Unique Corruption Action - Part 1
Toussaint Louverture: "... I am made the most unhappy of men; my liberty is taken from me..."
Over the last 25 years the Football Is Fixed Network have only agreed to three interviews - one with a Chinese entity, another with a Spanish and a third spread across the remaining Chapters of these books where I (and other network members) answer questions from █████ █████ in France.
We made a decision to avoid the captured media in the UK at the outset and we have turned down multiple approaches from each of the BBC, the Guardian, the Telegraph, ITV, the Times as well as other tentacles from other media at home and abroad.
We see no benefit in such communications and we have been warned by insiders of the duplicitous nature of the football, indeed all mainstream, media in the UK.
So.
Forget Foucault.
Forget Football.
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's Football Is Fixed.
The Questions and Answers are divided into 9 sections:
1) The Football Is Fixed Network
2) An Overview Of Our Vision Of Football
3) Clubs Organising The Fix
4) Agents
5) Refereeing
6) Covid Crisis
7) Doping
8) Betting Companies And The Media
9) The Future
1) The Football Is Fixed Network
Could you give us a quick reminder of your history as a network?
Emperor Marco Aurelio: "Nulla viene dal nulla" ["Nothing comes from nothing and nothing returns to nothing"]
I initially entered brainstorming conversations with my primary broker back in the mid-nineties once it became evident that the likes of █████ and █████ and agents of facilitation like Tony Bloom and Victor Chandler International were in knowledge of match outcomes prior to kick off and that such information was being traded at volume - £1 million bets on EPL games were routine in the underground even back then while large trades were in the tens of millions.
From historical political campaigns I understood that the most robust structure to oppose power structures was the cellular network where a web of individuals and organisations work together to achieve an aim without such nodes ever having to be coalesced in face-to-face encounters - no member of the Football Is Fixed Network 'knows' more than a few other nodes.
Two events in the 80's had consolidated this construct.
Firstly, a prime Animal Liberation Front (ALF) cell was exposed by an infiltration by one individual and the histrionic desire for fame of another, resulting in arrests after a raid on a factory farm in Sowerby Bridge. Fortunately, only people from the Manchester cell were arrested and a key operative escaped the police trap. The key rule that evolved from this encounter was that membership of the cell has to be by invite only. Never welcome strangers.
Secondly, infiltration works both ways. One of the most successful (and hilarious) examples of this was the induction of an ALF sleeper into a very violent local hunt - the Cheshire Forest. On foxhunting face-offs, this sleeper fought with activists before disappearing into the night with every single hound from the Cheshire Forest kennels. All the dogs were successfully re-homed and, for a window, one could detect many animal rights' direct action individuals by their pet beagle(s)!
The duality of strategic defence to the degree where certain 'profitable' routes are sidelined due to overwhelming concerns regarding security, together with the infiltration of enemy groupings forms the robust foundation of the Football Is Fixed Network - we have had a sleeper in Bloom's arena for █████ years and in Colquhoun's for over a decade.
And they thought we were hacking!
There are some issues with cellular structures but these are far outweighed by the benefits.
If anything adverse happens to me e.g. death by hit-and-run attack then all of our evidences, recordings, information, analytics etc will be made public in numerous media.
If we detect that a member of the network has been turned (everybody has a price in a free market psychopathic environment) then any potential damage is limited and, indeed, rogue nodes are utilised to enhance future strategy via disinformation to the opposition.
If one of our secure data dumps is discovered (none has been yet) then everything is safely duplicated in multiple locations. And everything is coded.
In recent years, it has become increasingly difficult for direct action groups to communicate securely via electronic media - the shift from the glorious bottom-up hacker to the far less glorious Israeli government backed NSO's Project Pegasus spyware is a marked about-turn.
Nowadays our network communications are a complex mish-mash of letter drops, snail mail, coded social media output, face-to-face encounters in unusual venues, pager-to-pager etc etc. The codes so produced cannot be cracked being Fibonacci in nature.
The talents exhibited by hackers may only be replicated to a certain extent by the likes of NSO. The utilisation of unpatched vulnerabilities seemingly deliberately left open in iOS allows spear phishing enabling all communications to be targeted as well as collection of passwords and other valuable inputs.
