This has been a big 8 days for the corrupt business practices of Thaksin Shinawatra. We informed readers a few weeks back that the mass murderer was intending to be more selective in his choice of matches to buy in the latter part of the season and his first target was the Manchester derby.
It all began at White Hart Lane last Saturday afternoon when Shinawatra's one aim was to ensure that Wayne Rooney was booked hence ensuring that he would miss this afternoon's memorial derby. Shinawatra directly owns several Professional Match Game Officials Board (PGMOB) officials and his closest contact is with Mark Clattenburg. It was Clattenburg who was selected to model the new AirAsia sponsorship kit alongside Shinawatra at the start of the season and the pair were chummy beyond integrity at the pre-season Hong Kong tournament where so much business went on. At Tottenham, Clattenburg booked Rooney for simulation while failing to book Huddlestone for the same (this latter un-booking should have resulted in a sending off). Of course, Clattenburg was also in control of the first Manchester derby of the season where he denied Evra a clear penalty at 0-0 and one would hope that his pay off is suitably luxurious as the man is turning Thai big style.
The second reason for Shinawatra's sickly smile to spread wider was when Samak Sundaravej announced his new cabinet to run Thailand - the posse is full of Shinawatra loyalists and paves the way for a triumphant return of Shinawatra to Bangkok in May. Being a coward by nature, as all psychopaths are, Shinawatra sent his wife back to gauge how intent the independent Thai judiciary would be in prosecuting his clan for the Shin Corp/Temasek robbery and those illegal Bangkok land deals, both of which enabled him to squirrel away the money to offshore financial centres to fund his Manchester City publicity vehicle. It will soon be time to start his war-on-drugs policy again, otherwise known as a shoot-to-kill tactic targeting lesser mortals who venture onto yet another of the doctor's areas of business interest. It is no coincidence that both the amount and the quality of cannabis from Thailand hitting the Manchester streets has multiplied since the competition met an early grave - Thai Sticks/ Thaksin Shinawatra, it has a peculiar resonance, a psychoactive drug from a psychopathic thug...
The third extension to that grin came when another of his proxies, Richard Scudamore, announced that the Premier League would be taking its product global. Shinawatra gains out of this in two clear ways. Firstly, Bangkok is one of the chosen cities and, secondly, it will increase liquidity in the Far East betting markets that represent yet another of this multi-faceted man's business concerns.
Howard Webb allowed the week to finish on an impossibly high note for Shinawatra and his mafia. The refereeing by Webb and his assistants was dire for this afternoon's derby match. The denial of a penalty for Hamann's trip on Ronaldo was only the most significant of a spectrum of mass corruption on yet another Sky Super Sunday scam. Hamann committing 6 first half fouls without a card whereas O'Shea was booked for his first one; the number of incorrect offside decisions against United nearly reached double figures while an equivalent number of free kicks around the penalty area and corners were simply converted into nothing but a bias to the visitors. Only two fifty-fifty decisions went in the favour of United all afternoon - a free kick at 0-2 towards the end of the 1st Half and the same after 72 minutes. The man even pulled up United for two foul throws, one of which was a valid decision, but when was the last time that a foul throw was prosecuted in a Premiership game?
The gamble on Manchester United was the biggest of the weekend and that is always a concern when the PGMOB's alleged top official is in charge of a match - the correlation between betting liabilities and Webb's officiating is a particularly robust mathematic. It is not for the quality of his officiating that Howard Webb has been given 15 live matches this season when no other referee has reached double figures!
So, a great week for corruption, bribery, corruption, coercion, violence, corruption and corruption. If the smile were to grow any broader, the top of the man's head would fall off, which would be no bad thing.
The only positive note of the afternoon was the City fans behaving during the minute's silence rather better than the England fans managed during the 17 seconds cacophony at The Food Mall (although it should be noted that the threat of a lifetime ban hung above the Blue gathering which would indicate that the silence was enforced and they did jeer the pipers playing a United refrain as the teams entered onto the pitch). As expected, United playing without AIG being splashed across their shirts merely resulted in AIG advertisements being repeatedly prominent on the moving advert hoardings - nobody could expect that the American insurance firm would miss out on their slice of the profit from the anniversary of Flight 609.
The Premier League has suddenly realised that they may safely ignore both FIFA and UEFA with regard to the Premiership becoming a global gamble but this has been offset by news that the FA are able to undermine the nonsense. Scudamore is offering Barwick all sorts of temptations and, presumably, kickbacks from the offshore financial centres under the control of Shinawatra. None of these concessions amount to a whole lot of beans - no players to be rested for FA Cup ties, support for the 2018 World Cup that the FA hope to hold in England (although the Premier League are probably now outsourcing some of it to First World Fascist locations as is their wont), no problems with releasing players for England internationals etc etc.
The defining moment of the Shinawatra Scudamore Scam came not in Hong Kong but at the City of Manchester Stadium on the first home game of the season against Derby County. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch had just released details of Shinawatra's involvement in extra-judicial killings and the massive corruption associated with his regime. The Premier League's fit-and-proper persons factor hung heavily in the air. And what did Scudamore do? He sat next to Shinawatra at Eastlands laughing and joking his way through the 90 minutes showing no respect for the game. Oh, and nor for the over 2,000 people murdered by Shinawatra's mafia when he was last in power.
The memory of those that lost their lives 50 years ago produced a rare occurrence of Mancunian unity but all that we will remember of this farcical match is the complete lack of respect to that memory as the powers that run the English game were more concerned with pocketing the emotional betting money and allowing an autocratic tyrant to buy the match outcome.
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