One Extinction At A Time
Jean Baudrillard: "Everything seeks its own death including power"
Football is fucked but its impending death could be a liberation.
The perfect storm of mafia control of much of the sport, systemic corruption, insider trading & matchfixing, doping, institutional & media capture and rogue club ownership founded upon a neo-proprietarian template is an unstable vessel in calmer times but, in the aftermath of the covid-19 pandemic and with climate catastrophe becoming irreversible, football sails in wild and choppy waters.
As the football agent and bookmaker-backed Project Restart desperately lobbied the UK government for special status for the Premier League while tens of thousands were dying in the pandemic, cartels were fragmenting, institutions were in conflict, duopolies were dividing, partnerships divorcing and loyalties splitting in a disaster capitalism free-for-all scrap for a slice of the future of football.
Our temporary and chaotic new normal helps to expose the perfect crime rather than making it pay.
Football's disaster is free market capitalism's too.
By ignoring externalities, butterfly effects chaos into the future through our refusal to properly account for the present.
The football elite enacts a class war based on the already existing inequalities.
So, during the pandemic, lower and lesser staff were furloughed while club owners grabbed government handouts; big business was rescued while small and medium enterprises drowned in a Darwinian struggle for survival due to lack of funding; top football clubs rode out the storm via their hotlines to power while lower level clubs were Bury-ed beneath the debris.
So, during the pandemic, lower and lesser staff were furloughed while club owners grabbed government handouts; big business was rescued while small and medium enterprises drowned in a Darwinian struggle for survival due to lack of funding; top football clubs rode out the storm via their hotlines to power while lower level clubs were Bury-ed beneath the debris.
Football was demolished by covid-19.
Additionally, football has a massive carbon footprint - private jets, away fans, excessive global travel as executives, agents and mafia hopscotch around global hotels.
Professional football has existential problems.
Football has to change.
Football cannot convince society of any special status in troubled times.
Its only strength is its corruption.
But football is able to make demands of government due to the muscle afforded the sport based on the bizarre mathematics that determines that the losses to the Treasury due to the corruption in football are far exceeded by the array of revenues and incomes brought into UK PLC by those very same corruptions.
Club versus agents, league versus clubs, cartels of clubs versus the rest of the league, broadcasters versus the Premier League, agents controlling media, all with the menacing market makers and manipulators pulling the strings in the underground.
This is unsustainable just like all Ponzi schemes.
The Football is Fixed Network surf the zeitgeist of corruption - that ocean between the reality of the corruption and the fans perception thereof. The 'value' of the Premier League as a brand depends upon the vast expanse between these two states of consciousness. As football fragments into mafia turf wars, the robustness of this infrastructure weakens and security is haphazard.
Zeitgeists change.
The role of the Football is Fixed Network has to be disruptive here.
Terry Steans (former Head of Global Investigations at FIFA): "The [Football is Fixed] brand has taken time, effort, knowledge and expertise to build. Gathering, collating, analysing and interpreting material to provide football fans with insights inside the corruption in the game has come with a cost to you and your family. FIFA and UEFA even the FA should all be interested in the intelligence you have gathered in the quest to counter match fixing and corruption within the game. I say that tongue in cheek knowing that whatever FIFA / UEFA do is superficial and they select the narrative they want to follow along these lines with each scandal that raises it head. The state should be interested as you through your work in this field have done them a great service and they should be protecting the national game from the insidious individuals and groups that have infiltrated it and corrupted it."
Meanwhile, the gap between fan and club expands remorselessly.
Private equity operations are asset stripping your beautiful club, sovereign wealth funds are whitewashing the murder of a journalist via the purchase of your local team, global bookmakers are buying your town.
But...
Private equity operations are asset stripping your beautiful club, sovereign wealth funds are whitewashing the murder of a journalist via the purchase of your local team, global bookmakers are buying your town.
Football is having its soul stolen while the fans face away from the field of play.
And football without fans is nothing.
But football as a gambling medium controlled by mafia interests is less than nothing.
But football as a gambling medium controlled by mafia interests is less than nothing.
Only the fans can save football.
But...
Liquidated former football club Glasgow Rangers liaised with the Scottish Football Association and stole some titles via tax wheezes and abuses relating to UEFA licence anomalies but Glasgow Celtic decided that the best manner in which to expose these shenanigans was to secretly fund an NGO to 'independently' prove malfeasance by the Ibrox club - poor strategy.
Stalemate was the result rather than anything resembling justice over Resolution 12 which sought to properly punish Rangers.
Stalemate was the result rather than anything resembling justice over Resolution 12 which sought to properly punish Rangers.
