Ashes to Ashes

In Affectionate Remembrance
of
ENGLISH FOOTBALL,
which died at the Southwark Crown Court and the Football Association
on
8th FEBRUARY 2012,
Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing
friends and acquaintances

R.I.P.

N.B.—The body will be cremated and the
ashes taken to the Asian Underground.

"Well done, Constalks! Whipt us
Fair and square,
Was it luck that tript us?
Was it scare?
East London Land's 'Demon', or our own
Want of 'devil', coolness, nerve, backbone?"

(adapted from Punch, 9th September 1882)

Adieu

Back on the boards in Bucureşti town,
With bags of tricks to please
Even the hardest-hearted haters of fun.
And, as gay as a lark on a breeze,
To serve you well in truth and jest
And, just a touch of tease
Is Our Profession,
Boldly masked in paint and fineries.
Remember us.
We do you.
And our call to arms is clear -
If music be the food of love
Then We're The Fuckin' Silverware.

Respect To All Friend And Foe.
Enjoy the Feeding Frenzy!

And An Absolutely Final Farewell From The Fantastic Phantasmagoric Funfare That Was...
... Football Is Fixed - 1917 days of blogging.

Truly Revolutionary.

YOUR DAILY DOSE OF CORRUPTION. Aiming to reclaim the game from the psychopathic power people. To expose and confront the corruption that blights the beautiful game. To address the regulatory framework that allows such corruption. To optimise the trading process by providing blue sky thinking and general hints relating to the trading experience. To place football in the strata of postmodern society and to address feedback loops with other sectors. To celebrate proper football.

In future...

WE, THE ARBITRAGEURS OF THE NEOHYPERREALITIES OF POSTMODERN FOOTBALL

Death and The Fix

Jonathan Moss, as regular readers will understand, is a Premier League Select Group referee, one of nineteen referees who are allowed to officiate in EPL games.

John Colquhoun is a friend of Jonathan Moss of 20 years standing and, as regular readers will understand, is West Bromwich Albion club agent, Key Sports Management joint-owner, tv presenter, journalist, professional gambler and ambassador for the Scottish tourism industry.

Victor Chandler International/Bet Victor, as regular readers will understand, are the offshore and onshore wings of the Chandler betting entity with close ties historically to John Colquhoun.

Now then girls and boys...
...time for some forensics.

Traders compare prices from major firms with stances taken by bookmakers known to have contacts with clubs to determine when such layers are taking a market position.
So SBOBET and West Ham, Bodog and West Brom, Bet365 and Stoke City etc...

For the sheer hell of it, we thought we would run through the 22 matches that Mr Moss has refereed since his promotion to the Select Group last summer.

In twelve matches the Victor Chandler operation were neutral with respect to the AMLP and a few of the top Asian firms.
In the other 10 matches, Chandler took a position in the market against the AMLP companies and Asia.
We list these games below together with result, outcome for Chandler (VCI) and any key breakpoints that influence the outcomes.

Bristol Rovers v TORQUAY UNITED 1-2 VCI WIN - 1 penalty in favour of Torquay.
Ipswich v SOUTHAMPTON 2-5 VCI WIN.
NOTTINGHAM FOREST (Draw No Bet) v Leicester 2-2 VCI BREAKEVEN - 1 penalty and 1 sending off in favour of Nottm Forest.
Blackpool v CARDIFF CITY (+0.0,0.5) 1-1 VCI WIN.
Wimbledon v BARNET (+0.5) 1-1 VCI WIN.
Swansea v FULHAM 2-0 VCI LOSE.
DERBY v West Ham 2-1 VCI WIN - 5 West Ham players booked/ 0 Derby players booked.
MACCLESFIELD (+1.0) v Bolton 2-2 VCI WIN.
Millwall v BIRMINGHAM CITY 0-6 VCI WIN - 2 sendings off in favour of position.
West Brom v SWANSEA 1-2 VCI WIN.

So, in the 10 matches refereed by Jonathan Moss where Victor Chandler have taken an extreme market position, 8 have produced oodles of money to the Public Schoolboy Bookie, one was a breakeven despite the benefit of two major decisions in favour of the Chandler position and the other stance was a loser.

