And You May Ask Yourself, "How Do I Work This?"
Friedrich Nietzsche: "Objection, evasion, happy distrust, pleasure in mockery are the signs of health: everything unconditional belongs in pathology"
Grant was part of a self-selected group 'Manifesto For Change' that was created to allegedly overhaul UK football's governance. Despite the presence of some well-meaning people like Andy Burnham, the Lord Mayor of Manchester, it was full of others we would regard as at the problematical end of the spectrum - David Davies, Mervyn King and Gary Neville, for example.
Consequently we expected that the initial peripheral tinkerings and watered-down robustness would be swept under the carpet and whitewashed. And so it came to pass.
In our discussions with the state (both with Osborne and military intelligence) we proposed establishing ANTI (Analytics Networks Transparency Integrity) to address the array of corruption templates that define UK football.
One needs Analytics to forensically examine the betting and transfer markets and for the seeking out of organised crime and other collaborative webs of malfeasance. Without bespoke analytics and modelling, corruption will continue.
One needs Networks to share knowledge, investigate suspicions, seek expertise, combine skills, create groups and synergies. Networks are also the most important fundamental in ethical hacking (only mentioned as an aside).
One needs Transparency in order that the fans are able to see what is being done to the sport so that a few hundred individuals can't become fabulously wealthy as they asset strip the value from football and monetise it offshore and privately. When things are opaque or hidden, corruption operates in the shadows.
One needs Integrity because as soon as a result is fixed, the sport is dying, and when results are systemically fixed, the sport is in the intensive care unit desperate for medical support. Sport without integrity is a fake spectacle at best and a crime at worst.
These inputs are not going to come from a kipper committee man, a former governor of the Bank of England who failed to foresee or manage the 2007/08 financial crisis, or from a media guy who befriends some of the bookmakers who have been destroying the sport over the last quarter of a century whilst financially energising the incredibly corrupt entity that is Salford City.
UK football is fucked if these are our saviours - an absence of truth will yield an excess of abnormality. The incestuous ties that bind auditors and watchdogs also bind football and mafia.
In a captured sport, all entities that are established to address the degree to which the sport is captured are necessarily full of captured entities and end up captured themselves. The formation of a number of oversight bodies in recent years have been characterised by hidden selection away from public view of insiders who orbit around a web of what we consider to be rogue agents.
Take brain injuries which we touched on in the last chapter - a leading brain scientist has questioned whether football's 'expert group' in charge of concussion reform is fit for purpose with half of the 14-strong body being former referees, managers and players.
Dr Willie Stewart (whose original research demonstrated the link between football and brain damage): "Rather than a panel of concussion experts it appears instead to be an expert panel of football doctors and administrators and, as such, might be argued is being sold under false pretences... Perhaps IFAB should come clean and rebrand the group or at least remove the words 'concussion' and 'expert'."
Jeremy Wilson: "So who are IFAB's 'expert concussion group' who opted for a protocol quite different from other sports and what many outside experts wanted? Turns out it's loaded with football insiders whose collective expertise in actual brains is, well, fairly limited."
As we mentioned earlier in this book, IFAB is in effect an entirely British-controlled body that adjusts the rules of the game according to the wishes of the murkiest of operators.
This is just tokenism in toothless talking shops while former players continue to die of dementia-related conditions and current ones keep heading those balls.
Alongside dementia and Alzheimer's, football is also burying away the number of former players who are being diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - also known as Motor Neurone Disease. The striking aspect of the footballers who have died of ALS is that the overwhelming majority are forwards or defenders (who head the ball a lot) rather than keepers and midfielders who don't.
And the instances are increasing. US baseball player Lou Gehrig was the first sportsperson to die of ALS in 1941 two weeks prior to his 38th birthday. In the last three years Pietro Anastasi, Giovanni Bertini, Marius Zaliukas, Luton Shelton, Marian Cisovsky, David Hagen, Lenny Johnrose, Stefan Lindqvist, Sergei Mandreko, Papa Bouba Diop, Luton Shelton, Michael Bowden, Tommy Robson and Fernando Ricksen have passed away.
