Originally Published December 17th 2023 for For Green Fields clients
Livarpool v Varchester United
The Glory Hunters' Derby between a giant propped up by the PGMOL and a giant that's now a tarnished dwarf of a brand.
A few years back, these two clubs worked closely together in the original cartel of EPL clubs but decree absolute means there is now little love lost between these teams.
While Liverpool fielded reserves in an intriguing integrity-lite event versus Tony Bloom's Royal Union St Gilloise in Europa League on Thursday, Manchester United were managing one shot on target versus Bayern Munchen in a must win game.
The highlight of this event was the FC Bayern fans singing "you're shit and you know you are" at United players warming up pre-match.
That must have been worth a couple of tenths of a goal for the psychological hit.
Today, each team owns one match official - Michael Oliverpool is the referee and Slippery Slaphead Anthony Taylor will be listening to Klopp as part of his 4th Official duties.
Five PGMOL referees are not able to officiate in Liverpool games due to their support of the club.
No other team has more than one match official unable to officiate due to issues regarding who they support.
Why should this matter?
Because.
This means that there is a smaller grouping of referees available to officiate in Liverpool matches with all the attendant corruption risks of repetitive contacts between a corrupt club and a corrupt refereeing body.
Additionally, the five referees who can't officiate Liverpool games due to fandom can referee events involving clubs who Liverpool are competing against in the title race.
Let's look at Manchester City in the duopoly window with Liverpool.
The 5 Liverpool supporting referees have displayed a remarkable bias against City in matches that they officiate - out of 22 key match decisions (penalty & red card) only three have been in favour of Manchester City!
19-3 against the best side in the world!
What a weird fluke!!
The full database is available for the Messi people at Kerkyra 2.0 Server.
More insider trading emanates from Old Trafford than any other club in the top European leagues and they don't get it wrong as the on-field output is simple but effective matchfixing.
Currently (11:00 GMT), there are 7 underground bookies stoking the fires of corruption.
So Oliver vs Taylor.
The English equivalent of Cosa Nostra vs Ndrangheta.
Enjoy.
This is a spectacle.
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