... A Coda
... the blackmail gone wrong, the betting slip, the former drug dealer, a peripheral company with a grudge, the jilted girlfriend, the jilted boyfriend, Gigi Becali, a private bank collapse, that...
View ArticleAdieu
Back on the boards in Bucureşti town,With bags of tricks to pleaseEven the hardest-hearted haters of fun.And, as gay as a lark on a breeze,To serve you well in truth and jestAnd, just a touch of...
View ArticleAshes to Ashes
In Affectionate RemembranceofENGLISH FOOTBALL,which died at the Southwark Crown Court and the Football Associationon8th FEBRUARY 2012,Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowingfriends and...
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Piermario Morosini RIP
The day after Fabrice Muamba collapsed with heart related issues, a Third Division Spanish player Sergio Granero also collapsed from a heart attack during a match.Now less than a month later Piermario...
View ArticleWho's Comolli Now?
One of the core problems with inbred structures is that new thought takes longer to evolve.So it is with applying science to football.In recent years, the pseudo-science of sabermetrics has been...
View ArticleRoy Who? Harry Who?
Roy Hodgson (36 years in management)7 Allsvenskan Titles (Malmo/Halmstad) and 2 Svenska Cupen (Malmo) - all prior to 19901 Danish Super Liga (FC Copenhagen)1 Danish Super Cup (FC Copenhagen)Harry...
View ArticleManipulated Markets - The First Ever Post on Football is Fixed
This was our first blog from November 11th 2006.It is dull! Desperate for a pertinent question, how about "has anything changed in the five and a half years since?"No!Tessa Jowell proved to be...
View ArticlePolychrysos - The Illusory Game of Exchange (A Flashback)
Of course, we predicted the oncoming Recession/Depression and the causes in 2007 but this post was originally posted on January 13th 2009 and was written as a state of play at the...
View ArticleIn The Lap of the Big Bang - A Post from 2008
Why Free Market Capitalism Cannot Work; Why It Is Pointless To Reform Something That Cannot Work; Why Nobody Believes In Free Markets Anymore Although We Want To Maintain Appearances; Why It Is Time...
View ArticleManipulated Markets
All financial markets are gamed by insiders seeking cornered structures, collaborative manipulations and inappropriate competitive advantages.The surprising factor is that human behaviouralism results...
View ArticleDark Pools Produce Black Swans, Black Pools Produce Black Holes (A Flashback...
...And Other Aesthetic Fetishisms Of The Hyperlate Capitalist DisorderIncipit parodia...There is a Russian saying - another's soul is a dark pool...The infrastructure of financial markets is an...
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Fractal Football and Gizan Geysers
The Pyramids of Giza serve as a graphic to help describe a simple 3-D model of corruption in footballThe power pyramid on the left represents agents, betting, mafia.The power pyramid on the right...
View ArticleThe Last Post
After 2012 days of blogging and over 1100 posts, Football is Fixed is no more.We have attempted to mix the personal, the political and the holistics of corruption in football and beyond. Having taken...
View ArticleThe Bigger Picture
Kairos.Reality.The Mother of All Big Bangs.An Omniverse of Singular Universes.A Universe.Inflation. Infinitessimal Energy producing Matter in a Vacuum.Massless.Matter and Antimatter Primordial...
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Hodgson The Hedge
A Drama in Four Acts based around a football match between Fulham and Wigan AthleticCHARACTERSROY HODGSON, currently manager of the England National Football Team. At the time of the play, he was...
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What Is Joe Hart Up To?
How come Joe Hart has regressed from being the best goalkeeper in Europe to one of the most problematical in just one season? Joe Hart apologises with eyes wide shutIf football...
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Juventus - Corruption Trumps History
Relegated from Serie A for match-fixing in Calciopoli...A goalkeeper found with a €2 million betting slip...A manager initially banned for ten months for knowledge of fixed matches involving Siena when...
View ArticleCorruption Draws Experts' Gaze (Soccerway)
Former head of security at FIFA Chris Eaton has flagged the changing nature of illegal gambling as a major threat to sporting integrity.Eaton left FIFA in May 2012 to take up a post with the...
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Good Riddance
There is something poignant about Michael Owen ending his career wearing a red-and-white striped prison shirt with BET 365 emblazoned across it...© Football is Fixed 2006-2013
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Pot Calling Kettle
Insider gambling and the control of match outcomes by agents are the death-knell for football.Mourinho Congratulating Business Colleague After Old Trafford Sending OffWhen Sir Ferguson refused to...
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