Webb Of Lies

"Regarding Leicester City, the coincident date of initiation of systemic biased refereeing and the marked enhancement of fitness that could only be achieved via blood doping is entirely indicative of conspiratorial processes. The stars are aligned for the Foxes" - Football is Fixed.

But firstly, a question.

According to Terry Steans, the former Global Investigations Coordinator at FIFA,  a 'secret investor' has a 20% ownership stake in Leicester City?
Are the Premier League aware of this 'secret' investment?
If not, why not?
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Leicester City in the Premier League prior to Howard Webb selecting match officials:

4 wins 7 draws 18 losses

Penalty differentials: 2 in favour 3 against
Red Card differentials: 2 in favour 2 against

Leicester City in the Premier League since Howard Webb selects match officials (to Apr 10):

28 wins 10 draws 4 losses

Penalty differentials: 10 in favour 1 against
Red Card differentials: 4 in favour 1 against

This breakpoint did not occur in the summer when Claudio Ranieri became manager but from the very first round of matches when Webb selected the officials (April 4th 2015) - Mark Clattenburg (who had given Leicester two penalties plus a red card against Man Utd earlier in the season) being chosen for the West Ham match which started the run of 7 wins 1 draw and 1 loss in final 9 games of last season.
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But there is more...

Prior to this date (April 4th 2015), Leicester City were the least fit team in the Premier League (based on yardage covered, speed of sprint, maintenance of energy over games, recovery from adjacent games etc).

Since this date, Leicester City have become the second fittest team in the Premier League.

And the change was immediate...

Leicester City instantly became the second fittest team from early April 2015.
This improvement in fitness is not due to Claudio Ranieri as he was not yet manager, and it is not due to improved training as any such improvement takes time.

Such an improvement can only be achieved instantly by blood doping.
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This season Leicester City have the third worst possession stats in the Premier League.
Leicester City also have the lowest pass completion rate in the Premier League and the fifth worst in the top five European leagues (98 teams).

So they hardly ever have the ball...
... and when they do have it, they can't pass it straight.

And yet Leicester City are going to win the Premier League title.

How?

In 25 years of recording data on the top European leagues, there has never been a team even remotely as favoured by referees as Leicester City have been this season.

21 referees have officiated in the Premier League in the last two seasons.
The following officials have not refereed any Leicester City games since Webb took over - Attwell, Friend, Hooper, R. Madley, A. Madley, Scott, Stroud, Dowd and Foy (although Foy has now retired).
All Leicester City games have been shared around the other 12 officials.
Why?

Taylor and Dean have been given four games each - resulting in 8 victories for Leicester City - and Jonathan Moss has overseen 6 wins and a draw in his seven appearances as referee or 4th official.

And how have Leicester City, whose players are given two full days off per week (more than any other team), been able to have the two fastest players in the EPL this season (one of whom is 29 years old), and 3 of the seven quickest?
And how can a team instantly become incredibly fit overnight?

Leicester City train less but run quickest...
... and they instantly became the second fittest team in the league having been the least fit!

How?

The coincident date of initiation of biased refereeing and marked enhancement of fitness is entirely indicative of conspiratorial processes.

And take Jamie Vardy.

Prior to April 4th 2015, Vardy had scored 2 goals in 25 Premier League games...
... and since that date, our speedy friend has scored 22 goals in 38 games.

In good time, we will release our analyses of the refereeing of the defences marking Vardy in this latter window together with details of his fitness profiling in the last 11 months.
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Spurs, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Southampton, West Ham, Everton and Liverpool have reasons for a protest against this systemic uproar impacting upon their EPL title, Champions League or Europa League chances.

Jose Mourinho, Chelsea, Gestifute and Jorge Mendes also have a claim after the same grouping of referees targeted the club until Mourinho was sacked.
At the same time as Chelsea experienced 8 defeats and 3 draws in 14 games with the conspiratorial referees in charge, they inexplicably won 4 out of 6 Champions League games to finish top of their group.
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A number of BBC Match of the Day and BT Sport insiders have considerable trading positions (at up 5,000-1 outright) on the Foxes winning the title and/or finishing in the Champions League places.
These trades were placed presciently before the season began.
It is worthy of mention that these are good markets to be in when BT Sport's resident referee is, of course...
... Howard Webb.

