Originally Published October 22nd 2023 for For Green Fields clients
It isn't just the insider trading, the matchfixing, the cartelised control of players by agents, the gaming of the refereeing processes, the manipulations of the fixture list, the omnipresence of organised crime, the systemic nature of institutional corruption, the allowance of extensive use of performance enhancing substances or the elevation to punditry for those willing to sell their grandmother to the mafia that destroy integrity and elevate spectacle...
It's the minutiae too.
So, BBC Match Of The Day add all the supposedly live commentaries post-match.
To a script prepared by inappropriate individuals, the content is created to suit the reality being projected.
This is all well and good but it leads to ridiculous predictions of forthcoming instances across all the games.
Prescience, it appears, is a key input to the construction of spectacle.
And narratives are developed to enhance future manipulations/
A player about to be banned for betting on games is lauded as a hero in a pre-planned motif simply because it suits the business practices of an organised crime operative but we were all delighted to hear how Eddie Howe wants to hug Tonali for being an insider trader.
On the day that Bobby Charlton died, postmodern Premier League heroism morphed into an appreciation of crime.
Insider crime but crime nonetheless.
Very touching.
And, in their muddled idiocy, the fans go along with it.
The excellent Crystal Palace fans established an all black wardrobe for match days which was original (in the UK) and visually striking.
Then the former inmates of the Highbury Library chose an equivalent fashion before Manchester United fans from the four quarters of Britain similarly decided that black was the way to go.
Where is the originality?
It just adds further layers to the fake.
The Handicapping Of Manchester City
As I have worked with both Manchester City and Brighton owner Tony Bloom, yesterday's visit to the Etihad threw up some interesting angles.
The incredibly harsh red card for Akanji given by a Liverpool supporting referee means that the key defender will miss the Manchester derby and, no doubt, be replaced by a resident of the SWUC dynasty to ensure a corrupted outcome.
Parallel to the Taylor / Rodri incident, these demonstrate how the PGMOL is ensuring that City are handicapped.
It's just like handicap hurdles in horseracing where the best horses carry extra weight...
... except in football that weight is a matchfixing mafia monkey manipulating matches to a private hidden agenda.
To add to the surreal atmosphere, we shared with non-Colquhoun linked Messi clients that the outcome of City versus Albion yesterday was in the market pre-match.
I then settled down to watch Chelsea versus Arsenal.
Tony Bloom is very adept at keeping tabs on former players.
We have heard that financial structures consolidate this diaspora.
At Stamford Bridge, Sanchez, Cucurella, Colwill, Caicedo, White and Trossard are all former Brighton men.
And they were a key part of the theatre (and the landing of the Both Teams To Score market activity).
Both White and Sanchez made huge errors leading to goals while Trossard scored the late equaliser.
Bloom is able to export his own proprietary in-house SWUC-like template onto the sport he loves.
Fantastic stuff in the self-styled World's Greatest League.
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