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What is information? The word is utilised to denote a wide spectrum of sources, news and data
related to all types of financial market but the differentiation of informational value is an
absolutely key input to all successful trading strategies.
In the internet age, information has gone exponential. Alongside the mainstream sources that have
always dominated the telescopic vision of the market analysts, the web has created a galaxy of new
potentially useful loci of information.
Football Is Fixed was established to confront a corrupt infrastructure.
From time to time, the perpetrators of this corruption attempt to create problems for us via the
employment of viral weapons against our computer systems. One such attack is happening at the
moment.
While our IT people sort out a retaliation for the intrusion, we are moving Dietrological Silver,
Bronze and Leisure Services and the Football Is Fixed blog to a new and safe source location.
Last season, Mark Clattenburg was the best referee as measured by Football Is Fixed's Bum Ref
Index. In an underachievement of some magnitude, the man is this season rated the most incompetent
of the Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) referees.
The Economist's Big Mac Index, on which our slightly subjective league table is based, utilises the
econo-myth of purchasing power parity to compare currencies while we compare referees negative
impact on the games in which they officiate using our privileged position as market analysts.
(Summary is not available.)
So, nobody wants Frank Lampard. The statement from one of Barcelona's board members was unequivocal
"Lampard knows he has no chance of moving to any of the big European clubs...there is no other
option. He has been offered to us, Milan, Inter and Real Madrid, basically all of the big clubs,
but nobody is interested".
So Frank's brinkmanship has been found out and his agent, Steve Kutner, is busy backtracking and
making conciliatory noises towards the Chelsea hierarchy: "Frank has always said he wants to stay
at Chelsea for the rest of his career" together with a more dubious "he will be as committed as
ever".
Visiting BMO without the TFC to root for is an odd feeling. I think it is the equivalent of
visiting a shady motel without your girlfriend. Once the object of desire is missing, well things
go downhill. So forgive the sour rant to follow, I blame it on emotions gone astray. The best chant
I heard all day was rows behind me. A number of TFC shirted fans called out "This is our house.
On Tuesday, an arrest warrant was issued in Thailand for Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife over
illegal land deals in Bangkok.
On Wednesday, Richard Scudamore (the chief executive of the Premier League) sits next to Shinawatra
and his posse of mercenary bodyguards for the Premiership match between Man City and Derby.
Scudamore possesses no expert inside knowledge of the corruption repeatedly perpetrated by
Shinawatra in his homeland and he has studiously ignored the representations from Human Rights
Watch and Amnesty International regarding extra-judicial killings.
Usmanov eats babies for breakfast and Abramovich offers financial inducements to the Russians to
beat your national heroes. No matter on your perspective, the new breed of East European owners and
board members in the Premiership are far more entertaining in their degree of psychopathy than the
likes of Louis Edwards, who merely sold poisoned meat knowingly to Manchester schoolchildren.
The Wizards have a new blog out here on the world wide web, Oz City. The creator of Oz City is
trying to get the Wizards an independent source on the team, like FC Dallas has with 3rd Degree.
The blog has been added to my blog roll below, so check it out.
Yours truly has also been asked to contribute to the site, which I will do, usually by double
posting my posts that I put up here.
Events over the last seven days encapsulate in microcosm the rampant corruption and associated loss
of any vestige of integrity in the professional football world. Throughout this week, virtually all
of the major areas of concern within the game have enjoyed their window in the public spotlight.
From oligarchs to the Thai elections, from Quest and the bungs inquiry to heavily corrupted global
spectacular matches, the state of the game has been laid bare for all to see.
TFC landed in Kansas City on Canada Day looking for rare points on the road and a sense of recovery
from the blasting they suffered in New England last weekend.
Mo Johnston, no doubt trying to find a new road game success formula, made four changes to his
starting eleven. Sam Reynolds was new in net, Chris Pozniak played right back in place of Marvell
Wynne (off to the Copa), Collin Samuel started on the left side of midfield in place of Andy Welsh
and Todd Dunivant played left back in place of Kevin Goldthwaite, the man who was traded for him.
Just to clarify, I'll be doing a running blog during Saturday's Chivas-Galaxy match. I'll only have
one story to file right on deadline (my PE story) so I'll have a chance to blog about the game and
give you some immediate first-hand thoughts on the game as well as the atmosphere.
Game time's 7 p.m., though I'd imagine my running blog will be much earlier than that.
