Sport Making
Football is about money.
Money is about corruption.
Corruption is about spectacle.
Spectacle is not about football.
So, it's Baudrillard's 4 Phases of the Image at play again - football started off as a sport, then betting markets were attached to the sport, then fake theatre was used to achieve the corruption, then football actually ceased to exist in that the match outcomes bear no similarity to the football but every similarity to the market.
Here's the Real EPL Top 6 (without the corrupting or randomised influence of the PGMOL):
1. Manchester City 34 - 87 [Champions]
2. Arsenal 35 - 77 [Runners Up]
3. Tottenham 34 - 60
4. Liverpool 35 - 58
5. Wolves 35 - 57
6. West Ham United 35 - 55
The most exciting title run in of all time is a corrupted spectacle.
So, we are left with analysing a semi-systemic corruption where each individual game is played with loaded dice.
All top football analysts will tell you that by far the most impactful parameter destroying the sport is the input of rogue and / or captured referees.
But.
If you criticise referees you are fined and the referees target you even more in future (aka Nottingham Forest).
If you keep your mouth shut and accept the corruption then you are welcome and your future may even be enhanced if you sell out to the right breed of psychopath.
Of course, wherever there is money and power, everything is rigged.
So, the Electoral Commission state that very few people were turned away from voting in the UK on Thursday which may well be true.
But, huge numbers of people were denied the right to vote because they didn't possess any valid ID and hence it was pointless them attending the Polling Stations.
And there are parallels in the short-termism too.
All narratives in football are of today.
Forget last week and ignore the future.
All that matters is fooling the masses in the instant.
Similarly, all narratives relating to the voting are put towards pseudo-analytics of the forthcoming UK General Election.
So the focus is on the Tory-Lite party under burgeoning fascist Starmer.
But the really valid information is more long term.
The number of Labour councillors (after 102 out of 107 councils had declared results) increased by 20%.
The number of Green Party councillors, in comparison, increased by 69%.
That and the terminal decline of the British Union of Fascists the Conservative Party and Muslims turning against a genocide supporting Labour Party are the realities to take away from this manipulated farce.
In equivalence, Arsenal v Bournemouth doesn't really matter in the big scheme of things.
We'll see David Coote who, in effect, relegated Luton last evening with his VAR intervention (virtually every corner would be a penalty if Coote's angle has validity) blowing the whistle on the game.
Two points, aside from doping Arsenal rely on fouls from corners not being on the PGMOL radars.
Different rules for different entities.
Why is Coote given two huge volume global betting markets to officiate in sixteen and a half hours.
It goes without saying that other leagues don't posture in this manner.
Here are all Coote's appointments since the beginning of February (R = referee / V = VAR / 4 = 4th Official)
Liv v Ars (V)
WW v Che (R)
Ev v MC (V)
MC v ShU (R)
TH v Bou (V)
Ev v AV (R)
Ful v Ev (V)
TH v Bre (R)
Ars v Liv (V)
AV v MU (V)
Bre v Liv (V)
LT v MU (R)
BHA v Ev (V)
NU v WW (V)
Burn v Bou (R)
MU v Ev (V)
Liv v MC (4)
Ful v TH (V)
NU v WHU (V)
Liv v BHA (R)
Che v MU (V)
Ev v Burn (V)
Bre v ShU (V)
Ars v AV (R)
Ev v Liv (V)
WW v LT (V)
LT v Ev (V)
Ars v Bou (R)
In fourteen rounds of Premier League matches, Coote has received the maximum number of possible appointments, 28.
Eight of those appointments have been on Everton matches and six have been on Liverpool, while Coote has officiated Arsenal and Manchester United on four occasions.
Although one of Coote's appointments was the Merseyside derby, 46% of his games featured Liverpool or Everton.
All four of these clubs have their spacetime perturbed by an organised crime boss from Stirlingshire.
The wee man even got Coote as referee for Manchester United's only success under Ten Hag, the League Cup of last season, and Coote was VAR for the FA Cup Final loss to Manchester City last season.
Two United Finals in one season / Two Coote appointments - that's entirely normal.
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