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.

It should be noted that Webb allegedly gave up selecting pgMOB referees in the summer when signing his contract with BT Sport but, in reality, #################################
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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

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.

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