Who'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...
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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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The Secret Footballer and The Guardian
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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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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When Is A Competitive Football Match Not A Competitive Football Match?
When you have an entirely corrupted sport with vast differentials between success or failure, Champions League qualification or not, league survival or relegation, it is unsurprising that the end of...
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Ancient Pasty-Faced Flabby Goth Chats Shit
Yesterday, serial failure and intellectual incompetent, Lord Nigel Lawson, was given odious amounts of mainstream media time to spout on about his little Englander view of the world. Why...
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Annual Scottish Football Awards For Season 2012/13 (The Official Version Not...
Manager of the Year Nominations - Neil Lennon for winning title and Scottish Cup to come; for reaching Champions League 2nd Phase and beating Barcelona on the way; for behaving with dignity through the...
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"The Only Important Question Regarding Sir Alex Ferguson's Retirement Is...
"I Got Five Hundred Grand Short-Selling The 0-0 Draw At Newcastle. My Christmas Bonus!""The only important question regarding Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement is this - in his new role as director/ club...
View ArticleBreaking News Feed From Our Man At The Theatre Of Dreams
* Italian bookmakers make Mourinho 5/4 fav, Moyes at 6/4 and Klopp at 16/1* Betfair make Moyes 2/11 fav, Mourinho at 9/1 and Klopp at 37/1* La Gazzetta dello Sport claim Wayne Rooney is moving to...
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...
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Happy Anniversary To Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson officially assumed duty as the new English national team manager on May 14th last year despite only having won one trophy in 23 years - the Danish Superliga title with FC Copenhagen.To...
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 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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