Okidoke.
Just when you thought it safe to return to the Football Is Fixed blog...
Football Is Fixed 2.0 returns as not one blog, not two blogs, nor three, four nor five in number, and neither is six the correct totalisation, not seven, but eight.
Strewth...
Each of these sites will primarily focus on something in particular.
We took a two month holiday following a hacking attempt on our computer systems and a parallel series of threats to myself and one of the properties associated with our team.
We decided not to continue with the blog for isolationist reasons until police investigations into these nonsenses were completed.
Sometime soon after my Chinese New Year vacation will be the start date for the new blogs detailed below.
The Abyss Of (Ab)Normality (http://theabyssofabnormality.blogspot.com/)
Trichotomous Triptychities (http://trichotomoustriptychities.blogspot.com/)
Obscene Poets And Carnal Pimps (http://obscenepoetsandcarnalpimps.blogspot.com/)
Upwards From Below (http://upwardsfrombelow.blogspot.com/)
Where's That Fuckin' Hemlock? (http://wheresthatfuckinhemlock.blogspot.com/)
A Ludic Abstraction Of Competition (http://aludicabstractionofcompetition.blogspot.com/)
A Wunch Of Bankers (http://awunchofbankers.blogspot.com/)
Football Is Fixed 2.0 (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/)
Contain that excitement...
Recent Posts On Other Blogs
We're All Black Jacobins Now
(http://upwardsfrombelow.blogspot.com/2010/01/were-all-black-jacobins-now.html)
Yo! Untutored Blatherskites And Gobshites
(http://obscenepoetsandcarnalpimps.blogspot.com/2010/02/yo-untutored-blatherskites-and_08.html)
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Friday, 20 November 2009
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Malcontent And Desperation #
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Who Really Owns Birmingham City?
In this post, we explore the Real ownership behind Birmingham City.
In this post, we assess why Richard Scudamore chooses to ignore this issue.
In this post, we project the scenarios ahead for this incredibly dodgy operation.
Over two years since, we warned readers about Carson Yeung.
It wasn't the combination of middle age, side-parting and hair dye that caused concern, but rather the way the man had risen from barber to billionaire via an escapade with a casino in Macau.
Then, when Richard Scudamore, Our Great Leader, was pushing through the fit-and-proper-persons test (FPPT) before the Real ownership of Brum was known, we once again said that a wise and prudent overseer would wait to see who bought into the club in the ongoing rights issue that was taking place at the very moment Scudamore was burying this hyperreality away in the file marked 'Blinkered'.
In the light of the ongoing Arkady Gaydamak Affair at Portsmouth, we thought the bookmakers' lackey was pushing his luck.
And indeed he was...
Peter Pannu is the joint vice-chairperson of Birmingham City.
We presume that he personally requested the moniker 'vice'.
Pannu was previously a senior inspector of police in Hong Kong.
And his role was to investigate Triad activity in the province.
Pannu was known for sailing close to the wind, if you catch our drift.
For example, he was acquitted of receiving cash from Triad boss Andely Chan, a man who was consequently murdered at the Macau Grand Prix.
Our Asian broker has given us some other details of Mr Pannu's past that the lawyers have said that we absolutely must not publish in this place.
But put two and two together from the above, and you will not be a great distance from Reality.
The deals financier is Pollyanna Chu.
She has a history of insider trading and was required to surrender her commodities trading licence on the Hong Kong Exchange following an investigation by the territories' Securities and Futures Commission.
As a sideline, she was also chief executive officer of the Golden Resorts Casino in Macau.
So, even before the selling of further shares, the Big Three at the top of the Birmingham City hierarchy were a fairly rum bunch - 'alleged' collaboration with the Asian mafia, proximity to underground murders, insider trading and running a casino.
And you thought Ken Bates was a wanker!!!
Everything would have progressed smoothly if it had not been for the Porn Baron and his Moll, the former occupiers of the comfortable seats in the Birmingham boardroom.
The Moll wanted a golden parachute to grab as much money as possible from the Midlands club before she moved into the orbit of Alan Sugar, and this invalid payment was secreted in the takeover deal but was only discovered by Yeung when he and his cronies were undertaking due diligence.
Being above the law, Yeung sought to wriggle out of this commitment.
It was then that the shit hit the fan/fans...
The appropriately named David Gold was "shocked" that police officers specialising in economic crime visited the Birmingham City offices yesterday to examine the paperwork.
He flustered that it was an "inappropriate and unreasonable" probe.
Then, rather ill-advisedly, he warned Yeung and his associates to remember that football in this country is a small closed shop of a world and that "what goes around, comes around."
And sure enough, one of the Porn Barons behind Brum was true to his word, which is not something that can have been stated too frequently.
For within 24 hours of the news that the police were examining the Pornman's paperwork, it was announced that the Premier League were to investigate the Real owners of the club.
How spooky is that?
We wait 17 years for the Premier League to even show the slightest interest in illicit club ownership and then, lo and behold, Our Great Leader leaps up to defend the Porn Baron and his Moll.
Two companies registered in the British Virgin Islands, Winning Top International Overseas and Genuine Ocean International Trading, now own a controlling interest of more than 42% in Grandtop, Yeung's investment vehicle.
And Theo Guardian revealed: "This occurred after Yeung, the Birmingham City president, issued fresh shares and convertible bonds to fund a $117.6m (£70m) takeover of Peace International Creation Ltd. On Sunday Grandtop issued a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange, where the company is listed, that it had completed the deal to buy Peace International, a shell company also registered in the BVI."
Our broker informs us that the Real owners of Birmingham City are now to be found hiding behind these shell operations and that Carson Yeung is just the frontman.
This is pretty much the same illegal structure that allows Al Faraj entirely fake ownership of Portsmouth FC.
Birmingham City are still claiming that Yeung is the main man but, then again, Dick Cheney used to say that about the strange idiot child from Texas.
Peter Pannu claims that there has been "no effective dilution" of Yeung's stake which is an outright lie.
Our Asian broker has provided us with some names that we are not allowed to print here but try creating a sentence including the words "Birmingham", "City", "Bookmakers", "Asia", "Underground", "Rigging" and "Markets" and, once again, you will be nearer the truth than not.
This was a bad strategic move by the Porn Baron.
Gold might believe that he is a Big Man, but he is squiggly shit next to the Triads.
We would suggest he removes the light-bulbs before going to sleep like all the rest of the individuals do who tread on the toes of this global Asian mafiosi.
At least the Moll has kept her mouth shut.
But now she has got a new sugar daddy.
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In this post, we assess why Richard Scudamore chooses to ignore this issue.
In this post, we project the scenarios ahead for this incredibly dodgy operation.
Over two years since, we warned readers about Carson Yeung.
It wasn't the combination of middle age, side-parting and hair dye that caused concern, but rather the way the man had risen from barber to billionaire via an escapade with a casino in Macau.
Then, when Richard Scudamore, Our Great Leader, was pushing through the fit-and-proper-persons test (FPPT) before the Real ownership of Brum was known, we once again said that a wise and prudent overseer would wait to see who bought into the club in the ongoing rights issue that was taking place at the very moment Scudamore was burying this hyperreality away in the file marked 'Blinkered'.
In the light of the ongoing Arkady Gaydamak Affair at Portsmouth, we thought the bookmakers' lackey was pushing his luck.
And indeed he was...
Peter Pannu is the joint vice-chairperson of Birmingham City.
We presume that he personally requested the moniker 'vice'.
Pannu was previously a senior inspector of police in Hong Kong.
And his role was to investigate Triad activity in the province.