We also received excessive grief from Celtic fans when we exposed that their club agent was involved in organised crime and when we demonstrated that the majority shareholder (who is a major bookmaker) insider trades Celtic matches.
The duality of wrongs at these two clubs don't make a right but by exposing these hyperrealities, we make enemies at both clubs.
Don't blame the messenger.
We exposed Shinawatra's crystal-burying corruptions in his takeover of Manchester City. We also publicised Joe Hart's issues with gambling debts and the City of London police inquiry into matchfixing. Yet we are also the whistleblowers who revealed the existence of the Liverpool cartel of clubs, the apparent control of some of the Professional Game Match Officials Board by Liverpool and the systemic corruptions perpetrated against Manchester City in recent seasons.
The issue is the rancid systemic corruption that rules British football through an absence of any institutional oversight or effective media scrutiny or suitable regulation.
Don't blame the messenger.
The fake deals in fairy tales.
We expose the Leicester City monstrosity of matchfixing and manipulation to steal the EPL title.
We eschew full disclosure of the criminalities at play as the issues are general rather than specific.
Mafia maneuverings are a constant hustle.
It is the bigger picture that needs to change for football to move forward with any semblance of integrity.
Marginal gains psychopathy underpins neo-liberalism in sport and wider society.
The slide towards black market is incremental but unrelenting - doping being an outlier evolving to doping being the norm; a Premier League game that doesn't have matchfixing inputs now being something worthy of comment as the vast majority of events have multiple (often conflicting) corrupt inputs.
Marginal gains is peak strategy for political behavioural scientists and mafia, a nudge here, a nudge there.
Grabbing bits of turf left, right and centre, one bit at a time.
But marginal gains is how underhand behaviour reveals itself to forensic analysts and psychologists.
Take herd immunity.
In the early phases of covid-19, it was obvious, despite denials, that the UK government's policy towards coronavirus was herd immunity.
Government strategy sailed as close to the shore of herd immunity as the public zeitgeist would allow at any given time without, at any instance, admitting it.
The football industry exists in a regressive hierarchy primed on fake, fraud and matchfixing and is a hyper-inflated bubble waiting to burst.
Crises, on this level, lead to a rewriting of the rule books.
The duality of wrongs at these two clubs don't make a right but by exposing these hyperrealities, we make enemies at both clubs.
Don't blame the messenger.
We exposed Shinawatra's crystal-burying corruptions in his takeover of Manchester City. We also publicised Joe Hart's issues with gambling debts and the City of London police inquiry into matchfixing. Yet we are also the whistleblowers who revealed the existence of the Liverpool cartel of clubs, the apparent control of some of the Professional Game Match Officials Board by Liverpool and the systemic corruptions perpetrated against Manchester City in recent seasons.
The issue is the rancid systemic corruption that rules British football through an absence of any institutional oversight or effective media scrutiny or suitable regulation.
Don't blame the messenger.
The fake deals in fairy tales.
We expose the Leicester City monstrosity of matchfixing and manipulation to steal the EPL title.
We destroy the fairy tale.
Don't blame the messenger.
And some reasonably intelligent people object to us pointing out the potential conflicts of interest due to former bookmaker and current professional gambler Tony Bloom owning both Brighton & Hove Albion FC and the Starlizard betting entity (under the stewardship of his cousin). Further objections surface when we point out that Bloom's former employee Matthew Benham owns Brentford and has a trading room set up in the stadium. Both clubs ruthlessly insider trade their own matches to the detriment of their supporters.
Don't blame the messenger.
This book is a hybrid of fact and fiction-based-upon-fact and covers the proliferation of systemic corruption in British football from the onset of the Premier League in 1992.
The fiction-based-upon-fact sections sometimes incorporate refraction of a reality making it opaque, on other occasions the actors are revealed, while in other instances they are viewed through a prism to a spectrum of multiversal realities.
This trilogy will examine corruption in football both systemic and particular and will explore the impending death of football in its current form.
Death as liberation.
We explore what shapes the future of football might take.
This book is also about inequality and putting a dollar figure on human life, the failure of free markets, the avoidance of externalities, the power of plutocratic elites, the roles of disaster capitalism and unsustainable neo-proprietarianism and the not wanting to continue to exist in a world where the 1% become exponentially richer while the rest of us survive at various strata of the precariat hoping that the dice being rolled don't wipe us out in the latest round of the game of life.
We reveal much in this book but some content is redacted and many individuals are coded. Names, characters, businesses, states, places, events and incidents may be either the product of a diseased imagination or used in a fictitious manner only linked to the truth via multiversal wormholes. Apparently, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead or anywhere in between, or actual events is purely coincidental, a fluke, a freak entanglement.
