On the last two weekends, Sky's Super Sunday matches have yielded incredibly corrupt global betting events that clearly exhibit the power play between the different market makers as they seek and attempt to gain proprietary control of these high profile matches.
The key aspect to Sky's heavily biased and manipulative televised output is their over confidence in the security of their control of the events under their warped jurisdiction. One might think that some effort might be made to disguise the corruption but Sky seem to glorify in it.
For example, lets look at the Sky choice of summarisers for the Man United v Tottenham match - Jamie ("I really believe this") Redknapp and Graeme Souness. Thinking back to the Quest bungs inquiry and the City of London Police raids on Portsmouth, Newcastle and Glasgow Rangers (particularly relating to the scam of a transfer of Boumsong to the Geordies from Ibrox overseen by Souness), are these the types of individual that Sky should have the arrogance to place on our screens to provide the pre-match and half-time disinformation? As we have posted previously, four of the seven points and concerns raised by Lord Stevens related to Harry Redknapp and/or Portsmouth - there was even that peculiarly specific point linking Redknapp to Glasgow based bookmaker, horserace trainer and football agent, Willie McKay. Sky totally taps into this semi-masonic structure featuring corrupt individuals from Glasgow and East London and, if they were able to step back and view how their media operation might be observed by outsiders, they would see that these inappropriate choices of talking head might just be noticed by the ever alert footballing public.
Of course, Sky don't give a damn and why should they when they exhibit a psychopathic control over the English game. Sky's focus on pundits from a few key geographical and business areas is highly revealing. If you can be bothered, check how many of Sky's "expert" summarisers are Londoners, Liverpudlians or Glaswegian - Reid, Redknapp, Walsh, Merson, McInally, Cottee, Thompson, Souness, Gale, Nicholas, Gray, Lampard etc etc etc. Furthermore, the same clubs keep resurfacing in the spectrum of Sky's output - West Ham United, Glasgow Rangers, Portsmouth, for example and we could, if we so wished, tell you which casino in London you would be most likely to find these operators relaxing during their leisure time.
Now, if it was merely the case that Sky people were giving jobs to their mates then one could, perhaps, accept it as a standard example of the lack of meritocracy that exists throughout the English media. Unfortunately, the template is far more manipulative than that.
Rob Styles made two errors in the Liverpool v Chelsea match. These errors worked against the proprietary trading positions taken on the global betting markets by Skybet and their associated market manipulators. Andy Gray's apoplexy was worthy of note. Howard Webb yesterday avoided giving Tottenham either of two potential penalties. The point isn't particularly whether these decisions were correct (in our estimation, one was and one wasn't) but that the Sky post-match summary featured a gloating Andy Gray who totally focused on just one of these decisions (the handball that wasn't) and the entirely pointless argument of whether Carlos Tevez deflected the ball for United's goal. Now, we are sure that you will be interested in the background to this nonsense.
Sky took huge trading positions on a United victory yesterday targeting some of the major European and Asian bookmakers as they sought to make up for their losses of the previous week. Indeed, the markets were so volatile that William Hill suspended betting in-running from the twenty minute mark until half-time. Souness and Redknapp offered verbal manipulations to persuade the leisure punter to put their hard-earned cash in loss-inducing markets and Sky were left with that warm glow that always results from a successful betting scam. It is an interesting aside that when peculiar betting patterns are related to an insider's corruption, there is no public inquiry. If you or I are lucky enough to benefit from a similar piece of market manipulation then alarm bills ring and there is a chance that winnings will not be paid out. Sky raised the media profile of this match from the moment they realised that they had ultimate control in the event - Martin Jol and the managerial crisis, the focus on Robinson's goalkeeping faux pas, Gabriel Heinze and the Premier League and Berbatov's supposed move to Manchester United all ratcheted up the betting turnover.
Will Webb be vilified throughout the media before being stood down for a month because of poor decision making in a major televised game? Of course not. The implication for the match officials is that one shouldn't stand in the way of the betting market corruptions on the games which they referee. It is worth remembering that the ONLY time a referee was suspended last season was Dermot Gallagher. The media spin was that Gallagher was banned (in his final season as a professional ref) for two-and-a-half months for failing to send off Thatcher for his assault on Mendes - this relates not to the war in Las Islas Malvinas but to the football match between Man City and Portsmouth. Not so. Gallagher also failed to give Portsmouth a penalty in the match and the decision was actually related to a huge global gamble with the fingerprints of a football manager who looks like a standard criminal all over it.
Sky kept us entertained in other ways too at the weekend - although not in the manner that they intended. Their inability to notice that the media rumpus in Spain would pull the plug on their opening La Liga game featuring the Madrid derby was laughable. Up to the hour prior to the alleged kick off, Sky were marketing their four Spanish live games before being forced to hurriedly backtrack. Almost as funny as Rob Palmer's repeated claims to actually be in whichever Spanish city the game is from when he is actually in a London studio.
In a moment of excessive boredom over my breakfast on Sunday, I decided to watch Sky's Sunday Supplement which is when four newspaper hacks sit around a table giving out rampant disinformation. The feature on why referees are incapable of errors and why we should totally trust that the Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) is above any type of corruption or criminality was well entertaining. In fact, if you inversed everything that was said by the four sour-faced alcoholics during the programme, you would not have been too far from the absolute truth!
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