Roy Keane has accused Sky Sports of brainwashing the public.
"I was asked to do the Celtic versus Manchester United game but I've done it once for Sky and never again," Keane said. "I'd rather go to the dentist. You're sitting there with people like Richard Keys and they're trying to sell something that's not there."
Ah, that would be the ScudamoreWorld/Murdochracy fake reality then...
English Premiership football exists in a twilight zone representing the dictatorship of the markets.
Selected agents, owners, bookmakers, managers, players, officials, administrators, the media and the underworld (those not already covered in this listing) attend certain London casinos and other ballparks of corruption in order to develop their links and strategies for match fixing.
Knowledge and information are everything in corrupted football betting markets, and these foundations may be sub-divided into the internal and the external.
Inside information is allegedly illegal in financial markets, although prosecutions are as rare as a dose of honesty from Andy Gray.
In football, inside information is gold-dust.
If you psychopathically control the outcome of just one match, you are able to set yourself up for life, assuming one is not a greedy person, by trading the scam in Asia and/or on the private markets.
Our knowledge and information are far more revealing.
For although we receive copious amounts of inside info from our web of contacts in the markets and the game, it is our analytical databases that reveal far more knowledge about the massive corruptions that are taking place behind closed doors.
We choose only to expose the tip of the iceberg of our full knowledge of the systemic corruption in the English game.
If we were to inform you of the full extent of what is taking place in the name of sport, you would be totally gobsmacked.
In this post, we assess a whole range of the corruptions which define the Premier League and football in general.
This journey will take us to some interesting locations - Asian bookmakers, corrupt goalkeepers, the systemic rigging of Premiership matches, criminalised officials, linkages between owners and the underground betting markets, insider trading, the global financial plight and its impact on the betting markets and the strategies of the insider operators who game these markets.
* An agent once told me, in order to demonstrate the integrity of his operation, that he had turned down a bribe/bung of £###### in cash to drop his interest in a particular player.
"You only have to shag one sheep to become a sheepshagger" he poetically informed me.
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* One of my colleagues was required to meet with a leading football broker in Bangkok. The encounter was rewarding although the primary purpose of the engagement did not come to fruition.
In Thailand, the police and the betting markets come under the same vertically integrated jurisdiction.
If you wish to place a punt, you have to please a pig.
Thai society is split into different competing power bases and it should come as no surprise to anybody that the man at the summit of the police force in Thailand is none other than our human rights abusing friend, His Excellency The Muslim Murderer.
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Nice work if you can get it, but it is not football.
* Prior to today, there had been 109 matches in the Premiership season. Of the 436 officials that have controlled, literally, these matches, guess how many Black faces there were.
Zero.
Nil.
A Black face is allowed to become the leader of the unfree world, but is not allowed to officiate over the rampant criminality of the Premiership.
Instead, the WASP brigade dominate.
After Howard Webb was given yet another top televised game today between Arsenal and Champions of England/Champions of Europe, a fellow referee commented:
"Quite clearly, the message for all Select Group referees, loud and clear, is don't bother to perform to your very best because whatever you do and however well you perform, Howard Webb will get all the plum ties this season."
To date, there have been four encounters between the Big 4 teams this season.
These are the matches that effectively determine the title, if one excludes all those events where Arsenal get a good kicking in an unemployment black spot.
Howard Webb has refereed three of these matches.
His 'abilities' do not warrant this degree of influence over the title race.
* The PGMOB, who are responsible for the Webb-mania, also repeatedly have issues with economies of truth.
Repeatedly Keith "Wartface" Hackett informs us that officials are to be punished for under-performance, and, without fail, no such demotion occurs.
After the recent Rob Styles manipulations, Wartface informed us that Stuart Attwell would not be officiating this weekend, so it came as a surprise when, less than 24 hours later, Attwell was given the 4th Official slot at Hull v Bolton this afternoon.
As another match official commented in reference to the quote about PC Webb above: "... and Stuart Attwell will [always] get some sort of appointment the following week."
This is not a meritocracy.
It is dietrologia.
* In Europe, match officials are also problematical, although none of the primary territories are as badly served by corruption as is England.
There are several Italian referees who should have had their careers terminated after calciopoli and yet they are still on the roster.
Rosetti is a law onto himself when officiating at internationals, Champions League and UEFA Cup matches and, similarly to Webb, is rated very low in the markings given to match officials in Serie A.
Gianluca Rocchi, who mugged Napoli on behalf of Silvio Berlusconi last week, is, apparently, to be questioned about fraud.
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* West Ham will soon be going out of existence.
Two further directors have left after it became clear that, alongside the potential £50 million that may have to be paid to Sheffield United over the Richard Scudamore/ Carlos Tevez/ Javier Mascherano/ West Ham United/ Manchester United illegal infrastructure, they are also on the receiving end of legal claims from former manager Alan Curbishley.
