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We want to experiment on you.
We want to experiment on ourselves too.
We want to create a collaborative experiment with our readers.
We want to create a powerful trading tool for application to the English Premiership.
We want all participants to share the fruits of this venture.
There are, undoubtedly, some characters in the game who are more murky than Peter Kenyon.
But, despite this proviso, you wouldn't want him going out with your daughter, would you?
This week Kenyon, who tries to justify the stability of one of the most psychopathic entities in
world football, decided that it was a suitable time to lecture others from his House of Cards.
Its no hidden fact Hull City face an uphill climb following a remarkable promotion
campaign last season. Many pundits have inevitably wrote The Tigers off already
this season, with many bookmakers saying a bottom placed finish is on the cards.
But Phil Brown has shown strong signals of Hulls intent to consolidate themselves
this season, by making 6 useful acquisitions to improve his squad already this summer,
and an apparent 4 or 5 more in the pipeline.
"He certainly got the appointment on merit" - BBC commentator, John Motson, on Roberto
Rosetti, the referee for both the opening and closing matches at Euro 2008.
"The referee really didn't fancy us Germans" - Jens Lehmann sees things slightly
differently, and he went on to accuse the Italian of being "biased".
We delayed the release of the latest Bum Ref Index due to the astonishingly inept lack of
professionalism demonstrated by the match officials of the Professional Game Match Officials Board
(PGMOB) at the weekend. It would have been inappropriate to post an incomplete picture.
Before we assess the Dirty Dozen, the twelve referees who are particularly culpable in the
undermining of the integrity of the English top flight game, lets check out some holistics.
"Its a match of great memories, and there's more memories to come" blurted Mark Hughes at
the end of normal time.
"Both goalkeepers must be dreaming, while concentrating, of course" offered David Pleat
with 10 minutes of non-normal time remaining.
"Peter Kenyon, you're a wanker, you're a wanker" - Mancunian Realism greeting the most
unpleasant man at Chelsea, apart from all the other unpleasant men at Chelsea, that would be.
Euro 2008 Tips for Thursday 19th June are for the the first of the Quarter Final games which sees
Germany and Portugal go head to head in Basel. Bookmakers have made Portugal the favourite to win
this game with Betus offering best odds about Phil Scolari's team winning at 6/4, leaving the
Germans available to [.
Yesterday's Andorra versus England game was a fix.
Later in this post, we detail for our subscribers how the fix was perpetrated, minute by minute on
the field of 'play'.
As for the rest of you freeloaders, at least you know that the match was rigged.
Yesterday's Andorra versus England game was a fix.
In the first of our two seasonal business development posts, we looked at the inevitability of
recession in 2008 while today we focus on why recessionary pressures are a great time to develop
creative trading strategies for gambling markets.
The key word here is creative. When the global economy is in bust mode, there is always an increase
in the liquidity of the global betting markets.
Confused thinking persuaded us that we should start charging for access to the Football Is Fixed
blog. We have now changed our minds.
We understand that we have provided too much free and valuable information on the blog and our
initial response was that the freeloaders, who include our nemesis, the bookmakers, traders,
betting exchanges and other industry insiders together with amateurs on the make, should be made to
pay for access to privileged information.
The match between Birmingham and Arsenal should have been cancelled after three minutes following
Eduardo's injury - it was immediately evident when the match restarted that Arsenal's players were
struggling to cope with the horrific nature of the breakage and they should not have been expected
to continue.
David Pleat always manages to rise to the occasion, as the above warning to any Spaniards risking a
premature exaltation clearly demonstrates.
He surpassed himself during the Semi Final between Spain and Russia.
My personal favourite was when he questioned himself on the (in)validity of his own description of
Sergio Ramos as either a "cultivated bull" or a "cultured bull".
It would have to be accepted as a reasonable judgement if an impartial reader made the assumption
that we take a certain degree of schadenfreude in the repetitive underperformance of the England
football team. We do that thing both because none of our Trading Team feel any affinity with the
country and also because anything that messes around with the heads of a nation of xenophobes has
to be seen as a grin.
This has been a big 8 days for the corrupt business practices of Thaksin Shinawatra. We informed
readers a few weeks back that the mass murderer was intending to be more selective in his choice of
matches to buy in the latter part of the season and his first target was the Manchester derby.