8 Wins.
1 Loss.
5 Penalties and Sendings Off in Favour.

We have been closely following the Chandler entity since the mid-nineties when, under the tutelage of head trader Tony Bloom (now owner of Brighton and Hove Albion), they were the first European firm to venture into the Asian markets.
Bloom moved from Gibraltar to Bangkok to establish the presence.

This first mover advantage was extremely profitable for both the Victor Chandler organisation and Mr Bloom, now a 'property mogul'.

The next time the Chandler entity popped into our view was when a whistleblower from the company went public with the fact that one Premier League manager had bet £12 million at Chandler in just one season.

There are other data and information that we are not willing to release in this place because it is not in the public domain and we need to ensure that we are protected against any future eventualities.

This data is just an aperitif.

But it should not come as any surprise that similar structures may be seen with many other leading bookmaking organisations and various individuals who are coerced, bribed or persuaded to do Fat Wallets' bidding.

We have made the decision to release this partial picture today, after extensive discussions and legal advice.

Over the weekend, Nottingham Forest owner Nigel Doughty died of a heart attack.

When people are examining the causes of the stress that led to Mr Doughty's untimely demise, they might wish to focus on the role played by John Colquhoun both during and in the aftermath of the Steve McClaren sacking, with his various stinging attacks on Doughty by sources via the anonymity of his Guardian Football Section control and the pressurisation that helped to force Doughty to relinquish the chairmanship of the club he saved.

Additionally, it somehow seems sadly apt that the Nottingham Forest shirt sponsors are one Victor Chandler International.

Seymour Pierce were brought in to advise the club on takeovers following Doughty's removal.
Two months later, Seymour Pierce were given the largest ever fine by the AIM exchange for the breaking of the exchanges rules.

Nigel Doughty, the Forest saviour, was effectively ousted in a media-orchestrated hostile takeover - a money grab.

Doughty not only saved Forest from oblivion with £75 million of his own cash (well it was from private equity, but you understand what we mean), he also put aside a further £25 million for future eventualities.

Although the arrangements for the eventual repayment of this money are unknown perhaps it would be a wonderful gesture by the Immensely Rich Victor Chandler and the Getting Richer Every Day John Colquhoun if they were to cover this sum themselves.

For the good of the game that they profit from and ###.

Otherwise this just reeks of robbery and a cause-and-effect version of corporate ############.

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Next Fiddles

Yesterday Football is Fixed were able to prevent a fixed match in the Premier League between West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City by exposing the criminality earlier this week (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/2012/02/perfect-storm.html).
There were simply too many prying eyes on the fiddle.

Well, we almost prevented a fix!

As we said in the original post, the match structure was such that the key participants could make the outcome anything they wished. "... our only public prediction is this - the result of the match will be in the market prior to kick off and may be determined by both public pricing and by betting activities in the underground."

So, although we prevented any reenactment of the standard template when these usual suspects are involved in corrupt manoeuvrings, the match was still fixed.
And as we predicted, the money was in both the public and underground markets pre-match...
... and that is a fixed match.

Offshore bookmaker ### ###### (also ennobled as ###### ######## #############) and their connections with certain individuals in control at West Bromwich Albion create a psychopathic control grid for the rigging of matches.
And, if there is one thing that the labyrinth of psychopathy cannot abide, it is being rumbled by justice as, in their diseased matrices, power should always trump justice.

A match result should be dependent on what occurs competitively on the pitch and not on what occurs competitively in the betting markets.
But this is not so!

Let's take a closer look at the financial incentives associated with Saturday's match at the Hawthorns.
The initial fix would have seen WBA move two places higher in the EPL - and two places equals an extra £1.6 million in the EPL Merit Money Handicap Stakes at the end of season.

But a bet or a market positioning can make such a paltry amount appear insignificant.
At market opening and at kick off ### ###### were offering the best price on the planet on a West Brom victory ie they were out to lay the home side as they were confident that Albion were not to be victorious.
Much more than £1.6 million will have been created by both this market stance and, much more importantly, by transferring this criminalised knowledge into the Asian Dark Pools where squillions might be raised.