According to MND Australia in November 2019, there was insufficient evidence that people should stop playing contact sports but they recognised that increased incidence among footballers was due to repetitive head trauma.
The 2019 paper by Mackay et al in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled "Neurodegenerative Disease Mortality Among Former Professional Soccer Players" looked at the health records of 7,676 former Scottish professional football players and compared them with a control group of 23,028 from the general population. The researchers found that: a) mortality from neurodegenerative disease was higher and mortality from other common diseases lower among former Scottish professional players than among matched controls, and b) prescriptions of dementia-related medications were more common among former professional soccer players than among controls from the Scottish population.
David Bernstein (of Manifesto For Change) opined in a letter to Oliver Dowden, the former corruption culture secretary: "The governance of our national sport remains a shambles. You and the current Government have seen this for yourself in 2020. English football's failure to speak with one voice over the past months of the covid-19 crisis have only highlighted a dysfunctional and damaging structure. There is no overall leadership and therefore vested interests continue to prevail. The financial disparity between rich and poor has frankly become obscene."
This is another way that scientific principles stand opposite to corruption ones. The Economist: "Most of the problems people have with weather and climate come from extremes. When means shift a little, extremes can shift a lot. Today's rare extremes become tomorrow's regular disturbances, tomorrow's extremes are completely new."
In our football corruption template in Britain, the one that requires deconstruction and decroissance (while Manifesto For Change shifts oversight a little), corruption can shift a lot. Today's rare corruptions become tomorrow's regular matchfixing, tomorrow's corruptions are not yet known as the weak oversight will be loopholed (intentionally and otherwise) to direct the forensic sociopath down avenues anew.
And when Bilic was being removed from a later post at West Bromwich Albion (to be replaced by insider Allardyce), Martin Atkinson was referee, 4th Official or VAR Official at eight out of 12 West Brom matches covering the end-of-Bilic-onset-of-Allardyce window. And, lo and behold, didn't Allardyce the Untouchable sneak back into the Premier League for a brief window? Of course he did. And, being a man who can't let things go, Allardyce also got his belated revenge for Bilic replacing him as manager of West Ham in the summer of 2015...
What goes around comes around in Masters' Mosaic!
When Allardyce was removed from the England post, he achieved a new level of sophistication - he has now been exposed for, charged with, accused of or denied every single crime relating to football. He has few peers. He is an anti-hero for our times.
If you want more of this, vote Momentum For Change.
If you fancy some proper footie, vote for the men from ANTI.
Our friend the spy understood that, in a legitimate world, our network has the knowledge, expertise and strategies to clean up all aspects of the murky game. Here is one of the final communications.
Terry Steans: "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 in the corruption in the game has come with a cost to you and your family.
"Your work has a tangible value that I feel could be taken on and developed further by an agency or group operating in sports integrity... [or] a state body seeking to launder its reputation and find commercial leverage in deal making inside the game.
"FIFA and UEFA even the FA should all be interested in the intelligence you have gathered in the quest to counter matchfixing 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 its head. They are reactive and not proactive. That said I think they could be interested.
"The state should be interested as you... 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. As the corruption runs from top to bottom, they may feel it's worth having to bury it or to take it and use it properly but I think we can toss a coin to find out which way they would go.
"Finally, we have our numbers, 55, 13, 0 [code numbers for corrupted individuals within football and the state] who are interested for the reasons outlined at our meeting. I feel that your work can solve many problems within the industry but do the industry want that? No is the short answer. They know as well as we do that these problems will and can never be tackled properly without bringing down the game as it exists today. Exposing the full extent of fixing and corruption means that fans and sponsors will walk away.
"I think your work is immense and will be taken by a body or individual who will use it for their own ends... Let's be clear about what exactly is on the table. Is this a one-off? ... I would take that option. Walk away and do what we talked about, leave the stress behind. You are a warrior Jerry, you have stood up and been counted in fight to make the game clean. You have my respect."
We did walk away and we are where we are, OPSECing our way to the grave.
