Football is Fixed/Dietrological attacks on two wings - we expose to the public some of the blatantly surreal data that indicates the degree to which football is criminalised and we transform the game from within by working alongside other bodies who possess an interest in saving the sport.
This post deals with the former.
The Occupy Movement is preparing a Global Spectacular for May Day.
Manchester, a historical centre of revolutionary verve, is hosting the derby between Manchester City and United tomorrow evening.
United will avoid defeat at Eastlands and the title will be all but won.
We have previously exposed the extensive control that Manchester United have both over Mike Riley and the PGMOB and the selection of referees, plus the remarkable biases in decision-making by some of those selected officials.
For example, Marriner (tomorrow's ref), Foy, Walton, Jones, Mason combined give us 53 United Wins, 16 Draws and 2 Defeats...
... 2 losses in 71 matches!!
As the mainstream media avoids any mentions of the extensive corruptions underpinning the Premier League, the voices of the frustrated have been restricted to fan websites and blogs...
... peripheralised in other words.
But the hyperrealised spectacle needs a media platform, namely BSkyB.
Although the EPL can (and do) control what happens on the pitch, they are in a more fallible position when it comes to controlling the people who are paying their hard-earned cash to watch the criminalities live.
Now, Citeh fans, we would not suggest anything so uncouth as pitch invasions but direct action will make a difference.
Chants, Spectaculars, Banners, Flags, Mancunian Mockery.
The public data is overwhelming...
... use it.
Occupy Football
Noam Chomsky: "Occupy came along at a time which was ripe, and the strategy I thought was brilliant. If I had been asked I wouldn’t have advised it. I never thought it was going to work. Fortunately I was wrong. It worked very well. Two major developments took place I think, and if it can be sustained and expanded it’ll be extremely important. One was just changing the discourse, putting things on the public agenda that were simmering in the background but were never articulated in a focused fashion -- like inequality or financial corruption and the shredding of the democratic system, the collapse of a productive economy. These things just became common coin. That’s very important.
"The
other thing that happened, which is hard to measure, is the creation of
communities. The Occupy communities were extremely valuable. These were
communities that just kind of spontaneously developed out of mutual
support, public interchange and the kinds of things that are very much
lacking in an atomized society like ours’, where people are kind of
alone. The social unit that the business world strives for is a dyad, a
pair. You and your television or you and your computer screen. That was
broken by the Occupy movement in a very significant way. Just the
possibilities of cooperation, solidarity, mutual support, public
discussion, democratic participation is a model which should inspire
people. A lot of people did participate, at least peripherally.
"If
these two developments could be sustained and expanded there could be a
long-term impact. It’s not going to be easy and there are major
challenges. Tactics will have to be readjusted as always, but it was a
real breakthrough. If you think about what’s happened in just a few
months it’s quite startling."