But these inputs are only valuable if real strategy is available via these communications. The trick is to make the top-down abusive state-based hackers spend time and energy looking for a needle in a haystack when, in effect, the needle has never been anywhere in the vicinity of that particular haystack.
NSO software was used by the Saudi Arabian government to spy on Jamal Khashoggi's network prior to his murder after NSO founder Shalev Hulio had travelled to Riyadh for a $55 million Pegasus sale.
The NSO shifted strategy in 2020 towards zero-click exploits and network-based attacks allowing governments and associated state mafia to break into target phones without interaction and without leaving any visible traces (Clifford Stoll would have something to say about that particular claim as everything can be detected with slick defence and analytics).
Of course, the NSO is just one of a number of such entities. Our network have been closely monitoring DarkMatter (from the United Arab Emirates) for a number of years now in relation to our research on Manchester City.
The key defensive ploy is to confuse - rubbish in rubbish out prevents any leakage of information or of data that might be prone to enhancement via machine learning.
The history of our network will be terminated.
There is an end.
But we choose that end, no-one else.
King Claudius: "Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go"
What do you stand for morally / politically?
Slavoj Zizek: "We do not fear and obey power because it is in itself so powerful; on the contrary, power appears powerful because we treat it as such"
The Football Is Fixed Network (in as far as I personally know it) does not have a shared moral agenda, although the individuals of whom I am aware within our web have moral templates.
One person might campaign for LGBTQ+ rights.
Another might focus on the immorality of corruption and the illegitimacy of the role of betting markets in orchestrating match outcomes.
A third will apply a semi-religious morality to corruption.
It is for the individual to develop their own moral template.
Similarly with politics.
Within the visible network, there are people who refer to the Six Counties in the North of Ireland as the "Occupied Territories" and there are others who think that God created Ulster 6,000 years ago and that the first human was called Alistair or Gordon or Oliver!
The one aspect that we all obviously share is a commitment to prevent football becoming an absolutely captured betting mechanism like horseracing, greyhound racing or poker.
Football is beautiful...
... insider trading, less so.
Alongside Maradona, Lionel Messi is the most astounding footballer I have seen in my life.
In the tarnished sporting world being developed by Bloom, Colquhoun and their accomplices, this beauty will be demolished by corruption and future generations of fans will have had their sport stolen by mafia, mafia states and yet more mafia.
The one political aspect on which all of our network are agreed is the importance of direct action to achieve positive political change.
The French state did not grant Haitian slaves their freedom in 1791, Toussaint Louverture and to a lesser extent Christophe and Dessalines demanded it using moral violence and terror to undermine the fragile constructs of the plantation owners in Saint Domingue.
The Suffragette women were not given the vote by a benign state, they demanded that vote and placed a robust 'cross' in the male-dominated box.
Ireland didn't receive the 26 Counties through the generosity of a Cromwellian Perfidious Albion but due to the Easter Rising, the men of Vinegar Hill, Countess Markievicz and the women of Irish Republicanism, Sir Roger Casement, Wolfe Tone and other moral protestants who were appalled by the ravages of British imperialism.
So it is with football.
There is no government, sporting or societal body that will prevent Bonaparte Bloom fixing football matches or Napoleon-Complex Colquhoun fixing the transfer markets as well as the games themselves.
It is up to us the fans to demand it, to shine a piercing light on the panopticon of orchestrated corruption.
On a personal level, my politics are irrelevant but for the sake of answering the question - I'm a pacifist, a libertarian Socialist anti-fascist and I've been vegan for 45 years.
I'm not a particularly nice guy as, when you fight with monsters, one slowly but surely becomes a monster oneself.
One martyrs one's morals.
But at least I do it for the good of others rather than for money and self.
And also related to my personal politics...
... addressing the corruption in football should be seen as a stencil for the addressing of corruption in free market capitalism - we slap and paste-up, heaven-spot and wildstyle to graffiti reality.
Because, when it comes down to it, there's little point exposing Wasserman / Key Sports agents taking over Derby County while Wayne Rooney shags around if the Gulf Stream collapses or rampant inequality creates a new world order where the joy division is between the 1% and the 99%.
