonic wars much of sport was effectively controlled by 'The Fancy', an informal network of aristocrats, gentry and their hangers-on... Horse...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 11 - Shadowing The World
And You May Ask Yourself, "How Do I Work This?"Friedrich Nietzsche: "Objection, evasion, happy distrust, pleasure in mockery are the signs of health: everything unconditional belongs in pathology"When...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 10 - Omerta
And You May Tell Yourself, "This Is Not My Beautiful House"Tom Burgis: "In Washington, in London, in Paris, the spirit of national security has given way to the profit principle. Sometimes intelligence...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 9 - There Is No Tomorrow
Half Time Pep TalkJames Joyce: "History is a nightmare from which I'm trying to wake"This book is going to extra time and penalties.When we made the decision to publish over a thirty month gestation...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 8 - In The Lap Of The Big Bang --- The Conspiracy Of Football
In The Lap Of The Big Bang - The Conspiracy Of FootballWitold Gombrowicz: "Our admiration for painting results from a long process of adaptation that has taken place over centuries and for reasons that...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 7 - Manipulated Markets
Manipulated MarketsJean Baudrillard: "... exchange is a delusion, an illusion, but everything conspires to have us act as though ideas, words, commodities, goods and individuals can be exchanged......
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 6 - Death And The Fix
Death And The FixFootball Is Fixed Network: "Football Is Fixed operate as a cellular network. We use the Iceberg Effect. We release 5% of our analytics and any information made available to us. We...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 5 - State Of The (Football) Nation
State Of The (Football) NationUmberto Eco: "... how can one not speak of terrorism? how can one find a good use of the media? there is none"Matchfixing corrupts.Absolute matchfixing corrupts...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 4 - Making A Long Nose On The Sly
Making A Long Nose On The SlySlavoj Zizek: “The art of publicly reporting on something is never neutral, it affects the reported content itself”At just the very time that football was learning to...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 3 - Quantum Murmurations
Quantum MurmurationsTerry Steans (former Head of Global Investigations at FIFA: "I worked inside FIFA investigating match fixing... I've watched the growth of Sportradar ever since Chris Eaton the...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 2 - Socialism For The Rich, Disaster Capitalism For The Poor
Power Is Self-Legitimating Friedrich Nietzsche: "Power likes to walk on crooked legs"On April 12th 2020 Maria Agyeiwaa Agyapong, 28, a nurse who worked at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital lost...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 1 - The Death Of The Beautiful Game
Where Are We Now?Thomas Piketty: "... when slavery was abolished in French and British colonies, it was decided that slave owners would have to be compensated, but not slaves"Since the onset of the...
View ArticleBook 1 Preface - One Extinction At A Time
One Extinction At A TimeJean Baudrillard: "Everything seeks its own death including power" Football is fucked but its impending death could be a liberation.The perfect storm of mafia control of much of...
View ArticleGod Bless England --- The Transparency Of Corruption... (A Postmodern Novella...
PREFACE - How Organised Crime Corrupts The Premier LeagueDoechii:It's a sunny dayThe gang's all hereNo chip on my shoulderAh, ha, ha, ha, haIf the Football Is Fixed Network were a band...... we'd be...
View ArticleK AI QMA
K AI QMAIntroductionThe Football is Fixed Network have been working for three decades on creating systems thinking approaches to the analysis of the sector, the markets, the corruptions, the...
View ArticleK AI QMA 2.0
K AI QMA,IntroductionFollowing on from the first post in this triptych is, entirely unsurprisingly, the second of the threesome.In this article we take a closer look at Artificial Intelligence, the...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 20 - The Revolution Sashays Up The Mall
The Revolution Sashays Up The MallThe Economist on DeepMind: "For a Weiqi player building formidable structures across the Go board, why accept equivalence on potential pressure points? Better to leave...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 19 - What The Hell Has "Football" Become?
What The Hell Has "Football" Become?Alex Thomson: "As a lifelong Newcastle United supporter I feel sick this morning. No time for Ashley but he doesn't murder and dismember journalists or chop people's...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 18 - Everything That Happens Will Happen This Week
Everything That Happens Will Happen This WeekJean Baudrillard: "Pole position of death. Last man into the scrum of organic conflicts. Symbolic referee of the match"Just prior to the birth of Christ...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 17 - Unique Corruption Action
Unique Corruption Action - Part 1Toussaint Louverture: "... I am made the most unhappy of men; my liberty is taken from me..."Over the last 25 years the Football Is Fixed Network have only agreed to...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 16 - Euros: Anonymous Bosh
Euros:Well football didn't quite make it home but at least racism and hooliganism made it back.But the hooligans had some excuse due to halfwits like Priti Patel calling taking a knee "gesture...
View ArticleBook 1 Chapter 15 - ... Death, Crime
DeathMaria 'Masha' Alyokhina (transcript from the Pussy Riot court appeal): "This trial is typical and speaks volumes. The government will feel embarrassment because of it for a long time to come. Each...
View ArticleDallas --- A Flash Drama In One Act Based Around Referee Corruptions In The...
Dallas - the story of how a former referee known for his sectarian bias, trained up two younger referees to continue his biases post-retirement, before becoming the only person to get an MBE for...
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