Pannu was known for sailing close to the wind, if you catch our drift.
For example, he was acquitted of receiving cash from Triad boss Andely Chan, a man who was consequently murdered at the Macau Grand Prix.
Our Asian broker has given us some other details of Mr Pannu's past that the lawyers have said that we absolutely must not publish in this place.
But put two and two together from the above, and you will not be a great distance from Reality.
The deals financier is Pollyanna Chu.
She has a history of insider trading and was required to surrender her commodities trading licence on the Hong Kong Exchange following an investigation by the territories' Securities and Futures Commission.
As a sideline, she was also chief executive officer of the Golden Resorts Casino in Macau.
So, even before the selling of further shares, the Big Three at the top of the Birmingham City hierarchy were a fairly rum bunch - 'alleged' collaboration with the Asian mafia, proximity to underground murders, insider trading and running a casino.
And you thought Ken Bates was a wanker!!!
Everything would have progressed smoothly if it had not been for the Porn Baron and his Moll, the former occupiers of the comfortable seats in the Birmingham boardroom.
The Moll wanted a golden parachute to grab as much money as possible from the Midlands club before she moved into the orbit of Alan Sugar, and this invalid payment was secreted in the takeover deal but was only discovered by Yeung when he and his cronies were undertaking due diligence.
Being above the law, Yeung sought to wriggle out of this commitment.
It was then that the shit hit the fan/fans...
The appropriately named David Gold was "shocked" that police officers specialising in economic crime visited the Birmingham City offices yesterday to examine the paperwork.
He flustered that it was an "inappropriate and unreasonable" probe.
Then, rather ill-advisedly, he warned Yeung and his associates to remember that football in this country is a small closed shop of a world and that "what goes around, comes around."
And sure enough, one of the Porn Barons behind Brum was true to his word, which is not something that can have been stated too frequently.
For within 24 hours of the news that the police were examining the Pornman's paperwork, it was announced that the Premier League were to investigate the Real owners of the club.
How spooky is that?
We wait 17 years for the Premier League to even show the slightest interest in illicit club ownership and then, lo and behold, Our Great Leader leaps up to defend the Porn Baron and his Moll.
Two companies registered in the British Virgin Islands, Winning Top International Overseas and Genuine Ocean International Trading, now own a controlling interest of more than 42% in Grandtop, Yeung's investment vehicle.
And Theo Guardian revealed: "This occurred after Yeung, the Birmingham City president, issued fresh shares and convertible bonds to fund a $117.6m (£70m) takeover of Peace International Creation Ltd. On Sunday Grandtop issued a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange, where the company is listed, that it had completed the deal to buy Peace International, a shell company also registered in the BVI."
Our broker informs us that the Real owners of Birmingham City are now to be found hiding behind these shell operations and that Carson Yeung is just the frontman.
This is pretty much the same illegal structure that allows Al Faraj entirely fake ownership of Portsmouth FC.
Birmingham City are still claiming that Yeung is the main man but, then again, Dick Cheney used to say that about the strange idiot child from Texas.
Peter Pannu claims that there has been "no effective dilution" of Yeung's stake which is an outright lie.
Our Asian broker has provided us with some names that we are not allowed to print here but try creating a sentence including the words "Birmingham", "City", "Bookmakers", "Asia", "Underground", "Rigging" and "Markets" and, once again, you will be nearer the truth than not.
This was a bad strategic move by the Porn Baron.
Gold might believe that he is a Big Man, but he is squiggly shit next to the Triads.
We would suggest he removes the light-bulbs before going to sleep like all the rest of the individuals do who tread on the toes of this global Asian mafiosi.
At least the Moll has kept her mouth shut.
But now she has got a new sugar daddy.
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Monday, 16 November 2009
How To Deal With The TV Licensing Police
OMG, it seemed so simple.
The BBC gives promotional airtime to a neo-fascist 'politician'; a customer decides that they are unwilling to pay a fee/tax to receive such propaganda; a legally binding letter is sent to TV Licensing to inform them of this decision.
End of story?
Not likely, mate...
A standardised letter is sent out from the BBC Police informing one that, as 27% of individuals who claim not to have a television set are lying, a surprise visit has been scheduled. The letter claims that you must allow access to your property to enable these inspectors to determine whether you are, in fact, telling the truth or are being economic with it.
Once they are convinced of your 'innocence', you are allowed three years before these people contact you once again just to check that you haven't been tempted to return to the state propaganda format.
First, the simple bit...
TV Licensing have no legal right to undertake such a strategy unless granted it in court.
If you are in this position, simply cut and paste the following letter provided by our barrister, and email it to TV Licensing.
"I will not tolerate any visit by a TV Licensing Enforcement Officer at my address. Therefore, I withdraw from TV Licensing, its employees and its agents the implied right of access to my property at [ADDRESS]. Henceforth, no employee or agent of TV Licensing qualifies as an invitee to my property. Any such person who ventures onto my property at [ADDRESS] will be trespassing on my land, and I shall not hesitate to seek legal redress for the offence caused."
You will then receive a reply akin to the following: "My reply acknowledges receipt of your withdrawal to the right for a visit from any TV Licensing Officers. However, we reserve the right to use other methods available for the detection of television receiving apparatus."
TV Licensing are a private body and their enforcement officers are rewarded for their productivity in nailing non-payers.
TV Licensing are contracted to the BBC to undertake this enforcement but TV Licensing are, in Reality, Capita Business Services Limited, a commercial enterprise.
They prefer to utilise fear tactics rather than science to back up their agenda.
It used to be a running joke that TV Licensing vans parked on your street were simply empty Transit vans pretending to be something more Big Brotherish.
Nowadays, the enforcement officers allegedly have hand-held devices that inform them of active television use within a property.
The Stalinist nature of TV Licensing is exhibited in other ways that make the psychopathies of the Murdochracy seem positively light touch.
If you purchase any television or television-linked device, the dealer is under legal obligation to inform TV Licensing which is the best reason for utilising a fake address when making such a purchase.
The buying of a tv set or a video or a DVD recorder does not necessarily mean that one wishes to plug into the BBC and this should thought of as an additional caveat emptor when making the purchase.
From time to time, TV Licensing decide to make an example of a particular case, not because the non-viewer is behaving illegally but because their internal assessment suggests that the case is statistically likely to be an earner for their shareholders if pursued.
If one finds oneself in this position, it is possible to get a Court Injunction to stop this private organisation from harassing you.
Check how David Guest and his family de-Stalinised the Stalinists at http://www.marmalade.net/lime/david_guest.html.
And, even if you are a viewer and you lie to TV Licensing, so long as you already possess a criminal record, the gaming of the experience may work to your advantage.
Not, of course, that we should suggest such a tactic.
The average fine if found guilty of Lying To Stalin is £153, just ten pounds and fifty pence more than the cost of the licence in the first place (although you would, obviously, have to purchase a licence to continue viewing).
So, so long as you can string the bastards along for 56 weeks or more, you are quids in!!
In a rather excellent piece of numerological correlation, the BBC disclosed that in 2005/06, it cost £153 million to hassle members of the public over the TV Licence, 73% of whom were acting entirely legally.
On a train journey back to Manchester last week, I discovered a copy of the Manchester Evening News on the seat opposite.
In it, they disclosed that the new head of BBC in Salford, Caroline Thompson, claimed over £4,000 on taxi fares in just three months.
She earns £413,000 per annum.
In total, the BBC spends over £25 million per year on taxis for senior staff.
And then there is Ross and Paxman and Wark and Peston and Vine and Hansen and Lineker and Brand and Dimbleby and Humphrys and, last but not least, Nick Griffin...