Don't blame the messenger.
And some reasonably intelligent people object to us pointing out the potential conflicts of interest due to former bookmaker and current professional gambler Tony Bloom owning both Brighton & Hove Albion FC and the Starlizard betting entity (under the stewardship of his cousin). Further objections surface when we point out that Bloom's former employee Matthew Benham owns Brentford and has a trading room set up in the stadium. Both clubs ruthlessly insider trade their own matches to the detriment of their supporters.
Don't blame the messenger.
This book is a hybrid of fact and fiction-based-upon-fact and covers the proliferation of systemic corruption in British football from the onset of the Premier League in 1992.
The fiction-based-upon-fact sections sometimes incorporate refraction of a reality making it opaque, on other occasions the actors are revealed, while in other instances they are viewed through a prism to a spectrum of multiversal realities.
This trilogy will examine corruption in football both systemic and particular and will explore the impending death of football in its current form.
Death as liberation.
We explore what shapes the future of football might take.
This book is also about inequality and putting a dollar figure on human life, the failure of free markets, the avoidance of externalities, the power of plutocratic elites, the roles of disaster capitalism and unsustainable neo-proprietarianism and the not wanting to continue to exist in a world where the 1% become exponentially richer while the rest of us survive at various strata of the precariat hoping that the dice being rolled don't wipe us out in the latest round of the game of life.
We reveal much in this book but some content is redacted and many individuals are coded. Names, characters, businesses, states, places, events and incidents may be either the product of a diseased imagination or used in a fictitious manner only linked to the truth via multiversal wormholes. Apparently, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead or anywhere in between, or actual events is purely coincidental, a fluke, a freak entanglement.
We eschew full disclosure of the criminalities at play as the issues are general rather than specific.
Mafia maneuverings are a constant hustle.
It is the bigger picture that needs to change for football to move forward with any semblance of integrity.
We choose constructive engagement but plan for war.
We are whistleblowers who undestand that the best outcome when confronting psychopathic entities is a ceasefire or a score-draw.
Although win-win is never on the table of psychopathy, zero-sum leads to mutually assured destruction.
Although win-win is never on the table of psychopathy, zero-sum leads to mutually assured destruction.
Marginal gains psychopathy underpins neo-liberalism in sport and wider society.
The slide towards black market is incremental but unrelenting - doping being an outlier evolving to doping being the norm; a Premier League game that doesn't have matchfixing inputs now being something worthy of comment as the vast majority of events have multiple (often conflicting) corrupt inputs.
Marginal gains is peak strategy for political behavioural scientists and mafia, a nudge here, a nudge there.
Grabbing bits of turf left, right and centre, one bit at a time.
But marginal gains is how underhand behaviour reveals itself to forensic analysts and psychologists.
Take herd immunity.
In the early phases of covid-19, it was obvious, despite denials, that the UK government's policy towards coronavirus was herd immunity.
Government strategy sailed as close to the shore of herd immunity as the public zeitgeist would allow at any given time without, at any instance, admitting it.
The football industry exists in a regressive hierarchy primed on fake, fraud and matchfixing and is a hyper-inflated bubble waiting to burst.
Crises, on this level, lead to a rewriting of the rule books.
Yet the independent regulator which might enable a cleaner sport with less corruption is now not expected to be active for another five years as football insiders decelerate and deactivate all moves towards regulation of the systemic yet fragmented corruption in the game.
The holistic nature of the perfect storm in which we currently reside may only be exited with an equally holistic response.
This trilogy of books offers you an entirely new blueprint for global football.
Because at the moment we are all watching on in horror as our beautiful sport dies and rigor mortis slowly sets in.
Meanwhile, via the pandemic, the permanent recession, austerity, inflationary forces and the omnipresence of organised crime, and in the wake of Max Planck, free markets and systemic corruption advance one funeral at a time.
Jeremiah Bullivant, Manchester, January 25th 2023
© 2023 Football is Fixed
The holistic nature of the perfect storm in which we currently reside may only be exited with an equally holistic response.
This trilogy of books offers you an entirely new blueprint for global football.
Because at the moment we are all watching on in horror as our beautiful sport dies and rigor mortis slowly sets in.
Meanwhile, via the pandemic, the permanent recession, austerity, inflationary forces and the omnipresence of organised crime, and in the wake of Max Planck, free markets and systemic corruption advance one funeral at a time.
Jeremiah Bullivant, Manchester, January 25th 2023
© 2023 Football is Fixed
