bookmakers - Most popular for December 2007
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Today, there are two posts in that broadsheet bastion of the bookmaking fraternity called The
Guardian that focus on Sabermetrics. This prompts us to produce an overall assessment of the value
of such "science" in modern day football.
To the uninitiated, Sabermetrics is a statistical evaluation of a sportsplayer based on selective
and historical match data together with current training ground measurements.
When is a rigged match not a rigged match?
When the rigging is perpetrated by the bookmakers and/or the footballing authorities. That's
when.
There is a flip side to this scenario - woe betide anybody else frigging about and rigging...
UEFA is currently investigating fifteen matches from the early phases of this season which revealed
suspicious betting patterns.
Windows like this are liable to demolish prime ministerial careers - not only has Gordon Brown
lacked the midas-touch thing relating to England's Rugby Union World Cup Final and their abominable
failure to qualify for Euro 2008 but now, after yesterday's draw for the Finals, the treble whammy
is completed by the significantly increased probability of a German victory in the tournament.
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.
So celebrated Sky's scouse comedian commentator, Rob Palmer, after Julio Baptista had volleyed
misery into the heart of Catalunya in last night's el clásico - the final major betting event of
the pre-xmas weekend. We must assume that Palmer's inability to speak parallelled the
speechlessness of anybody unfortunate enough to bear witness to the six massively corrupted
televised matches offered for our delectation and delight.
Manchester United yesterday secured the Opening Championship in the Premiership after Arsenal were
physically intimidated without the protection of the match officials for the third consecutive away
match. When we projected this scenario earlier in the season, there were those who doubted our
assessment.
The Betfair/City of London Police crown trial of Irish jockey Kieran Fallon and his co-defendants
collapsed yesterday after Judge Thayne Forbes determined that the defence did not have a case to
answer.
There are two key questions that we need to address:
i) Why was this case brought to trial?
RK: "A warm welcome to Grand Scam Sunday - a Sky/Star Asia Spectacular Branded Extravaganza".
Cue: A video mosaic of rapidly sequenced images featuring referees, assistant referees, 4th
officials, replays of scandalous decisions intercut with betting slips, trading screens and
suitcases with money inside them.
What is reality?
Or, to put it another way, what have Mourinho and Coppell in common?
The creation of fake realities with the widespread acquiescence of the mainstream media is a
necessary construct in the process of stealing money off leisure punters. These branded fake
entities distort the market view of the masses and the disinformation is utilised by insiders for
profiteering, gaining a preferential price and generally establishing a noisy and chaotic
environment.