As lime@marmalade.net states: "One cannot simply refuse this entertainment service, without appearing to be dishonest in the eyes of TV Licensing™... The non-viewer does not fit into their framework. To TV Licensing™ there are licence-payers and licence-dodgers and the non-viewer (with whom they really have no business) is treated as a suspect licence-dodger.
"'I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's one called brightness, but it doesn't work.' — Eugene P. Gallagher.
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The BBC gives promotional airtime to a neo-fascist 'politician'; a customer decides that they are unwilling to pay a fee/tax to receive such propaganda; a legally binding letter is sent to TV Licensing to inform them of this decision.
End of story?
Not likely, mate...
A standardised letter is sent out from the BBC Police informing one that, as 27% of individuals who claim not to have a television set are lying, a surprise visit has been scheduled. The letter claims that you must allow access to your property to enable these inspectors to determine whether you are, in fact, telling the truth or are being economic with it.
Once they are convinced of your 'innocence', you are allowed three years before these people contact you once again just to check that you haven't been tempted to return to the state propaganda format.
First, the simple bit...
TV Licensing have no legal right to undertake such a strategy unless granted it in court.
If you are in this position, simply cut and paste the following letter provided by our barrister, and email it to TV Licensing.
"I will not tolerate any visit by a TV Licensing Enforcement Officer at my address. Therefore, I withdraw from TV Licensing, its employees and its agents the implied right of access to my property at [ADDRESS]. Henceforth, no employee or agent of TV Licensing qualifies as an invitee to my property. Any such person who ventures onto my property at [ADDRESS] will be trespassing on my land, and I shall not hesitate to seek legal redress for the offence caused."
You will then receive a reply akin to the following: "My reply acknowledges receipt of your withdrawal to the right for a visit from any TV Licensing Officers. However, we reserve the right to use other methods available for the detection of television receiving apparatus."
TV Licensing are a private body and their enforcement officers are rewarded for their productivity in nailing non-payers.
TV Licensing are contracted to the BBC to undertake this enforcement but TV Licensing are, in Reality, Capita Business Services Limited, a commercial enterprise.
They prefer to utilise fear tactics rather than science to back up their agenda.
It used to be a running joke that TV Licensing vans parked on your street were simply empty Transit vans pretending to be something more Big Brotherish.
Nowadays, the enforcement officers allegedly have hand-held devices that inform them of active television use within a property.
The Stalinist nature of TV Licensing is exhibited in other ways that make the psychopathies of the Murdochracy seem positively light touch.
If you purchase any television or television-linked device, the dealer is under legal obligation to inform TV Licensing which is the best reason for utilising a fake address when making such a purchase.
The buying of a tv set or a video or a DVD recorder does not necessarily mean that one wishes to plug into the BBC and this should thought of as an additional caveat emptor when making the purchase.
From time to time, TV Licensing decide to make an example of a particular case, not because the non-viewer is behaving illegally but because their internal assessment suggests that the case is statistically likely to be an earner for their shareholders if pursued.
If one finds oneself in this position, it is possible to get a Court Injunction to stop this private organisation from harassing you.
Check how David Guest and his family de-Stalinised the Stalinists at http://www.marmalade.net/lime/david_guest.html.
And, even if you are a viewer and you lie to TV Licensing, so long as you already possess a criminal record, the gaming of the experience may work to your advantage.
Not, of course, that we should suggest such a tactic.
The average fine if found guilty of Lying To Stalin is £153, just ten pounds and fifty pence more than the cost of the licence in the first place (although you would, obviously, have to purchase a licence to continue viewing).
So, so long as you can string the bastards along for 56 weeks or more, you are quids in!!
In a rather excellent piece of numerological correlation, the BBC disclosed that in 2005/06, it cost £153 million to hassle members of the public over the TV Licence, 73% of whom were acting entirely legally.
On a train journey back to Manchester last week, I discovered a copy of the Manchester Evening News on the seat opposite.
In it, they disclosed that the new head of BBC in Salford, Caroline Thompson, claimed over £4,000 on taxi fares in just three months.
She earns £413,000 per annum.
In total, the BBC spends over £25 million per year on taxis for senior staff.
And then there is Ross and Paxman and Wark and Peston and Vine and Hansen and Lineker and Brand and Dimbleby and Humphrys and, last but not least, Nick Griffin...
As lime@marmalade.net states: "One cannot simply refuse this entertainment service, without appearing to be dishonest in the eyes of TV Licensing™... The non-viewer does not fit into their framework. To TV Licensing™ there are licence-payers and licence-dodgers and the non-viewer (with whom they really have no business) is treated as a suspect licence-dodger.
"'I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's one called brightness, but it doesn't work.' — Eugene P. Gallagher.
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Friday, 13 November 2009
The Death Of Robert Enke And Other Stories
I cried when I heard that Robert Enke had died.
When death has been recently close to you anyway, spectacular deaths have impact, whether Real and Suicidal as with Enke or hyperreal deep state shenanigans as with Diana Princess of Paris.
First, let's get one thing absolutely straight.
To not have periods of depression in this horrendous late capitalism nightmare is the surest sign of mental illness.
Depression is the norm outside of psychopathic behaviouralisms and if you are not occasionally depressed, you are deluding yourself.
Even if you reside in 'First World' consumerist comfort, the fruits of your luxury are built on the maquiladoras of the North Mexican border or the sweatshops of South East Asia.
Squatter towns, cardboard shacks, refugee cities, the Gaza Panopticon, rampant wage slavery founded on fear throughout the tiers slightly elevated from absolute poverty, shareholder capitalism exploits and murders the individuals on whom the Ponzi Pyramid is built.
For a Darfur refugee, the few strands of life available are fought for to the last breath, these people are desperate to survive the mass rapes and sexual assaults, the randomised violence and death that the 'First World' allows in the name of economic progress and oil.
In the 'First World', those in touch with their emotional and psychological Realities are able to share these pains in an ever so irrelevant and distant way, but it is there in the background all the time - it is simply not valid to go on vacation to these 'tropical paradises', for example, without reckoning with the gross distortions of living created by global and national capitalist psychopathies.
Four members of my family have undertaken voluntary work for The Samaritans - a British charity that offers support for those contemplating suicide, indeed my brother remains a chairperson of his local branch to this day.
There are good things and bad things about this organisation, but the primary good thing is that volunteers are there not to prevent callers or visitors from committing suicide, but to be there for the client, if necessary, while the suicide takes place.
While I was a volunteer, I researched numerous statistical analyses of suicide in both Britain and Europe.
Several key points arose from these data...
* Men tend to be markedly more violent in the manners of choosing their own death whereas woman generally take less 'extreme' routes that are more in the 'cry for help' territory rather than a determined desire for self-termination.
* Death distributions are highly seasonal with the lead up to xmas/New Year and spring being worst. Overnight and early morning are also more problematical than the remainder of the day.
* Certain countries have peculiarly high suicide rates with some correlations existing with regard to the hours of sunlight. Related to this are the clusters of suicides of Afro-Caribbean men in Britain - this non-racist nirvana.
* Reasons for feeling suicidal are primarily poverty, relationship breakdown, stress, racism, death, unemployment, bullying, sexual/physical violence and alcohol or other drug abuse. There are also systemic reasons outlined later in this post.
* Public attitudes to suicide, although improving, remain unevolved. Militaristic violence against masses of Islamic civilians is regarded as okay in Daily Telegraph Land but violence against oneself is not.
It was this last factor that directly led to the death of Robert Enke.
