Football is Fixed

[David Guyatt]

I'm really delighted that Ojo del Toro is back in fine fettle at Football is Fixed. He was gone for awhile and had intended to cease altogether last year.

Here is one of his more recent essays on fixing in English football.

Monday, 22 September 2014

State Of The (Football) Nation

Matchfixing corrupts.
Absolute matchfixing corrupts absolutely.

From the mid-nineties onwards, the Asian underground markets exercised total control over English football.
In the last four years, that control has been grasped by a cartel of inappropriates from the UK and its offshore territories.
Neither of these structures is to the benefit of football.
Both create corruption.

• There are referees working with bookmakers and agents to manufacture match outcomes to the financial benefit of their insider trading.
  
• There are titles and trophies determined entirely by corruption.
  
• There are managers taking backhanders from agents to pick their clients to mutual benefit.
  
• There are bookmakers who own football clubs and who utilise this control to fix matches.
  
• There are individuals within the PGMOL who liaise with criminals and matchfixers in the selection of referees.
  
• There are individuals passing the fit and proper persons test that are entirely unfit and entirely improper.
  
• There are crime syndicates and mafia groups who takeover football clubs for fraud, money laundering and matchfixing.
  
• There are fragmented cartels of football agents who pool their players on the pitch to land huge insider gambles.
  
• There are broadsheet, tabloid and tv journalists who lubricate these corruptions via public relations abuses posing as journalism.
  
• There are bookmakers who accept insider trading and matchfixing as such knowledge is regarded as preferential information in the corrupted marketplace.
  
• There are numerous individuals throughout the game who utilise threats, menaces and coercion as standard business practice.
  
• There are betting patterns that link these corruptions with their perpetrators.
  
• There are administrators who facilitate these corruptions in support of their belief in laissez faire capitalism,
  
• There are many bookmakers who refuse to pay out winnings.
  
• There are rewards for historical matchfixing and corruptions with a career in media providing disinformation to fans.
  
• There are rampant abuses of third party ownership by agents which frequently borders on a slave trade.
  
• There are widespread abuses of performance enhancing substances (and their related masking agents).
  
• There are a whole array of under the table payments where tax is avoided (either by bungs or the selling of inside information etc).
  
• There are networks of individuals illegally hacking IT systems in search of valuable information.
  
• There are numerous examples of referees (and other peripherals) whose wealth is not explained by their legitimate earnings.
  
• There are a cabal of mainstream television media who accommodate matchfixing and corruption.
  
• There are more criminalised goalkeepers in English football than any other primary territory in Europe.
  
• There are no regulations or governmental action preventing these corruptions.
  
• There are fortunes being made at the expense of the integrity of the game.
  

English football is systemically corrupt...
... and extensively corrupt in the particular.

We have access via our consultancies to the betting patterns on these events.
And for many dubious penalties/sendings off, for example, there are equivalent betting sources and patterns ensuring profits for the criminals.

Think on this the next time you witness refereeing, goalkeeping, media or bookmaker inputs that appear at odds with the integrity of the game.

Oh, and here is a photo of John Colquhoun.

[B]F[B]or many more itemised angles on corruption follow us on Twitter @FootballIsFixed or check out our new blog[/B][/B][B]Omertà on the criminalities underpinning the Premier League and the Scottish Premier League - http://trichotomoustriptychities.blogspot.co.uk/
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He also writes a few other blogs, and the one titled A Wunch of Bankers is also well worth reading.

He is also worth reading for his take on other leagues HERE:

todos somos simios

Monday, 24 November 2014

Ooh La La! Sacre Bleu!!

French football has been rocked by two scandals...
... the same scandals occur in England but the mainstream media ensure that such realities never reach the public eye.

Six senior figures have been charged with matchfixing including Caen chief executive Jean-Francois Cortin, the Nimes president Jean-Marc Conrad (who has resigned over the affair), the managing director of Nimes as well as Nimes' main shareholder Serge Kasparian.

The club officials have been accused of fixing a series of matches, notably a 1-1 draw between Caen and Nimes on 13 May, which led to Caen being promoted to Ligue 1 and Nimes avoiding relegation to French football's third division.

Magistrates have been trying to establish if pressure was exerted by Nimes on other Ligue 2 teams as the club battled against relegation. Recordings of telephone conversations between leading figures of several clubs form a key part of the evidence.

All six men have been released on bail on condition that they have no contact with one another.

French national newspapers have released transcripts of the telephone conversations between Jean-Francois Fortin and Jean-Marc Conrad relating to the investigated football match between Caen and Nimes.

When Fulham retained their Premier League place following a fixed match between themselves and Portsmouth in 2008, the media was silent although the fix was known within the game.
Fulham's manager at the time, Mr Roy Hodgson, is now manager of England.

To compound matters in France, these charges occurred in the same week as Marseille president Vincent Labrune (together with leading club figures) were detained on suspicion of committing transfer fraud.


One British agent (with links to the Fulham match mentioned above) once informed me that he was offered a suitcase containing £40,000 by another agent as a persuader to drop his third party interest in a Spanish defender Liverpool were interested in signing.
This information was provided to me in order to show that corruption acts as an illicit currency within the game.

During the French Revolution of 1789, it was decided that people need equality in relation to the market...
... 225 years later, football has yet to understand this.