Nothing to lose.
Everything to gain.
Martin Wolf: "Humanity is the cuckoo in the planetary nest"
How do you proceed to get your information and how do you release it?
Peter Wright: "When you join the Service each case looks different. When you leave they all seem the same"
One of the key inputs that reveals to us that there is no incentive by governments, regulators (if such an entity exists) or institutions to address corruption in sport is that the detection of such corruption is hardly rocket science.
Human beings might fiddle with the peripheries of their criminal matrices but the fundamental imperatives remain equivalent - to fix the match result and place monies on the known outcome prior to the match starting; to bolster the value of a client footballer and to sell on at an inflated transfer fee.
Modelling therefore is a very key input to our strategy.
Football is a closed system. The weighting of core parameters is markedly greater than the impact of peripheral inputs - a rogue referee or a cartel of crooked agents are more resounding than, say, the price of a barrel of oil or currency fluctuations.
On occasion, information that we can only assume has been hacked (or 'stolen' by insiders) is made available to us - examples would be the Charlotte Fakes files demonstrating systemic shenanigans between the Scottish FA (SFA) and the liquidated former club Glasgow Rangers (now reborn as a tribute act - The Rangers Football Club). Charlotte Fakes is addressed later in this trilogy.
So long as the source and the evidence is robust, these serve as valuable inputs to the hologram of corruption.
Grey hair experience counts too.
Take matchfixing.
If a game is to be fixed, there is almost always one certainty - that the information will reach some deep strata of the global betting markets pre-match. Antennae collect this knowledge which, for example, is how we know that Tony Bloom orchestrates corruption of matches far and wide (not just his internal clubs of Brighton And Hove Albion, Union St Gilloise and FC Liefering) but also throughout the Liverpool Cartel and anywhere else in his personal diaspora where he can probe his grubby hands.
Market analytics is hence key as is the differentiation between the (il)legitimate insider trading and the masking fake trades that are placed to confuse any external monitoring.
We also receive intelligence straight from the horses mouth and via sleepers placed in enemy camps.
A most valuable specific of football corruption is that the in-play visuals are incredibly revealing - if Stellar agents are on one and Jordan Pickford is on one, it plays out visibly, unlike with manipulations in financial markets where layered disguise and portfolio approaches are the norm.
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is very key for us. The decentralised bottom-up nature of OSINT undermines the power of the traditional providers of truth and falsehood (government, institutions, regulatory bodies and mainstream media).
OSINT 1 Government Spies 0 is a very common score.
The probability that corruption will surface is a real issue to states and mafia.
That's why Caruana Galizia, Khashoggi and Kuciak had to be murdered.
Some might argue that our actions are semi-legal and undermine soft power state revenue streams but our releases are already known throughout the inner circles of the sport and, by addressing the short-termism of free market corruption, we encourage orchestrators to find more strategic, less psychopathic modes of engendering future profits.
Others may yodel that 5th Estate media could be used by malodorous bodies to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories. But every source of information is malleable and fallible while data analytics and inside information are more robust than most inputs.
And, with matchfixing, we possess the evidence pre-match, pre-season often (with 3-for-3 and 2-for-2 events), we predict future corruptions rather than glancing back with hindsight to suit our private agendas.
By only ever releasing 5%-10% of our evidences, we wait in anticipation for a real attempt to address corruption in football.
Such corruption is possible to limit if not prevent.
The Economist: "OSINT... bolsters civil society, strengthens law enforcement and makes markets more efficient. It can also humble some of the world's most powerful countries... Information still wants to be free - and OSINT is on a mission to liberate it"
Are there other networks or journalists doing similar work?
Brian Tuohy: "As Havelange pointed out 'In the three matches that the Brazilian national team played in 1966, of the three referees and six linesmen, seven were British and two were Germans... Brazil went out, Pele exited through injury, and England and Germany entered into the final, just as the Englishman Stanley Rous, who was president of FIFA at the time, had wanted'"
The excellent Brian Tuohy in America uses extensive research to expose historical corruptions in the primary US sports of baseball, ice hockey, basketball and grid-iron. The structures of corruption are identical to the UK with the roles of referees, rogue players, captured institutions and media, and betting markets being paramount to the holistic. In a way, his methods and ours dovetail neatly - we focus on future corruptions utilising the corruptions of the past as exemplars, Tuohy addresses corruptions of the past to understand the corruption templates of the future and the here and now.
