So what is the Premier League template to be for Brand 2009/2010?
The early manipulations are always revealing in rigged markets, for that is what the top tier English league has become.
Early last season, for example, we highlighted the 'overperformance' of the three promoted sides as they were handicapped up the table as well as the dichotomous tilts involving Liverpool and Arsenal, and the targeting of the north east clubs and pre-Redknapp Tottenham.
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The relegation race went down to the wire despite the inadequacies of Mowbray's West Bromwich Albion; Liverpool remained in the title race despite being less than moderate; Arsenal were stopped as usual; two of the three north-eastern clubs were relegated; while the reversal in the role of officialdom at Tottenham post-Redknapp appointment has been little short of astonishing.
So, what has our squad of traders and analysts found in the early phases of this season?
What should the real table look like if based purely on football?
To make our adjustments, we address each game as an entity. We utilise sabermetrics, the criminalised impact of the betting markets, the input of rogue insiders, metric adjustments extrapolated from fake match occurrences, all that sort of stuff and a whole load of isolationist "and-then-some" parameters to reveal the Real.
And for subscribers, here is how the Premier League would look if the competition was not under the control of those people pulling the strings of Our Great Leader in his eyrie.
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Now, you'll find Liverpool placed seven slots higher in the ScudamoreWorld version, while Manchester United are 5 rungs up the ScudaLadder.
Nothing new there then.
As we predicted pre-season in our Early Xmas Freebie Bet, Liverpool are very very poor indeed this season, and our suggestion that there was some small value in backing Chelsea for the title both seem valid as the former price has drifted alarmingly while the latter has appreciably shortened.
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We already feel confident enough to go for this as our 09/10 Football Is Fixed Reality Check...
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There you go.
Cancel the subscriptions to the Murdochracy.
Occasionally check in on one of the highlights shows to convince yourselves that you have made the right choice, and mock the Lives Of T'Others as they base their blinkered existences and their desperation for a belief mechanism on the fake hyperrealities of the fake entities that they blindly attach their inconsequential allegiances to.
And I know that is a poor sentence, but that is what the Premier League is...
A poor sentence.
Like 9 months in Strangeways.
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