Having lost his two year old daughter to a rare heart disease, the Enke's adopted another daughter. Robert feared that if his depression became public knowledge, the authorities would take their adoptive daughter away from them too.
Consequently, he kept his condition to himself, even keeping the Hannover 96 club psychologist in the dark.
After three months out injured, Enke returned to action last weekend for the derby against HSV and had expected to be included in the German Nationalmannschaft for the friendly internationals against Chile and Cote d'Ivoire as he was the number one choice prior to his injury.
The selectors chose to omit him from the squad, a decision made in ignorance of Enke's psychological state, so no blame may be attached to the German management team.
Goalkeepers are particularly prone to depressive issues in professional football as it is the keepers that are most frequently targeted by those wishing to criminalise football match outcomes - we know of one Premier League goalie who is coerced into doing the dirty work of one particular organisation due to the knowledge of the 'lifestyle issues' which that organisation has on this individual.
A rock and a hard place...
Robert Enke obviously never recovered from the death of his daughter.
But the system is responsible for his death too.
If we declare our depressive tendencies, it goes on our work records, on our adoption papers, resulting in serious difficulties in maintaining an adequate lifestyle/employment history which fuels the depression still further.
How is it reasonable for a caring couple like the Enke's to have concerns about their suitability to bring up a child when war criminals, psychopaths etc are able to breed, adopt or whatever?
This is a damning indictment of a system.
And the system creates suicide of its own accord.
The first occasion I suffered a bout of depression was after Thatcher took power and my generation suddenly came face to face with the Reality that the social system that we had been brought up to expect in our adult lives had been replaced by the monstrosity that is free market capitalism, where it is those very breeding psychopaths who gather the rewards at the expense of our existence.
When I went one year to The Samaritans Annual Conference in York, I stood at the back of a room on the Saturday night with a co-volunteer, Sheila, watching the bizarre disco that was taking place as light entertainment for those attending the event.
"They are just callers with elastoplast on" stated my colleague.
And that is why The Samaritans works - people who have survived the threat of suicide themselves are the best placed to help others who are still in a very dark place indeed.
Violence against self is a right.
Systemic violence isn't.
Robert Enke's funeral takes place tomorrow.
No doubt the mainstream media, which avoids depressive Realities most of the time, will be present en masse to claim their slice of the action, of the distress, the pain and the suffering and horrendous sense of loss.
Tomorrow I'll think of his wife and adopted daughter, and of the poor train drivers who in the process of going about their labours ended up being indirectly responsible for the loss of a good man's life.
And I'll hope that not only will this sad death result in a more enlightened attitude to depression but also that we are able to look forward to a point in the future where non-violent methods of self-termination are available for those who feel that they are unable to go on in this nightmarish hyperreality of psychopathic and systemic violence.
Robert Enke RIP.
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When death has been recently close to you anyway, spectacular deaths have impact, whether Real and Suicidal as with Enke or hyperreal deep state shenanigans as with Diana Princess of Paris.
First, let's get one thing absolutely straight.
To not have periods of depression in this horrendous late capitalism nightmare is the surest sign of mental illness.
Depression is the norm outside of psychopathic behaviouralisms and if you are not occasionally depressed, you are deluding yourself.
Even if you reside in 'First World' consumerist comfort, the fruits of your luxury are built on the maquiladoras of the North Mexican border or the sweatshops of South East Asia.
Squatter towns, cardboard shacks, refugee cities, the Gaza Panopticon, rampant wage slavery founded on fear throughout the tiers slightly elevated from absolute poverty, shareholder capitalism exploits and murders the individuals on whom the Ponzi Pyramid is built.
For a Darfur refugee, the few strands of life available are fought for to the last breath, these people are desperate to survive the mass rapes and sexual assaults, the randomised violence and death that the 'First World' allows in the name of economic progress and oil.
In the 'First World', those in touch with their emotional and psychological Realities are able to share these pains in an ever so irrelevant and distant way, but it is there in the background all the time - it is simply not valid to go on vacation to these 'tropical paradises', for example, without reckoning with the gross distortions of living created by global and national capitalist psychopathies.
Four members of my family have undertaken voluntary work for The Samaritans - a British charity that offers support for those contemplating suicide, indeed my brother remains a chairperson of his local branch to this day.
There are good things and bad things about this organisation, but the primary good thing is that volunteers are there not to prevent callers or visitors from committing suicide, but to be there for the client, if necessary, while the suicide takes place.
While I was a volunteer, I researched numerous statistical analyses of suicide in both Britain and Europe.
Several key points arose from these data...
* Men tend to be markedly more violent in the manners of choosing their own death whereas woman generally take less 'extreme' routes that are more in the 'cry for help' territory rather than a determined desire for self-termination.
* Death distributions are highly seasonal with the lead up to xmas/New Year and spring being worst. Overnight and early morning are also more problematical than the remainder of the day.
* Certain countries have peculiarly high suicide rates with some correlations existing with regard to the hours of sunlight. Related to this are the clusters of suicides of Afro-Caribbean men in Britain - this non-racist nirvana.
* Reasons for feeling suicidal are primarily poverty, relationship breakdown, stress, racism, death, unemployment, bullying, sexual/physical violence and alcohol or other drug abuse. There are also systemic reasons outlined later in this post.
* Public attitudes to suicide, although improving, remain unevolved. Militaristic violence against masses of Islamic civilians is regarded as okay in Daily Telegraph Land but violence against oneself is not.
It was this last factor that directly led to the death of Robert Enke.
Having lost his two year old daughter to a rare heart disease, the Enke's adopted another daughter. Robert feared that if his depression became public knowledge, the authorities would take their adoptive daughter away from them too.
Consequently, he kept his condition to himself, even keeping the Hannover 96 club psychologist in the dark.
After three months out injured, Enke returned to action last weekend for the derby against HSV and had expected to be included in the German Nationalmannschaft for the friendly internationals against Chile and Cote d'Ivoire as he was the number one choice prior to his injury.
The selectors chose to omit him from the squad, a decision made in ignorance of Enke's psychological state, so no blame may be attached to the German management team.
Goalkeepers are particularly prone to depressive issues in professional football as it is the keepers that are most frequently targeted by those wishing to criminalise football match outcomes - we know of one Premier League goalie who is coerced into doing the dirty work of one particular organisation due to the knowledge of the 'lifestyle issues' which that organisation has on this individual.
A rock and a hard place...
Robert Enke obviously never recovered from the death of his daughter.
But the system is responsible for his death too.
If we declare our depressive tendencies, it goes on our work records, on our adoption papers, resulting in serious difficulties in maintaining an adequate lifestyle/employment history which fuels the depression still further.
How is it reasonable for a caring couple like the Enke's to have concerns about their suitability to bring up a child when war criminals, psychopaths etc are able to breed, adopt or whatever?
This is a damning indictment of a system.
And the system creates suicide of its own accord.
The first occasion I suffered a bout of depression was after Thatcher took power and my generation suddenly came face to face with the Reality that the social system that we had been brought up to expect in our adult lives had been replaced by the monstrosity that is free market capitalism, where it is those very breeding psychopaths who gather the rewards at the expense of our existence.
When I went one year to The Samaritans Annual Conference in York, I stood at the back of a room on the Saturday night with a co-volunteer, Sheila, watching the bizarre disco that was taking place as light entertainment for those attending the event.
"They are just callers with elastoplast on" stated my colleague.
And that is why The Samaritans works - people who have survived the threat of suicide themselves are the best placed to help others who are still in a very dark place indeed.
Violence against self is a right.
Systemic violence isn't.
Robert Enke's funeral takes place tomorrow.
