Tuesday 19 February 2019

HoveAlbionGate Blues



In 1974 Gil Scott Heron wrote "H2OGate Blues" about Watergate corruption.
In 2019 Football is Fixed adapted Gil Scott Heron's masterpiece to address corruption in the Premier League.

From the top Gil...
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Heh, don't wanna be involved in this one, huh?
This here is gonna be a blues number.
But first I wanna do a little bit of background on the blues
And say what it is.
Like, there are 6 cardinal colours
And colours have always come to signify more than that particular shade.
Like: "red-neck" or "got the blues."
That's where you apply somethin to a colour, to express what you're trying to say.
So, there are 6 cardinal colours: Yellow, Red, Orange, Green, Blue, and Purple.
And there are 3, 000 shades.
And if you take these 3, 000 and divide them by 6, you come up with 500.
Meaning that there are at least 500 shades of The Blues.
For example, there is...'
The "I ain't got me no money, blues".
There is the "I ain't got me no woman, blues".
There is the "I ain't got me no money AND I ain't got me no woman".
which is the double blues.
And for years it was thought that Black people was the only ones who could get the blues.
So the blues hadn't come into no international type of fame. (...had a corner on the market.)
But lately we had.
Iago Malgranda with the "Football Leaks" Blues".
We had the Premier League board talkin' bout the "Leadership Vacuum Blues".
And we gonna dedicate this next poem here to Gekko the Lizard.
The commander in terms of this supposed football outfit. (He GOT the blues.) *laughter*
And the poem is called the "H O V E  A L B I O N G-A-T-E Blues".
And if HOVE ALBION is still HOVE ALBION
And G-A-T-E is still gate
What we gettin ready to deal on is the
"HOVE ALBION GATE Blues"... (Yeah YEAH haha) *scattered applause*
(Rated X!)
Lemme see if I can dial this number...
Click! Whirr ... Click!
"I'm sorry, the football team you support is inoperative ...
Click! Inoperative!"
Just how blind will Britain be?
Football is on the edge of its seat
Defeat on the horizon. very surprisin'
That we all could see the plot and still could not...
Just how blind, Britain?
Just as Team Sky exploding in the race
motor, jiffy and dope (Uh Oh!)
Could not stop a sport determined to be free.
Just how blind will Britain be? (Yes Sir!)
The shock of King Richard's volte face
Sent football's power-brokers scurrying down Gloucester Place
And when the roll was called it was:
Key Sports, Stellar and Base 
Wasserman Sports Management and Unique (a new face)
Ask them what they're fighting for and they never mention the betting economics of sport.
Football Warfare!
Above all else destroy the sport!
If we can abuse these matches
We'll fix events and starve the game!
The Premier League!
The international Jekyll and Hyde
The league of a thousand disguises
Sneaks up on you but rarely surprises (Yeah!)
Plundering  English football games from both sides
in the name of Fu Manchu.
Afraid of stateless, undernourished hackers
While we strike big commercial deals with bookmakers,
The enemy of the game.
Just how blind, Britain?
But tell me, who was around where Vichai died?
And what was the cause of Emiliano Sala's untimely demise?
And what really happened to Agent Orange?
The King is proud of Mike Riley
While Britain's faith is drowning
beneath that cesspool - HoveAlbionGate. (Yeeeah!)
How long will the citizens sit and wait?
It's looking like Europe in '38
Did they move to stop Hitler before it was too late? (no...)
How long Britain before the consequences of
Keeping the refereeing body segregated
Allowing the press to be intimidated
Watching the price of everything soar
Abiding insider trading 'cause the rich want more? (Alright!)
It seems that Malgranda, and not his lady, went mad
We've let him eliminate the whole Premier League
Reality's the only thing we can't inflate
While club workers go on without a new minimum wage.
What really happened to Agent Orange?
The King is proud of Mike Riley
And there are those who say Britain's faith is drowning
Beneath that cesspool - HoveAlbionGate.
How much more evidence do the citizens need
That football has been sabotaged by trickery and greed?
And, if this is so, and Leicester City didn't win
Let's do the whole goddamn league season all over again! (YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!)
The obvious key to the whole charade
Would be to run down all of the games they played:
Remember Saint Gary and the BBC, the slaughter of BT Sport,
UKAD in London knowing nothing about Jamie Vardy at this time
In the past. As I recollect, HoveAlbionGate and Calciopoli.
The suppression of free media to block off the news.
Danny Murphy's televisual interference
in the image of John Wayne.
Premier League, Championship, all top tiers of the sport.
Hundreds of unregulated matchfixing events.
The chaining and gagging of Dr Mark Bonar -
Somebody tell these footballing mafia to be for real!
We recall all of these events just to prove (Yeah!)
That while HoveAlbionGate Blues wasn't no news!
The thing that seems to justify all of our fears
Is that all of this went down in the last five years.
But tell me, what really happened to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha?
The King is proud of Mike Riley
While Britain's faith is drowning
Beneath that cesspool - HoveAlbionGate.
We leave the UK to ponder the image
Of justice from its new wave of football leaders.
Gekko the Lizard, the Math school graduate
Owner of HoveAlbion, whose ignorance
Is surpassed only by those who appease him. (Hahahaha)
Iago Malgranda, imperial Napoleonic Secret Agent.
Who took over from Al Capone and
Continues to implement the same tactics.
Gary Lineker. Harry Redknapp.
Michael Owen. Gary Neville -
An almost endless list that won't be missed when at last
The Premier League is purged (Yeah! Alright)
And the silent FA with Leicester City
still in command.
But see the sauerkraut Mafia men
deserting the sinking Premier League ship and
Their main mindless, meglomaniac Ahab.
Webb has blown. Moss has blown, no tap on his telephone,
Webb has blown. Moss has blown, no tap on their telephones.
Clattenburg, Barratt, Moss and Dean
It follows a pattern if you dig what I mean.
Clattenburg, Barratt, Moss and Dean
It follows a pattern if you dig what I mean.
And what are we left with now?
Bumper stickers that say Free the HoveAlbionGate 500.
Spy movies of the same name with a cast of thousands.
And that ominous phrase: that if Gekko knew, Iago knew! (check it out!)
But Iago didn't knew enough to get out while he still could.
What really happened to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha?
The King is proud of Mike Riley
And there are those who swear they've seen King Richard (who? who?)
King Richard
(who?)
King Richard
(who?)
King Richard
(who?)
Beneath that cesspool - HoveAlbionGate.

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