The Wally Holds the Brolly But Who Holds the Betting Slips?
Yesterday Steve McClaren jumped before he was pushed at FC Twente Enschede.In a meritocracy, this should represent the end of this man's career in football......but it won't because a slot will be...
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So the FA reckons that there was no evidence of racism by the "England fans" in the chanting about burning Rio and Anton Ferdinand on a bonfire.Really?The battle between Roy Hodgson and Rio Ferdinand...
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The Secret Footballer and The Guardian Comic
There are any number of ways that football agents can kill and feed off the sport onto which they leech.In recent posts we have highlighted:* Roy Hodgson's selection for Euro 2012 where 14 out of the...
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Harlem Globetrotters Reach Champions League Semi Finals
The UEFA Champions League, like the English Premier League (EPL), is largely a marketing exercise where our realities are determined by the specific financial and theatrical requirements of UEFA and...
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Hodgson The Hedge - A Refrain
One year ago today, decisions were made within the FA that would lead to the announcement that Roy Hodgson would be the new English national team manager despite only having won one trophy in 23 years...
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Police and Thieves - How the Premier League Demolishes Rogue Foreign Owners
In the mid-nineties and beyond, the Asian underground betting markets entirely dominated match outcomes in the English Premier League (EPL).These markets were/are very liquid and very illegal with...
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Neither Society Nor Football Should Mourn The Passing Of The Psychopathic...
Why Are We Commemorating That?As psychopathic personality disorder might be based on nature and/or nurture, whoever passed on the genes, and/or sexually and/or...
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Gideon Osborne, Carmen Reinhart And Ken Rogoff Are Charlatans
On the day that UK unemployment jumped 70,000 and one of the architects of that steady stream of unemployment and minimum wage slavery was buried, something else was buried too...... the revelation...
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Goal-Line Technology Is Not Enough
On Friday, Dutch referee Serdar Gozubuyuk called for the introduction of video technology to help officials make the correct decisions after he denied Ajax Amsterdam two certain penalties in their home...
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Criminalising The Integrity Of Football
We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Manchester United on their Premier League (EPL) title success...... we would particularly extend our felicitations to Sir Ferguson, all of the...
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All Snobs Are Knobs; All Inverted Snobs Are Knobs
Now that class is back firmly on the political agenda (did it ever really disappear?), there is an interesting parallel universe with regard to football in the great city of Manchester.This train of...
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A Massive Insider Gamble On FC Bayern München Vs Barcelona
Not The 2013/14 Barcelona Away Kit But Erythropoietin (EPO) Which Makes Footballers Run Faster Throughout yesterday, there was a one-way betting market emanating from the Asian underground...
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Football Is Fecked
* UEFA are an Orwellian construct.* Champions League football is corrupted and fixed both institutionally and within the supposedly disbanded G14 circle of power clubs.* The Premier League (EPL)...
View ArticleLeading Bookmaker Chooses New Premier League Chairman
"Just because a tile falls off a roof, there is not necessarily someone underneath it at the right moment: that would be too good to be true" - Jean Baudrillard. Yesterday, it was announced that the...
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Manchester United, Premier League Champions... Really?
The Magic StatueThe last 24 key match-changing decisions in Manchester United's Premier League games have ALL been in favour of the Red Devils.Since the...
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...
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"Irony's Annual Night Off"
Su Andi: "White man. You really fuck up my day." "Washing out the dirty taste of racism with a little ginger ale."England is a racist country...... but sensibilities make the institutions and...
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The Frogs And The Turks - Match-Fixing Spanish Style
Deportivo Chairman Augusto César Lendoiro - Does The Former Partido Popular Politician Really Look Like The Sort Of Man Who Might Fix Football Matches?Last month's match between Levante and Deportivo...
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