Book 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...
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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......
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Book 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...
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Book 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...
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Book 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...
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Book 2 - Freaky Football: Recipes For Disaster - An Anarchist Cookbook...
Aperitif - Freaky Football Jeremiah Bullivant: "While Cosmologists search for the ultimate nature of reality, we seek the ultimate nature of corruption"Over the course of season 2023/24, the Football...
View ArticleIf This Is Football Then I Don't Want It
If This Is Football Then I Don't Want ItThe criminalised process of stripping out the colossal value created in football over a 150 year window continues apace across the spectrum.This hyperreality is...
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Originally Published January 21st 2024 for For Green Fields clientsThis mural of Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza in Burnage, Manchester has been painted by Akse P19 who said it was "dedicated...
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Life
Each Christmas my former partner SuAndi OBE publishes a seasonal poem.Here is her offering for 2023._____________________________________________________________Let snow fall and last beyond the...
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