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BT Sport's Michael Owen (horserace owner, professional gambler and former bookies' runner for the England team) helps to put our minds at ease by informing us that matchfixing "is not a huge issue... When someone says matchfixing to me, I automatically think of 22 players fixing the result... but [it] is not necessarily people colluding at the highest levels to rig games."

Or listen to BBC, BT Sport and Leicester City ambassador Gary Lineker: "It could quite possibly be the greatest sporting upset of all time if Leicester won the Premier League from where they were a year ago. It's a quite staggering story."

Blood and sand.
It certainly is.

And why the smoke and mirrors regarding the secret investor?

Not a Hollywood feelgood movie.
Not a fairy tale.
But something altogether more murky.

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

"Bet In-Play, Now!"

Bookmakers, with a few honourable exceptions, reside deep in the gutter.
If a bookmaker suggests that you do A then, as a general rule, B is the preferable option.

And so it is with 'Cash Out' and Leicester City winning the Premier League title.

One John Pryke had the foresight to place a £20 bet at 5,000/1 outright on the Foxes winning the Premier League this season.
Being a Leicester fan, he had an emotional attachment to this bet being landed.
This emotional state may well have cost him £71,000 as he was persuaded by Ladbrokes to 'cash out' for £29K.
His timing was perverse. 
He closed out prior to the North London derby and Leicester playing at Watford with Jonathan Moss refereeing the latter game.
If he had waited until after these matches, he would have been able to 'cash out' for around £10K more.
And if he had listened to his son, he would have won £100K (assuming that this year's title race is a conspiratorial fix which, of course, it is)  http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/webb-of-lies.html.

Some points:

1) If 'Cash Out' was good for your financial health, why do bookmakers spend so much money on adverts persuading punters to close out positions early?
2) We never close out nor hedge any of our trading positions UNLESS some new information comes to light that EITHER invalidates the position OR adjusts the probability of success to less than the 'cash out' option being offered by the bookie.
3) 'Cash Out' is a win:win for bookmakers. If they believe that your trade is correct and will eventually win then 'cash out' allows them to reduce future losses and improve their book - they even take an extra slice of your profits by scalping the 'cash out' price.
If, on the other hand, they believe that your trade will be a future loser, then they markedly reduce the 'cash out' payout or, in more manipulative cases, prevent you closing out at all.

There is behavioural psychology underpinning all of this.

Prospect theory makes humans have an irrational tendency to be less willing to gamble with profits than with losses.
Punters adapt their attitudes to those others with whom they associate and misinterpret information in a way that seems to confirm their behaviour and attitudes.
Confirmatory bias leads to conclusions being unduly biased by what one wants to believe.

  Ray Winstone "I bet responsibly with Bet 365" - Ronaldo has been sent off 8 times in 424 games

Ignore all the fake mainstream media press about bookies' potential losses on a Leicester City title win.
Bookmakers love outsiders winning.
Bookmakers love outsiders winning even more when they are able to persuade the magic thinking brigade to 'cash out' early due to their distorted perceptions.

The bookmakers shout: "Leicester City were 5,000/1 pre-season.
Leicester City cannot possibly win the EPL.
Bettor better take the money and run."

BT Sport and BBC insiders also traded on Leicester City pre-season.
These people were trading on the inside information included in the above link.
These insiders are not closing out their positions.
Because these people understand that we are dealing with a conspiratorially corrupt market and that Leicester City will win the Premier League this season.

Or, if the worst comes to pass, and UK Anti Doping or some other entity discovers real realities, these insiders know that they will be able to 'cash out' much closer to their projected profit levels.

Mr Pryke made a bum deal.

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

Glasgow Celtic's Leap Year Leap Into League Two

One of my earliest football memories was the euphoria at seeing Glasgow Celtic defeat Internazionale in the 1967 European Cup Final in Lisbon.
Celtic, with a team made up of players born within 30 miles of Glasgow, had defeated the Italian side despite the obstacles and machinations always associated with the Milan side in the sixties.