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Leicester City And The End Of Play
Friedrich Nietzsche: "... perhaps, even if nothing else today has a future, precisely our laughter may still have a future"
When Leicester City acquired global prominence via being a 5,000/1 outlier that turned out to be the race winner, we wrote that such shenanigans show that anybody can win the Premier League title nowadays if supported by illicit doping and rogue input from the Select Group of match officials. The narrative can be created, activated and profited from in an arranged reality determined only by power plays between deep insiders and a fake media.
Football Is Fixed: "Regarding Leicester City, the coincident date of initiation of systemic biased refereeing and the marked enhancement of fitness that could only be achieved via blood doping is entirely indicative of conspiratorial processes. The stars were aligned for the Foxes."
Prior to April 4th 2015, Leicester City were the least fit team in the Premier League (based on yardage covered, speed of sprint, maintenance of energy over games, recovery from adjacent games and injuries etc). From this day forwards until the following season's EPL title was won, Leicester were the second fittest of the twenty teams in the league. During the title-stealing season, Leicester City had the third worst possession percentage in the league and the lowest pass completion rate in the EPL and the fifth lowest out of the 98 teams that represented the top five European leagues in 2015/16. So they hardly have the ball and, when they do have it, they can't pass straight. And yet they won the EPL. How?
In over 25 years of recording data on the top European leagues, there has never been a team even remotely as favoured by referees as Leicester City in 2015/16. Of 21 referees utilised in the EPL in seasons 14/15 and 15/16, nine of them never officiated a Leicester match. And, of the dirty dozen, some were very problematic indeed - Jonathan Moss, Mark Clattenburg, Mike Dean and Anthony Taylor. Some of the referees were not only biased in favour of Leicester City but were also biased against their closest challengers in 2015/16 - Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United.
On Leicester City matches, rogue officials averaged 2.20 points per game compared to 1.83 with other refs, while the Big 4 averaged 1.48 points per game with the dodgy officials and 2.17 otherwise.
This referee-based corruption was coordinated and systemic.
And how were Leicester City, whose players were given two days off per week in their title-winning season (more than all other teams that season), able to have the two fastest players in the league - training the least but running the fastest. How?
Dr Mark Bonar was tricked into disclosing that he supplied performance enhancing substances (PESs) to Leicester City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Birmingham City among 150 athletes. Bonar admitted providing Erythropoietin (EPO), steroids and human growth hormones to elite UK athletes from his Harley Street offices. In the sting, Bonar stated: "Some of these treatments I use are banned on a professional circuit. So you have to be mindful of that."
The General Medical Council (GMC) has clear rules stating that doctors should not prescribe sportspeople with PESs.
And Bonar had form - he had appeared at a tribunal in December 2015 charged with 16 instances of misconduct after it was alleged that he had given a woman false hope when he should have been recommending proper end-of-life care. Bonar hid the woman's terminal cancer from her so that he might carry on billing her for "unconventional treatment". Nice guy to dope your club.
Before the Sunday Times exposed Bonar, UK Anti Doping had been tipped off two years earlier but sidelined the investigations as the evidence wasn't absolute. Nothing to see there.
All three EPL clubs released remarkably similar statements over the Sunday Times scoop about Bonar.
"Leicester City Football Club is extremely disappointed that the Sunday Times has published unsubstantiated allegations."
"Arsenal Football Club is extremely disappointed by the publication of these false claims which are without foundation."
And Chelsea: "... the claims The Sunday Times put to us are false and entirely without foundation."
Interestingly, none of these clubs have subsequently taken legal action over the newspaper and Bonar's "false claims", which, considering how much the Bonar story tarnished the title silver, might be regarded as slightly mystifying.
Additionally, at various windows throughout the title-winning season, Leicester City spent time working hand in glove with Team Sky sports scientists. Unfortunately for the Foxes, the Fancy Bears' Hacking Group decided to release hacked World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) documents exposing the usage of therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) by Team Sky, manager Sir David Brailsford and doper Sir Bradley Wiggins.