It is our understanding that Curbishley has got enough dirt to win his case comfortably.
Bjorngolfur Gudmundsson lost an estimated £230 million last month alone and, in the current financial climate, nobody is going to be able to easily offload their fake Premiership entities.
Why pay the current market price when you can sit back, twiddle your thumbs and await more tempting offers at more tempting prices?
Worse still...
West Ham lost their shirt sponsors when XL failed to excel.
And just who is stepping in with a £2 million per year sponsorship deal?
None other than SBOBet, the Philippine based betting company that refused to release details of the insider trading on the heavily corrupted Norwich v Derby County game in the Championship.
So, a Far East shady betting organisation, that accepts bets on rigged events, is now to have their name plastered across the Hammers' jerseys.
It would be futile to suggest to Scudamore that perhaps there should be a fit-and-proper-person's test for sponsorship.
Indeed, West Ham might be prevented from also sponsoring the Bobby Moore bowel cancer charity because the Premier League rules that do exist in this area do not allow dual sponsorship.
But singular underworld and criminalised sponsorship is cool...
There should be a fit-and-proper-psycho test for chief executives of the Premier League, methinks.
* Since that fateful night in East Anglia, Roy Carroll had not been selected by Paul Jewell for the intervening league games, presumably while the accusations are tested that he was linked to the attempted betting coup - for the uninitiated, Carroll was sent off after giving away a penalty early in the Second Half, after colossal Half Time liquidity was seen, positively correlated with Mr Carroll's input.
Sneaky as ever when potential corruption is in the public gaze, Carroll was reintroduced to the Derby line up for the midweek League Cup match at Brighton, while all of our attentions were on the Champions League.
We've seen the betting patterns on the Norwich/Derby game and we've psychologically analysed Mr Carroll's performance...
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We wait to see whether any action will be taken regarding this alleged corruption.
Of course, one of the problems here is that the FA neither has any jurisdiction over betting companies in other countries and nor do they have an iota of talent on their surveillance teams.
Football betting is being monitored by the footballing equivalent of Inspector Clouseau!
* West Ham will not be the only London team sponsored by a Philippines based gambling company, as Tottenham Hotspur are closely linked to Mansion88.
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A few interesting figures that prove nothing whatsoever on their own but, when mixed with the other knowledge in our possession, such data has their value.
Since Mr Redknapp left Portsmouth, betting turnover globally on Pompey games has lessened by 36%.
In the same period, betting liquidity on Tottenham matches has increased by 16%.
Just a point.
* Before our conclusion, lets return to Roy Keane, because we all understand, you can't leave the Corkmen out.
Last week, Keane was asked to leave the touchline for the Second Half after he questioned Martin Atkinson over the fact that Chelsea led 3-0 at the interval and that each of the goals was incorrectly given - the first two for offside and the third for a foul on Chimbonda.
In the second half of last season, there were fourteen match-altering key decisions in Sunderland matches, and precisely 14 of those decisions went against Keane's team.
On Monday, Keane spoke with the referees' assessor.
Mr Assessor stated: "Clearly the second goal shouldn't have stood and clearly there was a foul on Chimbonda for the third goal."
On Tuesday, Wartface hit Keane with a disrepute charge.
As Keane commented: "... the last time I was charged by the FA, they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win."
I'd veer towards impossible, Roy.
We'll be in touch :)
A list...
The inability of West Ham United and Newcastle to find buyers.
The financial exposures and massive debts at many members of the Premiership.
The apparently financially secure Roman Abramovich laying off 15 scouts after 60% of his ill-gotten gains had ebbed into the financial ether. Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to sack the entirely incompetent Frank Arneson instead?
Manchester United no longer have a waiting list for season tickets and Manchester City, the richest team on the planet, couldn't even sell out their tickets for last weekend's local derby against Bolton.
Even the likes of Liverpool are unable to find a buyer.
The January transfer window is going to be dead. Player evaluations are already falling. Balance sheets are going to be squeezed and squeezed.
And this is all prior to the Real Depression starting in earnest.
We are only halfway through a twenty year secular bear market, we have still got the equivalent of the 1930's to come.
Sky subscriptions will plummet. Setanta too.
Richard Scudamore, ###################################, has painted himself, the Premier League, the member clubs and all of the fans who really should own this sport into a corner with only one escape.
As a bottomless pit of financial devastation hits the game over the next few years, there will only be one route out of the morass - illicit gambling.
This represents the only way to bolster the bottom line.
At least Scudamore has been prescient enough to develop a strategy for the takeover of the game by #######################################################
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We dare you.
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