Terry Steans lost his policing position at the top of the global game at FIFA due to his questioning of the validity of the sport's attempts to monitor itself and has markedly aided our network but, as an agent of the state, he is caught between two stools. Steans is a top operator though who warrants proper respect.
Declan Hill, who wrote 'The Fix', describes himself as an Oxford academic and posits himself as a saviour of the game. We prefer to see him as a pseud whose fakery is only exceeded by his sense of self. We're over that hill and far away...
And Blatter would still be blathering if it weren't for the persistent policing of the inimitable Andrew Jennings.
Outside of that, others who possess the levels of knowledge and intelligence in our possession simply trade such knowledge on the the global markets - to our informational benefit, of course!
Flann O'Brien: "Conceive my guile, my duplicate duplicity, my play on ignorance and gullibility! Is it any wonder that I have gone into the banking business?"
Have you worked with clubs or with other football entities?
Clifford Stoll: "A hacker's breaking into their computer. They want my help. They think I'm a wizard"
Yes. Several of our network earn their bread and butter in this manner.
Personally, I am currently working with █████ █████ but our 'known' members are denied any chance of working in the British game. For instance, I was given a high level consultancy by Glasgow Celtic (now former) chief executive Peter Lawwell in 2013 to aid the club's performance in the Champions League. Within five days Mr Colquhoun (Celtic club agent) has quashed that deal.
More fool them.
In the ensuing nine seasons, Celtic have failed to reach the Champions League Group Stage on 6 occasions and, in the three years where they reached this stage, they have only won two matches out of 18 and have failed to progress further.
The self-harming reached its nadir when The Rangers won their first ever title in 2020/21 going through the entire season unbeaten in the league.
As Gus Poyet found after he took Tony Bloom to court over his wrongful dismissal from Brighton, once you cross Bloom / Colquhoun, you are permanently excluded from British football.
Gus Poyet: "When I left Bordeaux, my first idea was to get back to England. But after being in England for a year and not getting the job I wanted, I opened myself to the whole world again"
2) An Overview Of Our Vision Of Football
How would you describe, in a simple way, the whole corruption system that runs football, and especially British football?
█████ █████: "There's something wonderfully perverse and uniquely Thai about King Power. In a way it's a lovely summation of the country and its ills. In terms of both its Sino-Thai ownership and its business model - rent-seeking, government-licensed monopoly 'gauging' operation - it's proto-typically Thai. This is a company that wouldn't / couldn't survive in the real global economy, but has instead been highly successful at fleecing millions, while being wise enough to share around the proceeds to just enough folk to keep the whole rotten show on the road. The venal level of reporting about King Power and their ilk in the western media is truly depressing"
Openness to rogue global inputs. Fake spectacle. Vichy journalism. State linkage. Facilitation of insider trading via Tony Bloom and his Starlizard monstrosity. Trading as deep in the markets as possible as carefully timed as possible. Strict limits on inclusion in the core of operation. Coercion of players. Association with organised crime groups both within Britain and elsewhere. The omnipresence of fear because it is understood that the systemic scam is simplistic. The arrogance of misappropriated power. Violence and threats. Wall-to-wall doping. Absolutely no regulatory oversight. The creation of fragmented cartels of agents and bookmakers. The mockery of any concept of club owners being fit and proper. The disguising of player ownership to obfuscate the degree of control of actions on the field of play. Extensive money laundering and the creation of wealth via tax evasion in offshore financial centres largely under British stewardship. Ponzi scheme short-termism. The undermining of the integrity of football in other territories and of international tournaments. The turning of referees into primary agents of corruption. Fake VAR under the control of mafia.
Apart from that, it's a beautiful game.
British football steals its entire infrastructure from the business model of the East India Company - a violent imperial crime network established for proprietary gain.