No doubt the mainstream media, which avoids depressive Realities most of the time, will be present en masse to claim their slice of the action, of the distress, the pain and the suffering and horrendous sense of loss.
Tomorrow I'll think of his wife and adopted daughter, and of the poor train drivers who in the process of going about their labours ended up being indirectly responsible for the loss of a good man's life.
And I'll hope that not only will this sad death result in a more enlightened attitude to depression but also that we are able to look forward to a point in the future where non-violent methods of self-termination are available for those who feel that they are unable to go on in this nightmarish hyperreality of psychopathic and systemic violence.
Robert Enke RIP.
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Fakety Fakety Fakety Fake #
Climbing Walton's Mountain To See What We Might See From The Summit
Just as 'The Waltons' tv series was based on a fictional town in Virginia, Peter Walton's refereeing of Premier League matches is equally phantasmagoric.
Last night, Walton gave Liverpool an entirely illusory penalty which, in effect, saved Rafa's job.
So what?
The latest round of matches were full of outcome-altering non-professional fake decisions by the men in the middle.
Altered states equals altered outcomes.
But let us look a little closer at Walton on Merseyside.
Out of Walton's last nine Premier League appointments, 4 of those matches have been Liverpool home games.
FOUR!!!
In a non-fictional footballing world, one would expect Walton to get just one such game per season.
Mmmmmmm....
And the results of those matches:
Liverpool 3 Spurs 1
Liverpool 4 Stoke 0
Liverpool 6 Hull 1
And last night...
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Get On With The Game, Get On With Your Bookmaker, Get On With The Massive Corruption
The global betting turnover on the Chelsea versus Manchester United fix was around £### billion.
A top tier Premier League referee earns £90,000 per annum, before tax.
The 'Respect' campaign is a joke.
It must be because the Daily Telegraph says so.
Quoting frontal lobotomy shyster Kevin Garside: "The game cannot proceed without rules. It is the job of the referees to apply them and the participants to respect them. Without that tacit agreement, there is no game. To accept unconditionally a decision is the mark of a man. The more so if the decision is obviously bad, as we trust that it is made in good faith... There is no respect and that is why the beautiful game is ugly to watch."
Sir, the beautiful game is ugly to watch because a quantity of the top flight referees in England have entirely inappropriate relationships with bookmakers - check out the data on #################### and Mark Clattenburg released yesterday.
The chain of respect breaks down at that point.
Any reaction further down the line is determined by this core Reality.
And as for the utter bollocks about accepting decisions "being the mark of a man", to accept invalid orders and to carry such orders out without individual assessment starts getting you into the territory of fascism, not football.
In Garside's view, it was no doubt the mark of a man that he didn't question putting Jews, Roma, Homosexuals onto trains bound for Auschwitz.
How To Access Wall Street Journal Articles Without Paying For Them
The Murdochracy is trying to get the world to pay for ALL of their fake content, be it BSkyB, The Times, The Sun or The Wall St Journal (WSJ).
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Although why anyone would wish to take seriously the output of any Murdochratic media is beyond us.
Financial Fascism
Goldman Sachs had only one losing trading day in the 3rd Quarter.
Hank Paulson, the architect of the new financial neohyperreality was formerly a chief executive of this former investment bank.
Tim Geithner, the current architect, is also a GSman.
Paulson's policies destroyed Goldman competitors Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, while Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and UBS are shadows of their former psychopathy.
Goldman controls the markets.
Totally.
Any decent trader could achieve such levels of returns in such a rigged environment.
This bank invested public monies into a marketplace primed for proprietary psychopathic control, achieved remarkable returns and rewarded their traders and hierarchy massively for such cornering of the markets.
And Lloyd Blankfein, the head antisocial at the firm, claims both that the bank is a social body and that it is doing "God's work".
Linking deities with corruption is a common thread in late capitalism.
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Just as 'The Waltons' tv series was based on a fictional town in Virginia, Peter Walton's refereeing of Premier League matches is equally phantasmagoric.
Last night, Walton gave Liverpool an entirely illusory penalty which, in effect, saved Rafa's job.
So what?
The latest round of matches were full of outcome-altering non-professional fake decisions by the men in the middle.
Altered states equals altered outcomes.
But let us look a little closer at Walton on Merseyside.
Out of Walton's last nine Premier League appointments, 4 of those matches have been Liverpool home games.
FOUR!!!
In a non-fictional footballing world, one would expect Walton to get just one such game per season.
Mmmmmmm....
And the results of those matches:
Liverpool 3 Spurs 1
Liverpool 4 Stoke 0
Liverpool 6 Hull 1
And last night...
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Goodnight Peter boy...
Get On With The Game, Get On With Your Bookmaker, Get On With The Massive Corruption
The global betting turnover on the Chelsea versus Manchester United fix was around £### billion.
A top tier Premier League referee earns £90,000 per annum, before tax.
The 'Respect' campaign is a joke.
It must be because the Daily Telegraph says so.
Quoting frontal lobotomy shyster Kevin Garside: "The game cannot proceed without rules. It is the job of the referees to apply them and the participants to respect them. Without that tacit agreement, there is no game. To accept unconditionally a decision is the mark of a man. The more so if the decision is obviously bad, as we trust that it is made in good faith... There is no respect and that is why the beautiful game is ugly to watch."
Sir, the beautiful game is ugly to watch because a quantity of the top flight referees in England have entirely inappropriate relationships with bookmakers - check out the data on #################### and Mark Clattenburg released yesterday.
The chain of respect breaks down at that point.
Any reaction further down the line is determined by this core Reality.
And as for the utter bollocks about accepting decisions "being the mark of a man", to accept invalid orders and to carry such orders out without individual assessment starts getting you into the territory of fascism, not football.
In Garside's view, it was no doubt the mark of a man that he didn't question putting Jews, Roma, Homosexuals onto trains bound for Auschwitz.
How To Access Wall Street Journal Articles Without Paying For Them
The Murdochracy is trying to get the world to pay for ALL of their fake content, be it BSkyB, The Times, The Sun or The Wall St Journal (WSJ).
This railroading is being trialled with the WSJ.
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Although why anyone would wish to take seriously the output of any Murdochratic media is beyond us.
Financial Fascism
Goldman Sachs had only one losing trading day in the 3rd Quarter.
Hank Paulson, the architect of the new financial neohyperreality was formerly a chief executive of this former investment bank.
Tim Geithner, the current architect, is also a GSman.
Paulson's policies destroyed Goldman competitors Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, while Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and UBS are shadows of their former psychopathy.
Goldman controls the markets.
Totally.
Any decent trader could achieve such levels of returns in such a rigged environment.
This bank invested public monies into a marketplace primed for proprietary psychopathic control, achieved remarkable returns and rewarded their traders and hierarchy massively for such cornering of the markets.
And Lloyd Blankfein, the head antisocial at the firm, claims both that the bank is a social body and that it is doing "God's work".
Linking deities with corruption is a common thread in late capitalism.
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Monday, 9 November 2009
12 Men, 13 Men, 14 Men - How Oligarchs Win Prizes And Other Fraudulent Fripperies #
The Premier League/PGMOB need to explain how the three most anti-Manchester United referees were the individuals selected to officiate the Big Match yesterday between Chelsea and Manchester United.
Martin Atkinson, the supposedly impartial match referee, has the most significant negative bias against United, while the original choice as 4th Official, Phil Dowd, has the second most anti-Man Utd tilt in his officiating.
Then, when the John Colquhoun Experience worked on getting Dowd to officiate at the heavily rigged Wigan Athletic versus Fulham match, the new 4th Official was none other than Man Utd Hater Mk III, Andre Marriner.