So the incentive to the riggers is always biased to betting rather than integrity as there is simply not enough competitive reward for mid-table teams to take competitive football as seriously as they take competitive betting.
Only when career changing prizes like titles or relegation are on offer is this balance disturbed.

This is the absolute equivalent of British horseracing where ALL non Class 1 races are dominated by the impact of betting money - the 2:15 at Ludlow offering £3,000 prize money to the winner or markedly more than that from a bookmaker for racing accordingly.
Money is piggy-backed and a far greater profit made by the consortium.
Furthermore, by losing in a poor fashion, the markets will offer a larger prize on the next race as the horse is regarded as a squiggle, and, consequently, the insiders clean up once again on the next race.

This is what the EPL and numerous other European leagues have become - next match, West Brom will be better value to insider bettors.

And this is already apparent in both public and underground markets.
WBA's next match is at Wolves and, despite yesterday's results, insider money has already surfaced AGAINST Wolves.
Irrational...
... but, then again, not.

And lives are undermined by these criminalities.

Yesterday, Nottingham Forest owner Nigel Doughty was found dead at his home.
RIP.
Unlike certain pseudo-Socialists associated with the club, Doughty was one of those rare people in football who isn't just addicted to cash.

The recent personal and orchestrated media pressure imposed on Doughty via certain people and organisations not unfamiliar to these pages was inappropriate.
Doughty realised earlier in the season that he should never have appointed Steve McClaren as manager, describing the decision as "a very poor one".
The fall-out from this has been out of order.
Pressure and stress leads to death.

And guess who has a major impact on transfers at Nottingham Forest?
And guess who orchestrated the appointment of McClaren?
And guess who utilised his psychopathic control of The Guardian football ouput to repeatedly besmirch Doughty in the media after McClaren was sacked?
And guess which bookmaker sponsors the shirts?
And guess who will be at the funeral doing the mock grief thing?

Es una puta barbaridad.

These people are simply sociopathic scum...
... which is exactly what the HMR&C think too.

Off the record of course...

Harry Redknapp is a Bag of Shite

Harry Redknapp lives in a £10 million mansion at Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset.
Sandbanks has, by area, the fourth largest land value in the entire world.
It is known as 'Britain's Palm Beach'.

Harry Redknapp is a low tier manager who had won nothing of consequence until a fixed FA Cup Final victory for Portsmouth in 2008. Managing clubs as mighty as Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Southampton and West Ham does not produce Palm Beach-style wealth.

Harry Redknapp, in consortia with #### #########, ##### ##### and ###### ######## #############, was involved in ####### ####### on EPL games over a number of seasons.

##### ######## ### ##### # ############### ############## ### #### ## ##  ######## ############ ############ ########### #### ## ######## ## Premier League matches in just one season (#### ## ## ####### ## ##### ## ####### ## ## #####). The response? A high court injunction courtesy of Max Clifford and the story never even gained an inch in the mainstream media columns.

Harry Redknapp is regarded by Clifford as the ideal mentor for Gareth Bale to fulfill his earnings potential. "It's the magic formula" stated Clifford. "With Harry Redknapp keeping a very careful eye on him, he could make £10m, £20m, something like that, over the next five years from image rights, endorsements, things like that."
Things like that...

Harry Redknapp claimed in court that he is "disastrous" in business and would rather pay more tax than less.

Harry Redknapp and his wife own Pierfront Developments, a controversial property development company with an extensive portfolio in various areas throughout the south of England.

Harry Redknapp, in response to the prosecutor Mr Black at Southwark Crown Court: "I’m not a greedy person ... I’m the most ungreedy person you’ve ever met in your whole life, Mr Black. Ever. Ever."

Harry Redknapp was accused by prosecutors of telling "a pack of lies" to a jury hearing his tax evasion case yesterday.
The information about the Monaco bank account only surfaced due to the Murdochracy investigating and Redknapp "letting the cat out of the bag".
Redknapp admits lying to the journalist.
Redknapp purports to be "insulted" by claims he lied during tax evasion trial.