And then there is the way in which MAPEI follow Claudio Ranieri around and how MAPEI is Italian for "mother's little helper" and how MAPEI threaten investigative journalists and how MAPEI are so closely linked with the weirdly conditioned US Sassuolo in Serie A and how MAPEI like Foxes in the same way as Russian spies are taken with Salisbury Cathedral, and how MAPEI are involved in the sort of things that we choose not to disclose as we're bored of threats.
A number of BT Sport and BBC insiders had significant bets at up to 5,000/1 on the Foxes clearing the coop in 2015/16 - these trades were placed presciently before the season had began.
The media are mocking you.
In effect, the Leicester City Fairy Tale was a gift to very rich people in Thailand, Singapore, China and the UK (with her offshore territories on hand).
As with all good fairy tales, it ended with a nightmare when the helicopter carrying Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha suspiciously crashed following a heavily rigged EPL game at the King Power between Leicester and West Ham United.
Leicester City are the fire that the Premier League never put out.
It is a peculiar atmospheric reality of corrupted infrastructures that spectacular happenings litter the timeline, the continuum of chaos. Only in distorted arenas do you get tyrannical demises akin to Emiliano Sala and Vichai, Heysel and Hillsborough, the abuse of VAR and the doping of match officials, systemic errors that only appear as errors when not linked to insider trading, the ownership of clubs by bookmakers, professional gamblers, hidden third party investors, while agents orchestrate the fake on behalf of their mafia 'friends' seeking to establish a platform where the extreme spectacles can pass off as normality.
Or looking at Italy with Toto Nero matchfixing scandal in 1980 which saw AC Milan and Lazio relegated and 13 players arrested including Paolo Rossi who was discovered by Luciano Moggi (before Moggi's own calciopoli in 2006 where Juventus were relegated and various points deducted from various teams, referees banned but not for long enough) while the Heysel disaster provided a backcloth here too.
And going back further it was England and Italy that provided the horrific spectacle air crashes of a previous era with the Munich Air Disaster in 1958 killing many of the Busby Babes Manchester United team and the Superga crash almost a decade earlier which ended the lives of the entire Torino team.
And, more recently, the Mayor of Turin, Chiara Appendino, was found guilty of criminal negligence and given an 18 month suspended prison sentence over a stampede that killed two people and injured 1,500 after the fixed Champions League Final where Real Madrid and Gianluigi Buffon defeated Juventus 4-1 in 2017.
So it's hardly a surprise that in the bottom six performing countries regarding covid-19 (based on deaths per million population) we find Italy, the UK, Gibraltar and San Marino.
Or that in football, it is the organised crime groups from these two states who dictate the terms of engagement. Or as we put it in a 2015 article "In Italy And England Matchfixing Is Orchestrated By The Mafia."
Weird things happen in weird places.
And we all know who killed Emiliano Sala but we are not allowed to say because otherwise we would be spending the rest of our days even more deeply entrenched in hiding than we are now.
It's similar to Pan Am Flight 103 carrying 259 people (including my friend Yvonne and her child Bryony) which crashed at Lockerbie on December 21st 1988. We will never be told who perpetrated this horror, but the one thing that we can be certain of is that it was not Abdelbasat Megrahi.
Reality must never get in the way of narrative.
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Liverpool, Lizards And Lacertae
Benoit Mandelbrot: "... the 2007/08 credit crisis was magnified by a phenomenon new to our generation: an over-confidence in our understanding of markets, as reflected in the industry's increasingly sophisticated computer models... A more accurate, multi-fractal model of wild price variations is the way for a new more reliable type of financial theory"
Volatility suits insiders. This is true both in financial markets and in football corruption. While hands-off investors want steady returns, activist ones seek psychopathic edge. By trading on volatility during the covid-19 pandemic, the top hedge funds have reaped the biggest financial gains in a decade.
Some of this money was used to takeover global sport - individual clubs, entire leagues, football agents, bookmakers. The same strategic template is being used everywhere which usually indicates a significant level of coordination.