Witord Gombrowicz: "Normality is a tightrope walker above the abyss of abnormality"
According to you, when did football stop being a sport where training / fitness / ability / psychology / managers / etc mattered?
Richard Feynman: "Created and annihilated, created and annihilated - what a waste of time"
All of these inputs still matter and always will.
Football's misfortune (together with other sports) is that betting markets are attached to it.
And, for a very high percentage of matches, the betting market volume trumps the kudos of winning the event.
As soon as you attach a market to a sport, the sport is fucked.
In England, the five key events presaging systemic corruption were the onset of the Premier League, the linkage with South East Asian underground betting markets, the liberalisation of the UK betting industry, the self-regulation of agents and the creation of the pgMOB refereeing body.
John Wheeler: "Time is Nature's way of stopping everything from happening at once"
Does the Premier League still take place?
Cyril Connolly: "The English are sheep with a nasty side"
When the impeccable Jean Baudrillard kindly informed us that the Gulf War did not take place, he exhibited systemic prescience. He might have predicted that the Afghan War also never occurred, being simply a profitable channel for arms' dealers and an opportunity for one rogue state (the US) to show power and imbecility to another rogue state (Russia) - (and anybody who even remotely doubts that the US has rogue state status should read Howard Zinn's 'A People's History Of The United States').
In Afghanistan, nothing changed.
The Taliban just waited and waited.
The Premier League also no longer takes place.
What is the reality of an event between Brentford and Brighton And Hove Albion when both clubs are owned by bookmakers (Bloom and Matthew Benham), when Bloom used to employ Benham at his firm, when both have trading rooms ensconced in their football stadia and when both insider trade their teams' games?
Or how can it be that we priced Liverpool at 1/10 (1.10) prior to their title-winning season in 2019/20 or that insiders like Michael Owen traded on Leicester City at 5,000/1 prior to that particular nonsense in 2015/16?
What is taking place here is not football but market manipulation based on a systemic corruption that allows those in-the-know to profit at the expense of the integrity of the sport..
But it ain't only the Premier League.
Manchester City have lost both the Champions League Final versus Chelsea and the Community Shield versus Leicester City in 2021 via the rogue inputs of one particular American agent.
And the Premier League exports its corruption.
Earlier in the book we detailed how Liverpool and Manchester United orchestrate cartel behaviours in the EPL to their proprietary advantage and, in the midst of our writing, the same two football clubs similarly orchestrated the initial shot across the bow on behalf of the European Super League (ESL) - an inevitability if there ever was one.
We recently asked a number of market makers for a price on Brighton And Hove Albion winning the Premier League in the next decade - we accepted 500/1 which will be a total bargain price once the ESL comes to fruition.
Come on the Seagulls!
Jean Baudrillard: "The idea of a clean war, like that of a clean bomb or an intelligent missile, this whole war conceived as a technological extrapolation of the brain is a sure sign of madness. It is like those characters in Hieronymus Bosch with a glass bell or a soap bubble around their head as a sign of their mental debility. A war enclosed in a glass coffin, like Snow White, purged of any carnal contamination or warrior's passion. A clean war which ends up in an oil slick"
In your book, you emphasise on the role of the South East Asian Gambling Market - how is it influencing / compromising the game? How does it differ from the Western market? What advantages do they both have? How do they shape the Premier League together?
Guy de Bord: "The free space of commodities is constantly being altered and redesigned in order to become ever more identical to itself, to get as close as possible to motionless monotony"
The SE Asian markets offer liquidity that isn't available elsewhere. Some EPL games reach a global betting volume of £10 billion yet Betfair will close your account if you clear £2,000 profit.
The major SE Asian market makers who ran the global betting arena from the onset of the Premier League still control much of the marketplace as well as a whole array of European club sides - Leicester City and Valencia to name but two. Excess liquidity creates the incentive to fix and to structure cartels and consortia to facilitate those fixes.
At heart the battle between South East Asia and Europe has always been about analytical ability versus proximity to the individual clubs but those battle lines are increasingly blurred and, as with all corruption templates, there are occasions where these global loci work together and occasions where they act as solo practitioners - no different from Italian mafia of yore.
Increasingly the USA is taking a seat at the top table - ever since the US and Britain started cooperating to take control of FIFA in 2010 in fact.