What would those heroic players think of the state of Glasgow Celtic now?

In this article, we exclusively reveal the takeover of an English League Two team by secret investors linked to the Glasgow giants for the purpose of getting Celtic into the Skybet Championship via Trojan Horse strategies and we suggest another club, intimately linked to this League Two side, that may well be the vehicle for SEVCO to achieve the same target.

Dermot Desmond, the Celtic majority shareholder, speaking last September stated that he thought it inevitable that Celtic and SEVCO would be playing in the English Premier League within the decade: "We would like to compete in the holy grail in England."

This bold assertion was made just weeks after the finalisation of the secret investment strategy.

For secret investors closely linked to the mighty Glasgow Celtic have taken over League Two side OXFORD UNITED.

Richard Scudamore is on record as spitting: "... we are a league formed for clubs who play in England and Wales. I don't see that ever changing. I don't see that changing on my watch... there's more in it for them than there is for us."

So.
What's going on?
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Rangers (prior to their liquidation) and Celtic were both keen to explore the possibilities offered by the European Super League (ESL) under the auspices of the old G14 power grouping of football teams.
The G14 was then superseded by the European Club Association (ECA) in 2008.

In 2009 Rangers' CEO Martin Bain spoke up in favour of the ESL: "The time is right for it to be looked at in detail. It is also important to emphasise that it would not necessarily involve us leaving Scottish football behind."
However, as fate would have it, it was Scottish football that ended up leaving Rangers behind following their demise in 2012.

Also in 2009, Peter Lawwell the CEO of Celtic let it be known that he was reconciled to the club's future being in Scotland.

At a private conversation with Lawwell in September 2013, the ESL was openly discussed covering both the inevitability of such a league and it being divided into two divisions.
We made it clear to Lawwell that it was essential for Celtic to perform to a high level in the near future in the Champions League to avoid missing out on the formation of the ESL (Celtic had just survived a scare against Shakhter Karagandy of Kazakhstan in the Champions League Play-Offs).

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Unfortunately, Mr Lawwell disagreed with our strategy and Celtic have failed miserably in Europe in the intervening period due to a lack of investment and a dearth of analytical knowledge - Group Stage exit in 2013/14 followed by Qualifying Round defeats to the might of NK Maribor and Malmo in the last two years.

The result of this underachievement has been both a decline in Celtic's status as a European club and a marked decline in the UEFA rankings of Scotland as a nation.

When the ECA announced that the ESL 1st Division was only open to the top four teams from Spain, Germany, Italy, France and England, Peter Lawwell flew to Geneva to confront ECA chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
Lawwell even attempted to form an alliance with the hierarchy of Ajax Amsterdam to fight against such plans - however, given the structural and fan antipathies between these two clubs, this was always an odd reaction.
But worse was to follow as the Netherlands are cutting Scotland out.
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Under a Belgian plan, the ESL 2nd Division would only offer places to two teams from each of the next 9 ranked countries in the UEFA rankings - Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Greece and Belgium.
As Scotland stand in 25th place, they wouldn't even make any third tier (if established).

We bet Lawwell wished he had invested in European performance now!

Celtic meanwhile developed parallel routes associated with BT Sport via board member Baron Livingston of Parkhead (with all the integrity issues that linking to such an entity entails) and, more recently, individuals associated with the club have developed a Trojan Horse strategy relating to taking over a club in the lower English leagues and working their way up to the Skybet Championship regardless of the thoughts of the Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore or the UEFA hierarchy.

That will teach the English clubs to vote against allowing Celtic (and SEVCO) boarding their gravy train!

It is our belief that there are two Trojan Horses - the first club taken over by secret investors linked to Glasgow Celtic is OXFORD UNITED, the second club is ###################
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The private equity individual behind Oxford United is the excellently named Darryl Eales (Mr. D. Eales geddit?). 
The parent company is called ENSCO 1070 with current directors being Eales, Frank Waterhouse, Michael O'Leary and Michael Ward. 
The linkages to West Bromwich Albion are numerous as are the linkages to Glasgow Celtic and both are detailed below.