The statistical chances of Atkinson getting the match was 1 in 15 (as Halsey is injured).
The statistical chance of Atkinson being referee and Dowd 4th Official, and then Dowd being replaced by Marriner is around 3000/1.
A very long shot indeed.
As Wayne Rooney nearly correctly mouthed to the camera: "12 men", when, in Reality, he meant 13 men.
Or 14...
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The last three key fixtures for Chelsea in England have ALL had Mr Atkinson officiating - the FA Cup Semi Final victory over Arsenal last year (Webb had already been given the Final), and the home victories over both Liverpool and Manchester United this year.
Similarly, over 3000/1 against one man getting these three matches.
As the Premier League and the PGMOB claim, with repressed hilarity, that the selection of the match officials is on merit and that no one club has influence over the choice of officials, Scudamore/Hackett need to explain exactly how these statistical anomalies keep arising.
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And the whole atmosphere of 'something fishy going on' emanated from on high throughout the weekend.
There were refereeing changes across the league without neither announcement nor reason.
Firstly, without any warning and at the very last minute, Mark Clattenburg replaced Chris Foy for the Aston Villa versus Bolton fix. Then Clattenburg replaced Mason as 4th Official under Mike Dean for the Hull/Stoke market; then Dowd was moved from Chelsea 4th Official to referee at Wigan; and this allowed Marriner to arrive at the Bridge in a nautical stylee.
The PGMOB need to also explain Mr Clattenburg's appointments this season as it would appear that a bookmaker, ##############, are having undue influence on the selection of match officials.
Since Clattenburg was allowed to return to the criminality known as the PL following his ban for threats of physical menaces to a former business partner, he has officiated at the following matches:
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Just imagine the degree of control that one bookmaker might be able to have over Premier League outcomes if we made the obviously outrageous assumption that Mr Clattenburg exhibits criminal tendencies.
Just imagine!
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Obviously this is just another statistical fluke of ScudamoreWorld.
Except, we could also name several other referees who also appear conducive to the market activities of one particular football agent.
Of course, we may simply step off the ride in the themepark of ScudamoreWorld.
Choose to do something with our limited lives.
Because the Real battle at the weekend wasn't between Chelsea and Manchester United on the football pitch, but between Abramovich and the bookmakers in the marketplace.
The gamble on Chelsea was obvious, mug heavy and significant in one of the biggest betting turnover events of the season. The bookmakers were left forlornly hoping that they could balance the books with the usual disinformative claptrap that their spokespeople put out.
So, Abramovitch has bought the league.
The bookies have taken a hit.
The mugs can pay off some debts.
And another nail is firmly hammered into the coffin marked 'English Football'.
Just pleased that I spent my time reading 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and '2666' instead of watching...
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Martin Atkinson, the supposedly impartial match referee, has the most significant negative bias against United, while the original choice as 4th Official, Phil Dowd, has the second most anti-Man Utd tilt in his officiating.
Then, when the John Colquhoun Experience worked on getting Dowd to officiate at the heavily rigged Wigan Athletic versus Fulham match, the new 4th Official was none other than Man Utd Hater Mk III, Andre Marriner.
The statistical chances of Atkinson getting the match was 1 in 15 (as Halsey is injured).
The statistical chance of Atkinson being referee and Dowd 4th Official, and then Dowd being replaced by Marriner is around 3000/1.
A very long shot indeed.
As Wayne Rooney nearly correctly mouthed to the camera: "12 men", when, in Reality, he meant 13 men.
Or 14...
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The last three key fixtures for Chelsea in England have ALL had Mr Atkinson officiating - the FA Cup Semi Final victory over Arsenal last year (Webb had already been given the Final), and the home victories over both Liverpool and Manchester United this year.
Similarly, over 3000/1 against one man getting these three matches.
As the Premier League and the PGMOB claim, with repressed hilarity, that the selection of the match officials is on merit and that no one club has influence over the choice of officials, Scudamore/Hackett need to explain exactly how these statistical anomalies keep arising.
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And the whole atmosphere of 'something fishy going on' emanated from on high throughout the weekend.
There were refereeing changes across the league without neither announcement nor reason.
Firstly, without any warning and at the very last minute, Mark Clattenburg replaced Chris Foy for the Aston Villa versus Bolton fix. Then Clattenburg replaced Mason as 4th Official under Mike Dean for the Hull/Stoke market; then Dowd was moved from Chelsea 4th Official to referee at Wigan; and this allowed Marriner to arrive at the Bridge in a nautical stylee.
The PGMOB need to also explain Mr Clattenburg's appointments this season as it would appear that a bookmaker, ##############, are having undue influence on the selection of match officials.
Since Clattenburg was allowed to return to the criminality known as the PL following his ban for threats of physical menaces to a former business partner, he has officiated at the following matches:
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Just imagine the degree of control that one bookmaker might be able to have over Premier League outcomes if we made the obviously outrageous assumption that Mr Clattenburg exhibits criminal tendencies.
Just imagine!
Which brings us finally to the John Colquhoun Experience.
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Obviously this is just another statistical fluke of ScudamoreWorld.
Except, we could also name several other referees who also appear conducive to the market activities of one particular football agent.
Of course, we may simply step off the ride in the themepark of ScudamoreWorld.
Choose to do something with our limited lives.
Because the Real battle at the weekend wasn't between Chelsea and Manchester United on the football pitch, but between Abramovich and the bookmakers in the marketplace.
The gamble on Chelsea was obvious, mug heavy and significant in one of the biggest betting turnover events of the season. The bookmakers were left forlornly hoping that they could balance the books with the usual disinformative claptrap that their spokespeople put out.
So, Abramovitch has bought the league.
The bookies have taken a hit.
The mugs can pay off some debts.
And another nail is firmly hammered into the coffin marked 'English Football'.
Just pleased that I spent my time reading 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and '2666' instead of watching...
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Friday, 6 November 2009
The Dean Machine #
This post, which is totally for subscribers only, examines the performance of the English refereeing team for the Europa Cup match in Croatia yesterday between Dinamo Zagreb and Ajax Amsterdam.
The referee was Mike Dean, neatly fitting this event in between two live BSkyB matches.
Will he match his skip of delight at giving Birmingham their penalty last Sunday?
I do hope so.
Beach Ball Jones was the 4th Official and Andre "I Know How To Get Liverpool To Win" Marriner stood behind a goalline interfering with things.
We also examine the biases in favour of West European teams over their Eastern Brethren.
We rumble Dean and we rumble UEFA.
But not for freeloaders, we don't...
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The referee was Mike Dean, neatly fitting this event in between two live BSkyB matches.
Will he match his skip of delight at giving Birmingham their penalty last Sunday?
I do hope so.
Beach Ball Jones was the 4th Official and Andre "I Know How To Get Liverpool To Win" Marriner stood behind a goalline interfering with things.
We also examine the biases in favour of West European teams over their Eastern Brethren.
We rumble Dean and we rumble UEFA.
But not for freeloaders, we don't...
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Thursday, 5 November 2009
The Fouliest, Most Odious, Fattest Elitists Versus The Bin Men And Proper Football At The Grass Roots Of Dub #
We Will Pull Off Great Escape Says Rafa; We Need A Miracle Now Says Rafa; Rafa Believes In Miracles, Apparently
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It's FA Cup or nothing now.
There is something deeply satisfying about injury time reversals, it is the extremities of emotions in a short time space.
And before anybody starts bemoaning the 'quality' that the Champions League is losing with the exit of Liverpool, the most fouliest teams in the midweek matches were Liverpool and FC Zurich with 24 apiece.