Harry Redknapp, answering Prosecutor Black once again in his court case: "You think I put my hand on the Bible and told lies. That’s an insult Mr Black . . . I told no lies. I don’t do that."

Harry Redknapp has an obviously purely incidental and absolutely non-corrupt relationship with PGMOB match official #########. The match outcomes in #########/Redknapp affairs are a collection of outliers of such remarkable nature that we have even postulated historically that the two might be having an affair.

Harry Redknapp, football manager, club agent, ############################, ###########, property developer, media spokesman, offshore financier, just a loveable Eastender who writes like a two-year old.
He believes in the good lord and paying more tax, in being truthful and humble, generous and altruistic.
He's just this guy who loved his dog Rosie so much that he set up an offshore bank account in her name.
He even equates his wife with his late dog "If she [an anonymous French woman) was as nice as Rosie [the dog] they have got a good wife."

Rosie 47 is merely the start of a story...

Harry Redknapp, a Mobile Phone and a Hand Over The Mouth

Perhaps the Premier League might like to take a swift glance at the televised match between Wigan and Spurs on January 11th 2009 as both the BBC and a journalist at a British broadsheet have been in contact over this allegedly fixed game.

With the score at 0-0 shortly after half-time, Heurelho Gomes strained his hamstring taking a goalkick and made it quite clear that his movement was severely restricted and that he wished to be substituted.

Harry Redknapp, the Spurs manager, despite having a Spanish international goalkeeper on the bench decided to persist instead with the hobbling Heurelho.

Tottenham were then placed on the back foot with the outfield players being forced to compensate for the keeper.

Rather than barking out instructions on how to defend a point, Redknapp spent considerable time during the second half on his mobile phone.
His face when Wigan secured their 90th minute winner was a wobble to behold.

Obviously, Harry was merely ensuring that his missus had fed Rosie the Dog...
... but, if this was the case, why did he insist on covering his mouth with his hand during every conversation?

And anyway, in RedknappWorld, there is feeding Rosie the Dog and there is feeding Rosie the Dog.

Peter Walton is a Red Bastard

Last night Manchester City were denied two penalty shouts by Peter "Grandad" Walton.
So what? Referees are paid to make decisions.

But what is it that influences the decisions that Grandad makes?

In 21 matches refereeing Manchester United over eight seasons, the Reds have won 15, drawn 6 and lost 0.
In the same period, Walton has officiated 13 Manchester City games with only 3 ending in victory for the Citizens with 6 defeats.

But the last four years of refereeing from Mr Walton are even more revealing.

Manchester United 11 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats (15 matches 37 points)
Manchester City 0 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats (7 matches 3 points).

In 22 matches over four seasons, Man Utd have NEVER LOST with Walton in charge while City have NEVER WON.

Or take the last three seasons where the cumulative points difference between United and City is 27 points - fully 18 of these points are due to the supposedly unconscious biases of an old man.

It is this sort of thing that determines titles.

The fact that this knickpoint in performance by Walton coincides with the introduction of Shinawatra's stolen largesse leading onto the petro-dollars that made football in Manchester truly competitive is only a further point that requires a response from PGMOB/Walton.

Either this is just another collection of Incredible Flukes or the PGMOB and Peter Walton have some explaining to do over the bias, and it is a statistically significant bias, and over the reason the old bastard gets, on average, six games a season to 'favour' the Ferguson Reds.

Also, after United being presented with Chris Foy and Walton for the two post-crisis matches, Foy was once again 4th Official to a junior referee for the Stoke game last night .
This means, The Racism Derby aside, Ferguson has been given dominant referees of Foy (a false sending off and two penalty decisions), Walton (a penalty), Webb with five bookings of Arsenal players (remember Ryan Babel's tweet) and Foy again (two penalties) since Newcastle/Blackburn.

And so we have a Title Race...
... although it is more akin to a Handicap Hurdle with City carrying top weight.

Farcical!

Thank goodness Football isn't Fixed...
... It's Fucked.



NB There are a couple of cup matches in this list but for ease of argument in the time allowed, we totalise.