It all began at White Hart Lane last Saturday afternoon when Shinawatra's one aim was to ensure
that Wayne Rooney was booked hence ensuring that he would miss this afternoon's memorial derby.
Anybody who placed their gambles based on the "knowledge" of Statto will be feeling both revenge
and a disturbing sense of historical gullibility this morning. News broke yesterday that Statto,
"real" name Angus Loughran, has been declared bankrupt and, although he claimed that the debts were
related to council tax non-payments, it is believed that the man's finances are, shall we say, a
touch "delicate".
There are some people one may be quite certain about. And David Lacey, the Guardian's football
editor, is one such person.
Having just wasted five minutes of my life attempting to understand the logic behind
beardie-weirdie's assertion: "May's best final? Look to Wembley, not Moscow", its time for a dose
of reality.
Twisted fire starter, Richard Scudamore, yesterday finally achieved the desired outcome to his
privately controlled and proprietary competition otherwise known as the Premiership. Three months
after Dietrological provided a xmas freebie to both our clients and Football Is Fixed readers that
a Manchester United triumph was inevitable, the culmination of that inevitability gained fruition
with the usual corrupted input from the Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) officials.
The Premiership title will be heading down to The Emirates if Wenger's team can defeat already
relegated Derby in Setanta's Monday night mismatch.
Three points clear of Manchester United with a game in hand and only two more matches remaining,
one of which is a "internally controlled but systemically neutral" event in the Gunners
favour, Wenger's team deserve their triumph after a season of Total Football showed the benefits of
remaining a team of integrity in a very murky Premier League World.
If you think that the football betting markets are a bit of a grin, you should check out the
football transfer markets.
Highly inefficient and even more highly subjective, with no valid modelling to underpin the pricing
process, the transfer market is sometimes askew by over £10 million due to the utter
guesstimation of the evaluation process.
With England staying home due to deities being unable to save the monarch, xenophobes were
restricted to yesterday's garnering of votes for the World Cup 2018 Bid to demonstrate their lack
of evolutionary zeal.
Fortunately, Calypso and Soca drowned out the repulsive singing about slavery - informing a
formerly enslaved colony that their historical masters "never, never, never shall be
slaves" and that "Britannia rules the waves" was not only insensitive but also
referentially incorrect.
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QPR Official Site - PULLING POWER: QPR Vice Chairman, Amit Bhatia
As the countdown continues to what we all hope will be an exciting 2008/09 campaign, Amit Bhatia has revealed that he is relishing the start of the new season just as much as anyone else.
The QPR Holdings Limited Vice-Chairman told www.
"It was totally unjustified... What was happening in the penalty box as they prepared to take
the freekick is nothing different to what has been going on for five years. And none of the other
referees have whistled" - Leo Beenhakker.
When UEFA announced the match officials for the first 12 games of Euro 2008, the selection of
Howard Webb and his cohorts for the Austria v Poland game was always an eye-opening appointment.
All happy football clubs resemble one another, each unhappy football club is unhappy in its own
way.
One gentleman and his fleet of rocket-proof helicopters, flying around the Alpine region, is
proving that, in a world of global media reach, the Butterfly Effect is both omnipresent as well as
being highly entertaining from a sousveillance perspective.
Its a novel.
A real-time novel.
Its a real-time whodunnit.
Not a whodunnit, but a who-is-doing-it.
* A real-time who-is-doing-it.
And, it is an annual series of real-time novels.
There is an ongoing plot.
This plot thickens and develops.
Real actors play real roles in real-time.
So shall we take a look what's new at the Foxes' lair then girls?
Well for one thing the kit.
LCFC have launched a new away kit. Not bad is my verdict (despite the dodgy sponsorship logo). I
think Georgie Girl would look pretty cool in one of those tops. Anything to seek a bit of
attention.
West Ham legend Paolo Di Canio could be set to make a sensational return to the club as manager
after being installed as one of the favourites to replace Alan Curbishley according to Datasport.
Former Charlton chief Curbishley quit his post at Upton Park today, and while the bookmakers have
installed Croatia national team boss Slaven [.
Licensed Betting Offices (LBOs) are a post-modernist artifice in which a traditional betting
environment has had its modern objects liberated from their original function. This new
infrastructure exists within the societal scam that is British bookmaking but the purpose of the
modernity of the environment is to optimise the returns to the bookmakers by utilising a range of
post-modernist and/or psychological devices.