None of this interest is because the sport is amazing but because of the ability to abuse the markets that are fused onto the sport.
Jean-Francois Lyotard: "Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production, in both cases, the goal is exchange"
Brighton's Tony Bloom has a central position in that corruption system. Could you tell us more about him and his role?
Sun Tzu: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting"
Bloom is a genius with a flaw. We focus on his flaw to understand his reality. He flatters to deceive.
As the first European to enter the South East Asian markets in the mid-nineties, he is a key cog in the whole charade. Whereas Colquhoun is a thug-lite peripheral mafia operative with a Napoleon Complex, Bloom is actually Napoleon and Football is Fixed is Saint Domingue.
Our network have received four times the amount of contacts providing evidence and information of malfeasance from within Brighton And Hove Albion than from any other football club. From groundsmen to fitness trainers, from traders to ex-players and managers, they all provide pieces of the jigsaw of his splintered personality disorder.
So when Anthony Grant Bloom gave away 10% of the reward for reaching the Premier League (around £10 million), it was to buy off insiders who knew where the bodies were buried.
He trusts nobody, not even his cousin Steve Edery who runs the Starlizard betting entity on his behalf.
It's all about Bloom the psychopath.
Bloom was one of my brokers from 1995 - his modus operandi is deceit.
He provided fake Asian Handicap prices, he denied that bets had been placed which was humiliating for him as we record all phone conversations, he refused to pay out winnings (he still owes me £3,000 plus a bundle of interest from 2004). But we played him like a harp. We developed an array of conversational inputs to determine his 'real' opinion on a game as opposed to the chutzpah chat that he believed that he was employing to our detriment.
We always knew that we wouldn't get the final trading payment and we equally knew that we could expect a visit from his thoroughly unpleasant brother if we had ever fallen into debt with the man.
All psychopaths have flaws. Bloom's is his attempt at artistry such as when he was 5/6 favourite in the Ladbrokes Million Poker tournament with only four players left at the table but blew it going out on a bluff when an opponent noticed an eye twitch that revealed when Bloom was not telling the truth.
Bloom knows that we know where and how he is trading and he only marginally cares - he changes corruption templates in reaction to our disclosures, we spot the new matrix and he alters strategy again. We know his codes and we have inside knowledge. He understands that mainstream media and mainstream publishers will go nowhere near us and he knows that we will probably mutually self-destruct against one of his operatives (probably Colquhoun).
He is a paranoid untouchable, a digital dalit, the composer of your footballing realities and an object for our self-realising schadenfreude.
It was Bloom's genius that was behind England's fake near-triumph at Euro 2020...
... he is bound one day to be King of the World of Football.
What a shame.
He could have been so much more.
Yet it is still difficult not to respect the man on a military level for his abilities to coerce and control.
Sun Tzu: "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near"
Why are organisations such as Europol / Interpol / Sportradar ineffective against the corrupt and their methods?
Julian Assange: "You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion"
Football is equivalent to financial markets, individuals are able to earn far more working for global bank Goldman Sachs than being employed by a government regulatory body in just one territory. Additionally, such regulatory bodies are denied resources by accommodating governments.
The policing of football by police is largely earnest but ineffective. The skill sets do not exist within these bodies to make any impact on corruption whether particular or specific. It is also worth adding that some of the most corrupted match officials on the planet are policemen in their day jobs.
Sportradar is a captured body. It is paid for by bookmakers and serves the strategic purposes of those very same bookmakers. Indeed, Terry Steans (the former Head of Global Investigations at FIFA) informed us that he is witnessing evidence that Sportradar are selling information to organised crime groups.
Sportradar - not for the game but for the gang.
Daniel Berrigan: "Every nation state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws, myths of civil obedience, assumption of civic virtue at the top... we expect something better"
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William Wordsworth:
TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy of men!
Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough
Within thy hearing, or thy head be now
Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den; -
O miserable Chieftain! where and when
Wilt thy find patience? Yet die not; do thou
Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow:
Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,
Live, and take comfort. Thou has left behind
Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies;
There's not a breathing of the common wind
That will forget thee; thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
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