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When criminals are originally fingered by the police, their reaction to the discovery of their criminality in the following period is revealing, and forms a major part of the forensic psychology linked to the legal process.
So it is with football...
Are Bayern Munchen and Glasgow Rangers guilty of taking kickbacks to throw last year's UEFA Cup Semi Final and Final, respectively?
The matches at the weekend allowed our first assessment of the forensic psychology.
Rangers lost at St Mirren for the first time in 22 years - the only goal was scored by Stephen McGinn, grandson of former Celtic chairman Jack.
St Mirren had only one shot on target and one corner.
Rangers had 24 shots in total and 14 corners.
Visually, Rangers were dire, the irrepressible football of late being entirely absent from their performance.
Initial forensic psychological assessment - guilty.
Bayern Munchen had a home match against one of their few client clubs, Bochum.
3-1 up with five minutes to go, the Bavarian giants threw away their lead against a team that had previously picked up just one point in three away games.
But the forensic psychological impact on FC Bayern has been apparent for weeks - remember them slumping to being 0-5 down at home to a very moderate Werder Bremen team, this being followed by a dire performance in defeat at Hannover.
So that is just one point from the last three matches for the biggest team in Germany...
Initial forensic psychological assessment - guilty.
And, as we predicted in yesterday's post, the Hyperreality has disappeared from our event horizon.
There are two scenarios.
Either a leading British team were robbed of glory in the UEFA Cup Final by an underworld Russian mob...
...Or, a leading British team sold the match to an underworld Russian mob.
Either way, one might have thought that there might have been just a smidgen more coverage on what is, after all, a major international criminal conspiracy affecting the integrity of the second main European-wide football tournament.
Evidently nowhere near as critical as Michael Owen losing his place in the England squad, though.
"End of Owen's England career may be near" we are informed by the Telegraph.
End of the words 'football' and 'integrity' being uttered in close proximity to one another, would be our angle on your hyperrealities.
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