Everybody has got a price.
According to our own individual and hidden agendas, shareholder capitalism enforces that we all set
proprietary thresholds relating to our employment and consultancy choices, our environmental
footprint and our degree of competitiveness in the workplace. Some people also set proprietary
benchmarks relating to the use of inside information, bribery, kickbacks, corruption, criminality
and coercion.
It is a reason not to be cheerful that work commitments have prevented any of our Trading Team from
attending the African Cup Of Nations (ACON) in Ghana. The tournament offers proper football with
minimal corruption as the personal prizes available to the players extend far beyond the tournament
itself - the ACON is a passport to a potentially secure financial future if a player is picked up
by any of the numerous European agents attending the event.
Thursday is Chinese New Year (CNY) which, in a footballing reality not entirely governed by global
betting markets, would be of minimal significance. For the markets as they stand, it is, however,
of momentous importance.
Last year around this time, we warned readers of the perils of trading over the CNY period without
a thorough evaluation of the scenario.
A Happy New Year to all of our Chinese and Asian clients and readers.
All Asian clients should check their emails where you will find a suitable red packet when you
return to business mode.
The mythology of Chinese New Year seems particularly apt when compared with the modern day
realities of the global football betting markets.
The World's Greatest Competition is not the FA Cup despite the ludicrous marketing attempts of the
FA itself, the BBC and a whole posse of talking heads (particularly those like Lee Dixon who are
working on behalf of the bookmaking industry).
Barnsley, Bristol Rovers, Portsmouth, Cardiff, West Bromwich Albion and Middlesbrough - you're
having a laugh.
Watching The Bear Market Roar In The Recession #1
FTSE below 5.5K; celebrating our short posns; the left way to trade; Northern Rock, Bear Stearns,
Who's Next? Withdraw your cash!
Watching The Bear Market Roar In The Recession #2
Steven Bell of GLC Hedge Fund: "... the worst financial crisis in the post-war period".
Last Sunday in East Manchester around 5:30 in the afternoon, the air resonated with the chant
"Thaksin, Thaksin, Give Us A Wave" and the little gangster was helped to his feet by his security
consultants to return respect to Harpurhey man.
Curiously enough this same cry was common in southern Thailand where Islamic separatists were
gunned down by the gangster's men when his excellency was last in power in Asia.
"The whole system of information and the media is a gigantic machine for producing the event
as sign... - in short, for producing non-events" - Jean Baudrillard.
And what could be a bigger non-event than a former Premiership footballer paying off some gambling
debts by doing an inside job for a bookmaker?
Imagine, for one moment, that Richard's Scudamore and Keys never existed, that the Professional
Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) was never concocted, that hyper-owners were not buying the
outcomes of football matches, that European bookmakers were not behaving similarly. No hidden
agendas and no corrupted matches - proper football without the odious influence of psychopathic
power.
"Postmodernism is incredulity towards meta-narrative" - Lyotard.
At all societal levels, the illusions warrant our attention, from the doublespeak of democracy to
the figment-of-imagination that is football.
"Can we sell you a fated event, pal?".
"No, we are postdelusional, thank you".
What have Robert Mugabe and Richard Scudamore in common?
They are both prone to manipulate realities for personal gratification.
The outrageously racist coverage in the northern hemispheric media regarding the situation in
Zimbabwe stands in marked contrast to a dissimilar lack of coverage for the grotesque corruption
underpinning the world of English football.
Once per year, Dietrological/ Football Is Fixed do the Berkshire Hathaway thing and we adjust our
thresholds of proprietary isolationism to take account of the new market sector realities. We are
able to undertake this cyclical review due to our considerable competitive edge in the marketplace.
This edge allows us to provide our non-core analyses both for the content of the Football Is Fixed
blog and for the annual sale of a selection of High Level Consultancy Documents.
There is nothing more frustrating for the purveyors of a fake reality than a real Reality
threatening to block out the projected spectacular one. When such a loss of control of the
spectaclised media agenda is brought to our attention, there needs to be a concerted strategy from
all interested power parties to alleviate the potential damage to the branded pseudo-entertainment
delivered for our delectation.
