The Football Is Fixed Integrity Index 2023 / 2024 Season
We have been closely monitoring the development of the Fair Game Index which ranks all teams in the Premier League, the EFL and the top two non-league divisions - see The Fair Game Index / The Guardian (the Guardian removed their nonsensical article from their homepage following our exposure of the fake).
The Fair Game Index entity reckons that five of the top ten best run teams are in the Premier League with Tottenham Hotspur finishing top of the 'league'.
Manchester United finished in second place with Fulham, Brentford and Liverpool being the other EPL teams in the top ten.
The Fair Game Index utlises the following inputs to determine a score out of 100 - equality standards, financial sustainability, good governance, fan engagement and delivering for local communities.
The body are positioning themselves as an input for the Independent Regulator for English Football (IREF) which, as a organisation, they strongly support.
Excellent stuff.
Chief executive Niall Couper states: "To deliver real and meaningful change we need to understand the problems. We've designed the Fair Game Index to do exactly that and help reshape the game we love. It is the most comprehensive analysis yet of what it means to be a well-run club, and we're calling on the authorities, the Football Regulator and football's governing bodies to work with us."
Even more excellent stuff.
But we question the validity of this Index.
For a start, the only League Two team in the top ten of the Fair Game Index are AFC Wimbledon.
In an astonishing coincidence, Mr Couper just happens to be an AFC Wimbledon supporter and is a board member of the Dons Trust.
Not such excellent stuff.
Once the Football Is Fixed Network became aware of the pushing of the Fair Game Index by individuals who we know to be problematical, we decided to put together our own Index of the Premier League teams from last season.
The Football Is Fixed Integrity Index scores each of the Premier League teams on the following parameters (weighted due to the significance each input has on the integrity of the sport):
The Utilisation of Performance Enhancing Substances
Insider Trading by the Club
Problematical Club Ownership
Matchfixing
Control of Referees
Captured Players Coerced by Criminalised Agents
Integrity of the Manager
Shirt Sponsorship
Organised Crime Group Linkages
The Targeting of Specific Clubs based on Spurious Inputs
We will be producing the Football Is Fixed Integrity Index (FIFII) on an annual basis.
Here is the Index for last season.
1. Fulham 58.00
2. Wolverhampton Wanderers 56.50
3. AFC Bournemouth 54.00
4. Brighton & Hove Albion 53.50
5. Arsenal 53.25
6. Manchester City 52.00
7. West Ham United 51.25
8. Brentford 50.75
9. Sheffield United 48.5
10. Aston Villa 47.75
11. Everton 46.50
12. Crystal Palace 46.25
13. Burnley 45.75
14. Chelsea 44.25
15. Newcastle United 44.00
16. Luton Town 42.75
17. Liverpool 42.50
18. Nottingham Forest 42.25
19. Tottenham Hotspur 41.00
20. Manchester United 38.00
So, at least we agree with the Fair Game Index on Fulham.
But, much more interestingly, the Fair Game Index top two teams morph into the bottom two teams when issues of integrity in sport are addressed.
What a weird fluke!
The positioning in the FIFII is not a reflection on the supporters of the various clubs (although fans of Fulham, Wolves, Bournemouth and Brighton should feel a pride that their teams have reached their EPL status with less integrity issues than the remainder of the league).
Supporters of Man United, Spurs, Forest and Liverpool should instead be concerned that rogue processes are at play in their clubs.
For example, one of these teams short-sells themselves in the betting markets via insider trading and associated under performance on the field of play.
This corruption is private profit for criminals and is entirely at odds with the supporters who pay their hard-earned money to witness boiler room scams.
It is our considered opinion that the Fair Game Index is a captured entity.
We possess intercepts that are supportive of this stance (not from the Fair Game Index itself but from inappropriate individuals and entities who are gaming the Fair Game Index process so that captured entities are in place to report to IREF).
The last thing that these inappropriate individuals and entities desire is for IREF to function as a force for good in the English game - there's inappropriate revenue streams and the non-regulated free market to protect here.
Virtually no mainstream media outlets ran the story of the Fair Game Index which was primarily exposed by the very dubious team at the Guardian.
The author of the Guardian piece is one Sheldon Dragwidge who has reached the heady heights of Trainee Reporter at the Basildon and Southend Echo - that bastion of investigative journalism.
One of Sheldon's most recent stories in this exceptional newspaper is entitled "Business Hit By £3k Damage After Hitting Massive Lump In Busy Basildon Road".
Cutting edge journalism of the highest calibre...
... not dissimilar to the nonsense spouted in the Guardian.
This entire story is fake news.
Bin it and then bin the Fair Game Index.
The mainstream media are the mouthpieces of the manipulations, matchfixing and mafia processes behind this criminalisation of our sport.
IREF will be of no value to the sport with such coercive control infrastructures in place.
We thank you for your attention.
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