Still, it is good to see Rafa sticking to the FACTS as ever, that would be Fulham, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Tottenham and Sunderland.
What Is A Great Penalty, When It Is At Home?
Richard Keys said it and I heard it in the pub the other night - "And Ronaldinho scored a great penalty."
Did he take a Bob Willis-length run up before diving head first and flicking the ball into the top corner via a vicious whiplash with a loose dreadlock?
Or did he just hammer the ball into the goal from 12 yards?
What Is Our Great Leader Up To? Not Much!
It would be nice to think that when Our Great Leader is lying low, that he is taking it really horizontally somewhere, recharging the ol' batteries, thinking of new ways to refer to excessive debt and criminal ownership in glowing terms.
We would have to hope that Scudamore was indeed on a beach somewhere when he made the following announcement to the PR industry: "Scottish football is Scottish football. For a traditionalist like me, that's where the Old Firm should play."
Wowowowoooooo...
"... a traditionalist?"
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Who was it that pushed Scottish football over the edge, anyway?
Sky.
It matters more when there's money on it.
Public Schoolboys Attempt To Sound Human, Repeated Failure Results In Project Being Scapped
Those establishment sorts at Betfair, when not sniggering openly about the amount of commission that they charge their dutiful clients, don't really get the football thing.
The recent advertising campaign is proof.
The PR people are trying to market the "Fan versus Fan" message and the home page consequently offered a banner highlighting the major betting event of the day...
"We did the double on you last year" versus "What did you win? Champions, champions..." - Liverpool v Man Utd.
"We'll play our kids and we'll knock you out" versus "Now to start our season after United win" - Arsenal v Liverpool.
"Winning last week will kickstart our season" versus "These are the games we have to win" - Birmingham v Man City.
Thankfully the clipped accents have dropped the campaign for the Champions League Qualifiers.
Although we would have to ask why?
"Red Army! Red Army!" versus "Tak zyt' nielzia*" - Man Utd v CSKA Moscow [* "one cannot live like this."]
And, anyway, we don't speak like that, if I might very very briefly represent everyone north of Watford Gap.
"Oy! Scouser!! Are you on remand?" versus "Munich! Munich!"
Because that is how we all speak...
...all the time.
Accrington Stanley Avoid A Winding Up Order, And Good For Them Too; It Will Allow Them To Undertake A Little More Insider Betting Before Stanley Are Eventually Cremated
Southend United have until Friday to pay £2.135 million.
Otherwise, another one bites the dust, or at least starts the journey that results in dust eventually being taken in by the mouthful.
Luton, Rotherham, Stockport, Southampton, Bournemouth, Brighton, Leeds, Chester City, Bradford City, Accrington Stanley and not forgetting Portsmouth, Hull City, West Ham United, Newcastle United etc etc...
And anyway...
What is a winding up order?
And who gives them out?
This sounds like my sort of job...
Proper Football #275
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQPW2jC_URY
Dragan Stojkovic showing that he still has the class...
"What Shall We Do Today, Dad?" "Why Don't We Go To The Sportsdirect.com@St James' Park Stadium To Watch The Lads?!"
Some people do not have the decency to die soon enough - Mike Ashley is one such man.
There are three types of capitalism - shareholder, stakeholder and Essex capitalism.
By some distance, the latter is the worst, and you don't have to come from Essex as vast swathes of Cheshire will testify.
The only value he sees in brands and products is their financial value.
Nothing else matters.
A better name for the stadium?
The Fraudulent Fat Fucker's Footie Ground@St James' Park?
Let's Talk Rubbish With Local Politics For Local People
The odious leader of Leeds City Council, in his hilarious justification for creating the binmen's strike in the city, came up with a Scudamorism all of his own design: "We used outside consultants to tell us what we think is involved."
As you had evidently already determined the outcome, sir, we think that you are robbing the public purse.
Meanwhile, in suburbia, the Manchester Evening News tells us that there is "rebellion against the new bins" which conjures up all sorts of sci-fi and late capitalist visions of trauma and strife.
If you are going to rebel, good people of albion, then take on the environmental bins rather than the system.
How revolting is that?
Exactly?
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It's FA Cup or nothing now.
There is something deeply satisfying about injury time reversals, it is the extremities of emotions in a short time space.
And before anybody starts bemoaning the 'quality' that the Champions League is losing with the exit of Liverpool, the most fouliest teams in the midweek matches were Liverpool and FC Zurich with 24 apiece.
Still, it is good to see Rafa sticking to the FACTS as ever, that would be Fulham, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Tottenham and Sunderland.
What Is A Great Penalty, When It Is At Home?
Richard Keys said it and I heard it in the pub the other night - "And Ronaldinho scored a great penalty."
Did he take a Bob Willis-length run up before diving head first and flicking the ball into the top corner via a vicious whiplash with a loose dreadlock?
Or did he just hammer the ball into the goal from 12 yards?
What Is Our Great Leader Up To? Not Much!
It would be nice to think that when Our Great Leader is lying low, that he is taking it really horizontally somewhere, recharging the ol' batteries, thinking of new ways to refer to excessive debt and criminal ownership in glowing terms.
We would have to hope that Scudamore was indeed on a beach somewhere when he made the following announcement to the PR industry: "Scottish football is Scottish football. For a traditionalist like me, that's where the Old Firm should play."
Wowowowoooooo...
"... a traditionalist?"
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Who was it that pushed Scottish football over the edge, anyway?
Sky.
It matters more when there's money on it.
Public Schoolboys Attempt To Sound Human, Repeated Failure Results In Project Being Scapped
Those establishment sorts at Betfair, when not sniggering openly about the amount of commission that they charge their dutiful clients, don't really get the football thing.
The recent advertising campaign is proof.
The PR people are trying to market the "Fan versus Fan" message and the home page consequently offered a banner highlighting the major betting event of the day...
"We did the double on you last year" versus "What did you win? Champions, champions..." - Liverpool v Man Utd.
"We'll play our kids and we'll knock you out" versus "Now to start our season after United win" - Arsenal v Liverpool.
"Winning last week will kickstart our season" versus "These are the games we have to win" - Birmingham v Man City.
Thankfully the clipped accents have dropped the campaign for the Champions League Qualifiers.
Although we would have to ask why?
"Red Army! Red Army!" versus "Tak zyt' nielzia*" - Man Utd v CSKA Moscow [* "one cannot live like this."]
And, anyway, we don't speak like that, if I might very very briefly represent everyone north of Watford Gap.
"Oy! Scouser!! Are you on remand?" versus "Munich! Munich!"
Because that is how we all speak...
...all the time.
Accrington Stanley Avoid A Winding Up Order, And Good For Them Too; It Will Allow Them To Undertake A Little More Insider Betting Before Stanley Are Eventually Cremated
Southend United have until Friday to pay £2.135 million.
Otherwise, another one bites the dust, or at least starts the journey that results in dust eventually being taken in by the mouthful.
Luton, Rotherham, Stockport, Southampton, Bournemouth, Brighton, Leeds, Chester City, Bradford City, Accrington Stanley and not forgetting Portsmouth, Hull City, West Ham United, Newcastle United etc etc...
And anyway...
What is a winding up order?
And who gives them out?
This sounds like my sort of job...
Proper Football #275
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQPW2jC_URY
Dragan Stojkovic showing that he still has the class...
"What Shall We Do Today, Dad?" "Why Don't We Go To The Sportsdirect.com@St James' Park Stadium To Watch The Lads?!"
Some people do not have the decency to die soon enough - Mike Ashley is one such man.