A primary catalyst in the shenanigans is football agent John Colquhoun who has linkages with Celtic, West Bromwich Albion, senior staff at Oxford United, Eales, the second Trojan Horse club and the 'secret investors'.
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Further details will be released in period ahead.

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Increasingly in recent times, Celtic and SEVCO have been co-operating behind the scenes (and presumably against fan wishes) to work together for the future of the financial kingpins of Glaswegian football.
Unfortunately, the demise of Rangers and the strategic inadequacies of Celtic have hamstrung this co-ordination via short-termist thinking and illicit machinations.
Of course, they had previously undermined any such strategies by energising policies of mutually assured destruction leading to a precipitous fall in attendances and revenue streams.

But the two clubs are caught between a rock and a hard place.
The loss of European money will be a body blow to Celtic and a nightmare for SEVCO's cashflow projections while the strategy to climb the English leagues is illegal under Football League, Premier League and UEFA rules.

Will the League Two sides change their names and colours?
Will agents energise third party ownership structures between the clubs as the Pozzo family do with Udinese, Watford and Granada?
Will the primary Celtic club agent continue adding SEVCO clients to his roster and will players even move between Celtic and SEVCO for the proprietary advantage of agents?
When are Celtic going to come clean to their fans about this secret investment?
And when are they going to come clean with the English football authorities?

Of course, all the shenanigans in Scottish football in recent years have shown scant regard for the other Scottish clubs and their fans and recent ownership regimes at SEVCO have been undertaking cyclical systemic asset-stripping of the club while Celtic have not even consulted the fans over how they might feel about travelling to Exeter City, Gillingham and Brighton for away matches if this turns out to be the future of the club.

The fans don't matter at all.

If these machinations succeed, what will remain of Scottish football?
Semi-professional games played to the benefit of whichever bookmaker is currently sponsoring the charade?

From the Lisbon Lions...
... to this shoddy state of affairs.
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The Sting
http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/snitching-sesenta-y-cinco.html http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/snitching-sesenta-y-cuatro.html
http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/snitching-sesenta-y-seis_29.html

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016

May We Have A Nice Shiny New Super League Please?

We first blogged about the formation of a European Super League in 2007  http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/every-so-often-g1418-group-of-europes.html.

And now it is upon us.

Don't act all surprised now.

Here is that original post entitled "May We Have A Nice Shiny New Super League Please?"

