English football stands at a crossroads.
There are no traffic lights, just a chaotic jam of competing semi-systemic corruptions.
Gridlocked.
For a brief iota of time, there appeared the possibility of the Independent Regulator for English Football (IREF) policing the corruption but the legitimate three man shortlist for chairman was squashed by the jackboot of a mafia power play with the result that the regulatory body turns out to be nothing more than a toothless talking shop controlled by the Clown and associated organised crime groups.
The key loser in this charade is the validity of the sport in England as the rapidly declining integrity in football becomes nothing more than a betting platform for matchfixers and insider traders.
This mafia template should be of major concern to the British state.
Caught between post-colonial ineptitude and a disappearance of power on the world stage, the Premier League offered the state a valuable soft power construct that brought in money and promoted English football and culture across the planet.
An enlightened strategy would have acknowledged that IREF was the last chance to save integrity in English football and taken steps to, at the very least, incrementally improve the game's governance against mafia infiltration.
The Football is Fixed Network already provide "invisible integrity" services to the sport in England as we will show throughout the timeline of this Real Time Corruption Feed.
If IREF wasn't an anagram of mafia, our Network would have been willing to reside in the shadows, anonymously and non-publicly sharing problematical organised crime structures (e.g. the capturing of three PGMOL referees by criminals) with IREF and the state.
The sport would win through incrementally improving integrity, the state would benefit financially through the strategic enhancement of the validity of the game into the future and our Network could have taken solace in these marginal improvements even though the sport would remain corrupt - once betting markets control a sport, the sport is well and truly fucked.
But the mafia seeks ultimate power which, ironically, is their downfall as shown in Italy where Roberto Saviano and Nino di Matteo continue the work of murdered magistrates Rosario Livatino and Giovanni Falcone with the outcome that the mafia template has been entirely reorganised in the country. Only the Ndrangheta of the Mezzogiorno still call the shots at elevated levels. But even here the power is nuanced in the world of football e.g. the decline of Juventus since it was shown that the Turin club were, in effect, sponsored by the Ndrangheta.
The reality for the Clown and his accomplices is even more constricted as the intellectual inputs to English football are not to be found in their organised crime entities. Others who were culpable in the original destruction of integrity in English football for proprietary gain have evolved and are buying their legacies and some of these bodies are now working with or alongside the Football is Fixed Network.
The British state and military intelligence have been made fully aware of the extent to which organised crime is ruining the Premier League (in particular) and an enhanced strategic play by the state would be an elimination of the mafia menace.
Without such a move, our Network has only one option available - a continuing focus on exposing mafia manipulations in English football - matchfixing, insider trading, doping, institutional & mainstream media capture and the control of match officials' selection and performance by organised crime.
It isn't just Italy that should serve as an example - look at the deserved plight of the Maltese state and elite (sic) since the assassination of anti-corruption whistleblower Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017 or the huge decline in the validity of British horseracing once bookmakers began to determine race winners and losers - we had evidence that British horseracing was systemically fixed three decades ago.
So.
The choice remains a sustainable sport or a mafia controlled one.
The British state, the football industry and all political parties have that choice.
Over the summer, we have witnessed two major football tournaments where corruption was peripheralised - the FIFA Club World Cup and the UEFA Women's Euros. There was no systemic conveyor belt of corruption-led refereeing controversies and, in Switzerland, there was an absence of doping and matchfixing / insider trading (aside, inevitably, from some issues in England's matches).
Compare and contrast to the shower of creeps who will continue to fix the EPL from mid-August - it is impossible to enjoy a game of football when Jarred Gillett is on VAR or acting as black whistle, for example.
Gillett introduces a volatility that the game could do without, a randomisation magically correlated with betting positions in underground and / or criminal markets in Russia, Cyprus and beyond.
We forewarned Manchester City about Gillett's potential inputs before he destroyed integrity in last season's FA Cup Final as the entire tournament was finessed to a corrupted template where Joe Hart drawing both the 'home' and 'away' teams for the Semi Finals was just one of the more public examples of chicanery.
When Cody Gakpo removed his Liverpool shirt to extol the legend "I belong to Jesus", it wouldn't have been a shock for the match referee to remove his shirt to expose "the PGMOL belongs to Liverpool".
The mafia is not performative to the British state, to the population or to the football industry.
Organised crime leeches onto the beautiful game for proprietary gain while killing its host.
The corruption results in matchfixing and malleable, variable or absence of rules and regulations
The mafia is parasitic.
IREF should have worked with FIF rather than criminals...
... IREF is already an anachronism.
But, in the holistic, we leave the last word to Financial Times and Ixart Miguel-Flores in his article: "How a Mafia crackdown drives economic growth."
"The most compelling evidence that dismantling criminal businesses can serve as a powerful form of economic stimulus comes from Italy's hard-won experience... As coercive networks unravel, productivity improves. Freed from intimidation, banks can perform their primary function properly - allocating capital efficiently to the most promising companies rather than the most menacing. Markets become fairer, and competition healthier... Organised crime is a global parasite, draining trillions from the world's economy."
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