So John Henry is utilising the same elitist strategy at the Boston Red Sox as he is at Liverpool FC. The Project Big Picture that Liverpool and Manchester United fronted in the UK mimicked the tactics used to drive up profits of the major US baseball teams while destroying teams lower down the ladder. Lower league baseball clubs, like their football counterparts, have long had a symbiotic relationship with the bigger teams but this is now being usurped as the major league clubs are seeking to control, centralise and consolidate their power. It sets billionaires against communities, just like Project Big Picture. It will lead to substantial profits for uber-rich owners and job losses in the lower leagues particularly hitting de-industrialised regions just like Project Big Picture; it will increase inequality just like Project Big Picture.
It Looks Like Project Big Picture Is Bigger Than They Are Admitting.
Nearly forty years ago Jacques Barzun said of baseball: "Baseball still reflects our society, it's just that our society has changed."
Today we might answer: "Football still reflects our society, it's just that our society has changed and the corruption underpinning society now reflects back on football."
The machinations at ownership level at Liverpool FC are one thing but it is the proofs offered by lower level manipulations that reveal the power plays of those intent on stealing the sport.
Everything about the Liverpool Cartel is linked in a vertically integrated power structure with Project Big Picture sitting at the apex. So the referees that are biased towards Liverpool are the same referees that target Jose Mourinho and Gestifute, and are the same referees that favour Manchester United and Leicester City while also being active in the systemic insider trading of Brighton and Hove Albion games and the targeting of Manchester City, and the insider trading of televised events (particularly on the entirely rigged BT Sport platform) and the manipulation of end-of-season realities. With minor differences caused by referee location or support, these match official databases are interchangeable.
Michael Oliver has the most explaining to do as his inputs are biased to statistically significant levels across these systemic corruptions. Although Jonathan Moss also deserves honourable mention for being a bookies' bitch before promoted to behind-the-scenes machinations at the pgMOB on his retirement.
Southampton 0 Leicester City 9, Aston Villa 7 Liverpool 2, Crystal Palace 0 Liverpool 7 are the outlier outcomes that corruption volatility yields.
If we can detect these matchfixing trades and the spies can, why can't the institutional bodies?
And, most pertinently, why are the same few underground bookmakers associated with these systemic corruptions?
How are these bookmakers aware of the match outcomes before a ball is kicked in anger?
Are they hackers? Are they wizards?
Or are they fucking corrupt?
The corruption in the Premier League expanded massively in the free-for-all with no governance after Richard Scudamore sneaked off into the night. As nobody wanted the role of chief executive of the biggest corruption competition in the world, the mafia entities consolidated their power in the ensuing vacuum. Why was this allowed to happen? Why are the mainstream media such a catalyst for these corruptions? Why is there no proper overview of this takeover of football? - with the sport becoming, in Erwin Schrodinger's words, "a play before empty benches, not existing for anybody, thus quite properly speaking not existing."
When Manchester City deservedly pipped Liverpool to the title in 2018/19 achieving an unprecedented quadruple, the pseudo-journalists employed to feed you the fake focussed on the club's ownership and on alleged advantage via doping.
We utilise 26 parameters / inputs to determine when a team is doping, what they are doping with (and hence the likely length of window of doping) and what the impact is likely to be on the players when the hypodermics are returned to the medicine cabinet.
The results are interesting and not just for our proprietary trading. The entire network of US-owned teams across Europe appear to exhibit the same Doping Profile in season 2019/20. We have never witnessed such a structure before and, coupled with the referee linkages and the bookmaker linkages being shared for all UK cartel teams, these are all inputs that always imply systemic and coordinated corruption.
So, Crystal Palace systemically enhanced performances once Roy Hodgson was placed as manager and the club was heavily favoured by a small grouping of PGMOB referees and the club's match outcomes are in particular markets pre-game. We could write that same paragraph for Liverpool, Manchester United, Brighton And Hove Albion, Leicester City or any other cartel club.
And if the fit-and-proper-persons test was to be even remotely adhered to by the Premier League, we wouldn't have shysters like Tony Bloom running our football clubs.