Every so often the G14(18) group of Europe's most influential and powerful clubs utilise the threat of a breakaway European Super League as a negotiating tactic in their power play with footballing and/or governmental authorities. Aside from destabilising any negotiation process, such posturing lets the irritating regulatory and administrative bodies understand who possesses the real control of the European game at it's highest strata.
The first point to be made here is that the Super League already exists albeit in a nascent form under the tutelage of an inappropriate body (in the eyes of the G14(18)). It is called the Champions League. This misnomer of a competition has historically paid lip service to being a competition for the champions of Europe's various leagues while filtering out lesser nations to allow the latter stages to be a knockout version of such a Super League. Only three of the quarter finalists are national champions (Roma effectively finishing fifth in last season's Serie A before Italy's annual pre-season uproarious lottery) and ten of the last 16 teams came from the Big 3 countries. Several of the participants have directly and strategically targeted the Champions League competition throughout the season in preference to their domestic leagues and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that we are involved in an ongoing process that will inevitably result in the formation of a Europe-wide moneybags tournament. For further evidence, look at the last two seasons in the English Premiership. It is an imperative that the Big 4 qualify for Europe's premier competition. The manner in which Everton were discarded in favour of their neighbours via a change in the competition rules two years ago and Tottenham were stomach-bugged out of fourth place last season is an indication of the levels that the power operators will target to achieve their rightful place. Additionally, the Big 4 have issues with the more corrupt bookmaking practices currently in vogue in the Premiership (see numerous posts on the PGMOB undermining Arsenal this season, for example).
The election of Michel Platini, although welcomed by most football aficionados, may well accelerate this process. His declared aim is to reduce the number of Champions League qualifiers for the Big 3 countries which has no chance of being a feasible strategy. Such an action is the equivalent of self-administering a poison pill as it will merely hasten the formation of his nemesis - the Super League. Platini has an unenviable choice - compromise or be yesterday's administrator... 
Oh and, by the way, you'll be sidelined eventually anyway. The power brokers who are taking control of the British game would prefer a blank piece of paper to establish their growth strategies. Standard private equity-heads desire either complete and utter control of a current structure or to develop an entirely new edifice suitably designed for their own creative investment plans. This week's Milan versus FC Bayern game is a case in point. As Dietrological clients will be aware, we have been forced to not only hedge our initial positionings on the Italians but we are now actively supportive of the Bavarians in the marketplace. Some of our reasoning is proprietary isolationist stuff but the Germans are livid about the choice of Baskakov to officiate and a future Super League would have an enclosed roster of referees that were acceptable to all G14(18) teams and not just the ones with the deepest pockets. Interestingly, we still suggest FC Bayern +0.5 despite Baskakov and the exclusion of Oliver Kahn.
So, the owners want it and the powerful clubs want it. Governments and the EU? Britain's Department of Culture Media and Sport is largely in the possession of the manipulators of the English game despite the occasional outbreak of righteous indignation from Richard Caborn. This is largely tokenistic as he knows which side his bread is vegan margerined while Tessa Jowell does as she is told (incidentally, not a lot of press coverage in England for her estranged husband's ongoing legal sensitivities in Milan with fellow lodge member Silvio Berlusconi). The G14(18) have lobbied widely and effectively within the EU in order to drive a wedge into UEFA. The neo-con MEPs supportive of the creation of a Super League believe in regime change as a matter of course and are willing to play their part in the final takeover of the European game by the fat wallets.
What will be the impact on the Premiership once the Big 4 and a couple of referees have disappeared into the trading strategies of the investment banks? Prior to corruption, the playing field will be significantly more level. As the recent cup exploits of Arsenal reserves has shown, the junior teams of the Big 4 would get in the UEFA Cup spots if allowed into the Premiership. A more level playing field at a power strata equivalent to the Championship in the current English set up would be preferable for the second tier clubs supported by first world money (Portsmouth, Spurs, Villa etc) in a shiny Super League world. 
And the bookmakers will be ecstatic. Our prediction of the first £1billion football market in the next 2-5 years would be achieved sooner rather than later. The betting turnover generated by the new Super League would be globally colossal. The bookmakers will have to adapt if they do not wish to be supplanted by the global investment houses but the profits on offer will allow a suitable accommodation of each others interests (at least initially). Domestic leagues would still be an earner for the market makers as Man City and West Ham fans would not immediately desert their team for a spot of glory hunting.
And, there are going to be some very very rich referees...
The fans, what about the fans? Do as you are told. Watch what they want you to watch and bet on what they wish for you to be betting on. Understand? We have a business to run here. Be good consumerists now...
The protagonists are claiming to be looking at a timescale of five to ten years before their baby becomes a reality. We would veer towards the lower end of this range and, quite probably, sooner. Private equity people are not renowned for their patience, risk aversion or lack of willingness to undertake psychopathic creative deconstruction in pursuit of yet more dollars. If Gillet and Hicks could sort it for next season, they would. For the moment though, the G14(18) assure us that the Super League is merely a potential blueprint in case "UEFA and/or FIFA runs wild". Leaving aside the point that the like of the G14(18) objecting to football's current administrators running wild is a case of projection of the first degree, plotters may always find a viable transgression for them to advance their strategy. An example - was Hezbullah's capture of an Israeli soldier really the trigger for Israel's invasion of Lebanon last year? Of course not... A strategy was in place years ahead starting with the taking out of Rafik Hariri and the expulsion of the Syrians after some "revolution" with a colour chosen from a Dulux paint chart. 
The Super League start date is already agreed.

© Football is Fixed 2006-2016