WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? - Chapter 1
On August 21st 2019, the Football is Fixed Network will finally release our book "Who Killed Cock Robin?".The book was initially set for publication on Valentine's Day 2017 but the death of our primary...
View ArticleDrugs In Football/ Gene Doping Is Not A Country And Western Singer - Two...
What a kerfuffle!UK Sport, which oversees anti-doping in the United Kingdom, wants to introduce a system under which a selected group of 30 footballers will be liable for testing five times a year, on...
View ArticlePonzi Capitalism - Is The Truth, The Truth?
"Interest rates are losing their potency to aid the economy" - Jennifer Ryan (Bloomberg)."Government spending has converted a private sector problem into a public sector financing problem" - Satyajit...
View ArticleA Particular System Of Objects - A Flashback
Each month in order to disguise either our being so laid back that we are horizontal, or a preference for life aspects more enjoyable than a focus on a panoply of endemic corruptions, we reproduce a...
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 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...
View ArticleHappy 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 ArticleFractal 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 Dirty Dozen - The Role Of Agents In The Criminalisation Of Football
How Agents Are Destroying Football1. Many firms of agents have an interest in the global betting markets. Some firms specifically target goalkeepers, for example. A very high percentage of the sixty...
View ArticleFootball Markets Are Not The Only Markets That Are Fecked
Eugene Fama was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics this year.His hypothesis regarding the efficiency of financial markets is indeed elegant (which sometimes is enough for an award to...
View ArticleHow To Solve Match Fixing Once And For All
Yesterday, Liberal Democrat MP Sir Bob Russell said that English professional football is "rotten to the core" and that a Royal Commission is required to clean up football with "parasitic agents" being...
View ArticleThe Impact Of Extreme Financial Distortions On The Integrity Of British Football
Britain's Annual GDP = £1.77 trillion.Estimated Annual Global Betting Turnover on Football = £1 trillion. New Premier League TV deal covering three seasons = £5.1 billion.Average Global Betting...
View ArticleThe IFAB Four
"In effect, the English Premier League and the Scottish Premier League, via their respective control of the Football Association and the Scottish FA, are able to block all and any changes to the Laws...
View ArticleBaudrillard In Brussels And Blackpool
1. IntroductionJean Baudrillard: "Today's violence, the violence produced by our hypermodernity, is terror."The financialisation of inversion late capitalism is terroristic and destroys reality in...
View ArticleThe Piketty Paradigm - A Progressive Global Tax On Capital
Thomas Piketty: "... wealth accumulated in the past grows more rapidly than output and wages. This inequality expresses a fundamental logical contradiction. The entrepreneur inevitably tends to become...
View ArticleBlackpool Is The Only Valid Dark Pool (A Flashback Post)
With the latest phase of the Great Recession upon us, time for a post from July 2009._________________________________________________________________________________Dark Pools and many other forms of...
View ArticleOff The Radar
             Descending Into The Depths Of The Dark Pools Of Football TradingOf the 10 Premier League matches this midweek, 8 are matchfixing events.Eight!!!!!Now you might think that...
View ArticleInside The Assassination Complex by Edward Snowden
"Whistleblowers are outliers of probability, and if they are to be effective as a political force, it’s critical that they maximize the amount of public good produced from scarce...
View ArticleWhy The Media Isn't Doing Its Job by Edward Snowden and Emily Bell
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism’s Emily Bell spoke to Edward Snowden over a secure channel about his experiences working with journalists and his perspective on the shifting media world. This is...
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