Football Is Fixed is back after our wee holiday in a well-wet Glasgow.
We return with both new attitude and a rejigged strategy.
We are moving up a gear.
We mean business.
You will notice that ALL of the historical posts are being returned online at this site. This will take a few weeks but hopefully all will be revealed by our second birthday on November 11th.
Current posts will continue to be both daily and provocative.
Football Is Fixed - Your Daily Dose Of Corruption.
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Football has its last opportunity, in this current window, to save what remains of its integrity.
Football needs to build a foundation so that this great sport may be prevented from its slow metamorphosis into horse racing, with owners, managers, players and referees instead of owners, trainers, the institutions and jockeys pulling the levers of corruption.
Omnipresent during this corruption are the bookmakers.
Things have moved on.
One of the most critical aspects of taking a postmodernist perspective on society from an open source base point, is that one is able to influence the narratives at large in this society.
These narratives are not Real.
The current hyperreality of football bears no resemblance whatsoever to the sport taking place in your local park.
As such a fake entity, its existence is entirely dependent on the public being convinced of its validity and authenticity - think 'Simply Come Dancing', greyhound racing, soap operas, democracy, that sort of thing...
Some narratives may no longer be told in decent society. The Holocaust in Europe is now exported, via extraordinary rendition, to Third World locations where the narrative is most definitely still on the agenda.
As it is, of course, in the US and western Europe, it is merely that our Deep States have evolved enough to understand that it is now necessary to export such terrors to less regulated fake environments.
The same thing, incidentally, is happening with wage slavery...
I digress.
Because ScudamoreWorld is not Real, it is an easy entity to deconstruct.
The validity of the sport is virtually non-existent.
The results are affected by oodles of different, and often contrary, externalities ie betting money and insider corruptions.
Only the talent that is allowed onto the murky stage is buying the game some time.
If Robinho has a good match, showing us his considerable circus skills, this makes up for the fact that the match outcome was, in fact, pre-determined.
This will work for now.
But, look at horseracing. Apart from the meetings that involve rich people networking through a time warp, nobody goes. There may be great creatures racing, famous jockeys, minor celebrities showing off their narcissism via horserace ownership...
Still, nobody goes.
Buying a lottery ticket is invisible taxation, and, indeed, nowadays, one might be better simply popping down to Barclays and handing over your lottery money directly. Cut out the middle-person.
Buying into horseracing or football is simply 'invisible corruption' to the vast majority of spectators and viewers. Frequently, you will get the feeling that something 'doesn't feel quite right' about a game or a race, but without access to the betting patterns of the hidden private markets, you are not going to be able to determine the true hyperreality at play.
As the skullduggery in the banking sector has been exposed, there is a greater reluctance from the public to accept the calming words of our governments, our establishments, our media...
If an edifice as, apparently, well-regulated as the international financial markets is able to undertake the most massive corruptions imaginable without anybody lifting a finger to decelerate the process, just consider how easy it might be to perform similar corruptions in a sport like football.
There is virtually no concrete regulation.
It is a closed-shop.
There are very close links between the betting markets and the insiders in the industry - think Enron...
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Declan Hill has recently published a book called 'The Fix' exposing the corruption underpinning football as it appeared four years ago.
But the narrative that he creates is outdated.
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Just like derivatives...
The betting markets are derivative to the sport of football in the same manner as the derivatives markets are derivative to the financial system in the Great Poker Game.
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Vietnam, Italy, China, England, Russia, Thailand, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, Finland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Singapore, Poland, Turkey, Israel etc etc etc.
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Firstly, the public are becoming increasingly less convinced by the rather obvious machinations.
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After his two high profile errors in the games between Man Utd and Bolton, and Newcastle and Man City, the PGMOB announce via ######################## Keith Hackett, that Styles was being stood down for the following round of matches.
In an Orwellian reality-twist of some magnitude, this doublespeak was from a very forked tongue.
Sure enough, Styles did not referee a game last weekend.
He got the 4th Official slot for the biggest game of the season so far, the battle between the Top Two, Chelsea and Liverpool.
What sort of demotion is this?
Where, exactly, is the justice being seen to be done?
Why aren't the referee ratings made by the clubs made public?
