Colonel Ardant Du Picq: "For me, as a soldier, the smallest detail caught on the spot and in the heat of action is more instructive than all the Thiers and Jominis in the world."
For Frankie's son is a Chelsea fan who was looking forward to a competitive Monday night Premier League match between his club and Manchester United.
A Champions League place was up for grabs.
A spectacle was on the cards.
But insiders had been trading massively on a Manchester United victory before the match had even begun.
The spectacle was fake.
What followed was one of the most inept refereeing performances of the modern era by Anthony 'Tony' Taylor.
United ran out 2-0 winners...
... a fake referee-influenced result that, by fluke, had been traded via insiders from United in the pre-match markets.
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In a normal league, this sort of event is an outlier, a once-every-blue-moon sort of 0-9 outcome but in the Premier League it has become the legitimate match that is the outlier, the rarity, the thing that should be commented on because it is unusual.
Bizarrely, Taylor is selected yet again for the Man Utd v Watford match this weekend as 4th Official - his seventh appointment on a United EPL game since November.
Tony had a nice frictionless route into elite refereeing via the lubrication provided by Uncle Graham Taylor.
When Tony first got promoted to the Select Group of Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB), there were some murmurings about whether somebody from Greater Manchester should be able to referee games involving Manchester United and Manchester City - the mainstream media, some of whom knew Taylor well, gushed about his support for Altrincham FC and his expected neutrality with City and United.
Not so.
Taylor has been biased in favour of Man Utd and against City since his elevation to the elite group of referees - there have been unanimous red cards & penalties in favour of the Reds and against the Blues (5 penalties and a red card in favour of United and 5 penalties and 3 red cards against City).
This is the same model as that utilised by Peter Walton (now of BT Sport) and his obviously unintended bias for Red over Blue - Peter Walton Is A Red Bastard
Tony is very second tier.
At UEFA level he is yet to get a 2nd Phase Champions League knockout tie - interestingly, two other EPL referees who are 'owned' (Mike Dean and Jon Moss) have also never refereed at any UEFA level despite being virtually ever-present on live televised matches in the EPL alongside Tony.
And, last week, the two referees put forward by the PGMOB for European competition both failed the fitness test and with no English referees at the last World Cup Finals, the football world is beginning to make a judgment about the conflicts of interest between the legitimacy of football and the control of betting markets via the inputs of officials in England.
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Referee-based corruption in the EPL is constructed around VAR.
Arsene Wenger this week put forward a new ruling on the VAR interpretation of offside for the IFAB February meeting but immediately it was shot down in flames.
Of course, IFAB has been captured by inappropriate interests - The IFAB Four
IFAB chief Lukas Brud compromised himself by his 180 degree about-turn over new rulings for VAR on offside in a matter of days.
Despite VAR evidently being misapplied in the Premier League, the likes of Gary "finger in every fucking pie" Lineker objected to Wenger interfering in the integrity of the EPL when so much money is being cleared under the current illicit structure.
Why would Lineker support something that evidently isn't working? - VARcical
The ownership of football has been changing since 2010.
The US has taken over the world game via the raids, plea bargaining and targeting of selected figures from the FIFA empire under Sepp Blatter.
As well as being a justice campaign, this was also a coup.
Originally, Britain grabbed the US coat-tails hoping for strategic involvement but instead have had to settle for control of UEFA, turf wars with Iberian entities, malicious influences on the corruption templates in the Bundesliga and Serie A and the provision of the two most corrupt major global leagues - the Premier League and the Championship.
All agendas, all mainstream media campaigns, all biased readings of regulations, most matchfixing and most insider trading all come back to this template.
Under Aleksander Ceferin and his entourage, UEFA has become controlled by northern European nations - England, Germany and France, in particular.
There are two exceptions to this positive bias - Manchester City and Paris St Germain (who are both targeted over financials that are ignored at other clubs).
It is a parallel battle to the fake 'Football Leaks' one against Gestifute.
In similar media coverage to that afforded to the SKUB grouping of UK agents (Stellar, Key Sports, Unique, Base) in their war with Gestifute, the British mainstream media also targets Manchester City and is supported in this campaign by corrupted entities within the PGMOB.
As Manchester City have been handicapped out of the competition (in EPL this season and now potentially UCL too), Liverpool have evolved into Livarpool and the new reality of the 14 man team (one of whom is always based at Stockley Park).
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New technology means that virtual advertising is now with us during football matches.
During the Chelsea versus Manchester United fix last Monday, individual territories had the pitchside advertisements tailored to their national template and in future the adverts will be able to be designed for the specific targeting of the viewer and their personal purchasing preferences.
This will transform abuses from bookmakers to new heightened levels as they anonymously target the vulnerable.
Meanwhile, with a few honourable exceptions, every single Premier League club continues to bolster bookmaker links.
The fan is expected to believe in the quaint notion that the link between bookmaker and club ends with shirt sponsorship.
It doesn't. There are far deeper and more problematic liaisons.
But you won't see any UK media reporting on this.
Instead they'll fool you into focusing on a couple of sheikhs and some allegedly rogue foreign agents.
The corruption underpinning British football is supported by the scaffolding of manufactured fake news energising the illegalities at large.
There is no oversight, no regulation, no nothing.
And the government, in its free market dystopia, thinks this systemic corruption is great for the country - fuck the authenticity of the football and the loss in tax revenues, just look how much we can clear on this corruption offshore.
And all the while pretending that the EPL is a soft power force for the good.
Myopic.
You can fool some of the people some of the time...
... but football without fans will be nothing.
For Frankie's son will one day walk away from the sport like many others.
FFS.
There's better things to do with your life than waste it watching corrupted insider traded matchfixing markets masquerading as a football match.
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