Earlier today, me, narcissistically posting in Pitch Invasion's Sweeper, which was awesome enough to link to me three times, and oh, yeah, had a bit about the depressing match fixing revelations coming out of Europe:

Anyway, Declan Hill is working on his "told you so" blog entry right now.

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By Billy the Dog McGraw Landlord, The Toppled Bollard, Islington As usual for a Friday I trotted off to the allotments on Hackney Marshes where I bumped into Dennis Bergkamp who was bemoaning the state of his turnips. "But what about that Terry Enry?" I enquired, ingloriously. "But what about my turnips? Click to continue reading...

By Billy the Dog McGraw Landlord, The Toppled Bollard, Islington As usual for a Friday I trotted off to the allotments on Hackney Marshes where I bumped into Dennis Bergkamp who was bemoaning the state of his turnips. "But what about that Terry Enry?" I enquired, ingloriously. "But what about my turnips? Click to continue reading...

It was a tedious morning of "Henry is a disgrace" and "Henry, Eduardo, we investigate the cheats in football." Then BBC Radio Five Live decided to get Republic of Ireland assistant manager Liam Brady on. Liam sounded as if he had not slept for a week. But he spoke slowly and clearly, and utterly refused to be [. Click to continue reading...

Former Supporters Direct Chairman Brian Lomax has been appointed to UEFA's new club financial control panel. Lomax recently stepped down after four years as chair of the SD organisation that advises fans on how to gain representation at board level at their clubs across the UK and Europe with groups in 14 countries across Europe. Click to continue reading...

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Jack Warner has returned a handbag given to him by the England World Cup bid because of "embarrassment", launching even by his absurd standards a bizarre rhetorical attack on the Football Association.

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Twitter gives an outlet for players to get all "emo". Altidore joins a list of players who have done exactly that.

We can make a case for Twitter as it became a source of information on the rigged Iranian elections this summer. But in other instances, especially sports, this instant gratification tool has real capacity for abuse and potential to do damage to clubs who don't want tactics and player information to go public.

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In terms of English clubs that are facing financial disasters we are used to discussing WHU, Liverpool Beachballs and Manchester U. To that list we can now add Portsmouth.  Their new owner in September turned out not to be the billionaire Sheik Yermoney but a guy who borrowed £50 off a bookie's runner and [. Click to continue reading...

This post represents the first in our series of Exclusive Football Is Fixed Files - High-Level Consultancy Documents that focus on Alpha in the football betting markets.
In these Files, we release the data, analyses and other inputs necessary to profit from the massive corruptions that underpin the Premier League. Click to continue reading...

In this time of flux, we made some changes to the Football Is Fixed blog at the beginning of the month with the introduction of microcharging for content.
Having had a couple of weeks to assess the new structure, we have unilaterally claimed primary prerogative to make some further alterations. Click to continue reading...

I can't tell you how brilliant the correspondents of this site are. The other night "LRV" summed up the forthcoming Arsenal/Evil Empire game from this saturday with a perfect quote from Yeats: "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." How good is that? And would you know it, while we were discussing the appalling nature [. Click to continue reading...

Karl Dhont, head of UEFA's anti-corruption agency, is claiming that football's "biggest scandal ever" is going to be revealed in November and that it will rock the world of football. IMScouting is reporting that UEFA has unearthed 40 games that had "irregularities," throwing both domestic and Champions League games into disrepute.

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No major firm of bookmakers anywhere in the Far East is willing to price up the Asian Handicap on tomorrow's England versus Belarus FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 Qualifier.
Now, why would that be the case now?
Our primary Hong Kong broker will enlighten you.
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This week Arsenal play yet another club whose ownership is unknown. It is the club of Martin Taylor. It is an evil entity owned by Grandtop International Holdings, who are owned by....  Well what a surprise. We don't know of course because they are all registered in the British Virgin Islands. Click to continue reading...

Ten insane events from the weekend. 1: England blast ref and security (BBC) England joined FIFA in 1905, and you'd think they would have got the hang of things by now. But in case this helps guys: everything FIFA does is a shambles, aimed to make a profit for those in power (well over £100m from this [. Click to continue reading...

It looks like the insanity and greed of those who run football (in terms of the leagues and associations) is starting to impact on the real centres of football: the clubs. Of course the clubs are not all sweet darlings themselves and we spend much of our time here debating the lunatic actions of Manchester [. Click to continue reading...

Another requisite round of crazy talk from the CONCACAF big cheese, with his true colors on full display for the world's appreciation... Turning to bidding for the 2018 World Cup, Warner called the English campaign "lightweight,'' complaining that... Click to continue reading...

This post, which is for subscribers and googlecarters only, examines the massive potential for corruption in the conclusion to World Cup European Qualifying Group 4, where Germany and Russia are separated by just one point.
FIFA has established a template seemingly primed for corruption.
We also look at the FIFA biases exhibited in the Play-Off's to ensure that certain countries are guaranteed a place at the finals in South Africa, after Blatter performed a u-turn on seeding. Click to continue reading...