Is there a valid reason why the vast majority of Premiership matches are officiated by just 14 referees.
The one (one!!!????) Black official, Uriah Rennie, hasn't been given a single game this season.
Policeman, Howard Webb, has been given 11 matches in the 9 rounds of games (four as 4th Official). Seven of his events have been the high profile ###################################################### live Sky games.
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It is quite easy to put together an infrastructural template that would make corruption in the English Premiership considerably harder to enact.
These suggestions below are neither rocket science nor are they enough on their own to clean up the markets. Much more detailed scenario analysis and market analysis is required to achieve a robust template that would peripheralise the criminalities, and we do not wish to disclose such methods in this place.
But each of these suggestions would massively improve the game by putting the underworld and the market corruption people on the defensive.
It is all a matter of incentives.
* A roster of 100 referees, each getting a maximum of four games per year. There is no meritocracy in the selection of match officials by the PGMOB and the creation of a Select Group of just 20 referees is simply inviting corruption.
As we have stated before, Stuart Attwell is being fast-tracked to refereeing stardom, and this despite the illusory goal that he gave at Vicarage Road earlier in the season. If a bookmaker was able to 'get' Attwell then there are 25 years of control, at 25/30 games per season.
That is an awful lot of market control.
Would the bookies be so interested if a referee was only going to get between 1 and 4 games per season?
* Video technology and open source microphones. All other major sports are at least paying lip service to improving issues of integrity. Why is football so reluctant to get involved? Why don't they want to clean the game up?
Because football matches are determined, generally, by small integral differences ie one goal differential or level, the impact of the major decisions is critical. So, for example, Styles' sending off of Beye and the gift of a penalty to Abu Dhabi United was worth 1.60 of a goal. The farcical argument is always the one that technology is not 100% accurate.
And Rob Styles is?
The use of video replays would prevent the frequent miscarriages of justice that so enrage the target audience.
The open source microphones will allow us to listen in to the interactions between 4th Official and the referee. This is particularly important as Keith Hackett has now determined that referees should repeatedly work with the same assistants.
Oh my gosh, yet another template primed for corruption emanating from the PGMOB.
* Create disincentives to gamble. Global regulation of the betting markets and lifetime bans for anyone found operating or trading in private underground markets. Proper sousveillance bodies need to be set up to monitor the betting markets as the current bodies are under the influence of the betting industry.
I am able to prove, for example, that all 10 matches in the Premiership round the weekend-before-last, were impacted upon by the influence of betting money.
We traded on this information and won handsomely and repeatedly.
Why are the industry bodies established to police these hyperrealities unable to detect these patterns, when they have even more information than we do?
* The avoidance of fake entities being established on non-sustainable debt. We currently have a person, Richard Scudamore, in charge of the Premier League who is an avid believer in the free markets and in the importance of the linkages between the betting markets and the sport.
Throughout the world of shareholder capitalism, there are clear examples of the perils of a boom-and-bust abusive template, but Scudamore, in his un-wisdom, believes that the £3 billion worth of debt is sustainable and that people will continue to pay out for the sub-standard product that he has created.
Not in a Depression, they won't, pal...
* A proper fit-and-proper-persons test (FPPT) to avoid individuals with very close links to underground betting markets owning #######################################, for example.
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* The murky world of agents must be cleaned up. From the illicit slave trades of South America and West Africa to agents representing both player and club in a transfer transaction, this area of the game must be better regulated.
Additionally, much of the linkage between the underworld betting markets and rogue players is undertaken by the agents. Players receive up to £1 million per match of which the agents take their slice.
We mentioned above that football in its current form is merely a figment of your realities.
We do not need to accept this version of the sport.
There are now a grouping of us who are working together to create the impetus for a different sport, proper football.
At UEFA, in the government, at the FA, there are people who we are able to work with.
There are selected journalists, some betting market insiders, ##############, #############################, ##########################, Declan Hill, several Asian bookmakers and a whole load of people whose incentives will flip fully 180 degrees as the full extent of ScudamoreWorld's Can Of Worms starts to be revealed in the coming months.
We are no longer in this alone.
As I said...
...Time to move up a gear.
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