There are three types of capitalism - shareholder, stakeholder and Essex capitalism.
By some distance, the latter is the worst, and you don't have to come from Essex as vast swathes of Cheshire will testify.
The only value he sees in brands and products is their financial value.
Nothing else matters.
A better name for the stadium?
The Fraudulent Fat Fucker's Footie Ground@St James' Park?
Let's Talk Rubbish With Local Politics For Local People
The odious leader of Leeds City Council, in his hilarious justification for creating the binmen's strike in the city, came up with a Scudamorism all of his own design: "We used outside consultants to tell us what we think is involved."
As you had evidently already determined the outcome, sir, we think that you are robbing the public purse.
Meanwhile, in suburbia, the Manchester Evening News tells us that there is "rebellion against the new bins" which conjures up all sorts of sci-fi and late capitalist visions of trauma and strife.
If you are going to rebel, good people of albion, then take on the environmental bins rather than the system.
How revolting is that?
Exactly?
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Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Why Are FC Zurich Zooming And Will They Still Be Zooming After Tonight? #
In the Champions League Group Phase, considerable analysis is possible at the midway stage as all the teams have played each other once.
This allows proper analysis of form and the fundamentals, and allows us to determine if any of the events are 3 for 3 or 2 for 2 scenarios (teams sharing the points over the two games).
The remainder of this post is only for those of you who have been willing to put your grubby little hands in your even grubbier pockets to extract fifteen of your matriarch's pounds to enhance our vision of a Libertarian Socialist future for your children.
Who is going to qualify?
Who isn't?
Who cares?
NB. Apologies. We had to delay release on this post as we had a huge position on Milan versus Real Madrid being a draw.
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This allows proper analysis of form and the fundamentals, and allows us to determine if any of the events are 3 for 3 or 2 for 2 scenarios (teams sharing the points over the two games).
The remainder of this post is only for those of you who have been willing to put your grubby little hands in your even grubbier pockets to extract fifteen of your matriarch's pounds to enhance our vision of a Libertarian Socialist future for your children.
Who is going to qualify?
Who isn't?
Who cares?
NB. Apologies. We had to delay release on this post as we had a huge position on Milan versus Real Madrid being a draw.
* All posts labelled # are only available fully by subscription.
* Annual fee is £15 for 260 posts.
* Payment by Googlecart or PayPal.
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Monday, 2 November 2009
Cum On Feel The Noize #
Leading European bookmakers enjoy the 'revenge served cold' template of reactive rutting.
On a global level, this is not a strategy that is frequently an option due to the incredible degrees of dexterity demonstrated by the Asian layers - any tactic against the Far East is merely seen as an invitation to play.
But within Europe, power plays and wins for the leading operators.
Yesterday Brighton and Hove Albion sacked their manager, Russell Slade.
He had been in the job for just eight months, had helped to secure Brighton's League One place at the end of last season, was given a two year contract as a reward, but is now out of a job.
And entirely unfairly too.
These two hyperrealities are linked.
Regular readers will be aware of our bulging file on Anthony Grant "The Lizard" Bloom.
In the mid-nineties, Bloom represented Victor Chandler International in the first European foray into the Asian markets. Bloom was based in Bangkok for a couple of years and offered secure trading accounts (off the record of course) to discerning traders who wished to get involved in the Asian Handicap markets which, at that stage, were not available in Europe.
It was in this manner that we initially met.
At that time in Asia, the underground markets were pretty much the only option and these operations used to transfigure their neorealities at a pace. Different names (slightly), different territories, but the same characters behind the markets.
Backhanders secured passage to the safety of new trading environments - the links between the gambling industry and the police is particularly strong in Thailand, for example.
Think His Excellency, Dibble Shinawatra...
Unless you were able to furnish these bookmakers with primary level insider information, you were very liable to get ripped off.
Hence, Bloom's service was seen as a good option.
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Bloom managed to sustain his preferential links with Asia for a while, using a looped process whereby 'information' from Europe was swapped for privileged market access in Asia, which revealed 'knowledge' that was accordingly utilised for beneficial trading within Europe.
It was this last section of the loop that remains problematic to Mr Bloom to this very day.
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##############################################, Ladbrokes, also didn't take too well to Bloom reaching the Finals of the Ladbrokes Million Poker Tournament on two separate occasions.
I had several trading conversations with Bloom on the morning of one of these events and I asked him how he would deal with the tilting of the table against his interests.
He had no plan.
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After reinventing himself as a property developer, Bloom took over at Brighton in the summer and we said at the time that he should expect shenanigans.
In Reality, Brighton and Hove Albion could stand 8 points better off in League One this season, on the fringe of the Play-Offs rather than on the periphery of oblivion.
The sacking of Slade is therefore in the kneejerk sub-sector of strategy.
Check this...
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Better blame Slade then.
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You do not take the piss out of the likes of these people.
Or, if you do, expect Mandelbrotian waves of self-harming self-similarity ad nauseum.
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On a global level, this is not a strategy that is frequently an option due to the incredible degrees of dexterity demonstrated by the Asian layers - any tactic against the Far East is merely seen as an invitation to play.
But within Europe, power plays and wins for the leading operators.
Yesterday Brighton and Hove Albion sacked their manager, Russell Slade.
He had been in the job for just eight months, had helped to secure Brighton's League One place at the end of last season, was given a two year contract as a reward, but is now out of a job.
And entirely unfairly too.
These two hyperrealities are linked.
Regular readers will be aware of our bulging file on Anthony Grant "The Lizard" Bloom.
In the mid-nineties, Bloom represented Victor Chandler International in the first European foray into the Asian markets. Bloom was based in Bangkok for a couple of years and offered secure trading accounts (off the record of course) to discerning traders who wished to get involved in the Asian Handicap markets which, at that stage, were not available in Europe.
It was in this manner that we initially met.
At that time in Asia, the underground markets were pretty much the only option and these operations used to transfigure their neorealities at a pace. Different names (slightly), different territories, but the same characters behind the markets.
Backhanders secured passage to the safety of new trading environments - the links between the gambling industry and the police is particularly strong in Thailand, for example.
Think His Excellency, Dibble Shinawatra...
Unless you were able to furnish these bookmakers with primary level insider information, you were very liable to get ripped off.
Hence, Bloom's service was seen as a good option.
################################################################################
###############################################################################
############################################################################
Bloom managed to sustain his preferential links with Asia for a while, using a looped process whereby 'information' from Europe was swapped for privileged market access in Asia, which revealed 'knowledge' that was accordingly utilised for beneficial trading within Europe.
It was this last section of the loop that remains problematic to Mr Bloom to this very day.
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##############################################, Ladbrokes, also didn't take too well to Bloom reaching the Finals of the Ladbrokes Million Poker Tournament on two separate occasions.
I had several trading conversations with Bloom on the morning of one of these events and I asked him how he would deal with the tilting of the table against his interests.
He had no plan.
##########################################################################
After reinventing himself as a property developer, Bloom took over at Brighton in the summer and we said at the time that he should expect shenanigans.
In Reality, Brighton and Hove Albion could stand 8 points better off in League One this season, on the fringe of the Play-Offs rather than on the periphery of oblivion.
The sacking of Slade is therefore in the kneejerk sub-sector of strategy.
Check this...
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Better blame Slade then.
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You do not take the piss out of the likes of these people.
Or, if you do, expect Mandelbrotian waves of self-harming self-similarity ad nauseum.
* All posts labelled # are only available fully by subscription.
© Football Is Fixed/Dietrological. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from Football Is Fixed and redistribute by email or post to the web.
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