Sunday 15 March 2020

Coronavirus & The Crowning Of Champions



In the UK, the only areas of coronavirus planning that match the government in terms of idiocy are that of the football authorities and the bookmaking sector.

The holistic was shocking - the Premier League displayed a robust yet irrational determination that games should proceed with fans present despite every other entity (UEFA accepted at that time) deciding to terminate games or to play behind closed doors, and despite all of the medical evidence and advice to the contrary.

Dick Masters and his puppeteers knew best.

Moreover.
A birdie tells us.

█████  █████  █████ placed heavy pressure on  █████  █████ of the Department of Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) to ensure that the Cheltenham Festival went ahead. The bookmakers yield a decent percentage of their annual profits at the meeting and the thousands of people who will have contracted Covid-19 and stand to be deceased will be worth the effort for the layers.

On March 9th, Oliver Dowden of the DCMS slithered onto our screens telling us that sport will continue as no reason to cancel.
It is worth mentioning that the DCMS has form with bookmakers - current committee member Philip Davies MP (Chair of the Betting & Gaming All-Party Parliamentary Group) received over five grand from bookmakers in 2016 and 2017. For nothing of course.

Similarly with the decision to go ahead with Liverpool versus Atletico Madrid in the Champions League 1/16 2nd Leg - playing this match at all, never mind with a full stadium when the region around Madrid was known as the main European locus of Covid-19 outside of Italy is simply unbelievable. Once again, Liverpudlians will die as a result of this game being played.

The determination to continue with the Premier League, Championship and the EFL, and the Cheltenham Festival, was pure bloody-minded psychopathy and greed.

And the media were enrolled in the fake.

On March 9th, Jason Burt (the chief football correspondent at the Telegraph) was persuaded to write that "football has an obligation to continue... it is a glorious distraction in troubling times", and there followed an array of headlines in both the Telegraph and the Guardian drawing new battle-lines of fake hyperreality as the real reality of the pandemic took hold. David Conn's piece on the state of play was trumped within the hour by the WHO announcement of the upgrade to pandemic so a swiftly prepared and ghost-written Eni Aluko column appeared desperate to achieve a closed door solution to the eventually cancelled Round 30 of the Premier League 2019/20 season - the season that never took place -  The 2019/20 Premier League Season Did Not Take Place.

On March 12th, the Premier League announced at 21:30 GMT that Round 30 would go ahead with fans present. At that point every major and second tier league on the planet had been postponed for a month, and all other global sports - cricket, tennis, golf, rugby union, rugby league, motor racing, cycling etc - had been terminated but Dick Masters and the EPL strode boldly on.

Of course, we now recognise that this was just a part of our prime minister's attempt at eugenic genocide.
But still.

One hour after Masters baiting the fans with murderous intent, Mikel Arteta announced that he had the virus and on the morning of March 13th the EPL was finally dragged into the real world and all football was cancelled until April 3rd (apart from Non-League football as  █████  █████ and the bookmakers persuaded the National League to continue on. A decision that will create health issues as even at the lower levels of the BetVictor leagues, South Shields versus FC United of Manchester saw 3247 fans for their game yesterday).

Like airlines, travel firms and just-in-time supply line businesses, bookmakers will be heavily impacted by this global pandemic. The pressure put on the DCMS not to postpone Cheltenham allowed the bookmakers to clear up at the meeting.

Of 16 favourites that had a starting price of 3/1 or shorter, only two won.
Willie Mullins had 7 winners with an average SP of 5/1; his 7 losing favourites average price was 17/10.
And there was a wonderful psychological flow to Mullins' runners - on day 1, all three favourites lost while he began day four with four straight winners.
Conspicuous money was lost at Cheltenham this year while the bookmakers stuffed their satchels and bitcoin accounts via a redistribution that looks illegitimate and absent of integrity.

Football too.
There were a number of key reasonings behind the stupid obsession with the EPL in continuing blindly ahead into the coronavirus spittle storm, not least of which was the state of the league table on termination of the tournament. Dick Masters and his cohorts understood that once the Premier League was cancelled, it wouldn't be restarting - all projections of the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic make league completion an impossibility.
And EPL Rules don't allow for the league positions (including title, UEFA places and relegation) to be determined if a season fails to complete.
The situation is the same we understand in the SPFL.

Consequently, Liverpool cannot be presented with the EPL title and neither can Celtic receive the SPFL trophy.
Both seasons should be voided.
Furthermore, if Masters and those who pull his strings try to override this reality, Manchester City will confront the EPL legally.

And there is a lot of stuff still to come out on the Liverpool hacking scandal, the control of certain referees and other clubs by Liverpool, the doping, the insider trading and matchfixing, the illicit associations with UEFA, bookmakers and 'Football Leaks', that sort of thing.

If Round 30 had taken place, Liverpool's victory over Everton (no doubt courtesy of Jordan Pickford) and Manchester City's loss to a doped up Burnley (with Ederson bound to be at fault) would make Liverpool champions; meanwhile a doping Manchester United with control of the entire refereeing team for their game at Tottenham and their very own in-house referee Tony Taylor on the Chelsea game would have been guaranteed 4th place (allowing Champions League football even if their neighbours overturn the pseudo-UEFA ban) - assuming that the EPL can develop a loophole for league positions equating with Champions League qualification despite the season not being completed.

Round 30 was the title-winning round.
Completion of the league at Round 29 means that the league is void.
Even the Guardian's David Conn now recognises this.

MANCHESTER CITY MUST NOT CONCEDE THE PREMIER LEAGUE TITLE TO LIVARPOOL.

The matter is bound to end up in court.

As fans, we deserve to know why the Premier League put the safety of fans, players and staff at risk just so insider trading positions, ante-post bets and PR revenue streams could be monetised to maximum effect.
The EPL isn't a private league for mafia and matchfixing and the creation of spectacles to the benefit of select agents.
It is supposed to be a sport.

British football is extensively rancid.
Perversion being a core competency - the dropping of the manslaughter charges against an unnamed man from North Yorksire was leaked to the media two days ahead of the result of the investigation into the death of Emiliano Sala.
When the public were made aware on Friday 13th that the pilot wasn't qualified to be flying the plane, the story was buried under the coronavirus noise.

The Death of Emiliano Sala Did Not Take Place.
It is a story that cannot be told.

Leading anti-corruption activist Roberto Saviano sees the UK as the most corrupt nation on the planet which, although possibly a slight exaggeration, is certainly true in the arms trade, the associations between sport and betting, in areas of the City of London, and in the linkage of each of these sectors with Britain's global web of Offshore Financial Centres.
And when one starts exploring Cambridge Analytica and CSL or Full Fact and Facebook or Premier League football and underground markets or Cheltenham and British bookies, the same marginal gains psychopathy matrices of corruption appear.

There is a template of corruption that replicates.
There are a lot of rotten things that are rotten to the core.

But.
Good news.
Covid-19 will both undermine corruption and allow a 6 month or 12 month period of economic contraction as opposed to growth allowing climate scientists to monitor the impact of a temporary end of capitalism on climate catastrophe.

The battle over reality has been temporarily halted.

But.
How long before Covid-19 becomes hyperreal?

Ecclesiastes: "The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is the truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true."

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