We are able to detect insider trading and associated matchfixing at more than 90% of Brighton And Hove Albion events and agents are gaming these corruptions to enhance the value of their clients.
Brighton owner Bloom is a (financial) terrorist. When he did a runner on his clients at Premierbet he was confirming a pattern originally established in the mid-nineties when all clients of his South East Asian brokerage fronting for Victor Chandler had to manipulate his underlings to receive winnings. Here is what Sportsbook Review made of this atrocity of a company - Sportsbook Review - Premierbet. And when you start digging into the two poker platforms that made Gekko his fortune, you are looking at coded crime at corrupted tables - a voluntary taxation to the benefit of a man of terror.
Bloom should remember that a famous criminal is a failure.
In the Premier League, the once every blue fucking moon happens week after week after week - bizarre 'mistakes' by non-trying defenders, schoolboy 'errors' by dodgy goalkeepers, outright wrong decisions from referees joined at the hip to global betting markets (as are the players via their agents and accomplices), matchfixing our sport, stripping out the value to ultimately deposit it in their nice safe offshore havens; private equity barons destroying football and turning its colossal global capital into a betting medium where these psychopaths trade their criminalities with others who believe that they too have cornered the market on a non-sporting event, while the government (at best) turns the other way or (at worst) partakes of the proprietary booty as class war is waged on the working classes who made football the greatest sport on the planet... the ex-players corrupted by the markets who seamlessly slide into management or media to hide future corruptions as a reward for their input to past ones, while Gary Fucking Lineker chuckles away modelling underwear eating crisps being a cad in a sort of "I understand that systemic matchfixing and doping were behind the Leicester City Fairy Tale but look into my eyes, I'm a grocer's son who never got booked, look into my eyes..."; while the Premier League version of VAR when finally introduced was illegal under IFAB rules and guaranteed matchfixing by crooked officials into perpetuity and it's a black-box - no open mike, no managerial review of decisions, no visual images to fans in the ground or on television while the referee won't even make the final decision as that will be left to an 84 year Mike Dean who, as VAR official, will have the referee's voice in one earpiece and his South East Asian broker in the other (who pays for Mr Dean's flights to meet with market-makers, by the way?); even the global betting markets are destroyed by this short-termist sociopathic capitalism - there are now many SE Asian operations who refuse trades linked to the UK and its commonwealth of rogue betting islands; the markets are entirely cornered on some games and every table has a hierarchy of patsies waiting to be stripped of their assets by Gekko and his like - give us your money and we will trade it in the markets using our big brain edge but woe betide your wealth prospects if you end up on the wrong side of a market that lizards and small people are cornering; and the mainstream media becomes superfluous as their output mirrors the catastrophic corruption, (in)directly orchestrating the crimes, flashing up images of unique casts of diving prima donnas, the commentators of the new future corrupting the game of the present - give us betting markets where we can bet on who will be on BT Sport in the future, we'd clean up, in fact just give us betting markets where non-insider trading winning accounts are allowed, winnings actually paid, and let's regulate this betting industry (particularly the dark pools and underground) and ban insiders fixing games to the disadvantage of all other parties - fans, viewers, some media companies, various subscribers, losers in the marketplace; it is a mafia structure, everything about the systemic matchfixing of Premier League and FA Cup football reeks of mafia and their ludicrous blinkered short-sightedness and fucked up greed. The fans can detect dubious games - watch the 2018/19 games Liverpool 1 Brighton 0 or Liverpool 4 Palace 3 or Bournemouth 0 Liverpool 4 or ....... and tell me that these games are for real. You might not understand why Liverpool didn't bother trying to score more versus Brighton and you might realise that most of Bournemouth seemed to be playing for Liverpool in that fixed event, but it is only when you 'hack' into the betting markets and intercept realities that the full truth of this ruination of our sport comes into focus; and those of us who network to try and prevent this mass destruction by a rabid neo-liberal late capitalist monstrosity are writing for our lives (or, at the very least, our freedoms); we become the excluded as our members must not be allowed anywhere near any footballing entity - we open betting markets, fraud forensics and futurescanning corrupt templates over time, but sousveillance