The aim of Football Is Fixed, to shamelessly quote Jean Baudrillard, is suggested by the following. "Doubtless one should put oneself in the position of an imaginary traveller who came upon these writings as if they were a lost manuscript and, for the want of supporting documents, subsequently strove to reconstitute the society they describe".
We take a cynical realist's view of the world. We use our analytical skills not just to increase our individual bank balances but to create constructs that explain the data on both a market and a political/societal level. The posts that we choose to place on Football Is Fixed are based on our historical trading strategies and our financial system knowledge (a parallel to institutional knowledge). We believe that the corruption endemic in mature sports betting markets is replicated across all mature sectors in a shareholder capitalist system and one of our prime aims is to demonstrate a systems thinking approach to such correlations.
I'm merely a one trick pony. It's just that society has decided it is a pretty neat trick. I can model things like financial markets and RS Canum Venaticorum Binary Systems. In a world thinly sliced into niches of infinitessimally fine sectors, virtually anyone may focus on their core competencies and peripheralise weaknesses to overachieve in an effectively irrelevant field. I mean, what does it really matter whether the Sevilla penalty was justified last night? Who should really care? This is really not a big deal. It can only become a big deal if extrapolated and tested against the financial structures that represent globalisation. The modern internet includes a web of sites similar to Football Is Fixed openly in discussion of a system designed for manipulation and corruption. The fear factor that underlies our global system enforces an anally retentive isolationism on the part of many market operators but we choose to be open source even if only to an extent.
This is absolutely not a solely altruistic act. We have surprised ourselves with the range of significant advantages that have accumulated from our public discussion of some of the corrupt structures in football. We have based our isolationist/altruistic threshold similarly to Berkshire Hathaway or Phil Bull - openly discuss how you made money last year but no current proprietary trading strategy. Indeed, addressing areas of historical concern in a public format ensures that we fully complete our holistic thinking with regard to particular market phases, inversions and structures. Additionally, and outrageously, by putting information into the market place in a controlled manner we are having a currently small but increasingly larger impact on the marketplace - there will be a threshold where our information and analyses will feed back into our Unified Trading Model (UTM). Cool!
Baudrillard, Buffett and Bull in one post :)