The only news items that have received any coverage in the mainstream press and media this week
have been the ongoing campaign to get Calamity James back in the goalkeeping position for England
and the creation of major focus on Martin Jol's managerial position and Gabriel Heinze's protracted
transfer as a backcloth to the Sky televised game between Man Utd and Spurs on Sunday.
Michel Platini reached the sewers of power on the back of a manifesto that sought to democratise
football in Europe and he has been in control now for long enough for observers to make an
assessment of his impact to date. Taking everything into account, we reserve judgement but the
signs are that his idealism is being compromised by the requirements of the power lobbies within
the game.
All change please...
From time to time (on six occasions per year, actually), I am required to post an infrastructural
blog relating to Football Is Fixed/ Dietrological (FIF/D) and this is one of those times.
Over the last six months, I have been undertaking a strategy to separate FIF/D from its sister
operation in Greece as, in a process of deprofessionalisation, I made the decision that I no longer
wished to work with certain elements of the European bookmaking industry.
One of the least meritocratic aspects of financial markets is the bias provided to certain
individuals who have access to private inside information. Insider trading is apparently illegal in
International Financial Markets (IFMs) but, one would have to add, that is news to me or to anybody
else who depends on such markets for their living. In sports and football markets, insider trading
is undoubtedly the driving dynamic in the marketplace and the only valid tool in an analyst's
armoury is the knowledge that the people with privileged and/or corrupt information have to
disclose their hand at some point – whether to us as an organization or to the market in general.
As he is English and the previous regime at Newcastle were widely despised, there have been no
tirades of abuse being hurled at Mike Ashley during his takeover of the Geordies. There have been
no blog posts or mainstream media articles questioning how the man established his wealth and there
has been a complete absence of the xenophobic and, occasionally, anti-semitic histrionics that have
welcomed some of members of the new group of hyper club owners.
With the Quest inquiry, the City of London police raids on three clubs, the death of Woolmer, the
Premier League/West Ham fiasco, Poll's retiring refrains and Shinawatra, the bookmakers together
with their client regulatory bodies must be delighted that the focus on corruption has moved out of
their territory and over to Le Tour de France.
The use of Performance Enhancing Substances (PESs) is common in most sports.
Tomorrow we are 365 days old!
365 days, 365 blog postings. How cool is that?
To celebrate the meaningless irrelevance of this anniversary, we are putting out two posts. This
one intends to look at the prime benefits of blogging (on both a societal and an altruistic
business level) and tomorrow's offering will be looking ahead and giving away some freebies and
some most definitely not-so-freebies.
I just wanted to wish everyone out there a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season. I appreciate
everything our beloved readers have done for us this year in supporting this blog and our writing
efforts elsewhere.
Retomando el baúl de los recuerdos, y que en estas fechas es cuando se recuerda a los mundiales
hoy toca recordar a este mundial en 1982.
México no clasifico en una espantosa y terrible clasificación mundialista. En esas épocas la
FIFA solo daba dos boletos para la zona de Concacaf.
On Friday July 13th, Football Is Fixed posted that the Carlos Tevez transfer was a done deal with
the only remaining obstacle being how to construct a "reality" that would accommodate the
multifarious public stances taken by the protagonists. That the final resolution has taken until
yesterday to complete was solely a result of further non-strategic foot dragging by the Premier
League.
In the bad old days, ownership of English football clubs was a fiefdom whereby local bigwigs could
demonstrate their importance to the community by piloting the local football team in their sporting
endeavours. This breed of owner varied from the thoroughly incompetent to the sociopathic, from the
true hobbyist to the man on the make. The more financially focused of these individuals are now
sitting on the oodles of cash that their ownership bestowed.
As the fallout from the Tevez scandal continues, the compromised individuals are desperately out
there spinning their proprietary and highly defensive webs of deceit - step forward Richard
Scudamore with an attempt at a conciliatory interview with BBC Five Live and Eggert Magnusson who
agreed to provide several minutes of his very valuable time for an encounter with The Guardian.
I have some audio clips from the Colorado-Galaxy match that I'll post later. It might not be until
way later but I'll post them.
Also, we'll be doing a running blog here of the Chivas-New York match as well so keep an eye out
for both.
Hi, I'm Amy Downes. I am studying Postgraduate Journalism at Westminster
University, for which I am currently exploring Web design. It has given me the opportunity to
finally begin my own Blog.
I am a life-long Ipswich Town fan - for my sins - and have been going to watch
them play for over 13 years!
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