and whistleblowing are not wealth creation activities; the mainstream media captured by mafia figures lies in wait as we surf the zeitgeist of corruption - that gap between the reality of the corruption and the public perception of it - breaking news into the stream and creating torsion and twists into the fake news being shared by UK football media bots, knowing that if we mistake our surfing there are perils beneath. Fans are all that is left to save football, everyone else is monetising it and stripping its beauty to leave a rotting corpse of the game. It will rebuild (planetary ecosystem providing) but the top of the game has gone, and the commentators will still eulogise about Tony Bloom and charity and how great it is for the EPL that this character remains to fix our futures... because when it comes down to it, if you have a global betting market on a game of £5 billion and the referee is on a few grand per week and players represented by the █████ group of agents are told that they will have a career for life in football if they acquiesce in the here and now and if you allow these insiders and their associates to trade on these corruptions to grab a slice of that five billion while former players in the studio tell you how X can't happen despite their huge investments to the contrary (while being paid by bookmakers for their troubles) and then the papers write about it the next day with lots of unique pictures and lots of key words, stellar appraisals and base instincts, and the scam is landed, the spectacle complete and football is fucked.
The final nail in the coffin of football is hammered home when one realises what this corruption holistically does to the sport - it turns it into a market, everything is derivative to that non-regulated market, and those undertaking the matchfixing can make the outcome whatever they wish. The process is simply one of looking at the array of options and selecting the outcome that most suits short term cash flow - the mafia optimise the outcomes to their array of market interests, inversions are the norm over a day and over longer periods of time and, as we showed in the MOBgate post a few years ago, these inversions can be set up as stings by a slick anti-corruption entity.
Project Restart and Project Big Picture were simply psychopathic hostile power grabs masquerading as a disaster capitalism rescue package.
Enjoy Your Fixball!
Football is Fixed.
Jean Baudrillard: "Just because a tile falls off a roof, there is not necessarily someone underneath it at the right moment: that would be too good to be true."
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Learn To Hack Like A Pornstar
Guy De Bord: "The dominion of concentrated spectacle is a police state"
Black propaganda is opaque at both ends, but not when you have spies in the enemy camp (whether such messengers be constructed with building blocks of DNA or code). We must understand our enemy culture in real-time to rumble in real-time. Geographically dispersed creativity is everything.
But spies are only a part of the espionage cosmic web as the parallel inputs of data-based investigative journalism within the info wars are also only a part of the sousveillance arsenal. The rules of cyber warfare change chaotically but one might act as a catalyst to energise necessary change. Consequently, due to our feedback loops, only one end of the propaganda continuum is opaque.
All we require is high quality private data on the target environment. We mine that data and create STAGs (Small Target Attack Groups). We network. We release.
Black propaganda is like an algorithmic black box lurking in the shadows back-propagating its way to the core of our target power base, systems' thinking our route to eureka.
Social bandits, primitive rebels and psycho terrorists are the forces fighting over the future of football. The free market simply leads to state monopoly control.
Sergei Loznitsa: "... in this nihilistic climate, inscription - the art of committing things to paper or the screen - becomes the main form of legitimacy."
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Chuang Tzu was one day fishing in the Pu river when the King of Chu despatched two senior officials to visit him with a message. The message said, "I would like to trouble you to administer my lands."
Chuang Tzu kept a firm grip on his fishing rod and said, "I hear that in Chu there is a sacred tortoise which died three thousand years ago. The king keeps this in his ancestral temple, wrapped and enclosed. Tell me, would this tortoise have wanted to die and leave his shell to be venerated? Or would he rather have lived and continued to crawl about in the mud?"
The two senior officials said, "It would rather have lived and continued to crawl about in the mud."
Chuang Tzu said, "Well, fuck you then pal! I will continue to crawl about in the mud!"
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"Through all that is, the Tao will not be blocked, for if it is blocked, it gasps, and if it gasps, chaos breaks through."
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