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What is the point of these international breaks apart from for the encouragement of xenophobic
neo-nationalists from Serbia to England? All we get is non-competitive, manipulated matches that
are virtually irrelevant in that UEFA (or FIFA with regard to the World Cup) have already
determined who the desired qualifiers are to be. Following the original competition draw, the
arrangement of the match calendar and the selection of the referees, not very much is left to
chance.
Out of the first one hundred Premiership matches this season, Sky Television have selected just one
Arsenal game for live coverage (against Portsmouth) and, taking the data up to the December limit
of Sky's disclosures, only the minnows of Wigan, Fulham, Birmingham, Derby, Reading, Blackburn and
Middlesboro are shown less than the Gunners. Why so?
Global betting turnover on live Sky Premiership games is markedly higher than the other Premiership
games.
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.
Creative market analysts love advanced technologies that might provide a competitive edge in the
marketplace. There is only one problem with this reliance - all such technologies are highly
dependent on the quality of the data set and the choice of the key configurative parameters that
the software requires as inputs.
Basically, the ground is defined by "rubbish in, rubbish out".
Over the summer we posted two articles about the Dietrological Football Information Provision
Service and promised a third which we decided to delay. Until now.
The hitting of the pause button was due to complex changes in Dietrological/ Football Is Fixed
infrastructure and I saw little point preparing an incredibly dull business-orientated post only to
have to do exactly the same several weeks later.
Skybet loses money. Abramovich loses face. Mike Dean loses the plot.
Far more importantly, Premiership football lost a little more of its soul during yesterday's farce
of an encounter between the American Reds and the Russian/Israeli Blues - it may well have been
spectacular theatre but it certainly wasn't sport.
United won with a goal during the half time break, a sending off that wasn't warranted and penalty
that was highly dubious.
Britain's new Gambling Act came into force at the weekend. This piece of legislation was
established by Blair's manipulators at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, particularly
the odious Tessa Jowell who is now wasting taxpayers money on behalf of the white elephant London
Olympics, together with the Gambling Commission which is an organ effectively controlled by the
gambling industry.
Néa Dhimokratía outrageously won yesterdays Greek elections despite being responsible for
everything that is malignant in the country. The 42% of the population who made the choice of self
rather than anything approaching altruistic concern for the erosion of a true bottom-up democracy
should feel nothing but shame.
The rampant corruption that degrades many aspects of Greek society inevitably spreads over to
football.
The most disturbing aspect related to the nonsense that was Man Utd against Chelsea was it being
the first instance of a Premiership pre-match betting market passing the £500 million ($1000000)
threshold.
We initially did not expect to see this barrier breached until mid-season but, following Chelsea's
implosion, we astutely posted last week that Sunday would be the day.
Probably the most disturbing aspect regarding the corruption of sporting sectors worldwide is the
omnipresence of the shadow of criminality. It seemingly makes not an iota of difference whether one
looks at horseracing, football, cricket or the Olympics, the distorting influence of malignant
money upon both the administrative hierarchies and the event outcomes is increasingly the normal
template.