"The Golden Age" is a Queens, NY league of mostly Latino players over 40 - it is also the title of a brilliantly filmed and edited documentary celebrating the global game and its particularly migratory character within the US. The film makers manage to capture the skill and energy of the players who slog out their season in Corona Park/Flushing Meadows, on the grounds of the 1964 Worlds Fair - I have never seen a documentary about the grassroots game that actually captures what it feels like to play and participate in a league like this one. Click to continue reading...

'Arry ain't quitting Harry Redknapp has strenuously denied he is about to quit as manager of Spurs. Rumours spread that Redknapp was going to leave White Hart Lane after bookmakers slashed odds on him being the next Premier League manager to leave his job. But Redknapp says he has not been rearrested as part of a corruption [. Click to continue reading...

Last night, instead of doing a commentary on Uzbekistan Generals vs Dynamo Fulham in the Euro League Group Z, Radio 5 did a piece on betting in football. There was some horror in it beatings and death, Chinese triads etc, and I don't wish to minimise this but mixed up within the report was [...] Click to continue reading...

Let me explain that headline. Arsenal, being an open club, all above board, honest and thoroughly middle class, there's nothing to hide. Unlike some north western clubs we aren't late with our reporting of our figures, and unlike most clubs we make a profit and don't hide behind multiple company structures. Click to continue reading...

PS: Yes I know you don't normally have a PS at the start, but this is a long article and I doubt anyone will get to the end, so here's the PS. By chance I have a spare ticket for tuesday night's game, upper tier, north end above Red Action. If you would like to [...] Click to continue reading...

UEFA has confirmed that it plans to investigate 40 cases of suspected match-fixing in the Champions League and UEFA Cup. Most of the cases were from Eastern Europe and involved games in the early qualifying rounds of the tournaments, according to Peter Limacher, UEFA's head of disciplinary services.

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Yesterday the stories about Liverpool flowed around like a dark murky flowing thing you would not want to put your hand in. We knew that the owners were trying in utter desperation to do something, anything, that would allow them to refinance the £350.5m of debts six months ago. We now know from leaked papers obtained by [. Click to continue reading...

OK Man Utd 4 - 3 Man City and a late late goal.... covered elsewhere on this blog. However, while Craig Bellamy is in the headlines for slapping a fan who is  "charged with going onto a playing area without lawful authority or excuse", Gary Neville is branded a lunatic for his celebrations in front of the Man City fans.

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There are sounds and signs around that things are improving but, beware the false dawn. Since I started wandering around the by-ways of football in this blog I've been moaning about rotational fouling (Wigan are the latest to adopt it), and it is cheery to note that the Great Lord Wenger is now "set" (as [. Click to continue reading...

So, yesterday the Corruption Files took a sneak look at the governing bodies. Now we move on to someone they employ. When Fabio Capello turned up in England he was known as a man with a bit of a murky financial history. Not quite on Icelandic levels, but still, a little bit racey, if you know [.. Click to continue reading...

The organisation running the top league in English football has a long history of corruption dating back at least to 1919 when Manchester United and Liverpool, who had been found guilty of match fixing in the final pre-war season were allowed to go unpunished and continue unhindered. Arsenal benefitted from the final outcome of that [. Click to continue reading...

Oh what to do in Cripplegate Week the week when all our top stars go off and get injured while playing not for the Arsenal who pay their wages but for a bunch of morons called "international managers" who treat them with utter contempt. Well, the first thing is, if you fancy doing a spot [...] Click to continue reading...

Oh what to do in Cripplegate Week the week when all our top stars go off and get injured while playing not for the Arsenal who pay their wages but for a bunch of morons called "international managers" who treat them with utter contempt. Well, the first thing is, if you fancy doing a spot [...] Click to continue reading...

No sooner was the Chelsea ban on transfers announced than BBC Radio 5 rushed out an interview with an ex-KGB player who linked this case with the Eduardo case. It was one of the most sickening pieces of anti-Arsenal propoganda yet launched in the media war on Arsenal. Chelsea are banned from signing new players [. Click to continue reading...

No sooner was the Chelsea ban on transfers announced than BBC Radio 5 rushed out an interview with an ex-KGB player who linked this case with the Eduardo case. It was one of the most sickening pieces of anti-Arsenal propoganda yet launched in the media war on Arsenal. Chelsea are banned from signing new players [. Click to continue reading...

At last, a club willing to stand up and fight against the insane, bent and discredited UEFA. Arsenal's statement over the Eduardo affair was everything we could have wished for a complete catalogue of everything that is wrong with the warped European governing body, including its arrogant belief that it can get away with anything, [. Click to continue reading...

At last, a club willing to stand up and fight against the insane, bent and discredited UEFA. Arsenal's statement over the Eduardo affair was everything we could have wished for a complete catalogue of everything that is wrong with the warped European governing body, including its arrogant belief that it can get away with anything, [. Click to continue reading...